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- What is in a Name? Parent, Professional and Policy-Maker Conceptions of Consent-Related Language in the Context of Newborn Screening.Stuart G. Nicholls,Holly Etchegary,Laure Tessier,Charlene Simmonds,Beth K. Potter,Jamie C. Brehaut,Daryl Pullman,Robin Z. Hayeems,Sari Zelenietz,Monica Lamoureux,Jennifer Milburn,Lesley Turner,Pranesh Chakraborty &Brenda J.Wilson -2019 -Public Health Ethics 12 (2):158-175.Newborn bloodspot screening programs are some of the longest running population screening programs internationally. Debate continues regarding the need for parents to give consent to having their child screened. Little attention has been paid to how meanings of consent-related terminology vary among stakeholders and the implications of this for practice. We undertook semi-structured interviews with parents, healthcare professionals and policy decision makers in two Canadian provinces. Conceptions of consent-related terms revolved around seven factors within two broad domains, decision-making and information (...) attainment. Decision-making comprised: parent decision authority; voluntariness; parent engagement with decision-making; and the process of enacting choice. Information ascertainment comprised: professional responsibilities ; parent responsibilities; and the need for discussion and understanding prior to a decision. Our findings indicate that consent-related terms are variously understood, with substantive implications for practice. We suggest that consent procedures should be explained descriptively, regardless of approach, so there are clear indications of what is expected of parents and healthcare professionals. Support systems are required both to meet the educational needs of parents and families and to support healthcare professionals in delivering information in a manner in keeping with parent needs. (shrink)
- Association of daily and time-segmented physical activity and sedentary behaviour with mental health of school children and adolescents from rural Northeastern Ontario, Canada.Bruno G. G. da Costa,Brenda Bruner,Graydon H. Raymer,Sara M. Scharoun Benson,Jean-Philippe Chaput,Tara McGoey,Greg Rickwood,Jennifer Robertson-Wilson,Travis J. Saunders &Barbi Law -2022 -Frontiers in Psychology 13.Physical activity and sedentary behaviour have been linked to the mental health of children and adolescents, yet the timing of behaviours may play a role in this relationship and clarifying this could inform interventions. We explored cross-sectional associations of PA and SED in varying time segments throughout the school day with the mental health of school-aged children and adolescents from rural Northeastern Ontario, Canada. A total of 161 students wore accelerometers for 8 days and completed a self-report survey. Mental health (...) was measured using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. Accelerometer-measured SED, light PA, and moderate and vigorous PA were estimated in the time-segments before school, school time, after school, and evenings. Associations were tested with multilevel linear regressions while adjusting for confounding factors. Students spent 72.6 min in MVPA, 209.0 min in LPA, and 621.0 min in SED per day. Daily SED was associated with less conduct problems. Evening LPA was inversely associated with hyperactivity, while SED was associated with hyperactivity and with peer problems before school, and during school. No associations were observed for MVPA, emotional symptoms, or prosocial behaviour. In conclusion, displacing SED with LPA in some specific periods of the day may benefit the mental health of students; taking this into account could strengthen interventions. (shrink)
- Subjectivity and intuition in the scientific method.Brenda J. Dunne -1997 - In Robbie Davis-Floyd & P. Sven Arvidson,Intuition: The Inside Story : Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Routledge. pp. 121--128.
- Interest Groups and Pro-Animal Rights Legislation.Brenda J. Lutz &James M. Lutz -2011 -Society and Animals 19 (3):261-277.The American states have demonstrated varying levels of support for animal rights legislation. The activities of interest groups, including pressures from competing groups, help to explain the presence or absence of ten pro-animal regulations and laws. This article analyzes and ranks each of the fifty states with regard to ten key areas of animal protection and welfare legislation. The analysis reveals that states with a more agricultural economic base are less likely to provide protection to animals. In addition, states with (...) a more traditional political culture are less likely to have pro-animal legislation in place. (shrink)
- High blood pressure: Hunting the genes.Brenda J. Leckie -1992 -Bioessays 14 (1):37-41.High blood pressure is a disease of unknown cause. Family history of the disease indicates higher risk, but it is not known which genes are involved or how they interact with environmental influences to produce the disorder. Molecular biology offers an approach to problems that have not so far been solved by classical physiology or biochemistry. By analysing polymorphic variation in chromosome markers such as minisatellite sequences, or by restriction fragment polymorphism analysis of candidate genes, attempts are being made to (...) link genetic variations with hypertension. In genetically hypertensive rats, hypertension is associated with a polymorphism of the renin gene and with other loci on chromosomes 10 and 18. The role of these loci in human hypertension remains to be determined. Other genes such as sodium‐lithium countertransport may be involved. Environmental factors such as stress or salt intake could influence the rate or timing of expression of certain genes and thus result in hypertension. (shrink)
- Conflicting Conceptions of the Purposes of Schooling in a Democracy.Brenda J. McMahon -2013 -Journal of Thought 48 (1):17.
