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- Emotion, Neuroimaging, Methodology, Coping Strategies

Based on interviews with Syrian media practitioners, this article uses the notion of affective proximity to make sense of local media practitioners’ reporting and witnessing of suffering in their country and community. I argue that the life-risking, and sometimes deadly, media practices of local reporters and witnesses, as well as their emotional labour, often do not feature in understandings of journalism when it is conceived as a purely professional discursive pursuit. I explain affective proximity in terms of an imagined space (or the lack thereof) between a media practitioner, on the one hand, and the event they are representing and participating in, on the other. In relation to Syria, I use it to analyse the word ‘revolution’ and what it mediates, the shifting boundaries between activism and journalism, and experiences of, and in, violence. I make the case that the study of affect and emotion in global news should be contextualized within the unequal power relations that give s...

- by Omar Al-Ghazzi
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- Psychology, Emotion, Journalism, Syria
- by Niklas Ravaja
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- Emotion, Psychophysiology, Corporate Reputation, Reputation
- by Karen Landman
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- Sociology, Cultural Studies, Emotion, Climate Change
- by Bruce Friedman
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- Psychology, Biological Psychology, Cognitive Science, Emotion
- by Jens Eder
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- Emotion, Media Studies, Media, Communication Studies
- by Pekka Aula and +2
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- Emotion, Reputation Management, Reputation Risk
- by Rainer Krause
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- Emotion

"The role that the involvement of parents may play in the treatment outcome of their
children with anxiety disorders is still under debate. Some studies dealing with other
disorders have examined the role that the expressed emotion (EE) construct (parental
overinvolvement, criticism and hostility) may play in treatment outcome and relapse.
Given that some of these aspects have been associated with social anxiety for a long time,
it was hypothesized that EE may be associated with lower treatment outcome. The sample
was composed of 16 adolescents who benefited from a school-based, cognitive-behavioural
intervention aimed at overcoming social anxiety. Then, parents were classified with
high or low EE. The results revealed that the adolescents whose parents had low EE
showed a statistically significant reduction of their social anxiety scores at posttest, as
opposed to adolescents of parents with high expressed emotion. These findings suggest
that parental psychopathology (parents with high EE) should be taken into consideration
to prevent poor adolescent treatment outcome."

В книге представлены учебные и методические материалы по семейной финансовой медиации, используемые в Carolina Dispute Settlement Services (г. Роли, Северная Каролина, США). Описаны наиболее распространенные подходы к организации и ведению процесса семейной медиации в практике США. Освоение предложенных приемов модерации коммуникации между сторонами сделает процесс медиации семейных конфликтов более глубоким и эффективным. В книгу включены некоторые нормативные и правовые документы штата Северная Каролина, регулирующие подготовку медиаторов, их профессиональную деятельность и ответственность.
Материалы мануала могут быть полезны медиаторам, педагогам, психологам, социальным работникам, конфликтологам, юристам, студентам, обучающимся по соответствующим специальностям, и всем, кто заинтересован в конструктивном разрешении семейных и других видов конфликтов.

- by Arsen Dzhanashia
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- Social Psychology, Emotion, Children and Families, Family Law

In this paper, I argue that IR needs to pay greater attention to the theorisation of emotion, and that a focus needs to be on having a rich understanding of the ‘generalisable’ mechanisms through which a state’s ‘collective emotions’ are... more

- by Yong-Soo Eun
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- Emotion, International Relations
- by Amy Summerville
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- Psychology, Cognitive Science, Emotion, Decision Making

Our central goal is to provide a definition of boredom in terms of the underlying mental processes that occur during an instance of boredom. Through the synthesis of psychodynamic, existential, arousal, and cognitive theories of boredom, we argue that boredom is universally conceptualized as “the aversive experience of wanting, but being unable, to engage in satisfying activity.” We propose to map this conceptualization onto underlying mental processes. Specifically, we propose that boredom be defined in terms of attention. That is, boredom is the aversive state that occurs when we (a) are not able to successfully engage attention with internal (e.g., thoughts or feelings) or external (e.g., environmental stimuli) information required for participating in satisfying activity, (b) are focused on the fact that we are not able to engage attention and participate in satisfying activity, and (c) attribute the cause of our aversive state to the environment. We believe that our definition of boredom fully accounts for the phenomenal experience of boredom, brings existing theories of boredom into dialogue with one another, and suggests specific directions for future research on boredom and attention.

