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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"conscious awareness"”.
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Decision making in the absence of conscious awareness
… our environment, most of which will never reach conscious awareness. The extent to which unconsciously processed information influences our decisions has been a particularly controversial question over the past decade. This thesis investigates whether information processed in the absence of a …
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Exploring the "Aha" Moment: The Process of Conscious Awareness During the Early Stages of Relationship Development
… into a romantic relationship?" Relationship awareness was defined as a process of information seeking by an individual to come to a judgment to determine if he or she has entered into a relationship. Previous research has found that people seek information from four sources: cognitive, …
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Visual scientific modelling – a visual hypothesis for the nature of consciousness & the evolution of conscious awareness.
"A model of consciousness is a theoretical description that relates brain properties of consciousness (e.g., fast irregular electrical activity, widespread brain activation) to phenomenal properties of consciousness (e.g., Qualia, a first-person perspective, the unity of a conscious scene). Because …
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Between Humanity and Divinity: Christ Consciousness in Jacques Maritain's On the Grace and Humanity of Jesus and the Epistemology of Michael Polanyi
This work investigates the consciousness of Christ in Maritain's On the Grace and Humanity of Jesus in light of his theory of consciousness in Poetic Intuition in Art and Poetry. At issue is the epistemological question of non-thematic, non-explicit knowledge bearing upon the conscious awareness of …
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Effects of a Brief Mindfulness Induction on Death-Related Anxiety
… aversion to death. Mortality salience, the conscious awareness of one’s own impending death, creates behavioral changes in individuals compared to non-mortality salient individuals. These changes in behavior are referred to as distal and proximal defense mechanisms. Relatively little …
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Delineating the Neural Correlates of Visual Awareness through the Integration of Multimodal Neuroimaging and Noninvasive Electrical Neuromodulation
… been a push to develop a fundamental theory of consciousness in the neuroscience community. However, to date, the physical mechanisms underlying conscious awareness remain unclear. The major aim of this dissertation was to delineate neural correlates of consciousness through the integration of …
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Keeping wonder secure and the people awake:on the nature of wonder and its importance for civilisation.
… inchoate feelings about external events to conscious rationality. This leads to concept formation as to what the wonder might be, providing the incentive to clarify its nature along with some sort of evaluation about its importance, whether for immediate survival or for long term management. …
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Involuntary action and criminal responsibility.
… scientific or philosophical debates relating to consciousness and the science of the mind. It is argued that modern neuroscientific definitions of consciousness are useful to the criminal law. They suggest how consciousness is used by the brain to assist in the carrying out of tasks and to …
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The tell-tale body: investigating the intertwined relationship between social cognition and visual perception through physiological indices.
… (b-CFS) paradigm, we manipulated visual awareness of emotional stimuli and measured breakthrough times to distinguish between conscious and subconscious processing. We tested three types of stimuli: emotional faces, emotional bodies, and threatening animals, while recording autonomic …
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Factors that help or hinder personal recovery in people with a schizophrenia diagnosis: a different sort of 'therapeutic' relationship
… with a schizophrenia diagnosis by raising conscious awareness of what either helps or hinders personal recovery. A total of eight credible exemplars with experiences synonymous with a schizophrenia diagnosis participated in open dialogical interviews. An a priori open coding framework …
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Tasting light through hydrogen peroxide : molecular mechanisms and neural circuits
… of the nervous system is its ability to generate consciousness, the subjective experience or qualia that distinguishes awake life from dreamless sleep. How consciousness is generated is an ancient philosophical question which has proven resistant to scientific analysis. While the human brain is …
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Micromoments Matter: Finding Agency and Connection Through a Micromoments Mindset
… a micromoment as both the instant opening into conscious awareness of the present moment, as well as the brief stretch of experience that follows, until awareness recedes. A micromoments mindset is the cognitive prioritization toward these openings. It serves as both an entryway into mindfulness …
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The Role of Awareness in the Error -Processing of Involuntary Eye Movements
… events, which is often impervious to conscious awareness, is detected and processed in the same way as erroneous eye movements to the task-relevant events. Concurrent recording of event-related potentials and eye movements were used to investigate the relationship between awareness, …
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A psychoanalytic approach to organizational decline: Bowen theory as a tool for organizational analysis
… governed not only by rationality, but also by unconscious processes. Any full understanding of organizational action requires an appreciation of the extent to which human beings are governed by the dynamics of the psyche, which operates outside of conscious awareness. An approach to …
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Memory Scapes
… of life, but they do so "under the radar," below conscious awareness. They perform their task, waiting to be noticed and enrich their user's life. I make pots in an attempt to connect to others through quiet, useful forms with beautiful, subdued surfaces. Part of my goal in making pots is to …
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Psychoanalysis and Modernity: A Failure to Find Relief from Existential Terror
… a community—serves a defensive function against conscious awareness of existential terror. The term existential terror refers to the cognitive and emotional experience of recognizing the inevitability of death, which is often accompanied by feelings of angst, isolation from others, and awareness …
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Sex differences in attitudes and attributions of responsibility in acquaintance rape situations
… those attitudes that are within an individual's conscious awareness. No attention, however, has been focused on the implicit attitudes that individuals have in acquaintance rape situations. Implicit attitudes are those that operate outside of an individual's awareness and reflect his or her …
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Poetic Anatomy of the Numinous Creative Passages into the Self as Beloved
… My preoccupation is with the nodal moment when conscious awareness is suspended, and both the corporal and psychic involvement in realising the work almost transport one to another zone of effectiveness. This zone, which I name as the poetic zone, is where the numinous enters the ordinary. The …
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Overt and covert organization culture: a case study of the Office of Technology Assessment
… these elements and constituted a kind of quasi-conscious awareness that both the other arenas of culture exist. The majority of OTA staff testified to the covert culture, indicating that a reflexive science approach was the one that actually energizes their research practice, rather than the …
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What happens before we say 'Hello? An exploration of psychotherapists’ experiences of the emerging implicit during the assessment process
… during assessments. It was concerned with unconscious processes occurring during the assessment session and how therapists made sense of and used these experiences clinically, either implicitly or explicitly. The aims of the research were threefold: (1) to understand what and how therapists’ …
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