Honey, what bread do I like?:

A functional analysis of alienation and depression

 

 

Julius Kuhl, Ph.D.

 

University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany

 

                      

 

Tuesday, September 25

 4:00 P.M.  

Coffee and tea at 3:30

4448 East Hall

 

Précis

Alienation is a crucial example of impaired personality function. However, like many other existential concepts in personality, it it hard to grasp from a functional-design point of you, let alone to operationalize for an experimental analysis of its antecedents and consequences. Several studies will be presented that provide first insights into methods for assessing alienation. In addition, a new theory of personality that is based on a neurobiological model of brain functioning is proposed (Personality System Interaction theory or PSI theory). Two basic forms of alienation and depression will be explained on the basis of reciprocal interactions between mood and cognitive-motivational systems supporting cognitive styles and two basic forms of self-regulation.

 

 

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Mel Konner: Some thoughts about EEAs: Psychological and Psychiatric Reminiscences of !Kung Hunter-Gatherers

 

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