Draft:Reza Pishghdam

Reza Pishghadam (born August 23, 1977) is an Iranian applied linguist and educational psychologist, best known for his idea that people are significantly influenced by their sense-induced emotions, known as emotioncy (blend of emotion and frequency), that change cognition.

The idea of emotioncy (2016) has found applications in a number of academic disciplines, including education, psychology, sociology, and neurology. Later on, it was expanded to include other notions such as emo-sensory intelligence (ESQ), sensory capital, metapathy, and sensory relativism. According to him, life is a cycle of avolvement (lack of knowledge), exvolvement (seeing, hearing, and touching), involvement (direct experience), and metavolvement (making and changing). It implies that when one is involved in something, other issues in life might be avolved and exvolved. In fact, people come to know the world based on their level of emotioncy. Pishghadam’s new words (avolvement, exvolvement, involvement, metavolvement, envolvement, transvolvement, and so on) can be employed in different fields of study to analyze and discuss life issues. Moreover, he introduced the idea of the emo-sensory quotient (ESQ) as a complementary notion to IQ, EQ, and SQ. ESQ means the ability of individuals in identifying, monitoring, and managing sense-induced emotions. Later, Pishghadam coined the word cultuling, a blend of culture and language, to emphasize the relationship between language and culture. Cultuling means culture exists in language, and we can discover people’s cultures by examining their language. If we change the language, we can change their culture in turn. In fact, he believes in cultural memes (genes), which are transferred from one generation to another generation.

Biography
Pishghadam was born and raised in Iran. He obtained his BA in English language and literature From Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran. Later, he obtained his MA and Ph.D. in applied linguistics from Allameh Tabataba'i University. He is a professor of language education and a professor by courtesy of educational psychology in Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (FUM). He was the Vice Dean for Research and Technology, Faculty of Letters and Humanities, from 2014 to 2017; the Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, Faculty of Letters and Humanities, from 2017 to 2018; and the Vice President for Academic Affairs, from 2018 to 2022 in FUM. He also established the International Journal of Society, Culture, and Language in 2013 and, since then, has been its editor-in-chief.

Award
Distinguished Professor by the Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology Iran's ministry of higher education (2021).

Books

 * Pishghadam, R. (2022). 105 educational concepts. North Carolina: Lulu Press.
 * Pishghadam, R. & Ebrahimi, S. (2020). Cultuling: A novel approach to examining Iranian cultural meme. US: Amazon Press.
 * Pishghadam, R., Naji Meidani, E., & Firoozian Pour Esfahani, A. (2021). An educational approach to sociology of language. Mashhad: Ferdowsi University of Mashhad Press.
 * Pishghadam, R., Ebrahimi, S., & Tabatabaeian, M. (2019). A new approach to the psychology of language teaching. Mashhad: Ferdowsi University of Mashhad Press.
 * Pishghadam, R., Tabatabaeian, M., & Navari, S. (2013). A critical and practical analysis of first language acquisition theories: The origin and development. Mashhad, Iran: Ferdowsi University of Mashhad Press.

Articles

 * Hintaw Abdulhussien, S., Pishghadam, R., & Sakhtkar Haddadi, M. (2022). Iraqi EFL learners’ conceptions of strokes With respect to teachers’ age . Transactional Analysis Journal, 52(2), 159-171.
 * Pishghadam, R., Yousofi, N., Amini, A., & Tabatabaeeyan, M. S. (2021). Interplay of psychological reactance, burnout, and spiritual intelligence: A case of Iranian EFL teachers . Revista de Psicodidactica, 27(1), 76-85.
 * Pishghadam, R., Derakhshan, A., Zhaleh, K., & Habeb Al-Obaydi, L. (2021). Students’ willingness to attend EFL classes with respect to teachers’ credibility, stroke, and success: A cross-cultural study of Iranian and Iraqi students’ perceptions, Current Psychology, 40, 1-15.
 * Pishghadam, R., Daneshvar Fard, F., & Shayesteh, S (2021). Oscillatory neuronal dynamics during L2 sentence comprehension: the effects of sensory enrichment and semantic incongruency, Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 36(8), 903-920.
 * Pishghadam, R., Jajarmi, H., & Shayesteh, S., (2020). Sense combinations influence the neural mechanism of L2 comprehension in semantically violated sentences: Insights from emotioncy . Journal of Neurolinguistics, 58,1-12.
 * Pishghadam, R., Ebrahimi, E., & Derakhshan, A. (2020). Cultuling analysis: A new methodology for discovering cultural memes . International Journal of Society, Culture & Language, 8(2), 17-34.
 * Zeynali, S., Pishghadam, R., & Hosseini Fatemi, A. (2019). Identifying the motivational and demotivational factors influencing students’ academic achievements in language education . Learning and Motivation, 68, 101598-101613.