RAPID EYE MOVEMENT (REM) SLEEP BEHAVIOR DISORDER (RBD) IS A PARASOMNIA CHARACTERIZED BY DREAM-ENACTING BEHAVIORS RELATED TO LOSS OF the normal generalized skeletal muscle atonia during REM sleep1,2. RBD may be idiopathic or associated with neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s disease3, multiple system atrophy4, dementia with Lewy bodies5, Machado-Joseph disease6 and parkinsonism with ...

Research indicates that power liberates the self, but findings also show that the powerful are susceptible to situational influences. The present article examines whether enacting roles that afford power leads people to identify with the roles or, instead, liberates them from role expectations altogether. The results of three experiments support the hypothesis that power enhances role identific...

Drawing on structuration theory, research on improvising, technologies-in-practice, organizational identity, and examples of collaborative endeavors from an eight-month field study I conducted at an internet-based startup, I propose that an essential structure to collaboration is a complementary set of understandings between participants regarding the purpose of their collective endeavor what I...

Two studies investigated the process by which individuals in nonmarital romantic relationships characterized by low commitment move toward enacting leave behaviors. Predictions based on the behavioral, goal, and implementation intention literatures were tested using a measure of dissolution consideration developed for this research. Dissolution consideration assesses how salient relationship te...

This research advocates the idea of combining argumentation theory with the social web technology, aiming to enact large scale or mass argumentation. The proposed framework allows mass-collaborative editing of structured arguments in the style of semantic wikipedia. The long term goal is to apply the abstract machinery of argumentation theory to more practical applications based on human genera...

The Enactive is an approach to cognition, or a way of experiencing within a reality that is not pre-given. Francisco Varela (1999) speaks of a world that is enacted as inseparable from how we act in it. Our knowing emerges through our bodyminds interacting with/in the world, rather than being something we try to control and represent. This interplay exists throughout embodied actions, and our e...

Embodied approaches to cognitive science frequently describe the mind as "world-involving," indicating complementary and interdependent relationships between an agent and its environment. The precise nature of the environment is frequently left ill-described, however, and provides a challenge for such approaches, particularly, it is noted here, for the enactive approach which emphasizes this co...