Attitudes to natural foods and genetically modified organisms, assessed by multiple choice items, definitions of natural, and free associations to the word "natural" were determined for a representative sample of adults from France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, the U.K., and the U.S.A. Individuals in all countries had a very positive attitude to natural. There is a surprising degree of similari...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to examine a cohort of unaccompanied refugee minors (URMs) by means of psycholinguistic methods in order to obtain a more subtle picture of their degree of traumatization. METHODS Twenty-eight participants were included in the Stress-Inducing Speech Task (SIST) consisting of a free association (FA) and a stress (STR) condition. Narratives were examined by m...

Background: Repression is considered as a central defense mechanism in psychodynamic theory. It refers to the process by which "unbearable" mental contents (e.g., those related to internal conflicts) are kept out of consciousness. The process of repression is probably closely related to concepts of emotion regulation derived from a different theoretical background. This relationship is particul...

A growing body of neuroimaging research has documented that, in the absence of an explicit task, the brain shows temporally coherent activity. This so-called "resting state" activity or, more explicitly, the default-mode network, has been associated with daydreaming, free association, stream of consciousness, or inner rehearsal in humans, but similar patterns have also been found under anesthes...

In order to efficiently access the meaning of a word, there should be some structure to the way meaning is stored in memory. One possibility is that semantic memory for words is organized in an n-dimensional space in which there are n features that collectively identify all words. This possibility underlies Mitchell et al’s (2008) suggestion that 25 sensory-motor features can be used to model f...

The practical worker in clinic or guidance bureau has longrecognized the existence of a factor in human adjustment which he has called interest. There has been a considerable period of scientific description of this factor. Recently, within the last ten years in fact, interests have been submitted to measurement. Such measurement of interests gives every promise of contributing to the happy and...