This reflective report critically evaluates my developing professional identity as a counseling psychologist. Using the Power Threat Meaning Framework, I present self-formulation to make sense of experiences during second stage training. To begin with, consider how multiple forms power were operating in complex relationship between personal and spheres. As appraise development, examine threats ...

This special issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition is devoted to theory and research at the interface of social psychology and neuroscience. The 5 empirical articles represent the theoretical and methodological breadth of issues considered by social neuroscientists. The methods span brain lesion work to neuroendocrinology to psychophysiologica...

I shall to discuss the power of theories to shape our conceptuali>ation of psychological issues. I will contrast two theories: contextualism and positivism. I argue that the ontological principles of contextualism are more helpful than positivism for conceptuali>ing what culture is, and the relation between culture and psychology. Moreover, the ontological principles of contextualism lead to ep...

Social power, regardless of its pervasiveness and acknowledged impact in a multitude of human social processes remains little explored in virtual agents. To address this gap in social intelligence and consequently virtual agent believability, we introduce the cognitive processes that underlie social power intelligence. In conceptualizing these we identify three core social power components requ...

The importance of generalizing the construction (b) was emphasized by A.N. Parshin [P2-3]. Among other things, he pointed out that all the 4 types of possible combinations of inductive and projective limits of the spaces of measures on m/m have very transparent analytic meaning (Schwartz-Bruhat functions vs. distributions, compact support vs. arbitrary support) and called for a generalization o...