@article{Xiang2018, author = {Xiang, Zairong}, title = {Transdualism}, series = {TSQ-Transgender studies quarterly}, volume = {5}, journal = {TSQ-Transgender studies quarterly}, number = {3}, publisher = {Duke Univ. Press}, address = {Durham}, issn = {2328-9252}, doi = {10.1215/23289252-6900795}, pages = {425 -- 442}, year = {2018}, abstract = {The author introduces the concept of transdualism to critique dualism without relying on a dualistic model of critique, the modus operandi necessary for a critique against sexual dualism and hetero/cisnormativity. Transdualism offers an opportunity to dwell within that operation by staying below (not beyond) the "dualism," that is, below the logic of either/or. The essay will explore the notion of "transdualism" through the hexagram Tai of the Yi Jing, which is often used in medical contexts to illustrate the body-of-orifices of Huangdi Neijing or the Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor. The author reads this body-of-orifices, which is primarily represented by its nine major bodily tunnels, with yinyang philosophy as gender/sex indeterminant and shows that the Inner Canon's yinyang body-of-orifices points to something more transgressive, which could unsettle from within the naturalism of gender and sexual dualism and the nature/culture as well as other dualistic divides that have informed contemporary critical rethinking of embodiment. By unpacking the hexagram Tai alongside Inner Canon's body-of-orifices. as well as contemporary feminist, queer, and transgender theorizations of the body and sexuality, this essay aims at rethinking the materio-discursive complexity of the body-of-orifices, which has been either dualistically separated into antagonisms between man and woman, sex and gender, body and discourse, yin and yang; or one-sidedly reduced to a function of "social construction," knowable only through languageā€”or problematically lumped together in a gender-is-fluid postmodern "both-and," which supposedly overcomes the metaphysico-theological "either/or."}, language = {en} } @article{KraheLutzSylla2018, author = {Krahe, Barbara and Lutz, Johannes and Sylla, Isabel}, title = {Lean back and relax}, series = {European journal of social psychology}, volume = {48}, journal = {European journal of social psychology}, number = {5}, publisher = {Wiley}, address = {Hoboken}, issn = {0046-2772}, doi = {10.1002/ejsp.2363}, pages = {718 -- 723}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Frustration is a powerful instigator of anger-based aggression. We hypothesized that the impact of a frustration on anger and aggressive behavior is reduced in a state of feeling relaxed, which is considered incompatible with the experience of anger. Seventy-nine participants received frustrating feedback either when sitting upright or sitting in a reclined position and were then given a chance to act aggressively toward the frustrator. Feelings of anger and relaxation were assessed before and after the frustration. Participants in the reclined position felt more relaxed than those sitting upright, which indirectly predicted less aggressive behavior via lower anger. The results are consistent with theories of incompatible states and embodiment and have implications for using body-related cues to mitigate anger-based aggression.}, language = {en} } @article{MyachykovChapmanFischer2017, author = {Myachykov, Andriy and Chapman, Ashley J. and Fischer, Martin H.}, title = {Cross-representational interactions}, series = {Frontiers in psychology}, volume = {7}, journal = {Frontiers in psychology}, publisher = {Frontiers Research Foundation}, address = {Lausanne}, issn = {1664-1078}, pages = {7}, year = {2017}, abstract = {A crucial question facing cognitive science concerns the nature of conceptual representations as well as the constraints on the interactions between them. One specific question we address in this paper is what makes cross-representational interplay possible? We offer two distinct theoretical scenarios: according to the first scenario, co-activated knowledge representations interact with the help of an interface established between them via congruent activation in a mediating third-party general cognitive mechanism, e.g., attention. According to the second scenario, co-activated knowledge representations interact due to an overlap between their features, for example when they share a magnitude component. First, we make a case for cross representational interplay based on grounded and situated theories of cognition. Second, we discuss interface-based interactions between distinct (i.e., non-overlapping) knowledge representations. Third, we discuss how co-activated representations may share their architecture via partial overlap. Finally, we outline constraints regarding the flexibility of these proposed mechanisms.}, language = {en} }