Journal articles: 'Control (Psychology) in art'

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Yueqin, Chen. "Research on the Application of Art Therapy into College Art Teaching in the Context of COVID-19 Prevention and Control." Journal of Education and Culture Studies 4, no. 2 (April 30, 2020): p97. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/jecs.v4n2p97.

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Art therapy employ art symbols to externalize an individual’s psychology, emotion, personality and subconsciousness. Thus, it is widely applied in psychological consultation and treatment as well as clinical treatment of physical and mental diseases, whereas the study of integrating art therapy into art teaching among colleges and universities is rarely seen. To this end, this study, aimed at the psychological behavior and problems of college students who are prone to worry, dysphoria, fear, melancholy and irritability after the outbreak of COVID-19 in spring 2020, carries out the application research of integrating art therapy into college art teaching, in attempt to alleviate their psychological distress caused by the epidemic and assist them to establish a psychological defense mechanism for addressing future similar catastrophic events while inculcating art knowledge, and further develop the art teaching mode of “art therapy integrated into art teaching”.

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Pollatsek, Alexander. "A State-of-the-Art Reference/Text on Eye Movement Control." Contemporary Psychology: A Journal of Reviews 35, no. 12 (December 1990): 1166. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/029228.

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Skov, Martin, and Marcos Nadal. "A Farewell to Art: Aesthetics as a Topic in Psychology and Neuroscience." Perspectives on Psychological Science 15, no. 3 (February 6, 2020): 630–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1745691619897963.

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Empirical aesthetics and neuroaesthetics study two main issues: the valuation of sensory objects and art experience. These two issues are often treated as if they were intrinsically interrelated: Research on art experience focuses on how art elicits aesthetic pleasure, and research on valuation focuses on special categories of objects or emotional processes that determine the aesthetic experience. This entanglement hampers progress in empirical aesthetics and neuroaesthetics and limits their relevance to other domains of psychology and neuroscience. Substantial progress in these fields is possible only if research on aesthetics is disentangled from research on art. We define aesthetics as the study of how and why sensory stimuli acquire hedonic value. Under this definition, aesthetics becomes a fundamental topic for psychology and neuroscience because it links hedonics (the study of what hedonic valuation is in itself) and neuroeconomics (the study of how hedonic values are integrated into decision making and behavioral control). We also propose that this definition of aesthetics leads to concrete empirical questions, such as how perceptual information comes to engage value signals in the reward circuit or why different psychological and neurobiological factors elicit different appreciation events for identical sensory objects.

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Nordmarker, Anki, Torsten Norlander, and Trevor Archer. "THE EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL INTAKE AND INDUCED FRUSTRATION UPON ART VANDALISM." Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal 28, no. 1 (January 1, 2000): 15–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.2224/sbp.2000.28.1.15.

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This study was designed to examine the interactive effects between alcohol-intake and frustration effects upon art vandalism. 100 subjects, 50 men and 50 women, were randomly assigned to five experimental conditions (Control, Alcohol, Alcohol+Frustration, Frustration and Placebo) with 10 men and 10 women in each group. Subjects were provided with the opportunity to scrawl on a picture of Adam and Eve (the AET test). AET was evaluated also on levels of “destruction”, “aggression” and “sexuality”. The results indicated that alcohol alone did not increase the degree of vandalism, but that there was a significant increase in scores of scrawlinggraffiti under the influence of alcohol+frustration. Female subjects performed graffiti-scrawling to a significantly greater extent than did male subjects in all five groups.

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Gedo, John E. "Art Alone Endures." Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 40, no. 2 (April 1992): 501–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000306519204000209.

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Sigmund Freud, a passionate collector of antiquities, often treated these objects as animate beings. He described such blurring of boundaries between persons and things in the protagonist of W. Jensen's novella, Gradiva. Freud began collecting when his father died, but his unusual attitude toward artefacts was established much earlier, presumably as a consequence of repeated early disappointments in human caretakers. It is postulated that this adaptive maneuver was not simply a displacement of love and hate, but a turning away from vulnerability in relationships, toward attachments over which he might retain effective control. The Freud Collection is largely focused on Greco-Roman and Egyptian objects. Freud's profound interest in classical civilization was established in childhood; he was particularly concerned with the struggle between Aryan Rome and Semitic Carthage, a conflict in which he identified with both sides. This ambivalence reflected growing up within a marginal Jewish family in a Germanic environment. Commitment to classical ideals represented an optimal manner of bridging these contrasting worlds. Egyptian artefacts were, for Freud, links to the prehistory of the Jewish people; they also represent an era when maternal deities found their proper place in man's pantheon—an echo of Freud's prehistoric past.

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Poonam. "RELATION OF ARTS AND PSYCHOLOGY." International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH 7, no. 11 (November 30, 2019): 247–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v7.i11.2019.3746.

