Christopher Seemann | New School for Social Research (original) (raw)
Please contact me directly if you wish to collaborate or discuss anything. I truly enjoying talking, but, the papers that I have posted online are very old. I have much higher quality stuff coming out soon, I hope.
In the field of non-clinical psychology, my current research focuses on the relationships between boredom and dissociation. Through my research, I hope to better characterize the state of boredom. My research utilizes personality measures, cognitive tasks and physiological measures. Personality measures are utilized as moderating factors and trait measures are utilized as mediating factors to better understand and model individual differences in the response to stimuli that induce boredom and dissociation. My experimental designs incorporate technological solutions with the aim of extending the amount of information that can be collected from any platform, as well as optimizing research costs.
My primary research interests are boredom, dissociation, and affective neuroscience. More generally, I am interested in how individual differences influence individuals’ reaction to stimuli. I take pride in my ability to unravel complex problems in both research design and statistical modeling. I welcome collaborations relating to studies of affective neuroscience, especially those possessing innovative experimental designs.
Supervisors: McWelling Todman, Wendy D'Andrea, and Marcel Kinsbourne
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Abstract: The Five Factor Model of personality is a normative model of personality that focuses o... more Abstract: The Five Factor Model of personality is a normative model of personality that focuses on characterizing the forms of personality traits as normal or abnormal. In contrast to this approach, evolutionary psychology approaches traits as evolved mechanisms that serve ...
Previous research has shown that when rating an atrocity committed by one's in-group, individuals... more Previous research has shown that when rating an atrocity committed by one's in-group, individuals rate it less negatively because individuals disengage morally when judging these events. Leidner (unpublished) provided an alternative explanation for this finding by suggesting that what occurs is not an individual morally disengaging from an atrocity, but an individual shifting the tenets used to evaluate the atrocity. This study attempts to replicate Leidner's initial findings that individuals engage in morality shifting and that this effect is moderated by glorification. In an extension, the role of infrahumanization and negative emotions in morality shifting will be investigations. However, this study was unable to demonstrate that individuals engage in morality shifting. An analysis of these findings suggests that they may be the result of methodological issues or may be the explained through an alternative model of the relationship between glorification, attachment, and infrahumanization that stems from an individuals worldview rather than his or her reaction to a specific atrocity given the correlational relationships found by this study.
Within existential philosophy, an individual develops a model of the world through experience and... more Within existential philosophy, an individual develops a model of the world through experience and rationality. This model of the world can be disrupted by experiences that challenge the validity of an individual's model. The Meaning Maintenance Model has shown that individuals respond to this disruption through the processes of revision, reinterpretation, and reaffirmation. In the construction of a model of the world, an individual is free to construct his or her own, unique model of the world. However, humans exist within a society. Society contributes to the individual's construction of a model of the world by providing knowledge from both religious and secular sources that can be incorporated into the individual's model. In the following paper, I will describe how individuals construct meaning from societal sources and why meaning derived from religious sources of meaning are more resistant to the disruption of meaning that the Meaning Management Model describes.
Over the years, the psychologists have debated whether the effects found within personality psych... more Over the years, the psychologists have debated whether the effects found within personality psychology stem from personality traits or stem from situational effects. This debate however, however, while important is misguided given evolutionary psychology's view of en
The literature has shown a relationship between locus of control, coping, and sex.
Communities bring individuals together in order to satisfy needs that they alone cannot achieve. ... more Communities bring individuals together in order to satisfy needs that they alone cannot achieve. To assure that all individuals act in order to achieve this, each community has a set of laws. For religious communities these laws are revealed by divinity through prophets while for secular communities they are constructed rationally.
Abstract: The Five Factor Model of personality is a normative model of personality that focuses o... more Abstract: The Five Factor Model of personality is a normative model of personality that focuses on characterizing the forms of personality traits as normal or abnormal. In contrast to this approach, evolutionary psychology approaches traits as evolved mechanisms that serve ...
Previous research has shown that when rating an atrocity committed by one's in-group, individuals... more Previous research has shown that when rating an atrocity committed by one's in-group, individuals rate it less negatively because individuals disengage morally when judging these events. Leidner (unpublished) provided an alternative explanation for this finding by suggesting that what occurs is not an individual morally disengaging from an atrocity, but an individual shifting the tenets used to evaluate the atrocity. This study attempts to replicate Leidner's initial findings that individuals engage in morality shifting and that this effect is moderated by glorification. In an extension, the role of infrahumanization and negative emotions in morality shifting will be investigations. However, this study was unable to demonstrate that individuals engage in morality shifting. An analysis of these findings suggests that they may be the result of methodological issues or may be the explained through an alternative model of the relationship between glorification, attachment, and infrahumanization that stems from an individuals worldview rather than his or her reaction to a specific atrocity given the correlational relationships found by this study.
Within existential philosophy, an individual develops a model of the world through experience and... more Within existential philosophy, an individual develops a model of the world through experience and rationality. This model of the world can be disrupted by experiences that challenge the validity of an individual's model. The Meaning Maintenance Model has shown that individuals respond to this disruption through the processes of revision, reinterpretation, and reaffirmation. In the construction of a model of the world, an individual is free to construct his or her own, unique model of the world. However, humans exist within a society. Society contributes to the individual's construction of a model of the world by providing knowledge from both religious and secular sources that can be incorporated into the individual's model. In the following paper, I will describe how individuals construct meaning from societal sources and why meaning derived from religious sources of meaning are more resistant to the disruption of meaning that the Meaning Management Model describes.
Over the years, the psychologists have debated whether the effects found within personality psych... more Over the years, the psychologists have debated whether the effects found within personality psychology stem from personality traits or stem from situational effects. This debate however, however, while important is misguided given evolutionary psychology's view of en
The literature has shown a relationship between locus of control, coping, and sex.
Communities bring individuals together in order to satisfy needs that they alone cannot achieve. ... more Communities bring individuals together in order to satisfy needs that they alone cannot achieve. To assure that all individuals act in order to achieve this, each community has a set of laws. For religious communities these laws are revealed by divinity through prophets while for secular communities they are constructed rationally.