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204Emotional Connotation in Speech Perception: Semantic Associations in the General LexiconCognition and Emotion 11 (4): 337-349. 1997.
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47Semantic effects in lexical access: Evidence from single-word namingCognition and Emotion 17 (4): 547-565. 2003.
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31The Adaptive Value of Lexical Connotation in Speech PerceptionCognition and Emotion 14 (2): 177-191. 2000.
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4Extraterrestrial altruism: evolution and ethics in the cosmos (edited book)Springer. 2014.Extraterrestrial Altruism examines a basic assumption of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI): that extraterrestrials will be transmitting messages to us for our benefit. This question of whether extraterrestrials will be altruistic has become increasingly important in recent years as SETI scientists have begun contemplating transmissions from Earth to make contact. Technological civilizations that transmit signals for the benefit of others, but with no immediate gain for themselv…Read more
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3Eco-Anxiety and Pandemic Distress: Psychological Perspectives on Resilience and Interconnectedness (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2022."Through much of 2020 and into 2021, nations throughout the world locked down because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Before then, the most pressing global anxiety for many people was climate anxiety. However, these phenomena are in many ways interconnected. Many of the elements in the global economic and logistical systems cause both ecological problems and vulnerability to pandemics. When pandemics happen, they influence ecological problems-for better or worse. In turn, ecological dynamics shape pan…Read more
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3Eco-Anxiety and Planetary Hope: Experiencing the Twin Disasters of COVID-19 and Climate Change (edited book)Springer. 2022.This timely volume examines the conflict between human individual life and larger forces that are not controllable. Drawing on recent literature in phenomenological and existential psychology it calls for a more nuanced understanding of the human predicament. Focusing on the co-occurring crises of climate change and the COVID-19 epidemic, it explores the nature of widespread anxiety and the long-term human consequences. It calls for an expansion of current research that would include the arts an…Read more
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3Women and Nature?: Beyond Dualism in Gender, Body, and EnvironmentRoutledge. 2017.Women and Nature? Beyond Dualism in Gender, Body, and Environment provides a historical context for understanding the contested relationships between women and nature, and it articulates strategies for moving beyond the dualistic theories and practices that often frame those relationships. In 1974, Francoise d'Eaubonne coined the term "ecofeminism" to raise awareness about interconnections between women's oppression and nature's domination in an attempt to liberate women and nature from subordin…Read more
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Predictors of Prognosis for Patients with Interpersonal Problems: The Role of Therapists' Epistemology, Experience, Optimism, and Theoretical OrientationDissertation, State University of New York at Stony Brook. 1996.Two hundred twenty-three alumni of doctoral programs emphasizing either cognitive-behavioral or psychodynamic therapies judged the prognosis of fictional patients. Each patient presented with an interpersonal problem and expressed one of two epistemological styles: rational-empirical or metaphorical. Therapists of the two orientations differed in epistemological preference and level of optimism. Cognitive-behavior therapists espoused epistemologies that are more rational, more empirical, and les…Read more
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California Institute of Integral StudiesRegular Faculty
San Francisco, California, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |
Continental Philosophy |