Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science
April 22, 2024
Lars‐gunnar Lundh
6 citations
Most mindfulness research treats it as a variable for population-level studies, which overlooks how it is experienced and enacted by individuals. This paper adopts a person-oriented phenomenological perspective, comparing it with von Fircks' (2023) approach. The first part discusses mindfulness as a phenomenological practice studied through experimental phenomenology, arguing for a wide variety of personalized mindfulness practices to support health and well-being. The second part explores mindful observation and reflection in psychological research, suggesting that mindfulness skills can improve phenomenological observation and foster creative thinking for theory development. A key implication is that integrating mindfulness and phenomenology can advance this process.
Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science
November 15, 2025
Minoru Matsui
4 citations
Metaqualia Theory (MTQ) provides a structural grammar that treats self, identity, and subjectivity not as fixed entities but as derivative effects of a cycle involving Qualia (raw experience), Metaqualia (interpretive stances), and Transduction (stabilization through social and communicative fields). The self is the retrospective label applied when a stabilized Metaqualia stance is established; identity is the socially recognized continuity of such stabilizations; and subjectivity is the conventional name for Qualia framed by Metaqualia. MTQ distinguishes these terms systematically, avoids homuncular explanations, and differentiates itself from dialogical and constructivist models by specifying the structural conditions under which these labels arise. It offers a coherent conceptual lexicon for psychology and philosophy.
Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science
May 6, 2026
Steven J. Haase
The debate about whether unconscious processing exists has persisted for over 2,000 years, and within psychology for more than a century. This commentary highlights contributions from signal detection theory, which the author has used for over 30 years, and notes that interest in unconscious processing has grown and gained respect in psychology and related fields. The controversy remains unresolved. The author suggests ideas for progress, partly drawn from recent work, and emphasizes that weak or fragmentary conscious experiences of masked stimuli may confound interpretations of unconscious perception.
Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science
February 2, 2026
Vadim Saunanen
The Cubic Model of Intelligence proposes that seven aspects of the mind—logic, emotion, intuition, memory, ethics, social context, and temporal foresight—are not separate functions but facets of a unified cognitive structure whose interactions shape understanding and decision-making. Derived from observation of internal thinking processes, the model is presented as a theoretical hypothesis about the structural organization of consciousness, subject to operationalization and empirical testing. The work integrates philosophical reflection, cognitive theory, and psychological practice, and discusses potential verification through phenomenological and behavioral methods, with applications in education, psychotherapy, consciousness studies, and artificial intelligence.