Book reviews

Evans, J. St. B. Thinking and reasoning: Psychological approaches. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1983. Pp. 256. ISBN 0-7100-9460-4. £12.95.

Anderson, J. R. and Kosslyn, S. M. (Eds.). Tutorials in learning and memory: Essays in honor of Gordon Bower. San Francisco: Freeman. 1984. Pp. xiii+264. ISBN 0-7167-1571-6. £12.95.

Tighe, T. J. and Shepp, B. E. (Eds.). Perception, cognition, and develop-ment. Interactional analyses. Hillsdale, N.J., and London: lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 1983. Pp. 383. ISBN 0-89859-254-2. £41.65.

Rock, I. The logic of perception. Cambride, Mass.: The MIT Press. 1983. Pp. 13+365. ISBN 0-262-18109-6.     

Evaluating differential predictions of emotional reactivity during repeated 20% carbon dioxide-enriched air challenge

The present study explored psychological predictors of response to a series of three 25 second inhalations of 20% carbon dioxide-enriched air in 60 nonclinical participants. Multiple regression analyses indicated that only anxiety sensitivity physical concerns predicted self-reported fear, whereas both physical anxiety sensitivity concerns and behavioural inhibition sensitivity independently predicted affective ratings of emotional arousal. In contrast, the psychological concerns anxiety sensitivity dimension predicted ratings of emotional displeasure (valence), and both psychological anxiety sensitivity concerns and behavioural inhibition sensitivity independently predicted emotional dyscontrol. No variables significantly predicted heart rate. These data are in accord with current models of emotional reactivity that highlight the role of cognitive variables in the production of anxious and fearful responding to somatic perturbation, and help further clarify the particular predictors of anxiety-related responding to biological challenge.     

Touching on Fetish Black Box—A Haptic Performance

Abstract

Touching on the haptic/tactile performance artwork A Haptic Performance, this article unveils the installation Fetish Black Box as the artist’s safe space of possibilities, to explore the field of haptic art. The installation is examined from the perspective of fetish theory as suggested by Hartmut Böhme, which emphasizes the roles of subject and object in recognizing the qualities of desire in order to facilitate coexistence in a future society. Kroneis’ performance-installation challenges the limits of what is possible in socially accepted modes of conduct and puts a more inclusive future way of living together into practice.