Steven Brown
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3602183 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Steven Brown |
| NOMBRES | Steven |
| APELLIDO | Brown |
| FIRMA | BROWN S |
| AFILIACIONES | McMaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2457-7942 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 44 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 261 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1976 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
An Evaluation of the Use of Automated Chatbots Within One Psychological Therapy and Counselling Service
Governing atmospheric oxidation capacity is the key to synergistic air quality and climate gains
Shaping for Mediocrity by Gibson Burrell and friends
Musical scales optimize pitch spacing
The dominant model of musical scales in academic theories is derived from instrument tunings. However, the study of vocal scales – most especially in indigenous cultures – has been all but ignored. The voice is almost certainly the original musical instrument, and so an analysis of vocal scales provides a more naturalistic means of understanding the evolution of music. In particular, we explore the idea that the structure of musical scales is a r…
Trajectories of the Creative Process
Most experimental analyses of creativity look at one-shot production tasks. However, real-world creativity occurs over long periods of time and involves extensive exploration and revision. We carried out a week-long study in which graphic design students created an advertisement for a fictional business, submitting daily drafts of their evolving ad. By analyzing the successive changes to these ads across the 7 daily drafts, we sought to character…
Understanding and Promoting Preventive Health Service Use Among Black Men
Character immersion in video games as a form of acting
Partnering Up
In this article, I present a model of social cognition that is grounded in the interplay between mentalizing and joint action during social interaction. I first propose a psychological distinction between a “character” and a “partner” as two different ways of conceiving of people in social cognition. A character is someone whom we connect with as a spectator. We can mentalize about them , but they cannot mentalize about us at the same time, since…
Storytelling as a fundamental form of acting
Acting is a process of pretending to be someone who the actor is not. While acting is often considered to be a specialized skill of trained professionals, a simple and perhaps universal form of acting occurs during oral storytelling, in which the storyteller acts out the characters of the story during the moments of dialogue and self-reflection. In order to examine this skill experimentally, we had both trained actors and untrained novices read f…
Career Development and Counseling
The shapes of stories
Plots have been described as having shapes based on the changes in tension that occur across a story. We present here a model of plot shape that is predicated on the alternating rises and falls in the protagonist’s emotional state. The basic tenet of the model is that, once the emotional valence of the beginning and ending of a story has been specified, then the internal phases of the story are constrained to connect these endpoints by oscillatin…
Character mediation of plot structure
The classic view of narrative since the time of Aristotle is that plot structure is prioritized over characters in defining the nature of stories. According to this view, plot is an abstract structure external to the protagonist, and the protagonist’s actions are determined by the thematic goals of the plot. The current analysis calls for a reversal in the prioritization of these elements in creating a story. We present an Embodied Plot model in …
Toward a new comparative musicology
We propose a return to the forgotten agenda of comparative musicology, one that is updated with the paradigms of modern evolutionary theory and scientific methodology. Ever since the field of comparative musicology became redefined as ethnomusicology in the mid-20th century, its original research agenda has been all but abandoned by musicologists, not least the overarching goal of cross-cultural musical comparison. We outline here five major them…
How will new BPS guidelines for internet-mediated research impact on qualitative research
The internet provides both opportunities and risks for psychologists conducting research. In April 2017, The British Psychological Society published ‘Ethics Guidelines for Internet-mediated Research’, structured around the four core ethical principles of: respect for the autonomy, privacy and dignity of individuals and communities; scientific integrity; social responsibility; and maximising benefits and minimising harm. This article maps out thes…
The Synthesis of the Arts
The 19th century notion of a Gesamtkunstwerk or “total work of art” referred to a performance spectacle that synthesized multiple forms of the arts into a unified work, often times taking place in a grand setting that befit the spectacle. Such a performance would be a quasi-religious ceremony occurring in a location akin to a temple. We argue here that, long before aesthetic theorists devised the notion of a total work of art, religious ceremonie…
Proto-Acting as a New Concept
Proto-acting is introduced here as a new concept that refers to a set of processes that are intermediate between everyday role playing (in the Erving Goffman sense) and dramatic acting. Its most characteristic process is the voluntary act of personal mimicry, which can occur in everyday contexts, such as quoting someone during conversation, or in performance contexts, such as impressionism. Proto-acting involves character portrayal, but on a much…
Statistical universals reveal the structures and functions of human music
Significance Which features of music are universal and which are culture-specific? Why? These questions are important for understanding why humans make music but have rarely been scientifically tested. We used musical classification techniques and statistical tools to analyze a global set of 304 music recordings, finding no absolute universals but dozens of statistical universals. These include not only commonly cited features related to pitch an…
