Research trends for visual agnosia. Cognitive psychology and clinical neuropsychology.

Yoshitaka Ohigashi

doi:10.2496/apr.18.288

On Bridging the Gap Between Social-Personality Psychology and Neuropsychology

Personality and Social Psychology Review ◽

10.1207/s15327957pspr0204_1 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 2 (4) ◽

pp. 228-242 ◽

Cited By ~ 50

Author(s):

Stanley B. Klein ◽

John F. Kihlstrom

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Psychology ◽

Frontal Lobe ◽

Levels Of Analysis ◽

Clinical Neuropsychology ◽

Personality Psychology ◽

Social Lives ◽

Frontal Lobe Damage ◽

Cognitive Levels ◽

Neuropsychological Impairments

Although cognitive psychology has learned much from the study of patients with neuropsychological impairments, social and personality psychologists have been slow to do the same. In this article we argue that the domain of clinical neuropsychology holds considerable untapped potential for formulating and testing models within social and personality psychology and describe some of the ways in which questions of interest to social and personality psychologists can be addressed with neuropsychological data. Examples are drawn from a variety of neuropsychological syndromes, including amnesia, autism, anosognosia, commissurotomy, frontal lobe damage, and prosopagnosia. We conclude that consideration of the personal and social lives of patients with neuropsychological impairments ultimately will lead to a richer understanding of the person, one that bridges the gap between social and cognitive levels of analysis.

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Racial Inequality in Psychological Research: Trends of the Past and Recommendations for the Future

Perspectives on Psychological Science ◽

10.1177/1745691620927709 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 15 (6) ◽

pp. 1295-1309 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Steven O. Roberts ◽

Carmelle Bareket-Shavit ◽

Forrest A. Dollins ◽

Peter D. Goldie ◽

Elizabeth Mortenson

Keyword(s):

Social Psychology ◽

Cognitive Psychology ◽

Racial Inequality ◽

Psychological Research ◽

Research Trends ◽

The Past ◽

The Future ◽

Current Article

Race plays an important role in how people think, develop, and behave. In the current article, we queried more than 26,000 empirical articles published between 1974 and 2018 in top-tier cognitive, developmental, and social psychology journals to document how often psychological research acknowledges this reality and to examine whether people who edit, write, and participate in the research are systematically connected. We note several findings. First, across the past five decades, psychological publications that highlight race have been rare, and although they have increased in developmental and social psychology, they have remained virtually nonexistent in cognitive psychology. Second, most publications have been edited by White editors, under which there have been significantly fewer publications that highlight race. Third, many of the publications that highlight race have been written by White authors who employed significantly fewer participants of color. In many cases, we document variation as a function of area and decade. We argue that systemic inequality exists within psychological research and that systemic changes are needed to ensure that psychological research benefits from diversity in editing, writing, and participation. To this end, and in the spirit of the field’s recent emphasis on metascience, we offer recommendations for journals and authors.

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Racial Inequality in Psychological Research: Trends of the Past and Recommendations for the Future

10.31219/osf.io/jecy7 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Social Concepts Lab

Keyword(s):

Social Psychology ◽

Cognitive Psychology ◽

Racial Inequality ◽

Psychological Research ◽

Research Trends ◽

The Past ◽

The Future ◽

Current Article

Race plays an important role in how people think, develop, and behave. In the current article, we queried more than 26,000 empirical articles published between 1974 and 2018 in top-tier cognitive, developmental, and social psychology journals to document how often psychological research acknowledges this reality and to examine whether people who edit, write, and participate in the research are systematically connected. We note several findings. First, across the past five decades, psychological publications that highlight race have been rare, and although they have increased in developmental and social psychology, they have remained virtually nonexistent in cognitive psychology. Second, most publications have been edited by White editors, under which there have been significantly fewer publications that highlight race. Third, many of the publications that highlight race have been written by White authors who employed significantly fewer participants of color. In many cases, we document variation as a function of area and decade. We argue that systemic inequality exists within psychological research and that systemic changes are needed to ensure that psychological research benefits from diversity in editing, writing, and participation. To this end, and in the spirit of the field’s recent emphasis on metascience, we offer recommendations for journals and authors.

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Fluency: Research Trends and Resources

ASHA Leader ◽

10.1044/leader.rib.17022012.18 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 17 (2) ◽

pp. 18-19

Keyword(s):

Research Trends

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“The Unconscious” in Current Psychology

European Psychologist ◽

10.1027/1016-9040/a000017 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 15 (3) ◽

pp. 193-201 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

Elisabeth Norman

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Psychology ◽

Verbal Report ◽

Psychological Research ◽

Operational Definition ◽

The Unconscious ◽

Apparent Lack ◽

Unconscious Processing ◽

Unconscious Processes ◽

Intermediate States ◽

Definition Of

A series of vignette examples taken from psychological research on motivation, emotion, decision making, and attitudes illustrates how the influence of unconscious processes is often measured in a range of different behaviors. However, the selected studies share an apparent lack of explicit operational definition of what is meant by consciousness, and there seems to be substantial disagreement about the properties of conscious versus unconscious processing: Consciousness is sometimes equated with attention, sometimes with verbal report ability, and sometimes operationalized in terms of behavioral dissociations between different performance measures. Moreover, the examples all seem to share a dichotomous view of conscious and unconscious processes as being qualitatively different. It is suggested that cognitive research on consciousness can help resolve the apparent disagreement about how to define and measure unconscious processing, as is illustrated by a selection of operational definitions and empirical findings from modern cognitive psychology. These empirical findings also point to the existence of intermediate states of conscious awareness, not easily classifiable as either purely conscious or purely unconscious. Recent hypotheses from cognitive psychology, supplemented with models from social, developmental, and clinical psychology, are then presented all of which are compatible with the view of consciousness as a graded rather than an all-or-none phenomenon. Such a view of consciousness would open up for explorations of intermediate states of awareness in addition to more purely conscious or purely unconscious states and thereby increase our understanding of the seemingly “unconscious” aspects of mental life.

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