Christopher Manoharan
Biographic Data
| ID | 83187 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Manoharan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Manoharan |
| SIGNATURE | MANOHARAN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Connecticut |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Prototype Analysis of the Cultural and Evolutionary Construction of Romantic Love as a Synthesis of Love and Sex
Our goal is to use prototype analysis to distinguish the folk or culturally held understandings of love, romantic love, and sex and to specify, from the obtained data, the semantic relationship among these three associated concepts. By considering the semantic distinctions between these three concepts, we come to an unintended insight: if romantic love is a socio-cultural universal it does not appear to have the same evolutionary history as love …
Accessing the interiority of others: Sufism in Sri Lanka
We combine Hofstadter's description of mutual interior access between persons with theories of interiority presented in ethnographic contexts and in anthropological literature on Sufi rituals. The intersection of these theories with Hofstadter's concepts is applied to three Sufi rituals: an annual village festival presided over by aMaulana(descendant of the Prophet); the devotionaldhikrcircles that meet weekly at the mosque; and a major Sufi fest…
Agency and Morality
Cognitive traditions study how human beings utilize naive concepts of agency and morality to make judgments about persons and their actions and how these concepts and judgments are related. We discuss, in particular, how judgments of whether an action is intentional or not affect judgments of moral blame and moral wrongdoing. Cognitive approaches argue that judgments of intentionality constitute a fundamental factor in how humans calculate a pers…
The Conceptual Relationship Between Love, Romantic Love, and Sex: A Free List and Prototype Study of Semantic Association
Certain methodological techniques blend quantitative and qualitative elements, defying explicit characterization as either. Placing focus on the distinction between methods for data collection and methods for analysis ameliorates this confusion and identifies the occasionally ambiguous quantitative/qualitative designation of highly convergent methods as largely subject to researchers’ goals. We use free listing and prototype analysis, two methods…
Accessing the interiority of others: Sufism in Sri Lanka
We combine Hofstadter's description of mutual interior access between persons with theories of interiority presented in ethnographic contexts and in anthropological literature on Sufi rituals. The intersection of these theories with Hofstadter's concepts is applied to three Sufi rituals: an annual village festival presided over by aMaulana(descendant of the Prophet); the devotionaldhikrcircles that meet weekly at the mosque; and a major Sufi fest…
The Conceptual Relationship Between Love, Romantic Love, and Sex: A Free List and Prototype Study of Semantic Association
Certain methodological techniques blend quantitative and qualitative elements, defying explicit characterization as either. Placing focus on the distinction between methods for data collection and methods for analysis ameliorates this confusion and identifies the occasionally ambiguous quantitative/qualitative designation of highly convergent methods as largely subject to researchers’ goals. We use free listing and prototype analysis, two methods…
The Conceptual Relationship Between Love, Romantic Love, and Sex: A Free List and Prototype Study of Semantic Association
Certain methodological techniques blend quantitative and qualitative elements, defying explicit characterization as either. Placing focus on the distinction between methods for data collection and methods for analysis ameliorates this confusion and identifies the occasionally ambiguous quantitative/qualitative designation of highly convergent methods as largely subject to researchers’ goals. We use free listing and prototype analysis, two methods…
Agency and Morality
Cognitive traditions study how human beings utilize naive concepts of agency and morality to make judgments about persons and their actions and how these concepts and judgments are related. We discuss, in particular, how judgments of whether an action is intentional or not affect judgments of moral blame and moral wrongdoing. Cognitive approaches argue that judgments of intentionality constitute a fundamental factor in how humans calculate a pers…
Accessing the interiority of others: Sufism in Sri Lanka
We combine Hofstadter's description of mutual interior access between persons with theories of interiority presented in ethnographic contexts and in anthropological literature on Sufi rituals. The intersection of these theories with Hofstadter's concepts is applied to three Sufi rituals: an annual village festival presided over by aMaulana(descendant of the Prophet); the devotionaldhikrcircles that meet weekly at the mosque; and a major Sufi fest…
A Prototype Analysis of the Cultural and Evolutionary Construction of Romantic Love as a Synthesis of Love and Sex
Our goal is to use prototype analysis to distinguish the folk or culturally held understandings of love, romantic love, and sex and to specify, from the obtained data, the semantic relationship among these three associated concepts. By considering the semantic distinctions between these three concepts, we come to an unintended insight: if romantic love is a socio-cultural universal it does not appear to have the same evolutionary history as love …
Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works) · Romance (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Social science (2 works)