Basic Principles for Therapeutic Relationship and Practice in Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy

Personality Theory in Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy: Kurt Lewin’s Field Theory and his Theory of Systems in Tension Revisited

Untersuchungen zur Lehre von der Gestalt

Ego and Self in Gestalt Theory

Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy – A Clinical Example

About the Ability to Be in Two Places at Once

Demokratieförderung in der Schule im Anschluss an Max Wertheimer und Kurt Lewin

Peter H. Schiller (1931-2023) – Eminent neuroscientist

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This phenomenological research investigates how it is possible to determine the extent to which a chromatic colour appears white and black in order to use it to build a new Colour Rendering Index. We tested two methods of subjective evaluation; in the first, the perceptual presence of white (and black) in a colour alone was assessed on a unipolar intensity scale, independently for the two attributes. In the second method, evaluations of whiteness (and blackness) were conducted for colours presented in a sequence ordered from the least to the greatest presence of the respective attribute. In both tests evaluations were made either by moving an arrow on a slider from left (minimum) to right (maximum) or by choosing a grey cylinder that matched the same degree of similarity to white (and black) as the test colour. In four experiments, 16 colours of 4 hues and 4 different shades were studied; in a fifth experiment, 48 colours, 12 for each quadrant of the colour wheel, were studied; finally, in another test, 10 greys were studied. In the first three experiments, the results were unexpected, as the evaluations of whiteness and blackness were complementary, adding up to 100%, while in the current NCS, 100% includes not only the evaluation of white and black but also that of chromaticness, therefore white and black are not complementary. In the fourth and fifth experiments, the sum of the evaluations of white and black was always less than 100%, in accordance with the present NCS. In the last experiment, the evaluations of white and black given independently to the 10 greys samples were complementary, confirming the bipolar nature of white-black continuum. Suggestions have been provided to resolve the discrepancy between the results of this research and the structure of the current NCS.
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The white and black colour attributes in the Natural Colour System

Temporal and spatial accounts of sound perception. An overview of the main historical sources and theoretical problems

Rudolf Arnheim: Perceptive dynamics in musical expression

Enhanced distractor filtering in habituation contexts: Learning to ignore is easier in familiar environments

Embodied Simulation. Its Bearing on Aesthetic Experience and the Dialogue Between Neuroscience and the Humanities

What, If Anything, Is Linguistic Creativity?

Measures of <italic>Prägnanz?</italic>

To Communicate Without Signs Through Expressive Qualities

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