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‘Staying Close’: Enabling social interdependence for young people leaving residential care in England

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Applying social interdependence theory as a framework for document analysis, this paper considers eight evaluations of an extended care scheme in England known as ‘Staying Close’. Findings suggest that for extended care projects like ‘Staying Close’ to work, any service offer designed to support the transition from residential care to ...
Dan Allen
wiley   +1 more source

On the Trail of Creativity: Dimensionality of Divergent Thinking and Its Relation With Cognitive Abilities, Personality, and Insight

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020
Abstract Divergent thinking (DT) is an important constituent of creativity that captures aspects of fluency and originality. The literature lacks multivariate studies that report relationships between DT and its aspects with relevant covariates, such as cognitive abilities, personality traits (e.g. openness), and insight. In two multivariate studies (N 
S. Weiss   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Can We Talk About Fetal Consciousness? [PDF]

open access: yesActa Paediatr
ABSTRACT Aim This mini‐review examines research on fetal consciousness, focusing on whether it can be empirically assessed or remains primarily a philosophical construct. Methods A review of theoretical frameworks was conducted. Behavioural evidence from studies of prenatal sensory responsiveness is evaluated, with particular attention to whether ...
Reissland N.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Epistemic affordances in gestalt perception as well as in emotional facial expressions and gestures

open access: yesGestalt Theory, 2021
Methodological problems often arise when a special case is confused with the general principle. So you will find affordances only for ‚artifacts’ if you restrict the analysis to ‚artifacts’.
Schwarzfischer Klaus
doaj   +1 more source

Gestalt Theory and Gestalt Principles in Religious Structures [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Sciences, 2017
In this study, basic design concepts related to Gestalt principles were examined. In the first phase of the work, the principles that Gestalt theory developed in the field of visual perception are introduced and the basic design principles are explained by various abstract examples. In the second phase, gestalt principles have been tested with concrete
Akat, Reyhan, Çakıroğlu, Birgül
openaire   +1 more source

Vierzig Jahre Gesellschaft für Gestalttheorie: Der wissenschaftliche Ertrag

open access: yesGestalt Theory, 2018
The Society for Gestalt Theory and its Applications (GTA) is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. The task of this article was to give a selection of gestalt theoretical research, which was created within the framework of the GTA.
Metz-Göckel Hellmuth
doaj   +1 more source

Lightness Contrast Spatially Propagates on Perceptually Unified Elements

open access: yesGestalt Theory, 2022
In 1993, Agostini and Proffitt showed that perceptual belongingness (the subsumption of some sets of elements into a perceived whole) causes simultaneous lightness contrast to be seen in configurations in which the inducing elements are not adjacent to ...
Galmonte Alessandra   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Perceptual Analysis according to Rudolf Arnheim’s Gestalt Theoretical approach in Structuralist Landscape Planning

open access: yesGestalt Theory, 2020
Landscape planning lacked an evidence-based method for the reflection of planning models on the imaginary level in order to present the image content and the relationships in the image as the basis for interpretation in a verifiable manner.
Schneider Gerda, Scharmann Ingrid
doaj   +1 more source

ART moves MIND moves ART The Moses of Michelangelo and the ‘Gestaltkreis’ of Art Reception

open access: yesGestalt Theory, 2020
According to Gestalt theory the impact of arts is not adequately described as a transfer of an artist’s message into a recipient’s state of mind. As a matter of fact (and effect) art represents complex fields of meaning (figurations) rooting in the ...
Fitzek Herbert
doaj   +1 more source

Science of perception for design: the view of Walter Gropius

open access: yesGestalt Theory, 2023
This paper discusses the theories underlying Walter Gropius’ conception of science. Starting with “Is There a Science of Design?” written by Gropius in 1947, the influences of Ganzheitspsychologie and the New Look on Perception are traced. In particular,
Sinico Michele
doaj   +1 more source

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