Human Arenas

18/07/2025

Dr. Sigurddatter investigated how the experience of choosing and trying on clothes would be shaped by social and cultural context, symbolic mediation, and bodily experience. Read her latest work online in Arena of the Body:

Human cultural creativity begins with the wrapping of the body in clothing. This article explores the role of sensuality in meaning-making and self-development, using the experience of shopping for clothing as a lens. Drawing on theories from cultural psychology (Valsiner), Naturphilosophie, psychoa...

04/07/2025

Dr. Solomon and colleagues interviewd eight participants to analyze the patterns of shame culture of homosexuality in India. Read their latest work online in Arena of Identity: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42087-025-00512-y

20/06/2025

Dr. Hariyanto examined Buddhist epistemology and proposed a holistic framework integrating analytical reasoning with ethical intentionality and introspective awareness for 21st-century education. Read latest articles online in Arena of Development:

This interdisciplinary review explores how Buddhist epistemology can enrich contemporary critical thinking by addressing the limitations of approaches that overemphasize formal logic while marginalizing ethical, emotional, and experiential dimensions. Drawing on key concepts such as mindfulness (sat...

13/06/2025

Dr. Kadmon explored the mutually beneficial relationship between theoretical neuroscience and statistical physics through the lens of efficient coding and computation in cortical circuits. Read his latest article online as part of the collection Th Max Planck Papers:

This essay, derived from a lecture at “The Physics Modeling of Thought” workshop in Berlin in winter 2023, explores the mutually beneficial relationship between theoretical neuroscience and statistical physics through the lens of efficient coding and computation in cortical circuits. It highligh...

30/05/2025

Dr. Iannone & Murdock adopted a collage method as a unique arts-based approach to capture the identity journey of refugee entrepreneurs in Luxembourg. Specifically, they highlighted the potential of non-Western frameworks grounded in communal, spiritual, and relational understandings for the conceptualisations of identity and self. Read their latest work online in Arena of Identity:

This manuscript charts the emerging identity processes of refugee entrepreneurs in Luxembourg. It critically examines existing conceptualisations of identity and the self through a Western lens and highlights how non-Western frameworks, grounded in communal, spiritual, and relational understandings,...

29/05/2025

Very honoured to have received the Springer Nature Editor of Distinction Award 2025 for Human Arenas

Motivation:
Springer Nature Editorial Contribution Award - This award recognises your meticulous assessment of submissions and rigorous management of the peer review process, safeguarding the scientific accuracy of the published record.

20/05/2025

Dear friends,
Human Arenas. Volume 8, Issue 2 is now available online.

Human Arenas welcomes the interdisciplinary study of higher psychological functions from the perspective of cultural psychology in human goal-oriented liminal ...

16/05/2025

Dr. Ruggieri & Mollo examined how digital technologies would shape individuals' relational and emotional experiences and called for fostering genuine symbolic relationships and recontextualizing human interactions mediated by technology. Read their latest work online in the Arena of Technologies:

Starting with an analysis of the current landscape shaped by the pervasive use of digital technologies—particularly social networks and mobile devices—this paper proposes a socio-constructivist theoretical model to explore the relationship between fantasy and reality. It emphasizes the pivotal r...

09/05/2025

Using semi-structured interviews, Dr. Barboza and colleagues analyzed the science conceptions held by science teachers in a Christian school in Brazil. Read their latest article online in the Arena of Epistemology:

The purpose of the research presented in this paper was to identify the science conceptions held by science teachers in a Christian school. The study focused on three teachers who taught natural science, physics, and chemistry at the Adventist School of Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brazil. Data was coll...

02/05/2025

Dr. Magioglou analyzed the discursive strategies used by young Greek adults to claim ownership of democracy and to contest the mainstream constructions present in the public discourse. Read the latest article online in the Arena of Values:

This paper provides a theoretical and methodological contribution to the study of lay thinking on democracy, between a constructivist understanding of social representations and discursive psychology (Batel and Castro, 2018) and at the interface of individual and collective dynamics. Young Greek adu...

25/04/2025

Dr. Kusnir & Landau critically assessed the bias of the spatial approach in understanding the neural correlates and mechanisms of cognition. They also highlighted the value of integrating time and temporal organizing principles. Read their latest article online as part of the collection The Max Planck Papers:

Understanding how our sensory apparatus generates percepts and coherent experiences of the world has been the outstanding quest of centuries. Throughout history, philosophers, biologists, psychologists, and – in the past few decades—cognitive neuroscientists have all sought answers to how our br...

18/04/2025

Adopting a phenomenological approach, Dr. Alves & Scorsolini-Comin explored the experience of grief over the loss of a pet. Read their latest work online in the Arena of Spirituality:

This exploratory and qualitative study investigated grief over the loss of a pet through an online group intervention with pet owners, conducted in weekly two-hour sessions focused on sharing experiences and reflections on loss. The phenomenological group provided a space for listening and mutual su...