A Skövde-based team of researchers including our own Björn Persson have just published an article in the Journal of Social Psychology entitled “Empathy and Universal Values Explicated by the Empathy-Altruism Hypothesis.” Briefly, the article investigates the purported link between concerns about declining empathy and increasing self-enhancing values, as seen through the empathy-altruism hypothesis.
Alumnus publication on concurrent EEG and tACS
A team of researchers, including our own BSc and MSc alumnus Kristoffer Fehér, have just published an article in the Journal of Visualized Experiments entitled “Concurrent Electroencephalography Recording During Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation (tACS).”
New anthology chapter on quantum theory
Paavo Pylkkänen has published a chapter entitled “Quantum Theory, Active Information and the Mind-Matter Problem” in the World Scientific 2015 anthology Contextuality from Quantum Physics to Psychology. Briefly, the chapter investigates the implications of the suggestion (due to Bohm and Hiley) that a certain type of active information plays a key objective role in quantum […]
New response piece on the medicalization of love
Oskar MacGregor has just published an article in the journal Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics entitled “Trivial Love.” Briefly, the article – a response piece to an earlier article by Brian D. Earp, Anders Sandberg and Julian Savulescu, entitled “The Medicalization of Love” – argues that the original article fails to assemble any particularly compelling […]
New article on phenomenology and quantum physics
Paavo Pylkkänen has recently published an article in the journal Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology entitled “The Quantum Epoché.” Briefly, the article argues for the need for phenomenological description in quantum theory.
Alumnus article on task-switching
As part of a team of researchers, Kristoffer Fehér, one of our BSc and MSc alumni, has just published a study in Biological Psychology entitled “Task-switching preparation across semantic and spatial domains: An event-related potential study.”
Chapter in anthology on doping in sport
Oskar MacGregor has published a chapter entitled “WADA’s Whereabouts Requirements and Privacy” in the 2015 Routledge Handbook of Drugs and Sport hop over to this website. The chapter argues that the so-called “whereabouts requirements” of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) result in unacceptable threats to and losses of privacy for at least some of the […]
New anthology chapter published on consciousness science
Antti Revonsuo has written a chapter for the 2015 John Benjamins anthology The Constitution of Phenomenal Consciousness, entitled “The Future of Consciousness Science: From Empirical Correlations to Theoretical Explanation”. Briefly, the chapter gives an overview of Antti’s previous work concerning a multilevel framework for consciousness science, including descriptions of his group’s research on dreaming.