- Consciousness, randomnicity, and information.Brenda J. Dunne &Robert G. Jahn -1992 - In B. Rubik,The Interrelationship Between Mind and Matter. Center for Frontier Sciences Temple University. pp. 57--82.Export citation
Bookmark - Nurses' lived experience of peacebuilding.Brenda J. Srof,Mary Lagerwey &Joe Liechty -2023 -Nursing Inquiry 30 (4):e12591.Nursing has a unique opportunity to address issues of structural violence that contribute to poor health outcomes. Models for designing nursing care relative to the social determinants of health can be adapted from the discipline of peace studies and the phenomenon of peacebuilding. The aim of this qualitative study was to describe the lived experience of peacebuilding from the perspective of community or public health nurses. Interviews were conducted with eight participants. Attributes of the peacebuilder included fostering human relationships that (...) value the inherent worth and dignity of others, nurturing a character of humility and moral courage, and contemplating the personal cost of engaging in prolonged processes of peacebuilding. Practices of peacebuilding included mediating conflict through multilayered processes, accompanying others to places of empowerment, and utilizing interdisciplinary teaching and learning to build capacity for change. Increasing an understanding of the lived experience of peacebuilding by nurses is relevant to nursing research, theory, and practice, and adds to a broader understanding of peacebuilding. (shrink)No categories
- Prenatal exposure to aluminum or stress: II. Behavioral and performance effects.Brenda J. Anderson,Susan M. Nash,Melissa Richard,David S. Dungan &Stephen F. Davis -1985 -Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 23 (6):524-526.
- The Uses of English.J.Wilson Myers &Herbert J. Muller -1968 -Journal of Aesthetic Education 2 (2):128.
- Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty (ECSQARU 2021, LNAI 12897).J. Vejnarová &J.Wilson (eds.) -2021No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Justice and Equity in the English Morality Play.J.Wilson McCutchan -1958 -Journal of the History of Ideas 19 (3):405.
- Prenatal exposure to aluminum or stress: I. Birth-related and developmental effects.Brenda J. Anderson,Julie A. Williams,Susan M. Nash,David S. Dungan &Stephen F. Davis -1985 -Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 23 (1):87-89.
- The ethics of fieldwork in an urban bar.Brenda J. Mann -1976 - In Michael A. Rynkiewich & James P. Spradley,Ethics and anthropology: dilemmas in fieldwork. Malabar, Fla.: R.E. Krieger Pub. Co.. pp. 95--109.Export citation Bookmark
- of the Purposes of Schooling in a Democracy.Brenda J. McMahon -forthcoming -Journal of Thought.
- Semiring induced valuation algebras: Exact and approximate local computation algorithms.J. Kohlas &N.Wilson -2008 -Artificial Intelligence 172 (11):1360-1399.
- Finitely constrained classes of homogeneous directed graphs.Brenda J. Latka -1994 -Journal of Symbolic Logic 59 (1):124-139.Given a finite relational language L is there an algorithm that, given two finite sets A and B of structures in the language, determines how many homogeneous L structures there are omitting every structure in B and embedding every structure in A? For directed graphs this question reduces to: Is there an algorithm that, given a finite set of tournaments Γ, determines whether QΓ, the class of finite tournaments omitting every tournament in Γ, is well-quasi-order? First, we give a nonconstructive (...) proof of the existence of an algorithm for the case in which Γ consists of one tournament. Then we determine explicitly the set of tournaments each of which does not have an antichain omitting it. Two antichains are exhibited and a summary is given of two structure theorems which allow the application of Kruskal's Tree Theorem. Detailed proofs of these structure theorems will be given elsewhere. The case in which Γ consists of two tournaments is also discussed. (shrink)
- Address list of participants and observers.Larry Dossey,Brenda J. Dunne,Robert G. Jahn,Brian D. Josephson,Walter von Lucadou,Rajen K. Mishra &F. David Peat -1992 - In B. Rubik,The Interrelationship Between Mind and Matter. Center for Frontier Sciences Temple University.Export citation Bookmark
- The Social and Ethical Challenges of Radiation Risk Management.Deborah H. Oughton &Brenda J. Howard -2012 -Ethics, Policy and Environment 15 (1):71 - 76.Ethics, Policy & Environment, Volume 15, Issue 1, Page 71-76, March 2012.
