EEG Indices of Cortical Network Formation and Their Relevance for Studying Variance in Subjective Experience and Behavior

The Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS) is an instrument that measures the centrality, importance, or salience of religious meanings in personality. Addressing the dearth of research on the salience of religion among Filipino Christian youths, the researchers explore in this paper the degree of religiosity of selected university students and the relevance of religious beliefs in their daily life by validating the Abrahamic forms of the Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS-5, CRS-10, and CRS-15). This paper specifically answers the following questions: (1) What CRS version is valid for Filipino Christian youths? (2) What is the position of the religious construct-system among selected Filipino Christian university students? and (3) How does the centrality of religiosity influences the selected Filipino Christian university students’ subjective experience and behavior? Means and standard deviations were calculated for the five subscales of the centrality of religiosity for CRS-5, CRS-10, and CRS-15. The distribution of the subscale scores was also computed using measures of skewness and kurtosis. Cronbach’s α values are provided for each of the subscales to establish internal consistency. Descriptive statistics were also computed with the use of the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) software version 20. Bivariate correlations are reported for all CRS-15 items. This paper established that in a predominantly Christian country such as the Philippines, the CRS-15 is suitable in measuring the centrality of religiosity among Filipino Christian youths.

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Deskriptions- und Interpretationsprobleme beim psychologischen Erklären

Analyse & Kritik ◽

10.1515/auk-1984-0202 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Hans-Georg Bosshardt

Keyword(s):

Common Sense ◽

Subjective Experience ◽

Deductive Reasoning ◽

Research Strategy ◽

Descriptive Information ◽

Behavioral Aspects ◽

Empirical Generalizations ◽

And Behavior

AbstractIn this paper, the descriptive information contained in empirical laws is contrasted with common-sense descriptions of situations and behavior. According to the Hempel-Oppenheim-Schema, explanation is, essentially, conceived as a matter of deductive reasoning in which the fact to be explained is subsumed under one (or more) empirically valid generalizations or laws. However, this kind of explanation is necessarily based on intuitive processes of diagnosis and interpretation. It is argued that these intuitive processes enable the scientist to formulate descriptive sentences which form the arguments of logically correct explanations. It is assumed that people produce common-sense descriptions of situation and behavior in correspondence with their subjective experience of other people's behavior and its determinants. In order to obtain intuitively adequate empirical generalizations and behavioral laws it is proposed that common-sense descriptions of behavior and situations should be integrated into the antecedent and/or consequent of laws. In such a research strategy the regularities between meaningfully interpreted situational and behavioral aspects can be studied.

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The intricate relationships between monitoring and control in metacognition: Lessons for the cause-and-effect relation between subjective experience and behavior.

Journal of Experimental Psychology General ◽

10.1037/0096-3445.135.1.36 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 135 (1) ◽

pp. 36-69 ◽

Cited By ~ 169

Author(s):

Asher Koriat ◽

Hilit Ma'ayan ◽

Ravit Nussinson

Keyword(s):

Subjective Experience ◽

Monitoring And Control ◽

Cause And Effect ◽

Effect Relation ◽

And Behavior ◽

And Control

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Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol and cannabidiol in psychosis: A balancing act of the principal phyto-cannabinoids on human brain and behavior?

10.1101/2021.05.17.21257345 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Suhas Ganesh ◽

Jose Cortes-Briones ◽

Ashley M Schnakenberg Martin ◽

Patrick D Skosnik ◽

Deepak Cyril D'Souza ◽

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Keyword(s):

Subjective Experience ◽

Dependent Manner ◽

Dose Ratio ◽

Double Blind ◽

Neural Noise ◽

Global Trend ◽

Brain And Behavior ◽

Medical Indications ◽

And Behavior ◽

Psychotomimetic Effects

Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD) are the principal phyto-cannabinoids in the cannabis plant. The differential and possibly antagonistic effects of these compounds on specific brain and behavioral responses, and the mechanisms underlying their effects have generated extensive interest in pre-clinical and clinical neuroscience investigations. In this double-blind randomized placebo-controlled counterbalanced human laboratory experiment, we examined the effects of three different dose ratios of CBD: THC (1:1, 2:1 and 3:1) on neural noise, an electrophysiological biomarker of psychosis known to be sensitive to cannabinoids as well as subjective and psychotomimetic effects. Interestingly, the lowest CBD:THC ratio (1:1) resulted in maximal attenuation of both THC induced psychotomimetic effects (PANSS positive - ATS = 7.83, df = 1, pcorr = 0.015) and neural noise (ATS = 8.83, df = 1, pcorr = 0.009) with an inverse-linear dose response relationship. Further, in line with previous studies, addition of CBD did not reduce the subjective experience of THC induced high (p > 0.05 for all CBD doses). These novel results demonstrate that CBD attenuates THC induced subjective and objective effects relevant to psychosis- but in a dose/ratio dependent manner. Given the increasing global trend of cannabis liberalization and application for medical indications, these results assume considerable significance given the potential dose related interactions of these key phyto-cannabinoids.

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Process of cortical network formation and impact of early brain damage

Current Opinion in Neurology ◽

10.1097/wco.0000000000000068 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 27 (2) ◽

pp. 133-141 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Jozsef Z. Kiss ◽

Lana Vasung ◽

Volodymyr Petrenko

Keyword(s):

Brain Damage ◽

Network Formation ◽

Cortical Network

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Decision letter: Metformin reverses early cortical network dysfunction and behavior changes in Huntington’s disease

10.7554/elife.38744.031 ◽

2018 ◽

Keyword(s):

Huntington's Disease ◽

Huntington’S Disease ◽

Cortical Network ◽

Behavior Changes ◽

And Behavior

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Emotion induction through music: A review of the musical mood induction procedure

Musicae Scientiae ◽

10.1177/10298649020050s107 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 5 (1_suppl) ◽

pp. 173-211 ◽

Cited By ~ 90

Author(s):

Daniel Västfjäll

Keyword(s):

Mood Induction ◽

Subjective Experience ◽

Personality Psychology ◽

Emotion Induction ◽

Induction Procedure ◽

Musical Mood Induction ◽

Affective Processes ◽

Extensive Body ◽

And Behavior ◽

Mood Induction Procedure

This article reviews research showing that music can alter peoples’ moods and emotions. The so called “musical mood induction procedure” (MMIP) relies on music to produce changes in experienced affective processes. The fact that music can have this effect on subjective experience has been utilized to study the effect of mood on cognitive processes and behavior by a large number of researchers in social, clinical, and personality psychology. This extensive body of literature, while little known among music psychologists, is likely to further help music psychologists understand affective responses to music. With this in mind, the present article aims at providing an extensive review of the methodology behind a number of studies using the MMIP. The effectiveness of music as a mood-inducing stimulus is discussed in terms of self-reports, physiological, and behavioral indices. The discussion focuses on how findings from the MMIP literature may extend into current research and debate on the complex interplay of music and emotional responses.

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