Miller, Eric D.
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New Ideas in Psychology
Historically, the role of the academic psychologist has been fairly set. It has been general practice to emphasize the importance and role of empirical research within the history of psychology. As a means to convey information derived from this source, academic psychologists (like most other academics) have relied on the traditional method of face...
Glăveanu, Vlad Petre Tanggaard, Lene
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New Ideas in Psychology
•The notion of creative identity has been largely neglected in studies of creativity.•Creative identity is a representational project constructed within self–other relations.•Creative identities can be promoted, denied or problematic for both self and others.•Holding a particular creative identity shapes a creator's engagement with his/her own work...
Banicki, Konrad
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New Ideas in Psychology
The Values in Action (VIA) classification of character strengths and virtues has been recently proposed by two leading positive psychologists, Christopher Peterson and Martin Seligman as “the social science equivalent of virtue ethics.” The very possibility of developing this kind of an “equivalent,” however, is very doubtful in the light of the co...
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New Ideas in Psychology
Vautier, Stéphane Lacot, Émilie Veldhuis, Michiel
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New Ideas in Psychology
•We compare the neo-Galtonian and nomothetic research focuses.•A main difference is how approximation is restricted.•Neo-Galtonian approximation raises the issue of falsifiability.•General empirical facts can be falsified by the observation of single cases.•Falsified general facts can be repaired by contraction or expansion.
Brase, Gary L.
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New Ideas in Psychology
•Describes a multi-level convergence (MLC) framework integrating behavioral sciences.•MLC framework is more comprehensive, specific, and complete than previous frameworks.•MLC framework better fits with principles of scientific discovery.•MLC framework is specifically tailored for effective use in the behavioral sciences.•MLC framework is both clar...
Fontanesi, Lilybeth Renaud, Patrice
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New Ideas in Psychology
•We propose a new model of the concept of presence.•Sexual presence is an evolutionary phenomenon, different for men and women.•The presence feeling arises from an adequate combination of form and content.•Sexual presence is important in the study of behaviour through new virtual reality.•We report a model to induce the highest level of presence in...
