Embodying the Catholic faith

Rotorua Catholic Faith Based Community of Learning Achievement Challenges

Embodying emotion.

Recent theories of embodied cognition suggest new ways to look at how we process emotional information. The theories suggest that perceiving and thinking about emotion involve perceptual, somatovisceral, and motoric reexperiencing (collectively referred to as "embodiment") of the relevant emotion in one's self. The embodiment of emotion, when induced in human participants by manipulations of fa...

Embodying Normalcy

ATEGORIZATIONS OF THE KIND OF BODY we have can prove to be fateful. They have an enormous influence on how we live our lives, and the value that has been loaded onto corporeal distinctions such as height, weight and body shape or form has a very long history indeed. For most of this history, at least in the West, the outward aspects of bodies have entailed certain conclusions about the minds (a...

Embodying the JACK Agent Architecture

Agent-based models of human operators rarely include explicit representations of the timing and accuracy of perception and action, although their accuracy is sometimes implicitly modelled by including random noise for observations and actions. In many situations though, the timing and accuracy of the person’s perception and action significantly influence their overall performance on a task. Rec...

Dissemination of evidence-based cancer control interventions among Catholic faith-based organizations: results from the CRUZA randomized trial

BACKGROUND The CRUZA randomized trial tested the efficacy of an organizational-level intervention to increase the capacity of Catholic faith-based organizations (FBOs) serving Latinos to implement evidence-based strategies (EBS) for cancer control. METHODS Thirty-one Catholic parishes were enrolled. Twenty were randomized to a "capacity enhancement" (CE) intervention and 11 to a "standard dis...