When Alice James, the youngest sister of the famous Henry the novelist, and William the psychologist, started journaling, she was 40 years old. ... According to James' her "reader" is male and in the James family, being "male" meant having intelligence, wit, morals and an individual identity, qualities which James' father continually expressed that women lacked. ... James who was the epitome of self-effacement and maternal devotion. ... At 18, she signed a letter to William as "Your loving idiotoid sister.... An enthusiastic supporter of James, her brother He...

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William James submits to us the notion that "personal religious experience has its root and centre in mystical states of consciousness. - Stating that mystical states of consciousness must have the characteristics of ineffability, Noetic quality, transiency, and passivity , James ascribes four marks to mystical states of consciousness, clearly defining them from our normal state of consciousness (what James calls "rational consciousness -). ... James stipulates that mystical states plunge the experiencer into an insightful state of truth and knowledge. ... James proposes that: Mystical states...

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However, some psychologists and historians feel that William James deserves the honor for a less publicized laboratory at Harvard University, which opened in 1875(Lahey, 1983). ... Williams James (1842-1910) And His Contributions to Psychology In 1875, a young professor of biology and philosophy by the name of William James taught the first course on "psychology" at Harvard University(Lahey, 1983). ... Like Wundt, James borrowed concepts and scientific methods from biology to use in his study of consciousness. However, James...

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In the more modern days, around the late 1800's and early 1900's a Philosopher who's major concern in Philosophy was emotions, was William James. William James was born In New York City in 1842, who was taught at private school while in New York. ... There James comes down with smallpox. ... James believed that emotions are occur from a sensation or a number of sensations. ... So when James believed that these sensations were causes by "visceral disturbances." ...

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In the late 19th century, William Wundt (1879) and William James (1890) were the main founders and contributors to early psychology and were labelled,' the fathers of psychology' (Cardwell, et al., 2004). William Wundt's study in sensory processes increased his interest in psychology such that he created the first psychological laboratory experiment (Cullis, et al., 2002). ... William James was more fascinated by how the mind functioned, establishing it as the stream of consciousness. ...

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Attention was neatly defined by William James: "It is the taking possession in the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of several simultaneous possible objects or trains of thought. ... It implies withdrawal from some things in order to deal effectively with others" (James, 1890). ...

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However, in 1988, RJR Nabisco launched the "Smooth Character", a cartoon camel modeled after James Bond and Don Johnson. 5,000 children from California were polled and 22% of girls were smoking Camel cigarettes, and 24% of boys were smoking Camel cigarettes! ... There seems to be three people in particular who know a lot about subliminal perception and advertisements, and those people are Wilson Bryan Key, Ph.D, William Bryan Cane, and Eldon Taylor, Ph.D. ... Rather, advertising agencies spend three to five months and upwards $50,000 to scrutinize every detail in each advertisement" (Chen 1) ...

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