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International Travel as a Context for Sexual and Contraceptive Behaviors: A Qualitative Study of Young Women Traveling Outside the U.S.
International travel is popular worldwide, yet its implications for sexual and reproductive health are not fully understood. Few studies have...
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Creative Industries: Global and Local Perspectives
This chapter examines key reports on the creative industries. The review encompasses reports that have attempted to also describe and, importantly,...
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Overclaiming responsibility in fictitious countries: Unpacking the role of availability in support theory predictions of overclaiming
Prior research has demonstrated that Americans massively overestimate how much their home state has contributed to US history. Why does such...
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Selfies, Individual Traits, and Gender: Decoding the Relationship
In the present scenario, no event whether formal or informal is complete without clicking a selfie. Selfies are especially in trend among young...
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Effects of Goals on Wellbeing
I discuss in this chapter the effects of goals on happiness, subjective wellbeing and positive mental health. The focus is on a variety of ways that...
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Locating Italianicity Through Food and Tourism: Playing with Geographical Associations
Food is a highly performative expression of Italianicity, and is reproduced, transformed, reified and contested through flows of mobility and...
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The Psychology of Mussar: Cultural Safety as a Verb
How are the memories of historical and geographical cycles of exile, actualized in everyday psychological practices in Toronto with Uruguayan...
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A Robot-Based Play-Drama Intervention May Improve the Joint Attention and Functional Play Behaviors of Chinese-Speaking Preschoolers with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Pilot Study
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have deficits in joint attention and play behaviors. We examined whether a robot-based play-drama...
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Theory of the Dynamic Sublime
In the chapter the focus on the process of affective transcending of their mundane lives and—simultaneously—finding such self-constructed acts of...
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Philosophy and Public Policy Issues Related to Wellbeing
This chapter discusses public policy issues. The chapter also emphasizes the need to broaden our view of happiness, subjective wellbeing, and...
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Predicting (variability of) context effects in language comprehension
Predicting variability in context effects is a timely enterprise considering that psycho- and neurolinguistic research has assessed how language...
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Analyzing the structure of animacy: Exploring relationships among six new animacy and 15 existing normative dimensions for 1,200 concrete nouns
Animacy is an important word variable (especially for episodic memory), yet no norms exist in the literature. We present a complete, usable normative...
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Premises of the Developmental Psychophysiological Approach to Reality
This chapter outlines the main metaphysical and epistemological premises of the developmental psychophysiological approach to reality (DPAR). The...
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Love in a Time of Globalization: Intimacy Re-imagined Across Cultural Flows
This chapter examines how love and intimate relationships are changing in a time of globalization. As it becomes exponentially simpler to connect...
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Contemporary Mobility Decisions of International and Danish Students in Denmark Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic
The study investigates the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mobility decisions of international and domestic (Danish) students in Denmark...
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Contestations and Complexities of Love In Contemporary Cuba
While love is something deeply personal, people’s intimate experiences of love are simultaneously shaped by large-scale cultural and historical...
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Protest, Despair, and Detachment: Reparative Responses to Place Attachment Disruptions During a Pandemic
In Chap. 1 , we introduced place as a relational object of attachment. This conceptualization of...
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The Rise of the Therapeutic in Contemporary China
This chapter examines the notion of therapy and its growing significance in the social, political, and affective life in China during the last four...
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Introduction: Food, Foodways and Italianicity
Food is perceived as probably the most distinctive aspect of Italian identity both in Italy and abroad. Food culture is central both to the way...
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Unthought Places
This chapter engages with the materialities and aesthetics of what I call post-communist places. Post-communist places are transitory public sites in...