- The States of South Asia: Problems of National Integration.Robert J. Young,A. JayaratnamWilson &Dennis Dalton -1984 -Journal of the American Oriental Society 104 (4):781.No categories
- On the quantum mechanics of consciousness, with application to anomalous phenomena.Robert G. Jahn &Brenda J. Dunne -1986 -Foundations of Physics 16 (8):721-772.Theoretical explication of a growing body of empirical data on consciousness-related anomalous phenomena is unlikely to be achieved in terms of known physical processes. Rather, it will first be necessary to formulate the basic role of consciousness in the definition of reality before such anomalous experience can adequately be represented. This paper takes the position that reality is constituted only in the interaction of consciousness with its environment, and therefore that any scheme of conceptual organization developed to represent that reality (...) must reflect the processes of consciousness as well as those of its environment. In this spirit, the concepts and formalisms of elementary quantum mechanics, as originally proposed to explain anomalous atomic-scale physical phenomena, are appropriated via metaphor to represent the general characteristics of consciousness interacting with any environment. More specifically, if consciousness is represented by a quantum mechanical wave function, and its environment by an appropriate potential profile, Schrödinger wave mechanics defines eigenfunctions and eigenvalues that can be associated with the cognitive and emotional experiences of that consciousness in that environment. To articulate this metaphor it is necessary to associate certain aspects of the formalism, such as the coordinate system, the quantum numbers, and even the metric itself, with various impressionistic descriptors of consciousness, such as its intensity, perspective, approach/avoidance attitude, balance between cognitive and emotional activity, and receptive/assertive disposition. With these established, a number of the generic features of quantum mechanics, such as the wave/particle duality, and the uncertainty, indistinguishability, and exclusion principles, display metaphoric relevance to familiar individual and collective experiences. Similarly, such traditional quantum theoretic exercises as the central force field and atomic structure, covalent molecular bonds, barrier penetration, and quantum statistical collective behavior become useful analogies for representation of a variety of consciousness experiences, both normal and anomalous, and for the design of experiments to study these systematically. (shrink)
- Reward and nonreward odor cues: The role of the harderian gland.Susan M. Nash,Brenda J. Anderson,Teresa L. Reed,John W. Parrish &Stephen F. Davis -1986 -Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 24 (2):141-144.
- Margins of Reality: The Role of Consciousness in the Physical World.Robert G. Jahn &Brenda J. Dunne -1987 - Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.The scientific, personal, and social implications of this revolutionary work are staggering. MARGINS OF REALITY is nothing less than a fundamental reevaluation of how the world really works.
- An EEG investigation of awareness during anaesthesia.S. A. Lewis,J. Jenkinson &J.Wilson -1973 -British Journal of Psychology 64:413-5.
- What is "special" about face perception?Martha J. Farah,Kevin D.Wilson,Maxwell Drain &James N. Tanaka -1998 -Psychological Review 105 (3):482-498.
- Realizing Informed Consent in Times of Controversy: Lessons from the SUPPORT Study.Robert J. Morse &Robin FretwellWilson -2016 -Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 44 (3):402-418.This Essay examines the elegantly simple idea that consent to medical treatment or participation in human research must be “informed” to be valid. It does so by using as a case study the controversial clinical research trial known as the Surfactant, Positive Pressure, and Oxygenation Randomized Trial. The Essay begins by charting, through case law and the adoption of the common rule, the evolution of duties to secure fully informed consent in both research and treatment. The Essay then utilizes the (...) SUPPORT study, which sought to pinpoint the level of saturated oxygen that should be provided to extremely low birth weight infants to demonstrate modern complexities and shortcomings of the duty to secure informed consent. This Essay shows how the duty is measured by foreseeability of risks and benefits in human research and why federal regulators believed the tradeoffs in risk and benefits from differing oxygen levels administered in the support study were foreseeable. It then explores the contours of the duty to secure informed consent when applied to researchers who also serve as treating physicians, highlighting how common law duties differ in jurisdictions that apply the professional standard and those that apply the patient-centered material risk standard. This Essay provides new insight into what the law must do to make real the notion that [e]very human being of adult years and sound mind has a right to determine what shall be done with his body.”. (shrink)No categories
- A Systematic Review of Commercial Cognitive Training Devices: Implications for Use in Sport.David J. Harris,Mark R.Wilson &Samuel J. Vine -2018 -Frontiers in Psychology 9.