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Art and artistic trade are not purposeful and accidental. They are closely related to life. The art itself makes the emotional and negative feelings like happiness and sorrow unheard of by its form of chemistry. The positive expressions give joy, but the specialty of the arts is that here the negative feelings of sadness, sadness, fear, mourning are also sublime. Inspired by the spirit of spirit, we find a form whose culmination is blissful. Emotion, desire, determination, creation etc. are also the business of the mind. And all parts of the nervous system and all of themThe unconscious mind and all our perceptive experiences together are helpful in creating some form. All the three states of conscious, subconscious, unconscious, described by Freud, are the centers of the specific energy of the mind. All three give energy and light to art-creation. These affect our direct, memory, imagination, image, symbol. , Not only are they affected, but art-creation is guided by them in such a way that self-expression becomes such that even the artist does not have control over it. "By analyzing the initial images of the mental images, it is known that they are composed of sensory material derived from sight, memories, touch and motion." is. कला और कलात्मक व्यापार निष्प्रयोजन और आकस्मिक नही है।उनका जीवन से निकट सम्बन्ध है। जीवन के सुख-दुःख जैसे सुखात्मक और दुखात्मक भावों को कला ही अपने रूप रसायन के द्वाराअस्वादय बना देती है।सुखात्मक भाव तो आनन्द देते ही हैं किन्तु कलाओं की यह विशेषता है कि यहां दुखात्मक भाव-विषाद, भय, शोक जैसे निषेधात्मक भाव भी उदात्त की भावना से प्रेरित हो एक ऐसा रूप पा जाते हैं जिनकी परिणति आनंदमय ही है।भाव-भावना, इच्छा, संकल्प, सृजन आदि भी मन के ही व्यापार हैं।कला के क्षेत्र मेंतन-मन, पेशी-स्नायु संस्थान, रस ग्रंथि एवं मस्तिष्क और तंत्रिका-तंत्र के सभी भाग व इन सबके साथ अचेतन मन मिलकर और हमारे सारे बोधात्मक अनुभव मिलकर ही किसी रूप का सृजन करने में सहायक हो पाते हैं। फ्रॉयड के द्वारा बताए गए चेतन, अवचेतन, अचेतनमन की तीनों ही अवस्थाएं मन की विशिष्ट ऊर्जा के केंद्र हैं।ये तीनों ही कला-सृजन में ऊर्जा और आलोक देते हैं।इन से हमारा प्रत्यक्ष, स्मृति, कल्पना, बिम्ब, प्रतीक प्रभावित होते हैं, न सिर्फ प्रभावित होते हैं वरन कला-सृजन इन्हीं के द्वारा निर्देशित होते हुए इस प्रकार स्वतः अभिव्यक्ति होती जाती है कि कलाकार का भी उस पर नियंत्रण नही रहता। ‘‘मानसिकबिम्बों के प्रारम्भिकअवयवों का विश्लेषणकरने से ज्ञात होता है कि वे दृष्टि, स्मृतियों, स्पर्श एवं गति से प्रप्तअनुभूति-जन्य सामग्री से रचित हैं।‘‘1तन्त्रिका तन्त्र, रस ग्रन्थियों में भी मन है जो इन को प्रभावित करता है और इससे प्रभावित होता है।

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Medjedovic, Janko, and Branislav Djordjevic. "Schizotypal traits in painters: Relations with intelligence, creativity and creative productivity." Psihologija 50, no. 3 (2017): 341–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/psi1703341m.

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In the present research we explored the presence of schizotypal traits in painters. Furthermore, the relations of schizotypy and creativity-related variables (intelligence, creativity and creative productivity) were analyzed. Study participants were divided into the criterion (132 students of art academy and art high school) and control group (119 psychology students and members of grammar school). Two hypotheses were set: 1) schizotypal traits are more pronounced in painters than in control group; 2) schizotypy is more closely associated with the creativitylinked variables in the criterion than in control group. Schizotypy was operationalized by Disintegration construct and measured via DELTA 10 inventory. Intelligence was assessed by Advanced Progressive Matrices-18; creativity was measured by the same labeled scale from HEXACO-PI-R inventory and creative productivity was explored by a set of questions regarding the frequency of creative behavior. Results showed that Magical thinking, Enhanced awareness, Somatoform Dysregulation, Perceptual distortions and Social anhedonia were the schizotypal traits which were more pronounced in painters as compared to the control group. Factor analyses performed in each group separately revealed a latent component loaded both with schizotypal traits, creativity and creative productivity, but only in the group of painters: schizotypy and creativity were not so closely related in the control group. Thus, the study hypotheses were largely confirmed. Results provide a more detailed understanding of the relations between schizotypy and creativity.

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Amjad, Zoya, and Humaira Jami. "Reducing Emotional and Behavioral Problems by Improving Life Skills and Self-Esteem of Institutionalized Children: Effectiveness of an Art-Based Intervention." Pakistan Journal of Psychological Research 35, no. 3 (September 11, 2020): 595–616. http://dx.doi.org/10.33824/pjpr.2020.35.3.32.

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The present study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of an art based intervention program on reducing emotional and behavioral problems by improving life skills and self-esteem of institutionalized children. Pre-test Post-test control group design was used for the purpose of the study. Scales used were the English caregiver version of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (Goodman, 1977), Urdu self-report version of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (Younis, Jami, & Masood, 2016) and Rosenberg’s Self-Esteem Scale (Rosenberg, 1965). The Life Skills Assessment Scale was developed and validated. The study was conducted at Child Protection Bureau, Rawalpindi containing a sample of 28 boys aged 11 to 17. After screening based on the assessment of the teacher on The Life Skills Assessment Scale and SDQ, children were randomly assigned to control and experimental groups. Pre-test was conducted with the children using SDQ and Rosenberg’s Self-Esteem Scale while the teacher had filled SDQ and the Life Skills Assessment Scale. The experimental group received four weeks of an art based intervention while the control group received regular classroom lectures on life skills. After post-test and analysis in SPSS 21, results confirmed that life skills and self-esteem of the experimental group improved significantly while emotional and behavioral problems decreased.

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Smeijers, Danique, Erik Bulten, Jan Buitelaar, and Robbert-Jan Verkes. "Associations Between Neurocognitive Characteristics, Treatment Outcome, and Dropout Among Aggressive Forensic Psychiatric Outpatients." International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 62, no. 12 (January 1, 2018): 3853–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306624x17750340.

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Aggression Replacement Training (ART) is widely used to reduce aggression and is considered to be effective although there are also inconsistent results. Studies investigating the effectiveness of ART do not focus on neurocognitive characteristics. Focusing on these aspects would result in enhanced understanding of underlying mechanisms of ART. The current open uncontrolled treatment study assessed whether neurocognitive characteristics were associated with change in aggression during the social skills and anger control modules of ART among forensic psychiatric outpatients. Furthermore, differences between treatment dropouts and completers and change in these characteristics during ART were examined. A reduction of trait aggression, cognitive distortions, and social anxiety was observed. Neurocognitive characteristics were not associated with change in aggression, could not distinguish treatment completers from dropouts, and did not change after ART. It is suggested that new paradigms should be developed which take into account the social context in which these impairments appear.

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Lipscombe, Tamara A., Peta L. Dzidic, and Darren C. Garvey. "Coloniser control and the art of disremembering a “dark history”: Duality in Australia Day and Australian history." Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology 30, no. 3 (December 2019): 322–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/casp.2444.

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Logan, Gordon D. "Automatic control: How experts act without thinking." Psychological Review 125, no. 4 (July 2018): 453–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/rev0000100.

