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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Affective experience"”.
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Job Applicant Attitudes, Affective Experience, and Justice Perceptions: An Attitudinal Model of Applicant Reactions to Selection Systems
… system participation. The model is based on Affective Events Theory (Weiss & Cropanzano, 1996) and extends previous research on selection system fairness by considering both affective and cognitive responses across multiple stages of the selection process. Two longitudinal research studies …
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Childhood Trauma And Emotion Processing Neurocircuitry
… as well as specific dimensions of subjective affective experience. </p> <p> Results indicate that, relative to matched comparison youth, trauma-exposed youth have (1) increased neural response to salient emotional cues in amygdala and insula, (2) reduced functional connectivity between …
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Psychopathy Symptom Profiles and Neuropsychological Measures Sensitive to Orbitofrontal Functioning
… measures of OF functioning and the Defective Affective Experience (DAE) and Impulsive and Irresponsible Behavioral Style (IIB) factors of the Cooke and Michie (2001) three-factor model of psychopathy. Regression analysis failed to demonstrate a relationship between OF functioning and the DAE …
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Is that a Promise or a Threat?
… during my MFA is informed by my personal experiences with trauma, grief, gaslighting, and the subsequent inability to interpret my resonant feelings. The title of my thesis exhibition and accompanying support paper – is that a promise or a threat? – is the foundational question and …
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Construct Validity of Psychopathy in Mentally Disordered Offenders: A Multi-trait Multi-method Approach
… a modest negative correlation between Deficient Affective Experience of the PCL-R and mania (r = -.37). Based on the current data, treatment programs for mentally disordered offenders are suggested that focus on both behavioral and personality aspects of psychopathy.
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The Dissociation of Valence and Intensity Using Alliesthesia and Thermal Stimulation
… constitute two primary dimensions that describe affective experience. However, the inherent relationship between valence and intensity has limited imaging studies of these models and the neural substrates are poorly understood. For example, it is not known if the neural representations for each …
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Psychopathy and Incapacity to Love: Role of Physiological Arousal
… behavior. Among the various symptoms, the affective experience of the incapacity for love has received little empirical attention, despite having been established as one of Cleckley's 16 classic characteristics. Moreover, the role of physiological responding in their romantic experiences …
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Forward-backward : the odyssey as a design interface
… with the dead. In doing so, he offers us, an affective experience of the known and the unknown territories of the Cosmos; a poetic world of sounds, images, tastes and emotions; a 'synesthetic' experience that puts into question the platonic modes of thinking that supplemented the Homeric …
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Synthetic Solidarities: Theorizing Queer Affectivity and Trans*national/temporal Emulsification as Embodied Resistance to Global Capitalism
… as a mode of making-resistant the everyday experiences of exploitation under transnational capitalism. These solidarities, I argue, are cultivated around the affective, embodied experiences of what José Esteban Muñoz terms "queer time," which I extend to denote the ephemeral, experiential …
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The Textile Archive: curating personal histories and family narratives
… of textiles in relation to their symbolic or affective experience, in order to understand the user-experience of a textile. Phenomenological research methods are established as tools for investigating phenomena and lived experience from a first-person perspective, which the investigation of …
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‘Le Moyen de lire eux-mêmes’: Self-understanding and the Aesthetic Experience of reading in Proust’s A la Recherche du temps perdu
This thesis discusses the aesthetic experience of reading in Proust’s A la Recherche du temps perdu, with a special emphasis on the Narrator’s proposition that a literary work may enable its readers to become ’les propres lecteurs d’eux-memes’ (RTFIV, 610). This view prompts two crucial questions …
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Emotion, Mood, and Mind Wandering: Laboratory and naturalistic studies with respect to mental health
Affective experiences colour much of human experience, shaping how we feel about, respond to, and regulate daily life. While emotion and mood are distinct though related affective phenomena, many studies use these terms interchangeably and draw conclusions on the latter based on findings that may …
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Properties of Desire: Performing Women on the Early Modern Transvestite Stage
… Alice for her crimes but whose props offer an affective experience to spectators that would prompt fellow-feeling for her. The final chapter takes up the props in Pericles that drive scenes where daughters resist the identities assigned to them by patriarchs. I argue that these props fail to do …
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An interpretative phenomenological enquiry into individuals’ experience following Roux-en-Y gastric by-pass surgery
The aim of this study was to explore the lived experience following Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery in a UK sample. This phenomenologically based research utilised semi-structured interviews with eight men and women who had undergone gastric bypass surgery a minimum of 12-months prior. Analysis …
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Amergent Music: behavior and becoming in technoetic & media arts
… individuals through a personal examination and experience—or becoming—within the mediated space. This thesis examines these environments from a musical perspective and considers how sound functions as an analog to this becoming. Five distinct, original musical works explore the possibilities as …
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Understanding how to make physical activity pleasurable
… can be manipulated to affect participant’s experience with physical activity (PA). Three studies were conducted. Study 1 was a comprehensive review, examining specific factors and measures that can be used to study the affective experience of PA participants. For Study 2, several focus group …
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The impact of the national board for professional teaching standards on special educators
… in a voluntary interview to determine their affective experience in regard to the NBPTS certification process.
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Community college students' plant biodiversity learning experience in an introductory biology course: exploring the value added by using a CD-ROM to develop inquiry lessons
… textbook group (only course textbook). Students experienced lecture-based, textual, virtual, and real experiences, and examined their ability to understand biodiversity-related concepts and to pursue guided-inquiry questions about local plant biodiversity. Their performance was assessed through …
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Speculating after the Interregnum: Utopia and Apocalypse in Cape Town
… Berlant's “Cruel Optimism” (illustrating an “affective” experience of Cape Town) to Berger's understanding of apocalypse and Jameson's theorisation of Utopia for their explicitly literary interventions. I aim to answer how speculative fiction mediates the city of Cape Town in the transitional …
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IN SEARCH OF ADEQUATE FAITH: RELIGIOUS SKEPTICISM IN GERMAN LETTERS (1750-1800)
… and visual culture play in mediating religious experience at this time? To answer these questions, I analyze a constellation of documents associated with each writer. My first chapter interrogates the poetic methodology of Klopstock’s Der Messias by exploring his extensive amplification of the …
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