- by Daniel Smilek and +2
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- Emotion, Attention, Boredom
- by Cesare Maffei and +5
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- Psychology, Emotion, Films, Measurement
- by Monika E Mueller
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- Emotion, Medieval Studies, Medieval Art History

in: Mediárium 13/2-3 (2019), 5-15.

- by Áron Németh
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- Emotion, Anthropology, Hebrew Bible, Old Testament

Embodied accounts have offered a theoretical framework in which emotions are understood to be patterned embodied responses that are about core relational themes. Some authors argue that this intentionality should be understood in terms of some kind of non-conceptual representation format, while others suggest a radical enactivist framework that takes emotions to be intentional but not representational. In this paper I will argue that the abstract nature of the core relational themes emotions are about and the interrelatedness of emotions with each other and with other mental states speak in favor of emotions being representations.

- by Rebekka Hufendiek
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- Emotion, Mental Representation, Embodied Cognition, Enactivism
- by Penny Spikins and +1
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- Emotion, Archaeology, Palaeolithic Archaeology, Ancient Emotions
- by Bill Thompson
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- Evolutionary Biology, Ethology, Psychology, Cognitive Science
- by Kara Viesca
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- Critical Theory, Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology
- by Richard Neil
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- Emotion, Stress, Humans, Coping

Despite a growing interest in the role of emotions in world politics the relationship between emotion and securitization remains unclear. The article argues persistent, if sporadic, references to fear and emotion in securitization studies represent ‘slips’ from an explicit ontology centred between the constitutive power of language and authority. This slippage leaves securitization theory incoherent and narrows its empirical scope by excluding the emotional dispositions audiences rely upon to judge threat images. This article offers a reconstruction of securitization theory where emotion, specifically collective fears, serve as the basis of an audience’s judgement for the practice of securitization. Yet rather than simply accepting that fear facilitates securitizing moves the article draws on appraisal theory from psychology to demonstrates how collective fear appraisals are often fragile cultural constructs. Limited by the symbolic resources of the local security imaginary and how agents contest these resources, the generation of collective fear appraisals is often constrained and with it the practice of securitization. An empirical discussion of threat images in US foreign policy is used to explore these constraints. The conclusion suggests the tendency for securitizing moves to be interpreted as comic underscores the precariousness of social practices seeking to elicit particular collective emotions.

Although Critical Race Theory (CRT) has been applied to teacher education, it has yet to be meaningfully
integrated into the core of urban teacher education programs. The reticence to embrace CRT is
largely due to the overwhelming presence ofWhiteness, despite Sleeter’s (2001) demand for diversification.
This theoretically interpretative article employs CRT’s methodology of counterstorytelling to
interrogate how Whiteness manifests itself in emotional ways, like fetishism and sentimentalization,
and how such emotions are the root of resistance toward CRT in teacher education. Drawing from
Black feminism and Critical Whiteness Studies, we utilize emotionally-based theories to illustrate the
importance of CRT in teacher education, to identify barriers to CRT, and to recommend how teacher
education can more genuinely reinvest in antiracism.

- by Cheryl E Matias and +1
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- Cultural Studies, Emotion, Teaching and Learning, Teaching English as a Second Language

« Mets-toi à ma place! » Si souvent, nous croyons y parvenir; si souvent nous devons reconnaître qu’on n’y arrive pas. « Empathie » est le terme qui décrit cet effort, ce désir, cette victoire et cet échec.
Ce livre raconte l’histoire complexe et fascinance de cette idée, parcourant le temps depuis les philosophes grecs jusqu’aux androïdes, et croisant les disciplines comme la philosophie et la psychologie, l’anthropologie et l’hsitoire, l’esthétique et l’éthique, les études culturelles et les neurosciences.

