Jan Verplaetse
Biographic Data
| ID | 5906609 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jan Verplaetse |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jan |
| FAMILY NAME | Verplaetse |
| SIGNATURE | VERPLAETSE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8160-8453 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Wild melancholy. On the historical plausibility of a black bile theory of blood madness, or hæmatomania
Nineteenth-century art historian John Addington Symonds coined the term hæmatomania (blood madness) for the extremely bloodthirsty behaviour of a number of disturbed rulers like Ibrahim II of Ifriqiya (850–902) and Ezzelino da Romano (1194–1259). According to Symonds, this mental pathology was linked to melancholy and caused by an excess of black bile. I explore the historical credibility of this theory of ‘wild melancholy’, a type of melancholia…
The Westermarck effect revisited
Why humans do not make good vampires. Testing the ability of humans to detect true blood
This study allows further mapping of the exact role of disgust sensitivity in human behaviour, as well as a deliberate choice of materials in blood-related experiments. It is imperative for further research on the behavioural and psychological impact 'blood' resorts on humans
Measuring the moral sense
Although historians of psychological and educational sciences have not completely neglected early research in the field of morality testing, European contributions to the measurement of ethical judgement and moral feeling have not received much historical attention. In this paper, two principal, experimental paradigms that emerged in early European research are described and framed within their sociopolitical contexts. From 1910 to 1930, European…
You can judge a book by its cover
Attention bias toward noncooperative people. A dot probe classification study in cheating detection
Moritz Benedikt’s (1835-1920) Localization of Morality in the Occipital Lobes
During the 1870s the Austro-Hungarian neuropsychiatrist Moritz Benedikt (1835-1920) proposed a remarkable neurological localization of morality in the human brain. More precisely, he thought of the ultimate parts of the occipital lobes as the seat of the moral sense. The so-called non-coverage of the cerebellum that was discovered in apes and criminals underpinned his localization. This paper studies the origin, background and reception of Benedi…
Prosper Despine's Psychologie naturelle and the discovery of the remorseless criminal in nineteenth-century France
At the end of the nineteenth century criminal anthropologists often referred to the French philosopher and psychologist Prosper Despine (1812-92). His three- volume collection of remorseless criminals Psychologie naturelle (1868) supported the popular claim that most criminals were born without a moral sense. In this paper I will show that the intellectual agenda of this so-called pioneer of criminal anthropology opposed the ideas of Lombroso, Fe…
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Prosper Despine's Psychologie naturelle and the discovery of the remorseless criminal in nineteenth-century France
At the end of the nineteenth century criminal anthropologists often referred to the French philosopher and psychologist Prosper Despine (1812-92). His three- volume collection of remorseless criminals Psychologie naturelle (1868) supported the popular claim that most criminals were born without a moral sense. In this paper I will show that the intellectual agenda of this so-called pioneer of criminal anthropology opposed the ideas of Lombroso, Fe…
Moritz Benedikt’s (1835-1920) Localization of Morality in the Occipital Lobes
During the 1870s the Austro-Hungarian neuropsychiatrist Moritz Benedikt (1835-1920) proposed a remarkable neurological localization of morality in the human brain. More precisely, he thought of the ultimate parts of the occipital lobes as the seat of the moral sense. The so-called non-coverage of the cerebellum that was discovered in apes and criminals underpinned his localization. This paper studies the origin, background and reception of Benedi…
You can judge a book by its cover
Attention bias toward noncooperative people. A dot probe classification study in cheating detection
Measuring the moral sense
Although historians of psychological and educational sciences have not completely neglected early research in the field of morality testing, European contributions to the measurement of ethical judgement and moral feeling have not received much historical attention. In this paper, two principal, experimental paradigms that emerged in early European research are described and framed within their sociopolitical contexts. From 1910 to 1930, European…
Why humans do not make good vampires. Testing the ability of humans to detect true blood
This study allows further mapping of the exact role of disgust sensitivity in human behaviour, as well as a deliberate choice of materials in blood-related experiments. It is imperative for further research on the behavioural and psychological impact 'blood' resorts on humans
The Westermarck effect revisited
Wild melancholy. On the historical plausibility of a black bile theory of blood madness, or hæmatomania
Nineteenth-century art historian John Addington Symonds coined the term hæmatomania (blood madness) for the extremely bloodthirsty behaviour of a number of disturbed rulers like Ibrahim II of Ifriqiya (850–902) and Ezzelino da Romano (1194–1259). According to Symonds, this mental pathology was linked to melancholy and caused by an excess of black bile. I explore the historical credibility of this theory of ‘wild melancholy’, a type of melancholia…
Psychology (8 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (4 works) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works) · Anger (2 works) · Cheating (2 works) · Cognitive psychology (2 works) · Criminology (2 works)