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Ma, Ada W. W., Hsing-Kuo Wang, Duan-Rung Chen, Ya-Mei Chen, Yvonne T. C. Chak, Joan W. Y. Chan, Timothy T. T. Yam, Yoyo T. Y. Cheng, Balasankar Ganesan, and Shirley S. M. Fong. "Chinese Martial Art Training Failed to Improve Balance or Inhibit Falls in Older Adults." Perceptual and Motor Skills 126, no. 3 (February 25, 2019): 389–409. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0031512518824945.

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This randomized controlled trial explored the effects of a Ving Tsun (VT) Chinese martial art training program on reactive standing balance performance, postural muscle reflex contraction latency, leg muscle performance, balance confidence and falls in community-dwelling older adults. We randomly assigned 33 healthy older adults to either a VT group (mean age = 67.5 years) or a control group (mean age = 72.1 years). The VT group received two 1-hour VT training sessions per week for three months (24 sessions). Primary outcome measures collected before and after the intervention period were electromyographic muscle activation onset latencies of the hamstring and gastrocnemius and the center of pressure path, length and movement velocity in standing (reactive balance performance). Secondary outcome measures included isometric peak force and time to isometric peak force of the knee extensors and flexors, the Activities-Specific Balance Confidence Scale score, and fall history. Results revealed that the mean gastrocnemius muscle activation onset latency was significantly longer (22.53 ms) in the VT group after the intervention. The peak force of the knee flexors significantly increased (by 1.58 kg) in the control group over time but not in the VT group. The time to reach peak force in the knee flexors was significantly longer (by 0.51 s) in the control group (but not the VT group) at posttest compared with the pretest value. No other significant group, time, or group-by-time interaction effects were noted. We discussed possible reasons for the failure of three months of martial art training to benefit fall risks among these older adults.

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Hoogsteder, Larissa M., Geert-Jan J. M. Stams, Eveline E. Schippers, and Daphne Bonnes. "Responsive Aggression Regulation Therapy (Re-ART): An Evaluation Study in a Dutch Juvenile Justice Institution in Terms of Recidivism." International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 62, no. 14 (March 5, 2018): 4403–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306624x18761267.

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This article describes a quasi-experimental study of the effectiveness of Responsive Aggression Regulation Therapy (Re-ART) in terms of recidivism for 16- to 21-year-old juveniles with aggression problems and high risk of recidivism. In a Dutch juvenile justice institution, an experimental group received Re-ART ( n = 63, Re-ART group) and a waitlist control group received Treatment as Usual ( n = 28, TAU group). Results indicated that Re-ART is significantly more effective than TAU in reducing the juveniles’ recidivism risk for violent offending. Compared with the TAU group, the Re-ART group showed significantly less violent crimes after 2 and 3 years, less property crimes after 2 years, and less general recidivism after 2 and 3 years. There was no significant difference between groups in recidivism of property crimes with violence. Ethnicity, mild intellectual disabilities, substance abuse, and age did not moderate the effects on recidivism outcome, which indicates that Re-ART was equally effective for various groups.

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Brown, Mark. "“We are Neutral Therapists”: Psychology, the State and Social Control." Australian Psychologist 37, no. 3 (November 2002): 165–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00050060210001706836.

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Thyme, Karin Egberg, Eva C. Sundin, Britt Wiberg, Inger Öster, Sture Åström, and Jack Lindh. "Individual brief art therapy can be helpful for women with breast cancer: A randomized controlled clinical study." Palliative and Supportive Care 7, no. 1 (February 13, 2009): 87–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s147895150900011x.

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ABSTRACTObjective:Recent research shows that almost every second woman with breast cancer is depressed or has anxiety; the risk for younger women is even higher. Moreover, research shows that women are at risk for developing depression, also a threat for women with breast cancer. The aim of this randomized controlled clinical trial was to study the outcome of five sessions of art therapy given at a 5-week period of postoperative radiotherapy.Methods:The participants were between 37 and 69 years old; six participants in each group were below 50 years of age. Half of the participants (n = 20) received art therapy and the other half (n = 21) were assigned to a control group. At the first measurement, at least 17% (n = 7) of the participants medicated with antidepressants. Data were collected before and after art therapy and at a 4-month follow-up using self-rating scales that measure self-image (the Structural Analysis of Social Behaviour) and psychiatric symptoms (the Symptom Check List–90).Results:At follow-up, significant lower ratings of depression, anxiety, and somatic symptoms and less general symptoms were reported for the art therapy group compared to the control group. The regression analysis showed that art therapy relates to lower ratings of depression, anxiety, and general symptoms; chemotherapeutic treatment predicts lower depressive symptoms; in contrast to axilliary surgery and hormonal treatment as well as being a parent predicts higher ratings of anxiety and general symptoms.Significance of results:The conclusion suggests that art therapy has a long-term effect on the crisis following the breast cancer and its consequences.

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Choi, Han, Dong-Jin Jung, Yo-Han Jeon, and Min Ji Kim. "The effects of combining art psychotherapy with pharmacotherapy in treating major depressive disorder: Randomized control study." Arts in Psychotherapy 70 (September 2020): 101689. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aip.2020.101689.

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de Sousa, Ronald. "Individualism and Local Control." Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supplementary Volume 20 (1994): 185–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00455091.1994.10717399.

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In both biology and psychology, the notion of an individual is indispensable yet puzzling. It has played a variety of roles in diverse contexts, ranging from philosophical problems of personal identity to scientific questions about the immunological mechanisms for telling ‘self’ from ‘non-self.’ There are notorious cases in which the question of individuality is difficult to settle — ant hill, slime mold, or beehive, for instance. Yet the notion of an individual organism, both dependent on and independent of other individuals in specific ways, is crucial to our conception of life itself. It is also crucial to our notion of mentality, and hence to other concepts — moral and social — which must be explicated in terms of individual mentality. (Think, for example, of the importance of the quality and nature of individual consciousness to debates about abortion and euthanasia.)

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Abdul Hamid Katran, Ammar. "The Effectiveness of the Group Learning Strategy in Developing the Creative Capabilities of the Skillful Performance in Art Education among Sixth Grade Students." Psychology and Education Journal 58, no. 1 (January 1, 2021): 3359–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.17762/pae.v58i1.1275.