How Music Works
Syllable synchronization and the P-center in Cantonese
Porn piracy
View correction statement:Erratum Steven BrownGlasgow Caledonian University, UK
Pour une nouvelle musicologie comparée
La musicologie comparée peut jouer un rôle important dans notre compréhension de la façon dont les cultures évoluent. Cette discipline s’est développée à la fin du XIXe et au début du XXe siècle, pour ensuite connaître un déclin après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, en partie dû aux modèles contestables d’évolution linéaire qu’elle avait adoptés. Son héritière, l’ethnomusicologie, s’est généralement tenue loin des comparaisons transculturelles et de …
Mapping Music
Understanding cross-cultural patterns of musical diversity requires some method of visualizing these patterns using maps. The traditional methods of cross-cultural comparison have been criticized for ignoring the rich diversity of musical styles that exists within each culture. We present a compromise solution in which we map the relative frequencies of different "cantogroups" (stylistic song-types) both within and between cultures. Applying this…
Religious ritual and the loss of self
Disliked food acting as a contaminant during infancy. A disgust based motivation for rejection
Disliked food acting as a contaminant in a sample of young children
Career Development and Counseling
Expected satiety’ changes hunger and fullness in the inter-meal interval
Universals in the world's musics
Many decades of skepticism have prevented the field of musicology from embracing the importance of musical universals. When universals have been discussed, it has generally been in the form of meta-critiques about the concept of universals, rather than in positive proposals about actual universals. We present here a typology of four categories of musical universals and a listing of 70 putative universals in musics cross-culturally. These universa…
Mapping Music
Understanding cross-cultural patterns of musical diversity requires some method of visualizing these patterns using maps. The traditional methods of cross-cultural comparison have been criticized for ignoring the rich diversity of musical styles that exists within each culture. We present a compromise solution in which we map the relative frequencies of different "cantogroups" (stylistic song-types) both within and between cultures. Applying this…
Toward a new comparative musicology
We propose a return to the forgotten agenda of comparative musicology, one that is updated with the paradigms of modern evolutionary theory and scientific methodology. Ever since the field of comparative musicology became redefined as ethnomusicology in the mid-20th century, its original research agenda has been all but abandoned by musicologists, not least the overarching goal of cross-cultural musical comparison. We outline here five major them…
Disliked food acting as a contaminant during infancy. A disgust based motivation for rejection
Syllable synchronization and the P-center in Cantonese
Disliked food acting as a contaminant in a sample of young children
Collective Emotions
The literary and dramatic work of Antonin Artaud is typically considered to be animated by the complex relationship of the author to the ‘madness’ which culminated in his incarceration at the Rodez asylum. This paper argues that that the category of ‘nerves’ provides for a different approach to Artaud’s work. The feeling of ‘nervous suffering’ is treated here as a collective emotion, defined as a mode of relating to others and to the ‘social body…
Glory Remembered
In the Wake of Disaster
L'A. envisage les phenomenes de stress et d'hysterie provoques par certains evenements comme des catastrophes naturelles, des guerres ou des epidemies. Il etudie les phenomenes de stress auxquels certains membres du personnel medical doivent faire face lorsqu'ils sont confrontes a des risques majeurs de contamination par une maladie infectieuse et certains processus delirants provoques par certaines maladies. Il evoque la manie de la danse chez l…
Porn piracy
View correction statement:Erratum Steven BrownGlasgow Caledonian University, UK
Pour une nouvelle musicologie comparée
La musicologie comparée peut jouer un rôle important dans notre compréhension de la façon dont les cultures évoluent. Cette discipline s’est développée à la fin du XIXe et au début du XXe siècle, pour ensuite connaître un déclin après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, en partie dû aux modèles contestables d’évolution linéaire qu’elle avait adoptés. Son héritière, l’ethnomusicologie, s’est généralement tenue loin des comparaisons transculturelles et de …
On Psychology and Embodiment
Editoral Comment
Milestone. This Review is edited and published in a nation now celebrating the 200th anniversary of its political independence. With predictable contentiousness, scholars have divided over the question of whether they can add anything to the occasion. Some argue that the proper role of the political scientist is to stand outside the dominant ideologies which sustain the state and act as critic and goad in behalf of higher, unrealized ideals. Othe…
Editoral Comment
Milestone. This Review is edited and published in a nation now celebrating the 200th anniversary of its political independence. With predictable contentiousness, scholars have divided over the question of whether they can add anything to the occasion. Some argue that the proper role of the political scientist is to stand outside the dominant ideologies which sustain the state and act as critic and goad in behalf of higher, unrealized ideals. Othe…
Feminist consciousness and the Canadian electorate
English Firsthand
Glory Remembered
In the Wake of Disaster
L'A. envisage les phenomenes de stress et d'hysterie provoques par certains evenements comme des catastrophes naturelles, des guerres ou des epidemies. Il etudie les phenomenes de stress auxquels certains membres du personnel medical doivent faire face lorsqu'ils sont confrontes a des risques majeurs de contamination par une maladie infectieuse et certains processus delirants provoques par certaines maladies. Il evoque la manie de la danse chez l…
The Origins of Music
