First, we can hypothesize that as gaze following is likely to be a product of both reflexive and learnt mechanisms (Ricciardelli, Carcagno, Vallar, & Bricolo, 2013), one explanation could be that dogs may lose their reflexive responding to human gaze cues through long-term habituation over an individual's lifetime living with human companions (the long-term habituation hypothesis).
They described mindfulness as a form of mental training that develops a reflective rather than reflexive mode of responding to internal and external events.
The reflexive activation of vaginal responding by sexual cues may serve a protective function for women.
It's around quarter to five in the afternoon and DJ Funk is shouting at me, "who here is going to fuck some ass tonight?" Out of a reflexive obligation to respond I limply raise my hand and shout a tepid "yeah", at which point I also make a second of uncomfortable eye contact with the girl stood next to me.
The reflexive answer, of course, is everything.
Critical and reflexive feedback from the research team responding to early interview transcripts, and subsequent improved reflexivity of the GP researcher during interviews led to a series of early lessons and subsequent improvements for the novice GP researcher.
He's simply responding to an involuntary reflexive syllogism that goes like this: "I DISAGREE WITH THIS THING — I DISAGREE WITH GREEN-LEFT THINGS — THIS THING MUST BE GREEN-LEFT".
I would hold her hand, stroke her hair, hold her head in my hands, and seek some evidence that she was capable of responding, rather than merely exhibiting reflexive behaviors.
The appearance of non-reflexive behaviours, such as visual tracking or responding to simple commands, is considered a sufficient clinical criterion for a minimally conscious state (Giacino et al., 2002, 2004), while functional communication marks the unambiguous emergence of consciousness (emergence from minimally conscious state).
There are bound to be in an Administration staffed not by orcs and ogres but for the most part by the usual run of military people and professional politicians acceptable actions, even admirable initiatives, and we would do ourselves and our country a huge disservice by simply responding to them all with the same reflexive hatred.
The second author, a visual anthropologist, prepared the team to use photography as a means of responding to the research question and to begin a reflexive process.
