Humans respond cognitively and emotionally to the built environment. The modern
possibility of recording the neural activity of subjects during exposure to environmental …

Monitoring the changes in people's presences in public spcaes can play a vital role in
enhancing placemaking research. This study investigated Herrengasse Street in Graz …

There is a growing body of research indicating that bodily sensation and behavior strongly
influences one's emotional reaction toward certain situations or objects. On this background …

The article introduces the special issue on staging atmospheres by surveying the
philosophical, political and anthropological literature on atmosphere, and explores the …

Phenomenologists seeking to explicate “lived experience” need above all to do justice to the
phenomenon under study; research methods need to be responsive to the phenomenon …

This article deals with what today can be called the theory of the atmosphere. The focus is
on the concept of atmosphere, which Gernot Böhme (1993; 1995; 2006; 2017) developed as …

In the mid-1950s CP Snow began his campaign against the'two cultures'-the debilitating
divide, as he saw it, between traditional'literary intellectual'culture, and the culture of the …

Although collective emotions have a long tradition in scientific inquiry, for instance in mass
psychology and the sociology of rituals and social movements, their importance for …

This article reviews and discusses recent literature on affect by highlighting two central
problems: the problem of distinction and the problem of transmission. To deal with these …

Extended mind theory (henceforth EM), a currently much discussed approach in the
philosophy of cognitive science, revolves around the claim that some of our mental …