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The current research aims to: Identify the effectiveness of using the combination learning strategy in developing creative capacities (flexibility, details) for the skillful performance of art education among sixth grade students. For the purpose of verifying the objective of the research, the researcher assumed the following null hypotheses: There are no statistically significant differences between the average scores of the experimental group taught using the combination learning strategy and the control group that is taught by the traditional method at the level of (0.05) in the pre-test. There are no statistically significant differences between the mean scores of the experimental group and the control group at the level of (0.05) in the post test. There are no statistically significant differences between the average scores of the experimental group that are taught using the combination learning strategy at a significance level (0.05) in the pre and post test The current research sample included a group of sixth-grade primary students at Dar Al-Emara School from the research community in the Baghdad Education Directorate Al-Karkh 2. The results of the research revealed the superiority of the experimental group over the control group when implementing the experiment.

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Rachlin, Howard. "Self-control: Beyond commitment." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 18, no. 1 (March 1995): 109–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x00037602.

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AbstractSelf-control, so important in the theory and practice of psychology, has usually been understood introspectively. This target article adopts a behavioral view of the self (as an abstract class of behavioral actions) and of self-control (as an abstract behavioral pattern dominating a particular act) according to which the development of self-control is a molar/molecular conflict in the development of behavioral patterns. This subsumes the more typical view of self-control as a now/later conflict in which an act of self-control is a choice of a larger but later reinforcer over a smaller but sooner reinforcer. If at some future time the smaller-sooner reinforcer will be more valuable than the larger-later reinforcer, self-control may be achieved through a commitment to the largerlater reinforcer prior to that point. According to some, there is a progressive internalization of commitment in the development of self-control. This presents theoretical and empirical problems. In two experiments – one with pigeons choosing between smallersooner and larger-later reinforcers, the other with adult humans choosing between short-term particular and long-term abstract reinforcers – temporal patterning of choices increased self-control.

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Holmstrom, Robert W., Stephen A. Karp, and David E. Silber. "The Apperceptive Personality Test and Locus of Control." Psychological Reports 68, no. 3_suppl (June 1991): 1071–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1991.68.3c.1071.

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This study examined the relationship between the Apperceptive Personality Test (APT) and Rotter's Internal-External Locus of Control (I-E) Scale. These scales were administered to 131 undergraduates (83 women, 48 men) and a stepwise multiple regression analysis was performed with Rotter's I-E scores as the criterion variable and 20 APT variables as predictors. The results provided some support for modest but significant relationships between two APT variables and scores on the I-E Scale. Internal-scoring subjects described their story characters with more positive ratings for the APT variable of Leader-Follower, whereas the story characters of external-scoring subjects were described with more extreme positive ratings than those of internal scorers.

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Reyf, I. E. "Reflections on the Magic of Artistic Discourse." Cultural-Historical Psychology 17, no. 1 (2021): 124–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.17759/chp.2021170116.

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The discovery of the functional asymmetry of the brain's hemispheres is one of the greatest achievements in the field of psychology in late 20th century. In this context, artistic perception is considered in "Reflections on the Magic of Artistic Discourse". This essay accords particular attention to the interrelationship and antinomy of logical (left hemisphere) and figurative (right hemisphere) thinking. Thus, while the former posits a simplified, schematic model of reality, the latter perceives reality in all its complex polysemy and contradictoriness. It must be noted that these contradictions coexist without canceling each other out. This is the foundation of almost all literary fiction with its ambivalence, metaphoric language, implicitness, levels of connotation and play of meaning. It is well known that a thought uttered directly destroys the esthetic effect of a work of art whereas «a complicated artistic structure, created from the material of language, allows us to transmit a volume of information too great to be transmitted by an elementary, strictly linguistic structure» (Yu. Lotman). However, this kind of information is special and cannot be broken down into categories or reduced to a binary logical or black-and-white outline. It would, therefore, not be an exaggeration to say that all the devices used in a work of art undermine left hemisphere thought, loosening intellectual control over the text's metaphoric constituents. By using a series of examples to demonstrate the manner in which an artistic text functions and takes possession of the reader's attention, feelings and will, the author draws a parallel between artistic and hypnotic impact.The discovery of the functional asymmetry of the brain's hemispheres is one of the greatest achievements in the field of psychology in late 20th century. In this context, artistic perception is considered in "Reflections on the Magic of Artistic Discourse". This essay accords particular attention to the interrelationship and antinomy of logical (left hemisphere) and figurative (right hemisphere) thinking. Thus, while the former posits a simplified, schematic model of reality, the latter perceives reality in all its complex polysemy and contradictoriness. It must be noted that these contradictions coexist without canceling each other out. This is the foundation of almost all literary fiction with its ambivalence, metaphoric language, implicitness, levels of connotation and play of meaning. It is well known that a thought uttered directly destroys the esthetic effect of a work of art whereas «a complicated artistic structure, created from the material of language, allows us to transmit a volume of information too great to be transmitted by an elementary, strictly linguistic structure» (Yu. Lotman). However, this kind of information is special and cannot be broken down into categories or reduced to a binary logical or black-and-white outline. It would, therefore, not be an exaggeration to say that all the devices used in a work of art undermine left hemisphere thought, loosening intellectual control over the text's metaphoric constituents. By using a series of examples to demonstrate the manner in which an artistic text functions and takes possession of the reader's attention, feelings and will, the author draws a parallel between artistic and hypnotic impact.

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ÖSTER, INGER, ANN-CHRISTINE SVENSK, EVA MAGNUSSON, KARIN EGBERG THYME, MARIE SJÕDIN, STURE ÅSTRÖM, and JACK LINDH. "Art therapy improves coping resources: A randomized, controlled study among women with breast cancer." Palliative and Supportive Care 4, no. 1 (March 2006): 57–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s147895150606007x.

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Objective: Women with breast cancer suffer from considerable stress related to the diagnosis, surgery, and medical treatment. It is important to develop strategies to strengthen coping resources among these women. Research in art therapy has shown outcomes such as an increase in self-esteem and cohesion, significant improvement in global health, and a decrease in anxiety and depression. The aim of the present article was to describe the effects of an art therapy intervention program on coping resources in women with primary breast cancer.Method: In this article, we report some of the results from a study including 41 women, aged 37–69 years old, with nonmetastatic primary breast cancer, referred to the Department of Oncology at Umeå University Hospital in Sweden for postoperative radiotherapy. The women represented various socioeconomic backgrounds. They were randomized to a study group (n = 20) with individual art therapy for 1 h/week during postoperative radiotherapy or to a control group (n = 21). The article focuses on changes in coping resources, as measured by the Coping Resources Inventory (CRI) before and 2 and 6 months after the start of radiotherapy. The study protocol was approved by the Umeå University Ethical Committee at the Medical Faculty (archive number 99–386).Results: There was an overall increase in coping resources among women with breast cancer after taking part in the art therapy intervention. Significant differences were seen between the study and control groups in the social domain on the second and third occasions. Significant differences were also observed in the total score on the second occasion.Significance of results: This study shows that individual art therapy provided by a trained art therapist in a clinical setting can give beneficial support to women with primary breast cancer undergoing radiotherapy, as it can improve their coping resources.

