Research & Thought Leadership

Publications & White Papers

Academic research and white papers spanning AI, consciousness science, vision psychology, aerospace human factors, and corporate accountability. Published across peer-reviewed journals and presented at international conferences.

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AI & Consciousness Research

2 papers

The Predictive Brain in the Simulated Hyperspace: Machine Elves, Mantids, and Greys as Archetypes of Consciousness in the DMT Realm

Private Research for DOW·2025

The resurgence of psychedelic research in the twenty-first century has revived one of philosophy's oldest questions: the nature of consciousness and its relationship to reality. This paper examines recurring archetypal entities encountered in DMT experiences through the lens of predictive processing and neural entropy.

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Temporal Dissolution and Neural Entropy: Understanding Time Dilation in DMT and Psilocybin Experiences

Research Paper·2024

Psychedelic experiences induced by N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) and psilocybin consistently distort the subjective experience of time. This paper explores the neural entropy mechanisms underlying temporal dissolution and their implications for consciousness research.

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Vision Science & Aerospace

8 papers

Changing Driver Behavior Through Unconscious Stereotype Activation

Proceedings of the 5th International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training, and Vehicle Design·2009

Under the guise of evaluating a head-up display in a driving simulator, participants completed scenarios in which they encountered either an older or younger driver. Results examined how unconscious stereotype activation influences driving behavior and safety outcomes.

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2D vs. 3D Visual Cues for Altitude Maintenance in Low-Altitude Flight

PsycEXTRA Dataset·2007

Examines the role of visual occlusion in altitude maintenance during low-altitude flight, comparing the effectiveness of two-dimensional versus three-dimensional visual cues for pilot spatial orientation.

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Aviation Visual Perception: Research, Misperception and Mishaps

Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine·2011

Aviation allows the human operator to achieve flight, but also introduces significant risks of spatial disorientation and visual misperception. This paper reviews the research on aviation visual perception and its role in mishaps.

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How Do Baseball Batters Use "Where" and "When" Information?

Journal of Vision·2010

Previous research has identified multiple sources of visual information available to a baseball batter. This study examines how batters integrate spatial (where) and temporal (when) information to make contact with a pitched ball.

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Vernier Step Acuity and Bisection Acuity for Texture-Defined Form

Vision Research·1997

Using as the stimulus a texture pattern of short lines, we compared positional acuity thresholds for Vernier step and bisection tasks, contributing to the understanding of spatial vision and form perception.

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Spatial-Frequency Discrimination and Detection: Comparison of Postadaptation Thresholds

Journal of the Optical Society of America·1983

We found that inspecting a sine-wave grating elevated threshold for spatial-frequency discrimination. This paper compares postadaptation thresholds for spatial-frequency discrimination and detection tasks.

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Estimating Time to Collision Using Binocular and Monocular Visual Information

Research Paper·2008

Investigates how humans estimate time to collision using both binocular and monocular visual cues, with implications for driving safety, sports performance, and aviation.

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The Art of Healing and Healing in Art Therapy

InPsych: The Bulletin of the Australian Psychological Society Ltd·2015

Picture a patient sitting across from a therapist, unable to voice her innermost thoughts; unable to articulate her pain. This paper explores the therapeutic mechanisms of art therapy and its role in psychological healing.

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Accounting & Sustainability

7 papers

Environmental, Social + Sustainability Accounting: Quo Vadis?

Revista de Contabilidade e Organizações·2013

Writing about trends is a dangerous task: much like forecasting it seems highly likely that whatever one writes will be proven wrong. This paper examines the trajectory of environmental and sustainability accounting research.

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Revisiting Autopoiesis: A Research Note and Another Narrative on Accounting and Sustainability

Research Note·2012

Revisits the concept of autopoiesis and its application to accounting and sustainability research, offering an alternative narrative to mainstream sustainability accounting frameworks.

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Plotting the Contours of an Emerging Field: An Essay and Research Note Concerning British Academic Social and Environmental Accountants

Social and Environmental Accountability Journal·2014

The broad field we might think of as 'social accounting' has attracted a fair amount of attention. This essay maps the intellectual contours of British academic social and environmental accounting.

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The Cloak of Sustainability: A Modern Fable

Social and Environmental Accountability Journal·2002

A critical examination of how sustainability rhetoric is used to obscure rather than address fundamental corporate accountability issues — presented as a modern fable.

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From Soothing Palliatives and Towards Ecological Literacy: A Critique of the Triple Bottom Line

Research Paper·2005

The 'triple bottom line' (3BL), an idea attributed to and increasingly evangelized by John Elkington, is examined critically. This paper argues for a move toward genuine ecological literacy rather than corporate sustainability performance metrics.

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Does Sustainability Reporting Improve Corporate Behaviour?: Wrong Question, Right Direction?

Research Paper·2006

Examines whether sustainability reporting actually improves corporate behavior, questioning the assumptions underlying voluntary disclosure frameworks and their effectiveness as accountability mechanisms.

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Seeing the Wood for the Trees

Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal·1999

Social and environmental issues have become a central part of the academic accounting subject field. This paper examines the state of social and environmental accounting research and its future directions.

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Social Accountability & NGOs

5 papers

Social Compliance Audits and Multinational Corporation Supply Chain: Evidence from a Study of the Rituals of Social Audits

Accounting and Business Research·2017

This study investigates the use of social compliance audits in the supply chain of multinational corporations, revealing the ritualistic nature of audit processes and their limited effectiveness as accountability tools.

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Social Audits and Multinational Company Supply Chain: A Study of Rituals of Social Audits in the Bangladesh Garment Industry

Working Paper·2016

This paper explores the motivation for the use of social audits in the supply chains of multinational corporations, with particular focus on the Bangladesh garment industry and the gap between audit rhetoric and reality.

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It's Not What You Do, It's the Way That You Do It? Of Method and Madness

Critical Perspectives on Accounting·2015

Explores methodological approaches in critical accounting research, examining the relationship between research methods and the production of knowledge in social and environmental accounting.

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NGOs, Civil Society and Accountability: Making the People Accountable to Capital

Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal·2006

The purpose of this research is to seek to understand and explain the non-governmental organization accountability relationship, arguing that NGO accountability frameworks often serve capital interests rather than civil society.

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Struggling with the Praxis of Social Accounting

Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal·1997

Addresses three related, though not entirely congruent, aims. Seeks to initiate moves toward a social accounting praxis — bridging the gap between social accounting theory and real-world implementation.

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