The book can be viewed as representing the birth of evolutionary biomusicology. What biological and cognitive forces have shaped humankind's musical behavior and the rich global repertoire of musical structures? What is music for, and why does every human culture have it? What are the universal features of music and musical behavior across cultures? In this groundbreaking book, musicologists, biologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, psycholog…
Origins of Music
El bebé como objeto virtual
El trabajo de atención neonatal es una práctica social compleja. Puede entenderse como una red en la que los médicos, los bebés, los padres, la tecnología y la atención médica se alinean en relaciones dominadas por cuestiones de responsabilidad. La naturaleza de la atención neonatal implica que los límites de lo que se considera la unidad están en constante cambio. La aparición regular de nuevos miembros, nuevos pacientes y nuevas tecnologías sig…
The baby as a virtual object
Neonatal care work is a complex social practice. It maybe understood as a network in which doctors, babies, parents, technology and medicalcare are aligned together in relationships dominated by issues of accountability. The nature of neonatal care means that the boundaries of what counts as the unit are always shifting. The regular appearance of new members, new patients and new technologies mean that much effort must be expended to hold the uni…
The Social Psychology of Experience
Introducing Remembering and Forgetting in the Psychology of Experience Making Experiences Matter Memory in the Social Sciences Territorializing Experience Maurice Halbwachs on Memory Virtualizing Experience Henri Bergson on Memory Communicating Experience Interactional Organization of Remembering and Forgetting Projecting Experience Succession and Change in Communicative Action Localizing Experience Implacement, Incorporation and Habit in Zones o…
Collective Emotions
The literary and dramatic work of Antonin Artaud is typically considered to be animated by the complex relationship of the author to the ‘madness’ which culminated in his incarceration at the Rodez asylum. This paper argues that that the category of ‘nerves’ provides for a different approach to Artaud’s work. The feeling of ‘nervous suffering’ is treated here as a collective emotion, defined as a mode of relating to others and to the ‘social body…
Contagious heterophony
Two of the most salient features of music are the blending of pitch and the matching of time. I propose here a possible evolutionary precursor of human music based on a process I call “contagious heterophony”. Heterophony is a form of pitch blending in which individuals generate similar musical lines but in which these lines are poorly synchronized. A wonderful example can be found in the howling of wolves. Each wolf makes a similar call but the …
What People Think About the Management of Sex Offenders in the Community
The research on which this article is based examines public attitudes towards the reintegration of sex offenders into the community. Data were gathered using a variety of methods: an online, predominantly qualitative questionnaire, a postal questionnaire, predominantly quantitative, and meetings with community groups, such as residents' associations. The postal questionnaire was sent to employers (for distribution to staff) and mailed to 5,000 ho…
On Psychology and Embodiment
Psychology without Foundations
For many years, for many people social psychology has been deemed a discipline in crisis. \n \n \nThis new book proposes a way out of the crisis by letting go of the idea that psychology needs new foundations or a new identity, whether biological, discursive or cognitive. The psychological is not narrowly confined to any one aspect of human experience; it is quite literally everywhere. \n \n \nThe book proposes a strong process-oriented approach …
An Observational Investigation of Poker Style and the Five-Factor Personality Model
Researching “experience”
In this paper, we explore some of the tensions involved in the process of engaging with embodiment research. Although a significant volume of discursive work on “the body” and its role in social relations now exists, there is little in the way of empirical research that moves the focus away from discourse alone to concentrate on other modalities, such as embodied feelings, sensations, and engagements with the world. We begin by briefly reviewing …
Expected satiety’ changes hunger and fullness in the inter-meal interval
Universals in the world's musics
Many decades of skepticism have prevented the field of musicology from embracing the importance of musical universals. When universals have been discussed, it has generally been in the form of meta-critiques about the concept of universals, rather than in positive proposals about actual universals. We present here a typology of four categories of musical universals and a listing of 70 putative universals in musics cross-culturally. These universa…
Disliked food acting as a contaminant during infancy. A disgust based motivation for rejection
Disliked food acting as a contaminant in a sample of young children
Religious ritual and the loss of self
Porn piracy
View correction statement:Erratum Steven BrownGlasgow Caledonian University, UK
Pour une nouvelle musicologie comparée
La musicologie comparée peut jouer un rôle important dans notre compréhension de la façon dont les cultures évoluent. Cette discipline s’est développée à la fin du XIXe et au début du XXe siècle, pour ensuite connaître un déclin après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, en partie dû aux modèles contestables d’évolution linéaire qu’elle avait adoptés. Son héritière, l’ethnomusicologie, s’est généralement tenue loin des comparaisons transculturelles et de …
Mapping Music
Understanding cross-cultural patterns of musical diversity requires some method of visualizing these patterns using maps. The traditional methods of cross-cultural comparison have been criticized for ignoring the rich diversity of musical styles that exists within each culture. We present a compromise solution in which we map the relative frequencies of different "cantogroups" (stylistic song-types) both within and between cultures. Applying this…
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