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Bergstrand, Kelly, and James M. Jasper. "Villains, Victims, and Heroes in Character Theory and Affect Control Theory." Social Psychology Quarterly 81, no. 3 (August 28, 2018): 228–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0190272518781050.

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We examine three basic tropes—villain, victim, and hero—that emerge in images, claims, and narratives. We compare recent research on characters with the predictions of an established tradition, affect control theory (ACT). Combined, the theories describe core traits of the villain-victim-hero triad and predict audiences’ reactions. Character theory (CT) can help us understand the cultural roots of evaluation, potency, and activity profiles and the robustness of profile ratings. It also provides nuanced information regarding multiplicity in, and subtypes of, characters and how characters work together to define roles. Character types can be strategically deployed in political realms, potentially guiding strategies, goals, and group dynamics. ACT predictions hold up well, but CT suggests several paths for extension and elaboration. In many cases, cultural research and social psychology work on parallel tracks, with little cross-talk. They have much to learn from each other.

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Field, Wirika, and Carine Kruger. "The Effect of an Art Psychotherapy Intervention on Levels of Depression and Health Locus of Control Orientations Experienced by Black Women Living with HIV." South African Journal of Psychology 38, no. 3 (September 2008): 467–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/008124630803800302.

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Gussak, David. "Comparing the effectiveness of art therapy on depression and locus of control of male and female inmates." Arts in Psychotherapy 36, no. 4 (September 2009): 202–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aip.2009.02.004.

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Łysiuk, Lidia. "HOW WORDS AND EMOTIONS CONTROL BEHAVIOR." Acta Neuropsychologica 18, no. 1 (February 26, 2020): 127–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0014.0190.

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It is now being realized that people are driven by their emotions too much greater extent than by their intellect. Therefore, most influential are those leaders who knew how to evoke appropriate emotional states in their listeners. Examples of successful propaganda provide Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and recently Rwanda. In fact, both Nazi and Soviet propaganda made it possible to exterminate thousands of people with a silent consent of common citizens. Most people are easy to manipulate because they do not realize that words are symbols that bear strong emotional load. Moreover, party and religious leaders are often not aware of the consequences of the words they use. Whether they speak of an “enemy” of the nation, religion or society their eager followers will sooner or later come to the conclusion that the enemy is a serious obstacle in the welfare of the state. It made the revolutionary to slaughter all those who dared to think and act in a different way. On the other hand, words can also create positive attitudes persuading people to offer help to those in need. It is closely connected with the way the brain works. The studies found that common are not only sensual illusions but cognitive illusions as well. They make people to act in accordance with schemas they have internalized, and to react with negative emotions to those who try to change their word outlook, and the manner of thinking since they in terpret it as an attack on their basic values.

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Young, Jacy L., and Peter Hegarty. "Reasonable men: Sexual harassment and norms of conduct in social psychology." Feminism & Psychology 29, no. 4 (June 27, 2019): 453–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959353519855746.

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Sexual harassment has received unprecedented attention in recent years. Within academia, it has a particularly reflexive relationship with the human sciences in which sexual harassment can be both an object of research and a problematic behavior amongst those engaged in that research. This paper offers a partial history in which these two are brought together as a common object of social psychology’s culture of sexual harassment. Here we follow Haraway in using culture to capture the sense-making that psychologists do through and to the side of their formal knowledge production practices. Our history is multi-sited and draws together (1) the use of sexual harassment as an experimental technique, (2) feminist activism and research which made sexual harassment an object of knowledge in social psychology, and (3) oral history accounts of sexual harassment amongst social psychologists. By reading these contexts against each other, we provide a thick description of how sexual harassment initiates women and men into cultures of control in experimental social psychology and highlight the ethical-epistemological dilemma inherent in disciplinary practices.

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Prutean, Nicoleta, Elisa Martín-Arévalo, Alicia Leiva, Luis Jiménez, Antonino Vallesi, and Juan Lupiáñez. "The causal role of DLPFC top-down control on the acquisition and the automatic expression of implicit learning: State of the art." Cortex 141 (August 2021): 293–310. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2021.04.012.

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Fisher, Shirley. "Life Change, Personal Control and Disease." South African Journal of Psychology 26, no. 1 (March 1996): 16–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/008124639602600104.

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The article is concerned with a review of the role of psychological factors in health and disease, with special reference to the role of life stress, gender and marital status as important factors. Adverse states of hormone levels associated with risk of illness may be engendered by work environments where there is high stress and low levels of personal discretion. The process of worrying provides a method whereby the prolonged circulation of these hormone states occur. The possibility that combined stressors might act as mutual buffers because of the truncation of worry processes is considered. A risk model is proposed in which genetic factors combine with lifestyle and personality factors in influencing the risk of disease.

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Van Broeck, Nady, and Germain Lietaer. "Psychology and Psychotherapy in Health Care." European Psychologist 13, no. 1 (January 2008): 53–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040.13.1.53.

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During the last 20 years, psychological interventions and psychotherapy have acquired a modest but significant place in health care. The lack of a uniform legal definition of these professional activities in the domain of health care hampers quality control of training programs and delivered services and complicates coordination of care. Training requirements are not always made explicit, and often there are no mechanisms for quality control or for monitoring compliance with ethical codes of conduct. In this review, the legal regulation of the professional activity of psychologists in health care and of psychotherapists in 17 European countries is examined. Eleven of these have adopted a legal regulation the title and the professional activities of psychologists in health care. Seven have an additional law regulating the title and the professional activities of psychotherapists. In five countries, professionals other than psychologists and medical doctors can obtain a legally protected title and license to practice as a psychotherapist. Conclusions are drawn concerning the available models of regulation of psychotherapy and their respective consequences.

