Fragile, and we will need to start pondering about tips on how to look after it”; “Viewing the earth in its entirety broadened my point of view (. . .) I’ve noticed the undivided earth from space. When viewed from this viewpoint, the fighting amongst ourselves makes no sense whatsoever.”CONCLUSIONThis article has attempted to remediate Messac’s (1936) lengthy forgotten lament that the insights provided by the Gulliver theme in literature had been left underexplored. I’ve gathered a vast array of scattered reflections, insights and studies around the topic and provided the initial cognitively oriented overview on the theme. A overview of classical and lesser-known literary functions involving altered physique nvironment scaling has permitted highlighting the manifold components of human’s psychology of size. Primarily based on these observations, I have proposed the first taxonomy of the Gulliver theme and delineated its principal functions inside the perception, action, bodily, affective, cognitive, and social domains. Although derived from purely imaginative works, I suggest that these insights give a outstanding foundation for the science of architectonic Controls have a highly interconnected network within the upper body and embodiment, as they encompass the full range of human knowledge that could (or should) be deemed by architects and urban designers with respect to the size factor. To reinforce this foundation and favor a cross-disciplinary strategy to architectonic embodiment, I’ve also reviewed out there experimental information relevant for the psychological capabilities on the Gulliver theme. Despite the fact that mostly indirect in the moment, such proof, assembled right here for the initial time, currently indicates that taking into consideration body nvironment scaling and its effects around the human mind is of foremost a0016355 relevance and importance for architecture and connected fields.Frontiers in Psychology | http://www.frontiersin.orgApril 2016 | Volume 7 | ArticleDieguezThe Gulliver ThemeThe existing paper also contributes to the developing field of cognitive literary research (e.g., Richardson and Steen, 2002; Pinker, 2007; Mar and Oatley, 2008). I suggest that exploring the cognitive foundations of particular genres and subgenres, too as transversal themes which include the Gulliver theme, will enrich historical, cultural, and linguistic approaches to literature. Additional provocatively, I have recommended elsewhere that frequent neurocognitive functions underlie psychological practical experience and pathology, literary imagination and creation, as well as the enjoyment and understanding of literature by readers (Dieguez, 2013; Dieguez and Annoni, 2013b). The thriving confluence of suchmechanisms could clarify the prominence of distinct themes throughout literary history, for instance the subject with the double and of amnesia, and I suggest it would also JCM.01607-14 explain why the Gulliver theme, because it have been an unlikely concept when taken at face value, survived and featured so prominently in a lot of stories and tales.AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONSSD initiated, researched, and wrote the write-up.It can be common to hear that get in touch with with nature, in its numerous and diverse forms, promotes human overall health. But how are we to know this connection? A recent Frontiers in Psychology post (Kuo, 2015) identifies quite a few environmental aspects, physiological and psychological states, behaviors or circumstances, each and every of which has been empirically tied to nature and has implications for certain physical and mental health outcomes. It might be s13578-015-0060-8 true that walking through the surroundingFrontiers in Psychology | http://www.frontiersin.orgMay 2016 | Volume 7 | ArticleMenatti and Casado d.