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8During the last 150 years or more, society has witnessed many key scientific discoveries and inventions, which have dramatically improved not only our quality of life, but our lifespan. However, the motivation of scientists to provide scientific advances has generally not been the achievement of these goals, but mainly driven by research curiosity. Fundamental scientific studies, also known as basic science, have paved the way to a society of knowledge by means of continuously evolving education…Read more
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8Functions of Music Making Under Lockdown: A Trans-Historical Perspective Across Two PandemicsFrontiers in Psychology 11. 2020.This paper describes how music fulfills two of its broadly recognized functions—“mood regulation” and “social cohesion”—in times of pandemics and social isolation. Through a trans-historical comparison of the musical activities of the Milanese during an outbreak of plague in 1576 with the musical activities observed during the COVID lockdowns in 2020, this paper suggests a framework for understanding the role of music in the care of the biological body and the social body in times of medical dis…Read more
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22Influence of authoritarianism, vagal tone and mental fatigue on obedience to authorityCognition and Emotion 33 (2): 157-172. 2018.ABSTRACTRecent research suggests that obedience in the Milgram paradigm is underpinned by stress vulnerability and inhibitory control over pain sharing. Because self-regulatory fatigue induction is a suited method to investigate the influence of inhibitory control on behaviour, participants were randomly assigned to a High vs. Low self-regulatory condition. Heart rate variability was collected during 5-min baseline and continuously during the experimental procedure. Prior to the experiment, part…Read more
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3Verzeichnis der Schriften Friedrich VollhardtsIn Gideon Stiening, Cornelia Rémi & Frieder von Ammon (eds.), Literatur Und Praktische Vernunft, De Gruyter. pp. 615-636. 2016.
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5PersonenregisterIn Gideon Stiening, Cornelia Rémi & Frieder von Ammon (eds.), Literatur Und Praktische Vernunft, De Gruyter. pp. 637-644. 2016.
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6Tabula gratulatoriaIn Gideon Stiening, Cornelia Rémi & Frieder von Ammon (eds.), Literatur Und Praktische Vernunft, De Gruyter. 2016.
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3Festspiele der praktischen Vernunft: Friedrich Vollhardt zum 60. GeburtstagIn Gideon Stiening, Cornelia Rémi & Frieder von Ammon (eds.), Literatur Und Praktische Vernunft, De Gruyter. pp. 1-6. 2016.
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1Literatur Und Praktische Vernunft (edited book)De Gruyter. 2016.Friedrich Vollhardt befasst sich in seiner Untersuchung „Selbstliebe und Geselligkeit" und vielen weiteren Arbeiten intensiv mit dem Verhältnis der Literatur zu Wissensbeständen, die sich der praktischen Vernunft zuordnen lassen. Dazu zählen neben Rechts- und Morallehren auch Theorien der Politik und der Religion. Daher lässt sich sagen, dass sich Vollhardts Forschungen im Sinne des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts auf die Bedeutung einer philosophia practica universalis für die Literatur konzentrieren.…Read more
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21Looking at a pair of objects is easy when automatic grouping mechanisms bind these objects together, but visual exploration can also be more flexible. It is possible to mentally “re-group” two objects that are not only separate but belong to different pairs of objects. “Re-grouping” is in conflict with automatic grouping, since it entails a separation of each item from the set it belongs to. This ability appears to be impaired in patients with schizophrenia. Here we check if this impairment is s…Read more
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Du temps pour les sciences sociales: la durée, l'ordre et le rythmeEditions L'Harmattan. 1998.Les chercheurs en sciences sociales font souvent l'impasse sur les dimensions temporelles des phénomènes qu'ils prétendent étudier. Les auteurs en donnent plusieurs exemples avant d'examiner les causes de cette faille. Ne pèchent pas en la matière les seuls sociologues, psychologues ou économistes, mais aussi de nombreux historiens qui donnent une vision exclusivement "territoriale" des périodes qu'ils étudient. Le livre esquisse en quoi consiste une analyse de la durée, de l'ordre et du rythme,…Read more
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31Personality modulation of (un) conscious processing: novelty seeking and performance following supraliminal and subliminal reward cuesConsciousness and Cognition 21 (2): 947-952. 2012.This study provides evidence that personality traits associated with responsiveness to conscious reward cues also influence responsiveness to unconscious reward cues. Participants with low and high levels of Novelty Seeking performed updating tasks in which they could either gain 1 euro or 5 cents. Gains were presented either supraliminally or subliminally at the beginning of each trial. Results showed that low NS participants performed better in the high-reward than in the low-reward condition,…Read more
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17This article is a theoretical consideration on the role of sensory pleasure and mental joy as optimizers of behavior. It ends with an axiomatic proposal. When they compare the human body to its environment, Philosophers recognise the cosmos as the Large Infinite, and the atomic particles as the Small Infinite. The human brain reaches such a degree of complexity that it may be considered as a third infinite in the universe, a Complex Infinite. It follows that any force capable of moving such an i…Read more