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Diamond, Shari Seidman. "Using psychology to control law: From deceptive advertising to criminal sentencing." Law and Human Behavior 13, no. 3 (1989): 239–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf01067028.

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Folgerø, Per Olav, Christer Johansson, and Linn Heidi Stokkedal. "The Superior Visual Perception Hypothesis: Neuroaesthetics of Cave Art." Behavioral Sciences 11, no. 6 (May 26, 2021): 81. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs11060081.

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Cave Art in the Upper Paleolithic presents a boost of creativity and visual thinking. What can explain these savant-like paintings? The normal brain function in modern man rarely supports the creation of highly detailed paintings, particularly the convincing representation of animal movement, without extensive training and access to modern technology. Differences in neuro-signaling and brain anatomy between modern and archaic Homo sapiens could also cause differences in perception. The brain of archaic Homo sapiens could perceive raw detailed information without using pre-established top-down concepts, as opposed to the common understanding of the normal modern non-savant brain driven by top-down control. Some ancient genes preserved in modern humans may be expressed in rare disorders. Researchers have compared Cave Art with art made by people with autism spectrum disorder. We propose that archaic primary consciousness, as opposed to modern secondary consciousness, included a savant-like perception with a superior richness of details compared to modern man. Modern people with high frequencies of Neanderthal genes, have notable anatomical features such as increased skull width in the occipital and parietal visual areas. We hypothesize that the anatomical differences are functional and may allow a different path to visual perception.

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Mele, Alfred. "Conceptualizing self-control." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 18, no. 1 (March 1995): 136–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x00037778.

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AbstractA pair of arguments suggests that self-control is not properly conceptualized on the pattern/act/preference model Rachlin proposes. The first concerns the irrational following of personal rules. The second concerns scenarios in which behavioral patterns an agent deems good come into conflict.

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O'Connor, N., and B. Hermelin. "Visual and graphic abilities of the idiot savant artist." Psychological Medicine 17, no. 1 (February 1987): 79–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0033291700013003.

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SynopsisFive idiots savants whose artistic output was judged to be at art school entrance standard were matched for performance and verbal IQ with control subjects who had no special artistic talent. Each subject was given tests of reproductive skill with both concrete pictures and unfamiliar and unnameable geometric designs. They were also asked to draw a man, and a test of picture completion was given which involved constructive imagination. In all tests the idiots savants proved clearly superior to IQ-matched controls, indicating the presence of an IQ-independent talent. The results are interpreted in terms of a superior image memory and ready access to a ‘picture lexicon’. In addition, the existence of superior graphically directed motor programmes must be assumed.

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Smeijers, Danique, Erik Bulten, Jan Buitelaar, and Robbert-Jan Verkes. "Treatment Responsivity of Aggressive Forensic Psychiatric Outpatients." International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 62, no. 12 (December 18, 2017): 3834–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306624x17747052.

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Aggression replacement training (ART) is widely used to reduce aggression. Results regarding its effectiveness, however, are inconclusive regarding adults and specific populations displaying severe aggression. The current open uncontrolled treatment study aimed at assessing the social skills and anger control modules of the ART to reduce aggression in forensic psychiatric outpatients (FPOs). Furthermore, characteristics associated with treatment outcome and dropout were examined. The results suggested that aggression changed during the ART. In addition, higher baseline levels of trait aggression were associated with greater reductions of aggression, whereas more cognitive distortions were associated with less reduction. Treatment dropouts were characterized by higher levels of psychopathic traits, proactive aggression, and more weekly substance use. As there was a considerable amount of dropout; it is important to assess risk of dropping out of treatment and, subsequently, improve treatment motivation. This might enhance treatment adherence which may lead to a more successful reduction of aggression.

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Orsillo, Susan M., and Sonja V. Batten. "ACT as treatment of a disorder of excessive control: Anorexia." Cognitive and Behavioral Practice 9, no. 3 (June 2002): 253–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1077-7229(02)80057-8.

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Lubis, Layla Takhfa, Laras Sati, Naura Najla Adhinda, Hera Yulianirta, and Bahril Hidayat. "Peningkatan Kesehatan Mental Anak dan Remaja Melalui Ibadah Keislaman." Al-Hikmah: Jurnal Agama dan Ilmu Pengetahuan 16, no. 2 (October 16, 2019): 120–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.25299/jaip.2019.vol16(2).3898.

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In modern situation giving positive and negative impacts to children and adolescent development, including moral development and mental health for children stage to adolescent development phase. According to the previous studies described the adolescent need self-control to think, act, attitude, based on religion value, especially in Islam perspective. To develop and improving the potential of adolescent health, especially mental health or mental hygiene. In early adolescence development phase, the mind develops into abscond, conceptual, and future-oriented. Adolescence as a formal operating stadium, shows a lot of extraordinary creativity potential that should be express in writing, music, art, poetry, and other positive or productive works. Therefore, with the great potential on adolescents phase, they need reference for improving their mental health according to Psychology and Islam through Islamic worship, so that their goals of life as students become focused. This scientific article uses library research method. The results of library research showing these children and adolescent which understanding and appreciating the implementation of worship are be able to overcoming the problems of life experienced, capable to adjust the environment, maintaining relationships with the environment and thankful to God, so they tend to have good mental health standards.

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Marken, Richard S. "Looking at Behavior through Control Theory Glasses." Review of General Psychology 6, no. 3 (September 2002): 260–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/1089-2680.6.3.260.

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Behavior is always seen through the theoretical preferences of the observer. These preferences act like different prescriptions for glasses. The most popular glasses use the causal theory prescription, through which an organism's behavior appears to be the result of external or internal causes. This article describes glasses that use the less familiar control theory prescription, through which behavior looks like the organism's purposeful efforts to control its own perceptions. The consequences of looking at the same behavior through these different “glasses” are demonstrated by comparing examples of real-life behavior with the behavior of computer simulations available on the Internet. A method is described that makes it possible to determine which “glasses” provide the best view of any particular example of behavior.

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Yarritu, Ion, Helena Matute, and Miguel A. Vadillo. "Illusion of Control." Experimental Psychology 61, no. 1 (January 1, 2014): 38–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169/a000225.

