Psychology of cleansing through the prism of intersecting object histories.

We link cleansing effects to contemporary cognitive theories via an account of event representation (intersecting object histories) that provides an explicit, neurally plausible mechanism for encoding objects (e.g., the self) and their associations (with other entities) across time.

Events as intersecting object histories: A new theory of event representation.

We offer a new account of event representation based on those aspects of object representation that encode an object's , and which convey the distinct states that an object has experienced across time-minimally reflecting the and of whatever changes the object undergoes as an event unfolds. Our intention is to account for the of event representations. For an event that can be described as the event is defined by the changes in state and location, across time, of the onion, the chef, and any instruments that (might have) mediated the interaction between the chef and the onion.