Sentences with phrase «in nonsocial»

Study 1 provides the first experimental evidence that actual stay / leave decision making is causally affected by relationship returns, at least in collaborative relationships, and potentially in a similar way as stay / leave decision making is affected by outcomes in nonsocial decision making contexts.

In a nonsocial nexus, on the other hand, the unit events could be spontaneous.

If it were the case that there were a single terminal occasion in the nonsocial nexus which is directly connected to each separate part of the body, the unity of experience would indeed be difficult to explain.

Not exact matches

Given the field - oriented approach to Whiteheadian societies advocated in this article, however, it is not necessary thus to temper with Whitehead's distinction between nonsocial nexus and societies.

In 1969 Donald Sherburne wrote an article for the Southern Journal of Philosophy setting forth Whitehead's doctrine of nonsocial nexus of living actual occasions.

In both situations, we are supposing that the dominant thread of occasions has become a thread of the «nonsocial» nexus which is experiencing heightened intensity of feeling.

In such cases, I assume that the dominant occasion actively reorganizes satisfactions given to the «nonsocial» occasions enjoying analogous experiences.

I am thus persuaded to view the «nonsocial» nexus supportive of unified dominant mentality, which receives so much attention in Sherburne's model, as being more social than other passages might lead us to expect.

What carries over from word to word is in part continuity of a lower - level set of occasions in the «nonsocial» nexus.

In fact, they suggest that the theory of nonsocial occasions alone is insufficient to explain life.

A decline of conscious attention, as in exhaustion, in which the figure - ground structure dissolves into a homogeneous field, illustrates that consciousness is derivative from a more complex experience, which I have located in the overwhelmingly nonconscious occasions in the «nonsocial» nexus.

This means that as a group they felt a new type of existence was possible for them, and in prehending this novel possibility they formed nonsocial occasions which the person of Jesus organized and unified.

But let us ask ourselves whether a nonsocial nexus could be produced in some other way.

In order for the living person or soul to be preserved, i.e., to continue in its personal existence beyond the grave, the living nonsocial nexus must be preserveIn order for the living person or soul to be preserved, i.e., to continue in its personal existence beyond the grave, the living nonsocial nexus must be preservein its personal existence beyond the grave, the living nonsocial nexus must be preserved.

But even when there is not the extreme situation of multiple personalities, it seems as though «unconscious» drives and fears, appetitions and aversions, are present in occasions of the nonsocial nexus which are not incorporated into the regnant society.

I am helped in avoiding this attribution by his subsequent indication that the personally ordered regnant society he is tracing «answers to the notion of the conscious ego while the supporting nonsocial nexus answers to the dimly conscious regions of the «depth» dimension of the psyche» (1:406).

The main point of Sherburne's theory is that a nonsocial nexus exists in the interstices of the brain such that its members are severally attuned to stimuli from different parts of the body.

Some aspects of this unconscious area are unconscious through lack of attention, and the regnant society may easily bring the experience of the occasions in that part of the nonsocial nexus within its purview.

I have no desire to quarrel with the discussion of the nonsocial nexus in the interstices of the brain.

That means that what is going on in some parts of the supporting nonsocial nexus is not known to the regnant occasion and this is what I mean by saying that the activities of those unprehended parts of the nonsocial nexus answer to the notion of the unconscious, or the depth dimension of the «psyche.»

In this connection he considered the possibility that the living occasions in the cell might constitute a single personally ordered society rather than a nonsocial nexus.21 That would mean that at any moment there would be a single living cellular occasion internally related to the world rather than a great multiplicity of minuscule occasions to which severally the internal relations of the cell must be attributeIn this connection he considered the possibility that the living occasions in the cell might constitute a single personally ordered society rather than a nonsocial nexus.21 That would mean that at any moment there would be a single living cellular occasion internally related to the world rather than a great multiplicity of minuscule occasions to which severally the internal relations of the cell must be attributein the cell might constitute a single personally ordered society rather than a nonsocial nexus.21 That would mean that at any moment there would be a single living cellular occasion internally related to the world rather than a great multiplicity of minuscule occasions to which severally the internal relations of the cell must be attributed.

There he stressed that it is the coordination of spontaneities that constitutes life.24 His discussion is more reminiscent of what he said in Process and Reality about a living person than of what he said about a nonsocial nexus.

For Whitehead, the answers to both questions, which I shall consider in turn, are framed in terms of the Psychological Physiology, the main «elements» of which consist of a nonsocial nexus of occasions in the brain (which functions as the body's principal source of creative novelty), the regnant society it supports, and their interactions with other bodily societies and nexuses (WPP 404 - 06).

In order to speak to (1), let us consider that the nonsocial nexus is one that is «entirely living,» and this means that, since life indicates originality rather than merely the continuity of physical inheritance, all its member actual occasions display creative originality (PR 157).

Thus, in the above case, the nonsocial nexus entertains the proposition «baby as crying» as a «tale» that might be told about the child, and this is for the parent a «lure» for feeling.»

Moreover, the entire article is gainsaid by a massive meta - analysis study by Northwestern University psychologist Michael Bailey and his colleagues published in the September issue of the peer - reviewed journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest, showing that «there is considerably more evidence supporting nonsocial causes of sexual orientation than social causes.»

«This suggests that certain neurons in the brain may be specialized to prefer social rewards over nonsocial rewards, and that the processing of social cues is sensitive to circulating hormones,» McHenry said.

McHenry believes that their findings, which was published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, could only mean that some neurons in the brain are designed to favor social rewards as opposed to nonsocial rewards.

Compared with client - owned — group data, significantly more relinquished shelter dogs in the confidential information group were reported to have ownerdirected aggression, stranger - directed aggression, dog - directed aggression or fear, stranger - directed fear, nonsocial fear, and separation - related behaviors.

Participants then completed three laboratory - based procedures designed to elicit a physiological response: (i) a peer - evaluation task (65) that was passive in nature (i.e., did not require active responses by the participant); (ii) an evaluated social performance task requiring instrumental cognitive responses — the TSST (66), a widely used stress induction procedure that has been used with children and adolescents (67, 68); and (iii) a nonsocial task designed to elicit frustration that required active responses.

We examined changes in ANS and HPA axis measures during three tasks: two social stressors [the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST), which includes preparation, speech, and math portions; and a peer evaluation task], and one nonsocial stressor (a frustration task).

Findings were mixed with some studies revealing that nonsocial behavioural inhibition («fearfulness»), but not social behavioural inhibition, increased risk for future depression55 and other studies revealing that symptoms of depression were more strongly related to social rather than nonsocial behavioural inhibition in childhood.56