Somatic Psychology Lectures
This “lecture hall” contains short essays on the various facets of Somatic Psychology including appearance and attractiveness, body awareness, body image, somatic development across the lifespan, embodiment, emotional body experience, gender, personality, and sexuality.
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The Brains of Scary People: The Neuroscanning of Healthy Adult Men with High and Low Dark Triad Personality Traits
There are three extremely offensive although not...
The Appreciation of Body Functionality in Young Children
Body functionality is the awareness of the...
The Body’s Thermostat: How Body Temperature Influences Physical and Psychological States
Thermoregulation is the homeostatic process by...
Looks or Brains? What Do Women Want? Well, It Depends…
A woman’s ovulatory cycle affects her perception...
Death by Body Image Disorder
From...
Wearing High Heels: A Devil’s Bargain
Many women suffer physically mentally in order...
Loss of the Body-Self in Retired Elite Athletes
Athletes—both performance types and aesthetic...
Running From the Body-Shadow: Confronting the Feared Body-Self
Conger (1988) adapts the Jungian concept of the...
Who’s Better Looking? You or Your Partner?
People gravitate toward one another for sexual...
Are You An Early Bird or A Night Owl?
Are you an Early Bird, a Night Owl, or Something...
You and Your Shadow
Shadows are an omnipresent feature of our visual...
Gender Differences in Falling in Love
Who falls in love faster? Women or men? This is...
Masculine Somatic Identity, Part 2: The Average Guy’s Brain and Other Points of Interest
Neuroanatomy In General The average human adult...
The Body Shape Concerns of Various Ethnic/Racial Groups in the United States
We know according to the Body-Specificity...
TMJ Disorder and Personality Type
TMJ and TMD The temporomandibular joint (TMJ) is...
The Existential Reality of Obesity
The Psychological Distress of Being Overweight...
Strutting Your Biological Motion: Body Movement and Sexuality
How a person walks—their gait or...
Masculine Somatic Identity, Part 1: A Few Theories of Gender
The key starting point from the perspective of...
BUSCing in the Gym: Differences Between the Exercise Behavior of Men and Women When Comparing Their Bodies to Others in the Gym
When I was 13-years-old we moved from the...
Gender Differences in Body Image
Vive La Différence: Gender Differences in Body...