- by Andrea Pinotti
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- Cultural Studies, Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology
- by Philipp Schmidt and +1
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- Emotion, Phenomenology, Intentionality, Philosophy of Emotion
- by Benoist Schaal
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- Emotion, Perception, Language, Motivation

Background. Emotional competencies of individuals are evaluated as a form of capital today. Emotional capital has gained prominence in literature in the last decades. In this regard, qualitative and quantitative studies on emotional capital concept have been conducted. Objectives. The purpose of this study is to analyses the effect of emotional capital on job satisfaction and life satisfaction in terms of women basketball players in Turkey. Methods. The research method of this study is descriptive. The statistical population consisted of 135 women basketball players who were reached via using convenience sampling method. Survey was conducted on athletes between 6 th October, 2019 and 30th November, 2019. Emotional Capital Inventory developed by Newman et al. (2015), Job Satisfaction Scale developed by Brayfield and Rothe (1951), shortened by Yoon and Thye (2002), and Life Satisfaction Scale developed by Diener et al. (1985) was used for data collection. SPSS-22 computer program was used in data analysis. The internal consistencies of the questionnaires were obtained by Cronbach's which were 0.81, 0.81 and 0.83, respectively. After exploratory factor analysis conducted on emotional capital inventory, seven factors were found as social awareness, self-management, self-awareness, self-reliance, relationship management, adaptability, and apathy. Results. The analysis of data revealed that self-reliance factor of emotional capital has significant and positive effect on job satisfaction, and self-management and personal awareness factors of emotional capital have significant and positive effects on life satisfaction. Conclusion. Finally, it can be concluded that emotional capital has partial effect on both job satisfaction and life satisfaction of women basketball players in Turkey's Super League.

- by Cafer Safak Eyel
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- Sociology of Sport, Sport Psychology, Emotion, Emotional intelligence
- by Andrea Pinotti
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- Emotion, Aesthetics, Perception, Empathy (Psychology)

Theorizing a sociology of emotion that links micro-level resources to macro-level forces, this article extends previous work on emotional capital in relation to emotional experiences and management. Emerging from Bourdieu's theory of social practice, emotional capital is a form of cultural capital that includes the emotion-specific, trans-situational resources that individuals activate and embody in distinct fields. Contrary to prior conceptualizations, I argue that emotional capital is neither wholly gender-neutral nor exclusively feminine. Men may lay claim to emotional capital as a valued resource within particular fields. The concept of emotional capital should be seen as distinct from emotion management and felt emotional experience and distinctions between primary and secondary sources of capital clarify the simultaneously durable and evolving nature of capital and the habitus. To illustrate these conceptual refinements, I use interview and diary data from male nurses. Men bring primary emotional capital, developed during primary socialization, to the nursing profession while also developing secondary capital through occupational socialization centered on empathy and compassion. The construct of emotional capital is refined as a structured yet dynamic resource developed through primary and secondary socialization and activated and embodied in everyday emotion practice.

- by Marci Cottingham
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- Medical Sociology, Social Theory, Emotion, Nursing

People abused by angry discipline as children, may tend to abuse or overly punish other people or themselves for perceived wrongs in their adult life. In some individuals, aggressive personality traits may be genetically inherited. The aggressive personality may feel weakened by having guidelines or boundaries for anger. Anger is a normal human emotion, and these guidelines can help express anger in a healthy way.

- by S. Falco
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- Psychology, Cognitive Science, Emotion, Music

Reports of stress and negative emotion may be important predictors of health outcomes. However, whether discrete emotions or stress measures are more useful, whether they contribute independently to outcome, and whether these variables relate to health equally across ethnic groups remain unclear. In the current study, 207 US-born European American, US-born African American, Black English-speaking Caribbean, and Dominican men aged 40 years and older completed measures of somatic symptomology, trait emotion, and stress. Sadness and stress independently predicted reports of somatic symptomology, even when examined concurrently, and with demographics controlled; trait anger did not predict somatic symptomology. Finally, and as expected, the relation between trait emotions and somatic symptomology varied across the groups. While levels of sadness were positively associated with somatic symptomology among US-born European American and Dominican men, they were negatively associated with symptoms among Black English-speaking Caribbean men, and the relation for anger also differed marginally across groups. Results are discussed in terms of their implications for differentiating among discrete emotions and stress as well as their interactions with ethnicity when examining reports of somatic symptomology. We suggest that the impact of psychological characteristics on health must be considered within cultural and ethnic contexts before they are fully understood.