- The ideal application of surveillance technology in residential care for people with dementia.Alistair R. Niemeijer,Brenda J. M. Frederiks,Marja F. I. A. Depla,Johan Legemaate,Jan A. Eefsting &Cees M. P. M. Hertogh -2011 -Journal of Medical Ethics 37 (5):303-310.Background As our society is ageing, nursing homes are finding it increasingly difficult to deal with an expanding population of patients with dementia and a decreasing workforce. A potential answer to this problem might lie in the use of technology. However, the use and application of surveillance technology in dementia care has led to considerable ethical debate among healthcare professionals and ethicists, with no clear consensus to date. Aim To explore how surveillance technology is viewed by care professionals and ethicists (...) working in the field, by investigating the ideal application of surveillance technology in the residential care of people with dementia. Methods Use was made of the concept mapping method, a computer-assisted procedure consisting of five steps: brainstorming, prioritising, clustering, processing by the computer and analysis. Various participants (ranging from ethicists to physicians and nurses) were invited on the basis of their professional background. Results The views generated are grouped into six categories ranging from the need for a right balance between freedom and security, to be beneficial and tailored to the resident, and clearly defined procedures to competent and caring personnel, active monitoring and clear normative guidance. The results are presented in the form of a graphic chart. Conclusions There appears to be an inherent duality in the views on using surveillance technology which is rooted in the moral conflict between safety and freedom. Elaboration of this ethical issue has proved to be very difficult. (shrink)
- In Defense of a Relevance Condition'.D. J. Hockney &J. C.Wilson -1965 -Logique Et Analyse 8 (31):211-220.No categories
- The effect of a prestimulus cue on vibrotactile thresholds.Donald J. Fucci,Howard F.Wilson &Ann P. Curtis -1976 -Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 8 (5):379-380.
- Optical studies of transition metal dichalcogenide layer crystals at high pressures.A. J. Grant,J. A.Wilson &A. D. Yoffe -1972 -Philosophical Magazine 25 (3):625-636.No categories
- Précis of Genes, Mind, and Culture.Charles J. Lumsden &Edward O.Wilson -1982 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 5 (1):1-7.Despite its importance, the linkage between genetic and cultural evolution has until now been little explored. An understanding of this linkage is needed to extend evolutionary theory so that it can deal for the first time with the phenomena of mind and human social history. We characterize the process of gene-culture coevolution, in which culture is shaped by biological imperatives while biological traits are simultaneously altered by genetic evolution in response to cultural history. A case is made from both theory (...) and evidence that genetic and cultural evolution are inseverable, and that the human mind has tended to evolve so as to bias individuals toward certain patterns of cognition and choice rather than others. With the aid of mathematical models we trace the coevolutionary circuit: The genes prescribe structure in developmental pathways that lay down endocrine and neural systems, imposing regularities in the development of cognition and behavior; these regularities translate upward into holistic patterns of culture, which can be predicted in the form of probability density distributions ; natural selection acts within human history to favor certain epigenetic rules over others; and the selection alters the frequencies of the underlying genes. The effects of genetic and cultural changes reverberate throughout the circuit and are consequently tested with the passage of each life cycle. In addition to modeling gene-culture coevolution, we apply methods from island biogeography and information theory to examine the cultural capacity of the genes, the factors determining the magnitude of cultural diversity, and the possible reasons for the uniqueness of the human achievement. (shrink)
- On incest and mathematical modeling.C. J. Lumsden &E. O.Wilson -1984 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 7 (4):742.
- A dialogue with Barth and Farrer on theological method.James J. Buckley &William McfWilson -1985 -Heythrop Journal 26 (3):274–293.
- Neural encoding of large-scale three-dimensional space—properties and constraints.Kate J. Jeffery,Jonathan J.Wilson,Giulio Casali &Robin M. Hayman -2015 -Frontiers in Psychology 6.