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The illusion of control consists of overestimating the influence that our behavior exerts over uncontrollable outcomes. Available evidence suggests that an important factor in development of this illusion is the personal involvement of participants who are trying to obtain the outcome. The dominant view assumes that this is due to social motivations and self-esteem protection. We propose that this may be due to a bias in contingency detection which occurs when the probability of the action (i.e., of the potential cause) is high. Indeed, personal involvement might have been often confounded with the probability of acting, as participants who are more involved tend to act more frequently than those for whom the outcome is irrelevant and therefore become mere observers. We tested these two variables separately. In two experiments, the outcome was always uncontrollable and we used a yoked design in which the participants of one condition were actively involved in obtaining it and the participants in the other condition observed the adventitious cause-effect pairs. The results support the latter approach: Those acting more often to obtain the outcome developed stronger illusions, and so did their yoked counterparts.

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Makhmutovna Mavlonova, Klarakhon. "Improving the Methodology of Integrated Teaching of The Subject of Native (Uzbek) Language." Psychology and Education Journal 58, no. 1 (January 1, 2021): 2477–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.17762/pae.v58i1.1124.

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Introduction: The article was written with the aim of improving the method of integrative study of the subject of the native language with literature through a literary text. Materials and methods: When covering the topic, the following methods were used: comparative analysis, pedagogical observation, the study of advanced pedagogical experience, sociological methods questioning, conversation), pedagogical experiment, mathematical and statistical analysis. Research results: In the 2015-2016 academic year, before the start of experimental classes in 9 grades, in which these lessons are intended, in order to find out the knowledge, skills and abilities of students in finding a literary text, artistic visual aids and types of poetic art, their name and explanation, test papers. After the lessons, on the basis of experimental materials, a mathematical calculation of the results of control works was carried out in order to compare the qualitative changes before and after the experiment. Discussion and conclusions: The increase in the number of literary texts in the textbooks "Native Language" for grades 5-9 has created the opportunity and the need to work on artistic visual aids and types of poetic art through these texts. The expediency of the implementation of external and bilateral integration of native language lessons with literature lessons through literary texts is substantiated, considering such basic approaches as communication, focus on speech activity, ingenuity, awareness and differentiation, such principles.

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Cardany, Audrey Berger. "Mitigating death anxiety: Identifying music’s role in terror management." Psychology of Music 46, no. 1 (February 1, 2017): 3–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0305735617690600.

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Based on the ideas of social-anthropologist Ernest Becker, Terror Management Theory (TMT) explains human behavior as being motivated by conscious and unconscious mortality salience. This article examines the role of music in the denial of death and catalogues related literature in the music and social psychology fields. Categories include: TMT and art, music used as control condition in TMT research, and songs and TMT. A brief description of Becker’s theory and TMT and a discussion of the functions of music in culture precede the literature review. Analysis of the literature suggests that (a) music provides a safe window frame through which to examine death, (b) music created for community purposes may buffer death anxiety more readily than that created for individual purposes, and (c) songs prompt mortality salience and simultaneously buffer death anxiety depending on individual music preferences, cultural worldviews, and perceptions of famous others. The review further identifies limitations in TMT studies regarding music and terror management and highlights the need for additional empirical research to untangle the complexity of music’s role in mitigating death anxiety growing out of mortality salience.

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Mao, Hangyu, Wulong Liu, Jianye Hao, Jun Luo, Dong Li, Zhengchao Zhang, Jun Wang, and Zhen Xiao. "Neighborhood Cognition Consistent Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning." Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 34, no. 05 (April 3, 2020): 7219–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v34i05.6212.

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Social psychology and real experiences show that cognitive consistency plays an important role to keep human society in order: if people have a more consistent cognition about their environments, they are more likely to achieve better cooperation. Meanwhile, only cognitive consistency within a neighborhood matters because humans only interact directly with their neighbors. Inspired by these observations, we take the first step to introduce neighborhood cognitive consistency (NCC) into multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). Our NCC design is quite general and can be easily combined with existing MARL methods. As examples, we propose neighborhood cognition consistent deep Q-learning and Actor-Critic to facilitate large-scale multi-agent cooperations. Extensive experiments on several challenging tasks (i.e., packet routing, wifi configuration and Google football player control) justify the superior performance of our methods compared with state-of-the-art MARL approaches.

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Lazarov, Amit, Benjamin Suarez-Jimenez, Rany Abend, Reut Naim, Erel Shvil, Liat Helpman, Xi Zhu, et al. "Bias-contingent attention bias modification and attention control training in treatment of PTSD: a randomized control trial." Psychological Medicine 49, no. 14 (November 12, 2018): 2432–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0033291718003367.

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AbstractBackgroundRandomized control trials (RCTs) comparing attention control training (ACT) and attention bias modification (ABM) in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have shown mixed results. The current RCT extends the extant literature by comparing the efficacy of ACT and a novel bias-contingent-ABM (BC-ABM), in which direction of training is contingent upon the direction of pre-treatment attention bias (AB), in a sample of civilian patients with PTSD.MethodsFifty treatment-seeking civilian patients with PTSD were randomly assigned to either ACT or BC-ABM. Clinician and self-report measures of PTSD and depression, as well as AB and attention bias variability (ABV), were acquired pre- and post-treatment.ResultsACT yielded greater reductions in PTSD and depressive symptoms on both clinician-rated and self-reported measures compared with BC-ABM. The BC-ABM condition successfully shifted ABs in the intended training direction. In the ACT group, there was no significant change in ABV or AB from pre- to post-treatment.ConclusionsThe current RCT extends previous results in being the first to apply ABM that is contingent upon AB at pre-treatment. This personalized BC-ABM approach is associated with significant reductions in symptoms. However, ACT produces even greater reductions, thereby emerging as a promising treatment for PTSD.

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Travis, Cheryl Brown, Diane L. Gressley, and Cheryl A. Crumpler. "Feminist Contributions to Health Psychology." Psychology of Women Quarterly 15, no. 4 (December 1991): 557–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-6402.1991.tb00430.x.

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A brief review of health psychology shows that the early leadership began what has come to be a major alternative to traditional medical models of diagnosis and treatment. Numerous women were involved with these implementations and changes in the field. Many of the key developments within health psychology—for example, behavioral prevention, compliance, coping, health promotion, locus of control, and social support–reflect essentially feminist principles that emphasize the legitimate authority and significance of the individual. Feminist principles of equity and inclusiveness are also represented in emerging concerns that the health needs of many underprivileged groups deserve more focused attention, and, additionally, that entirely new areas of health can be profitably examined within the framework of health psychology.

