Category: Biocultures

Body Prism

Brand, B. (2023). Body prism: An exploration of aesthetic embodied ageing [In preparation, doctoral dissertation]. University of Kent.

Jablonski N. (2021). The evolution of human skin pigmentation involved the interactions of genetic, environmental, and cultural variables. Pigment Cell Melanoma Research.

Jablonski, N. (2020). Skin color and race. American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

Jablonski, N. (2017). The anthropology of skin colors: An examination of the evolution of skin pigmentation and the concepts of race and skin of color. In N. Vashi & H. Maibach (Eds.). Dermatoanthropology of ethnic skin and hair, (pp. 1-11).

Jablonski, N. and Chaplin, G. (2017). The colours of humanity: the evolution of pigmentation in the human lineage. Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

Aesthetic appreciation -1

Berleant, A. (2015). Aesthetic sensibility. Ambiance: International journal of sensory environment, architecture and urban space.

Chih-i (2014). Stopping and seeing: A comprehensive course in Buddhist meditation. (T. Cleary, Trans; 1st ed.) [ebook]. Shambhala publications. (Original work published in 2000).

Sarasso, P., Neppi-Modona, M., Sacco, K., & Ronga, I. (2020). “Stopping for knowledge”: The sense of beauty in the perception-action cycle. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 118, 723-738.

The brain as a prediction processor

Badcock, P. B., Friston, K. J., Ramstead, M. J., Ploeger, A., & Hohwy, J. (2019). The hierarchically mechanistic mind: an evolutionary systems theory of the human brain, cognition, and behavior. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 19, 1319-1351.

de Lange, F. P. d., Heilbron, M., & Kok, P. (2018). How do expectations shape perception? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22(9), 764-779.

Walsh, K. S., McGovern, D. P., Clark, A., & O’Connell, R. G. (2020). Evaluating the neurophysiological evidence for predictive processing as a model of perception. Annals of the new York Academy of Sciences, 1464(1), 242-268.

White logic, white methods

A drive to increase diversity in clinical trials

Handley, G., Kubota, J. T., & Cloutier, J. (2023). Reading the mind in the eyes of Black and White people: Interracial contact and perceived race affects brain activity when inferring mental states. NeuroImage, 269, 119910.

Jovchelovitch, S. (2019). Knowledge in context: Representations, community and culture. Routledge.

Jovchelovitch, S. (2001). Social representations, public life and social construction.

Moscovici, S. (2001). Social representations: Explorations in social psychology. Polity Press.

Zuberi, T., & Bonilla-Silva, E. (Eds.). (2008). White logic, white methods: Racism and methodology. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Social status & …

Assari, S. (2018). Health disparities due to diminished return among black Americans: Public policy solutions

Bell, C. N., Sacks, T. K., Tobin, C. S. T., & Thorpe Jr, R. J. (2020). Racial non-equivalence of socioeconomic status and self-rated health among African Americans and Whites

Bonilla-Silva, E. (1997). Rethinking Racism: Toward a Structural Interpretation

Brown, T. H., Hargrove, T. W., Homan, P., & Adkins, D. E. (2023). Racialized Health Inequities: Quantifying Socioeconomic and Stress Pathways Using Moderated Mediation

Chan, M., Lau, C., Lau, C., Ma, T. F. (. (2021). Global Trends In Cross-cultural Endorsement Of Social Mobility: Evidence From 167 Countries

Colen, C. G., Krueger, P. M., & Boettner, B. L. (2018). Do rising tides lift all boats? Racial disparities in health across the lifecourse among middle-class African-Americans and Whites

Daniels, J. R. (2018). “There’s no way this isn’t racist”: White women teachers and the raciolinguistic ideologies of teaching code‐switching

Geronimus, A. T., Hicken, M., Keene, D., & Bound, J. (2006). “Weathering” and age patterns of allostatic load scores among blacks and whites in the United States

Kessler, R. C. (1979). Stress, social status, and psychological distress

Macintyre, S. (1994). Understanding the social patterning of health: the role of the social sciences

McEwen, B. S., & Stellar, E. (1993). Stress and the individual: Mechanisms leading to disease

Pearlin, L. I. (1989). The sociological study of stress