Steven M Stanley
Biographic Data
| ID | 4243500 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven M Stanley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven M |
| FAMILY NAME | Stanley |
| SIGNATURE | STANLEY S M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4437-2415 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Making something out of nothing: Breaching everyday life by standing still in a public place
Public displays of stillness and silence are increasingly found in contemporary life, yet have seldom been examined as social phenomena in their own right. We analyse people's accomplishment, treatment and negotiation of an encounter with people 'doing nothing' - a breaching experiment comprising a group of students standing still in a city centre - and provide a granular description of the bodily practices whereby passers-by make 'something' out…
What is a Psychological Task? The Operational Pliability of “Task” in Psychological Laboratory Experimentation
There has been no sustained sociological analysis of a near ubiquitous feature of psychological laboratory experimentation: the task. Yet the task is central in arranging the means by which phenomena are isolated and brought into the experimental scientist’s purview. As scientific objects, states such as mind wandering and daydreaming have been made visible in experiments that draw on a (sometimes) sharp distinction between what it means to be ei…
Constructing the Mindful Subject: Reformulating Experience Through Affective–Discursive Practice in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
Swimming against the Stream: Mindfulness as a Psychosocial Research Methodology
In this article, we extend psychosocial research methodology by integrating a breaching experiment, influenced by ethnomethodological sociology, with aspects of mindfulness practice, influenced by Buddhist traditions. We offer an empirical investigation of what happens when researcher-participants subtly “swim against the stream” of normative public social conduct in a capital city setting. Our qualitative analysis explores a single case from a c…
From discourse to awareness: Rhetoric, mindfulness, and a psychology without foundations
This paper argues for a shift in the grounding of psychology from discourse to a “groundless ground” rooted in an ethically sensitive, within-person, and moment-to-moment embodied awareness. It offers a critique of discursive and rhetorical psychology commensurate with “affective turn” studies and develops an approach based in the practice of mindfulness meditation. This orientation enables the participant-researcher to come into experiential con…
The New Evolutionary Time-Table: Fossils, Genes, and the Origin of Species
Swimming against the Stream: Mindfulness as a Psychosocial Research Methodology
In this article, we extend psychosocial research methodology by integrating a breaching experiment, influenced by ethnomethodological sociology, with aspects of mindfulness practice, influenced by Buddhist traditions. We offer an empirical investigation of what happens when researcher-participants subtly “swim against the stream” of normative public social conduct in a capital city setting. Our qualitative analysis explores a single case from a c…
Making something out of nothing: Breaching everyday life by standing still in a public place
Public displays of stillness and silence are increasingly found in contemporary life, yet have seldom been examined as social phenomena in their own right. We analyse people's accomplishment, treatment and negotiation of an encounter with people 'doing nothing' - a breaching experiment comprising a group of students standing still in a city centre - and provide a granular description of the bodily practices whereby passers-by make 'something' out…
The New Evolutionary Time-Table: Fossils, Genes, and the Origin of Species
From discourse to awareness: Rhetoric, mindfulness, and a psychology without foundations
This paper argues for a shift in the grounding of psychology from discourse to a “groundless ground” rooted in an ethically sensitive, within-person, and moment-to-moment embodied awareness. It offers a critique of discursive and rhetorical psychology commensurate with “affective turn” studies and develops an approach based in the practice of mindfulness meditation. This orientation enables the participant-researcher to come into experiential con…
Swimming against the Stream: Mindfulness as a Psychosocial Research Methodology
In this article, we extend psychosocial research methodology by integrating a breaching experiment, influenced by ethnomethodological sociology, with aspects of mindfulness practice, influenced by Buddhist traditions. We offer an empirical investigation of what happens when researcher-participants subtly “swim against the stream” of normative public social conduct in a capital city setting. Our qualitative analysis explores a single case from a c…
Constructing the Mindful Subject: Reformulating Experience Through Affective–Discursive Practice in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
What is a Psychological Task? The Operational Pliability of “Task” in Psychological Laboratory Experimentation
There has been no sustained sociological analysis of a near ubiquitous feature of psychological laboratory experimentation: the task. Yet the task is central in arranging the means by which phenomena are isolated and brought into the experimental scientist’s purview. As scientific objects, states such as mind wandering and daydreaming have been made visible in experiments that draw on a (sometimes) sharp distinction between what it means to be ei…
Making something out of nothing: Breaching everyday life by standing still in a public place
Public displays of stillness and silence are increasingly found in contemporary life, yet have seldom been examined as social phenomena in their own right. We analyse people's accomplishment, treatment and negotiation of an encounter with people 'doing nothing' - a breaching experiment comprising a group of students standing still in a city centre - and provide a granular description of the bodily practices whereby passers-by make 'something' out…
Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Embodied cognition (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Mindfulness (3 works) · Psychotherapist (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Compassion (2 works)