- by Nathan Consedine
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- Emotion, Health Psychology, Ethnic Studies, Health Disparities
- by Hongying Meng
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- Psychology, Emotion, Computer Science, Technology

- by Marie-Mathilde Perrineau
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- Emotion, Conservation Biology, Diversity, Computational Biology
- by Denise Pilar
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- Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Emotion, Human Memory
- by Victor Callaghan
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- Emotion, Emotional intelligence, Wearable Computing, Wearable Technologies

Studies of normal individuals reveal an asymmetry in the folk concept of intentional action: an action is more likely to be thought of as intentional when it is morally bad than when it is morally good. One interpretation of these results comes from the hypothesis that emotion plays a critical mediating role in the relationship between an action's moral status and its intentional status. According to this hypothesis, the negative emotional response triggered by a morally bad action drives the attribution of intent to the actor, or the ...

- by Marc Hauser
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- Psychology, Emotion, Cognition, Culture and Cognition

How often do we consider ourselves not in our right minds because of our anger, opt to cool off rather than continue a debate. Anger as emotion is understood and used in ways that weaken arguments. In this essay I will explore how a nuanced understanding of anger, and specifically a reframing of anger as an affect rather than an emotion, allows for anger to be a valid and perhaps even essential aspect of protest. I will specify what affect is considered to be in comparison to emotion and provide examples of the ways in which anger as emotion is used by examining the gendered and racial biases that portray young men and women of colour as ‘thugs’ and ‘angry black women’.

- by Jess Zlotnick
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- Cultural Studies, Emotion, Gender Studies, Violence
- by Caroline Zwaal
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- Psychology, Emotion, Health Psychology, Communication

This study examined how social sharing and participating in secular political rituals regarding the March-Eleven (M-11) 2004 train bombings in Madrid, Spain, helps to cope with the wounds of trauma and enhances the reconstruction of a positive emotional climate. A questionnaire was completed by college students (63% of sample) and their relatives (37%) (N = 661) from five Spanish regions and eight universities at 1, 3, and 8 weeks after the bombing. Participating in demonstrations and experiencing a positive emotional climate, as reported a week after M-11, predicted the degree of social support and positive affect as well as the amount of posttraumatic growth reported at the 3-week period. Demonstrations (indirectly) and social sharing (directly) predict positive emotional climate 2 months after the attack. Participation in protest rituals or demonstrations, coupled with elections and changes in government office, helps overcome the effects of collective trauma and leads to an improvement of the emotional climate in the aftermath of a terrorist attack. Participating in ceremonies and rituals reinforces social cohesion and can be conceived of as a communal form of coping, which enhances a culture of peace.

- by Dario Paez and +2
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- Sociology, Psychology, Emotion, Political Science
- by Dario Paez and +1
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- Emotion

Technological progress seems to open ways for redesigning the human organism. This means that the affective system that is built into the brain by evolution can be redesigned with intent. One of the consequences will be that the word progress will get a new meaning. Progress won't be confined to enhancing the conditions of living , but it will change the way we react to the world. These possibilities are explored in a new kind of biological utopism called 'transhumanism'. This school foresees that a restructured human brain will give rise to 'more varied experience, lifelong happiness and exhilarating peak experiences everyday'. This essay considers the reality value of that expectation in the light of the current psychology of affects, in particular of presumed functions of hedonic experience. It is concluded that transhumanism overlooks that happiness will lose its meaning if it is treated as an isolated feeling. The affective system in our brain needs strong ties with the ongoing interaction of the individual with its environment. Making people happier without enhancing the grip on their life will be contra-productive.

This paper explores the discursive use of selected emotive interjections (Ow!, Ouch!; Ugh!, Yuck!; Whoops!, Whoopsadaisy!) in spoken British English. The data (drawn from the Spoken BNC2014) are coded for age, gender, social grade and type of dyad to identify potential factors governing the discursive use of these interjections. Based on 140 relevant tokens, the results suggest that: 1) The individual interjections vary significantly regarding how frequently they are found in discursive uses (p<0.001***). 2) Whoopsadaisy! is not attested in discursive uses. 3) Young female speakers behave differently from the other speaker groups in that they use emotive interjections discursively significantly more frequently (p=0.006***). 4) Female speakers in general use a wider range of interjections discursively: Ow! and Whoops! in discursive uses were absent from male speech. 5) Socioeconomic status is irrelevant, as is 6) type of speaker dyad. Thus, the social life of emotive interjections is mainly influenced by speaker gender, and if the speakers are female, also by their age.

