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Over time, this legend morphed into the Voodoo belief that priests (called Bokors) had the power to turn people into zombies. The unfortunate individual chosen as a zombie-to-be would be poisoned ...
- Psychology Today: Health, Help, Happiness + Find a Therapist
The article explores the psychological reasons behind our...
- Psychology Today: Health, Help, Happiness + Find a Therapist
Oct 29, 2013 · Stephanie Lay has spent six years researching the ‘uncanny valley’ theory, an idea first introduced in the 1970s, which suggests that the reason we are scared of zombies is because our brains have trouble processing the image of something which is so similar to a human, but isn’t quite human. According to Lay, when we see an image of a ...
- The Psychology of The Philosophical Zombie
- The Psychology of Modeling Another Person's Consciousness
- The Psychology of Modeling Our Own Consciousness
- Final Words on Zombies and The Psychology of Consciousness
When you think about it, just about everything we do can be done without consciousness. Imagine interacting with a person, who looks and acts just like a person, but is in fact, a zombie. If you were to pinch them, they would recoil their hand reflexively but without actually experiencing any internal pain. Similarly, there might be zombies that be...
Humans are inherently social creatures. Our sociality may even be the hallmark of our species: We’re not the fastest or the fiercest, but we have a greater capacity to work together than any other animal. To navigate the social world, we have to understand who we’re interacting with. Not just what they look like, or what they’re doing, but what it'...
How do we get from social cognition to our own consciousness? We know that we have an advanced system to effortlessly and automatically monitor the conscious state of others. We also know that we must have a system in the brain that gives rise to our own consciousness. Could these systems be one and the same? This idea is core to the Attention Sche...
Whether of our own, or someone else's, the brain creates a model of consciousness. And just like we can’t be certain of the contents of another person’s mind, we can’t completely understand our own mind either. Only a very small percentage of the brain’s neuronal processing ultimately reaches this space of conscious awareness. Even while you read t...
Nov 15, 2020 · Most obvious is the way zombies move. Their typical gait is wide and lumbering with their arms out, reaching for your brains. There are three main areas in the brain that control movement: the cortico-motor area, basal ganglia and the cerebellum. Damage to the cerebellum has the most visually obvious effect on a zombie’s walk.
The article explores the psychological reasons behind our fear of a zombie apocalypse, including the concept of the "uncanny valley."
Oct 5, 2018 · The zombie apocalypse narrative allows us to feel the fear, to debate moral quandaries, to consider our own ability to survive and to wonder what makes a person human. Similar to war in general (MacMillan, 2018), the zombie apocalypse brings out the best and worst qualities of human beings and we are fascinated by it.
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Oct 31, 2013 · The “dead” eyes and near-human characteristics of zombies provoke an instinctive disquiet in us. This is down to our inability to process these “strange” faces using normal psychological ...