- The Experimental Study of Freudian Theories.Hans J. Eysenck &Glenn D.Wilson (eds.) -2013 - Routledge.Originally published in 1973 the editors of this book collected together those studies which had been considered at the time to yield the best evidence in support of Freudian theory, and found on close examination that they failed to provide any such proof. Each paper is printed in full and is followed by a critical discussion which raises questions of statistical treatment, sufficiency of controls and alternative interpretations. The particular usefulness of this format is that it allows readers to form (...) their own opinions while providing helpful suggestions and guidelines on how to approach experimental studies with a critical mind. (shrink)No categories
- The experiences of people with dementia and intellectual disabilities with surveillance technologies in residential care.Alistair R. Niemeijer,Marja F. I. A. Depla,Brenda J. M. Frederiks &Cees M. P. M. Hertogh -2015 -Nursing Ethics 22 (3):307-320.Background: Surveillance technology such as tag and tracking systems and video surveillance could increase the freedom of movement and consequently autonomy of clients in long-term residential care settings, but is also perceived as an intrusion on autonomy including privacy. Objective: To explore how clients in residential care experience surveillance technology in order to assess how surveillance technology might influence autonomy. Setting: Two long-term residential care facilities: a nursing home for people with dementia and a care facility for people with intellectual (...) disabilities. Methods: Ethnographic field study. Ethical considerations: The boards representing clients and relatives/proxies of the clients were informed of the study and gave their written consent. The clients’ assent was sought through a special information leaflet. At any time clients and/or proxy were given the option to withdraw from the study. The research protocol was also reviewed by a medical ethics committee. Findings: Our findings show a pattern of two themes: (1) coping with new spaces which entailed clients: wandering around, getting lost, being triggered, and retreating to new spaces and (2) resisting the surveillance technology measure because clients feel stigmatized, missed the company, and do not like being “watched.” Conclusion: Client experiences of surveillance technology appear to entail a certain ambivalence. This is in part due to the variety in surveillance technology devices, with each device bringing its own connotations and experiences. But it also lies in the devices’ presupposition of an ideal user, which is at odds with the actual user who is inherently vulnerable. Surveillance technology can contribute to the autonomy of clients in long-term care, but only if it is set in a truly person-centered approach. (shrink)
- Prior on modal assertions.Donald J. Hockney &W. KentWilson -1968 -Philosophical Studies 19 (4):57 - 61.
- Dissecting the complexity of the nervous system by enhancer detection.Hugo J. Bellen,CliveWilson &Walter J. Gehring -1990 -Bioessays 12 (5):199-204.Enhancer detectors are DNA constructs which, when introduced into a eukaryotic genome, respond to nearby genomic transcriptional regulatory elements by means of a reporter gene, revealing the expression pattern of genes in their vicinity. Recent experiments in Drosophila suggest that enhancer detection is a powerful method to identify genes that are expressed in the nervous system. Since enhancer detectors allow a rapid molecular and genetic characterization of genes in their vicinity, the method will greatly facilitate the study of neural development (...) and behavior. (shrink)
- Genes and culture, protest and communication.Charles J. Lumsden &Edward O.Wilson -1982 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 5 (1):31-37.Despite its importance, the linkage between genetic and cultural evolution has until now been little explored. An understanding of this linkage is needed to extend evolutionary theory so that it can deal for the first time with the phenomena of mind and human social history. We characterize the process of gene-culture coevolution, in which culture is shaped by biological imperatives while biological traits are simultaneously altered by genetic evolution in response to cultural history. A case is made from both theory (...) and evidence that genetic and cultural evolution are inseverable, and that the human mind has tended to evolve so as to bias individuals toward certain patterns of cognition and choice rather than others. With the aid of mathematical models we trace the coevolutionary circuit: The genes prescribe structure in developmental pathways that lay down endocrine and neural systems, imposing regularities in the development of cognition and behavior; these regularities translate upward into holistic patterns of culture, which can be predicted in the form of probability density distributions ; natural selection acts within human history to favor certain epigenetic rules over others; and the selection alters the frequencies of the underlying genes. The effects of genetic and cultural changes reverberate throughout the circuit and are consequently tested with the passage of each life cycle. In addition to modeling gene-culture coevolution, we apply methods from island biogeography and information theory to examine the cultural capacity of the genes, the factors determining the magnitude of cultural diversity, and the possible reasons for the uniqueness of the human achievement. (shrink)
