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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Affect and emotion"”.
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“I Want Them to Feel Nervous”: A Case Study of Embodiment, Affect, and Emotion in Latin Dance Instruction
… how a Latin dance instructor engages with and embodies emotion through her teaching practices within an out-of-school, all-girls Latin dance team. Anchored in the theoretical framework of affect theory, this study investigates how an instructor’s affective presence and embodied knowledge …
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Disconfirming managerial communication, its impact on employee felt emotions and the moderating roles of relationship quality, trait negative affect and emotion regulation
… managerial communication on employee felt emotions, and whether this impact was influenced by the employee's personality, emotion regulation strategies, and the quality of the manager-employee relationship. Two hundred and seventy-five working adults rated the extent to which their managers …
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Contagious History: Affect and Identification in Queer Public History Exhibitions
… the past, what has passed, or what is dead and gone. Uncovering neglected LGBTQ pasts has been heralded not only as a project for historians but as an explicitly political endeavour. Histories that document LGBTQ lives and cultures have not traditionally been included in school curricula, …
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The roles of differentiation and integration, metacognition and emotion regulation in increasing cognitive complexity
… an important outcome in the field of preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE). This research maps factors that play a role in interventions that have raised complexity, presenting them in a moderated serial multiple mediation model. The factors include a newly-termed variable of …
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Emotion regulation and eating psychopathology in women
The research comprises a literature review and an empirical study. The literature review evaluated the efficacy of third wave cognitive and behavioural interventions for eating disorders. The review indicated that there was some promising initial support for these approaches in the treatment of …
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Modeling the Affect of “Aha!" Moments to Detect the Moment of Learning
… learning? Currently, the only way we can understand when someone has learned is by testing them afterwards, which has its limitations. In attempts to detect the moment of learning, researchers from various fields have leveraged data from methods such as Knowledge Tracing (KT) and …
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Feeling Political: Affect, Emotion, and Ethics in Western Political Theory
<p>What conceptual and methodological resources would it take for political theory to be able to more deeply analyze the emotional and affective dimensions of political life? In this dissertation, I articulate interdisciplinary work on affect and emotion into political theory in order to realize …
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Examining the effects of affectionate touch and active engagement in the relationship between positive interactions and emotional outcomes.
Objective: This study aimed to 1) examine whether affectionate touch explains unique variance in emotional outcomes, such as emotion regulation and positive affect, beyond general positive interactions; 2) investigate whether active engagement moderates the relationship between positive …
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Neural Correlates of Suspiciousness in Anxiety and Depression During Emotional Processing
… is an overlooked symptom in the study of mood and anxiety disorders, even though it is present in both clinical and subclinical populations with these symptoms. Moreover, it is possible that it may moderate or mediate relationships between mood and anxiety symptoms and regional brain activity. …
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Accounting for the Epistemic Benefits of Diversity: Social Location, Identity, and the Politics of Knowledge
This dissertation investigates and supports arguments intended to justify claims that social diversity in scientific research communities not only promotes justice but is good for knowledge. One such claim that I focus on is that increasing the social location diversity of research communities …
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Association of Dietary Intake Patterns with Emotion Regulation
… between Mediterranean dietary patterns and positive affect, and an inverse correlation with negative affect. Trans fatty acid intake is also associated with negative affect. Further, affect disturbances are associated with emotion dysregulation. We have yet to understand the association …
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The phantom of joy: Emotion, affect, and the problem of persistence in modernist literature
My dissertation, “The Phantom of Joy: Emotion, Affect, and the Problem of Persistence in Modernist Literature,” investigates the potential of positive affects for physical and aesthetic persistence. I expose textual traces of joy within literary modernism and offer a perspective on affective …
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Making Sense of a Loss: Masculinities and Assisted Conception in Contemporary Iran
… (ARTs), including the use of donor gametes and embryos, have been partly regulated by the state through their Increasing Population Policies and, more significantly, have been widely legitimised by religious authorities. Although the state partly subsidises ARTs, they are not equally …
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John Calvin’s Theology of Hope in the 1559 Institutes
… thesis fills this lacuna by examining the nature and function of hope in Calvin’s theology across a range of doctrinal loci, with a primary focus on the Institutes of the Christian Religion (1559). In doing so, it foregrounds several important themes that have been overlooked or underrecognized in …
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Constructing UK obesity policy: discourse, framing, and politics
The global food system, and the production and promotion of less healthy, heavily processed foods pose significant public health challenges. Decades of economic policies that have enabled the concentration of food production and retail among a small number of large, multinational corporations, and …