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Patalano, Frank. "Psychosocial Stressors in the Lives of Great Jazz Musicians." Perceptual and Motor Skills 84, no. 1 (February 1997): 93–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pms.1997.84.1.93.

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Brief biographical information on four great jazz tenor saxophone players of the past is presented to illustrate the similar psychosocial stressors these men seemed to experience, namely, severe substance abuse, haphazard working conditions, lack of acceptance of their art form in the United States, marital and family discord, and a vagabond life style. Ages at death of 80 great jazz musicians may indicate that the stressful life style of jazz musicians may be reflected in a shortened life span, but a control group is needed.

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Silvia, Paul J., Rebekah M. Rodriguez, Katherine N. Cotter, and Alexander P. Christensen. "Aesthetic Preference for Glossy Materials: An Attempted Replication and Extension." Behavioral Sciences 11, no. 4 (March 26, 2021): 44. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs11040044.

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The psychology of art and aesthetics has a long-standing interest in how low-level features, such as symmetry, curvature, and color, affect people’s aesthetic experience. Recent research in this tradition suggests that people find glossy, shiny objects and materials more attractive than flat, matte ones. The present experiment sought to replicate and extend research on the attractiveness of images printed on glossy and flat paper. To control for several possible confounding factors, glossiness was manipulated between-person and varied with methods that held constant factors like weight, color quality, and resolution. To extend past work, we explored art expertise and Openness to Experience as potential moderators. A sample of 100 adults viewed landscape photographs on either high-gloss photo paper or on identical paper in which a flat, matte spray finish had been applied. Ratings of attractiveness showed weak evidence for replication. People rated the glossy pictures as more attractive than the matte ones, but the effect size was small (d = −0.23 [−0.62, 0.16]) and not statistically significant. Attractiveness ratings were significantly moderated, however, by individual differences in the aesthetic appreciation facet of Openness to Experience. When aesthetic appreciation was high, people found the images attractive regardless of condition; when it was low, people strongly preferred the glossy images over the matte ones, thus showing the classic glossiness effect. We conclude with some methodological caveats for future research.

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Osiurak, François, Mathieu Lesourd, Jordan Navarro, and Emanuelle Reynaud. "Technition: When Tools Come Out of the Closet." Perspectives on Psychological Science 15, no. 4 (April 29, 2020): 880–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1745691620902145.

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People are ambivalently enthusiastic and anxious about how far technology can go. Therefore, understanding the neurocognitive bases of the human technical mind should be a major topic of the cognitive sciences. Surprisingly, however, scientists are not interested in this topic or address it only marginally in other mainstream domains (e.g., motor control, action observation, social cognition). In fact, this lack of interest may hinder our understanding of the necessary neurocognitive skills underlying our appetence for transforming our physical environment. Here, we develop the thesis that our technical mind originates in perhaps uniquely human neurocognitive skills, namely, technical-reasoning skills involving the area PF within the left inferior parietal lobe. This thesis creates an epistemological rupture with the state of the art that justifies the emergence of a new field in the cognitive sciences (i.e., technition) dedicated to the intelligence hidden behind tools and other forms of technologies, including constructions.

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Spector, Paul E., Juan I. Sanchez, Oi Ling Siu, Jesus Salgado, and Jianhong Ma. "Eastern versus Western Control Beliefs at Work: An Investigation of Secondary Control, Socioinstrumental Control, and Work Locus of Control in China and the US." Applied Psychology 53, no. 1 (January 2004): 38–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1464-0597.2004.00160.x.

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Duckworth, Angela L., Katherine L. Milkman, and David Laibson. "Beyond Willpower: Strategies for Reducing Failures of Self-Control." Psychological Science in the Public Interest 19, no. 3 (December 2018): 102–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1529100618821893.

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Almost everyone struggles to act in their individual and collective best interests, particularly when doing so requires forgoing a more immediately enjoyable alternative. Other than exhorting decision makers to “do the right thing,” what can policymakers do to reduce overeating, undersaving, procrastination, and other self-defeating behaviors that feel good now but generate larger delayed costs? In this review, we synthesize contemporary research on approaches to reducing failures of self-control. We distinguish between self-deployed and other-deployed strategies and, in addition, between situational and cognitive intervention targets. Collectively, the evidence from both psychological science and economics recommends psychologically informed policies for reducing failures of self-control.

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Guseva, M. E., O. V. Matvievskaya, and A. N. Boyko. "Art therapy possibilities in the complex treatment of patients with multiple sclerosis." Neurology, Neuropsychiatry, Psychosomatics 13, no. 1S (September 16, 2021): 45–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.14412/2074-2711-2021-1s-45-49.

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Objective: to study the effectiveness of art therapy methods in the complex treatment of neuropsychological disorders and quality of life improvement in patients with relapsing-remitting and secondary-progressive multiple sclerosis (MS).Patients and methods. A group of 42 patients (5 men and 37 women, mean age 32.9 years, mean EDSS severity 3.8 points) with MS underwent outpatient continuous active art therapy cycle. The mean group training cycle duration was six months. The comparison group included 15 age- and sex-adjusted individuals without neurological disorders. Tests on various drawing topics were carried out before and after a three-month therapy course. We used Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) to assess the severity of anxiety and depression and the SF-36 scale to evaluate the quality of life (QoL).Results and discussion. Before the art therapy start, light blue, yellow, pink, blue, and green colors prevailed in the drawings. There was no predominance of any color depending on MS severity or course. The green color predominated in this test in the control group, and the light blue color was significantly less represented. The art therapy course did not lead to a significant change in the severity of MS according to the Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS). After the art therapy course, the color scheme of the drawings was mainly represented by red, light blue, green, yellow, and blue colors. In addition, a red-orange color appeared in the drawings, which was completely absent before the course. Positive trends were noted according to HADS: a decrease in anxiety by 23% and depression by 19%. The physical component of QoL assessed by the SF-36 scale did not change substantially, but the psychological component significantly improved by 11%.Conclusion. The predominance of light blue color observed in MS is associated with damage to the nervous and musculoskeletal systems, and blue color – with psychological problems and depression. However, after a course of art therapy for MS, red, red-orange, yellow, and green colors representation increased significantly, which indicates an increase in positive attitude, a decrease in the level of depression, and an improvement in QoL.

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