- by Ulrike Stange
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- Emotion, Discourse, Interjections

This article explores how mobile phones function as an affective technology for young adults, by adapting the self-expansion model to understand attachment to mobile phones. In an online survey, 272 smart phone users reported on their recalled responses to loss/separation from their mobile phone (not by choice), as well as their use of the mobile phone for self-expansion. Results show that self-expansion via mobile phone was associated with greater inclusion of the mobile phone in the self-concept and greater subjective well-being. Most respondents reported negative feelings, such as loneliness/disconnection, anxiety, and boredom, when without their mobile phone, but others felt relieved to be out of touch with others. The use of the mobile phone for self-expansion was associated with more negative emotion and less positive emotion (relief) in response to loss/separation from the phone. Interpretations of the findings are discussed.

- by Sangmi Lee
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- Psychology, Emotion, Computer Science, Mobile Phones

The consolidation of newly formed memories occurs slowly, allowing memories to be altered by experience for some time after their formation. Various treatments, including arousal, can modulate memory consolidation when given soon after learning, but the degree of time-dependency of these treatments in humans has not been studied. Thus, 212 participants learned a word list, which was followed by either a positively or negatively valenced arousing video clip (i.e., comedy or surgery, respectively) after delays of 0, 10, 30 or 45 min. Arousal of either valence induced up to 30 min after learning, but not after 45 min, significantly enhanced one-week retrieval. The findings support (1) the time-dependency of memory modulation in humans and (2) other studies that suggest that it is the degree of arousal, rather than valence that modulates memory. Important implications for developing memory intervention strategies and for preserving and validating witness testimony are discussed.

- by Mark Powless
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- Emotion, Language, Adolescent, Medicine

During the last few years, spoken language technologies have known a big improvement thanks to Deep Learning. However Deep Learning-based algorithms require amounts of data that are often difficult and costly to gather. Particularly, modeling the variability in speech of different speakers, different styles or different emotions with few data remains challenging. In this paper, we investigate how to leverage fine-tuning on a pre-trained Deep Learning-based TTS model to synthesize speech with a small dataset of another speaker. Then we investigate the possibility to adapt this model to have emotional TTS by fine-tuning the neutral TTS model with a small emotional dataset.

- by Kevin El Haddad
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- Emotion, Artificial Intelligence, Human Computer Interaction, Machine Learning

Emotional intelligence (EI) and morningness-eveningness (M-E) preference have been shown to influence mood states. The present article investigates the way in which these two constructs may interact, influencing morning and evening mood levels. A sample of 172 participants completed a multidimensional mood scale measuring energetic arousal (EA), tense arousal (TA), and hedonic tone at 7:00 and at 22:00. As expected, morning and evening types experienced higher EA at their preferred time of day; effects of M-E on other mood dimensions were weaker. EI was found to correlate with lower TA, but the association was stronger at 22:00, perhaps reflecting the role of EI in managing the social events characteristic for the evening hours. An interactive effect of EI and M-E was found for both diurnal changes and morning levels of EA. Namely, in individuals higher in EI, there appeared a more marked synchrony effect between chronotype and EA, which was absent in those low in EI; individuals higher in EI showed more pronounced diurnal changes in EA characteristic for their chronotype (i.e., higher EA at morning hours in morning chronotypes; higher EA at evening hours in evening chronotypes), while in participants low in EI, diurnal changes in EA were smaller. Moreover, the characteristic positive association between morningness and EA during morning hours was apparent only in those high in EI. These findings suggest that individual differences in circadian variation in mood reflect several factors, including an endogenous rhythm in energy, the distribution of social activities throughout the day, and the person&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;#39;s awareness of their own energy level.

- by Konrad S Jankowski
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- Chronobiology, Psychology, Personality Psychology, Emotion