- Claude Lagadec, Gabrielle Gutzman, R J. Cooper, MaxWilson, R. Lance Factor.Claude Lagadec,Gabrielle Gutzman,R. J. Cooper,MaxWilson &R. Lance Factor -1988 -Philosophie Et Culture: Actes du XVIIe Congrès Mondial de Philosophie 5:619-619.No categories
- Cohesion, Gene flow, and the Nature of Species.Matthew J. Barker &Robert A.Wilson -2010 -Journal of Philosophy 107 (2):59-77.A far-reaching and influential view in evolutionary biology claims that species are cohesive units held together by gene flow. Biologists have recognized empirical problems facing this view; after sharpening the expression of the view, we present novel conceptual problems for it. At the heart of these problems is a distinction between two importantly different concepts of cohesion, what we call integrative and response cohesion. Acknowledging the distinction problematizes both the explanandum of species cohesion and the explanans of gene flow that (...) are central to the view we discuss. We conclude by tracing four broader implications for the study and conceptualization of species. (shrink)
- The Growth of US Credit Unions.Donal McKillop,J. Goddard &J.Wilson -unknown
- How to Argue: An Introduction to Logical Thinking.David J. Crossley &Peter A.Wilson -1979 - New York, NY, USA: Random House.No categories
- Well-being, Disability, and Choosing Children.Matthew J. Barker &Robert A.Wilson -2019 -Mind 128 (510):305-328.The view that it is better for life to be created free of disability is pervasive in both common sense and philosophy. We cast doubt on this view by focusing on an influential line of thinking that manifests it. That thinking begins with a widely-discussed principle, Procreative Beneficence, and draws conclusions about parental choice and disability. After reconstructing two versions of this argument, we critique the first by exploring the relationship between different understandings of well-being and disability, and the second (...) by more briefly focusing on the idea of a significant reason. By placing these results against the broader historical and ongoing contexts in which the lives of those with disabilities have been deemed of inferior quality, we conclude with a call for greater humility about disability and well-being in thought and practice. (shrink)
- An assessment of the unconditioned stimulus properties of reward and nonreward odor cues.Stephen F. Davis,Susan M. Nash,Kirk A. Young,Melanie S. Weaver,Brenda J. Anderson &Joann Buchanan -1984 -Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 22 (3):235-238.
- Delboeuf illusion: Displacement versus diameter, arc deletions, and brightness contrast.Daniel J. Weintraub,Barbara A.Wilson,Richard D. Greene &Marjorie J. Palmquist -1969 -Journal of Experimental Psychology 80 (3p1):505.
- A new use of the kronig-kramers relations in nuclear magnetic resonance.H. C. Bolton,G. J. Troup &G. V. H.Wilson -1964 -Philosophical Magazine 9 (100):591-605.No categories
- Ego boundaries, shamanic-like techniques, and subjective experience: An experimental study.Adam J. Rock,Jessica M.Wilson,Luke J. Johnston &Janelle V. Levesque -2008 -Anthropology of Consciousness 19 (1):60-83.The subjective effects and therapeutic potential of the shamanic practice of journeying is well known. However, previous research has neglected to provide a comprehensive assessment of the subjective effects of shamanic-like journeying techniques on non-shamans. Shamanic-like techniques are those that demonstrate some similarity to shamanic practices and yet deviate from what may genuinely be considered shamanism. Furthermore, the personality traits that influence individual susceptibility to shamanic-like techniques are unclear. The aim of the present study was, thus, to investigate experimentally the (...) effect of shamanic-like techniques and a personality trait referred to as "ego boundaries" on subjective experience including mood disturbance. Forty-three non-shamans were administered a composite questionnaire consisting of demographic items and a measure of ego boundaries (i.e., the Short Boundary Questionnaire; BQ-Sh). Participants were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: listening to monotonous drumming for 15 minutes coupled with one of two sets of journeying instructions; or sitting quietly with eyes closed for 15 minutes. Participants' subjective experience and mood disturbance were retrospectively assessed using the Phenomenology of Consciousness Inventory (PCI) and the Profile of Mood States-Short Form, respectively. The results indicated that there was a statistically significant difference between conditions with regard to the PCI major dimensions of visual imagery, attention and rationality, and minor dimensions of imagery amount and absorption. However, the shamanic-like conditions were not associated with a major reorganization of the pattern of subjective experience compared to the sitting quietly condition, suggesting that what is typically referred to as an altered state of consciousness effect was not evident. One shamanic-like condition and the BQ-Sh subscales need for order, childlikeness, and sensitivity were statistically significant predictors of total mood disturbance. Implications of the findings for the anthropology of consciousness are also considered. (shrink)
- Values: a symposium.Brenda Almond &Bryan R.Wilson (eds.) -1988 - Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press.
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