Place of Mind

What in the world has Psychology to do with Architecture and vice versa?

Joseph Juhász is an environmental psychologist who is professor of architecture and environmental design at the University of Colorado. See full bio

November 16, 2009

Where does Evil Reside?

What is the evil we all see but won't notice; where does it dwell? In a faar-awaay savage land perhaps? Next door? Home? But isn't it reassuring to know, that as Dorothy Says in her pledge of allegiance-There Is No Place Like Home. Read More

November 12, 2009

Role Playing and Role Taking at Fort Hood

One merely needs to scratch the surface of the narrative the press has been unfolding about the lives and times of Nidal Malik Hasan to bare the horrific role conflicts he subjected himself to. Read More

November 6, 2009

So Fort Hood--So Cal

The Berserk Psychiatrist who did a Kamikaze run on Fort Hood yesterafternoon—did he bring The War home? Has he been able to awaken us to the reality of a 19 year war? Should he have been subjected to compulsory Positive Psychology? Read More

October 25, 2009

Psychology of and for Wartime

Is there in the air a "Positive Psychology" making us numb to reality? Read More

October 23, 2009

Check Out a Monet

Barbara Ehrenreich’s new book, Bright Sided, takes on Big Psychology as one of the forces purveying a relentless promotion of positive thinking. She argues that this undermines America. Is it so? Read More

Books by Joseph Juhász

Environments: notes and selections on objects, spaces, and behavior (Core books in psychology series)

Cognition Basics

Quite simply, cognition refers to thinking. There are the obvious applications of conscious reasoning—doing taxes, playing chess, deconstructing Macbeth—but thought takes many subtler forms, such as interpreting sensory input, guiding physical actions, and empathizing with others. The old metaphor for human cognition was the computer—a logical information-processing machine.

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