and it turns out that psychologists have examined, classified, and isolated a lot of them. This isn’t to say, though, that ALL games should strive to BE immersive. I think games are kind of unique in all media in that this is so. A game can still be a good ...
Viewers may contemplate lyrical associations of visuals, sounds, music and symbolic concepts in embodied consciousness as Grodal (1997) proposed. If story action imaginations give rise to emotions, lyrical associations are responded to with moods, e.g., nostalgic, tense or relaxed ones. The ...
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Patterns, insights, concepts, ideas. This is the world of Introverted Intuition. This is the function that looks “behind the scenes” of reality; uncovering deeper meanings and trying to figure out the “why” behind it all. INTJs often get a sense of knowing that seems to appear out of...
“Great information passed along in the form of Batman and his foes.”– Alecia Gardner, GoodReads “Grounded in solid psychology concepts but eminently readable…”– Interact Catalog. “Whether you’re interested in psychology or Batman, the book is marvelously informative and entertaining.”– De...
INTPs utilize Ti in a number of ways, though they seem most apt to use Ti to peel apart thoughts and concepts. Typically, the INTP applies their one-track mind focus on something that brings them wonder and allows them to ruminate and focus on various angles of a problem for a substanti...
Putting these pieces together, we arrive at a definition of learning: a systematic, relatively permanent change in behavior that occurs through experience. If someone were to ask you what you learned in class today, you might mention new ideas you heard about, lists you memorized, or concepts ...
Author’s note: Most of these concepts come from the Dramatica theory of narrative structure I developed along with my writing partner, Chris Huntley. They became the basis for our Dramatica Story Structuring Software. Click the link to try it risk-free. And then I made StoryWeaver software…...
Research in that area has not really yielded much support. Painstaking approaches to identify distinct, unadulterated flavors of basic emotion in the brain’s architecture have resulted in some concepts that we don’t find on emotion checklists, like seeking, lust, and play. ...
Over the years, the field of psychoanalysis, most likely influenced by attachment theories and early cognitive psychology, has adopted concepts such as templates or patterns of familiar feelings, implicit cognitions and habitual behaviours, which are manifested in the therapy relationship, evidently a ...