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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Common-Humanity"”.
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Altruism and perception of a common humanity in the world value survey waves 2 and 4: A quantitative analysis
… exhibiting these behaviors believe in a common humanity. It will consider what the individual says he believes and how or if he chooses to act on those beliefs. The statistics used for the analysis of the World Values Survey Waves 2 and 4 in this paper are cross tabulations, factor …
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“I am not alone in my suffering”: using the IRAP to implicitly measure the common humanity factor of self-compassion
… three factors: self-kindness, mindfulness, and common humanity. Common humanity is the belief that suffering is a shared human experience that all people go through at some point in their lives (Neff, 2003b; 2008). Previous research based on self-report data suggests that when applying …
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Privatizing the Cosmopolitan Responsibility to Protect. : Considering a Normative Argument for Why the Contractor Might Be Better Suited Vis-à-Vis the State Soldier to Serve Common Humanity
The idea for this thesis arose from my previous research on liberal state motivations for conducting military humanitarian intervention1. Learning about the reluctance of liberal states to commit wholeheartedly to the protection of strangers overseas, I started asking the question of how to ensure …
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The fear of death and the fear of dying: Possible barriers to altruistic behavior
… behavior, self-esteem, and perceptions of a common humanity. Through the synthesis of these four key social psychological concepts, a theoretical model was developed and tested.</p> <p>Through the examination and statistical analysis of quantitative data and the systematic evaluation of …
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Redeeming Procrastination: Self-Compassion and Creativity
… groups: a self-kindness intervention group, a common humanity intervention group, a combined self-kindness and common humanity group, and a control group. Participants first completed pre-survey measures that measured trait self-compassion, guilt and shame proneness, and attributional causes. …
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Male and Female, He Created Them: Gender in the Context of Human Embodiment
… gender that (1) holds that men and women share a common humanity that is grounded in their mutual creation in the image of God and results in the expression of common human properties and common human capacities in ways that are fitting to their masculinity or femininity, respectively, and (2) …
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Rethinking The Responsibility To Protect: Libya As A Case Study [before doctoral defense]
… of human rights that affect every precept of our common humanity?” (Annan, 2000). This question highlights the complex and often controversial nature of addressing mass violence and human rights abuses. The world watched in horror as countless lives were lost to mass atrocities and other crimes. …
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Humanitarian intervention: legality, legitimacy and the search for solutions
… one hand and human rights and the principle of common humanity on the other hand. Some scholars contend that humanitarian intervention is a violation of the principles of sovereignty and political independence of states and violates Article 2(4) of the United Nations (UN) Charter. Other scholars …
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Contesting 'xenophobia' through civic education: explorations with ARESTA in Khayelitsha
… justified by the concept of Pan-Africanism and a common humanity. Contradictions in the findings of the thesis point to the limitations of this workshop and the importance of broader societal issues. This thesis concludes that ARESTA's intervention makes a significant contribution in opposing …
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Autocompasión y evitación experiencial, una relación inversa en adultos jóvenes de Lima Metropolitana
… to the positive dimension of AC (self-kindness, common humanity, mindfulness) and positively to the negative dimensions (self-judgment, isolation, over-identification). Complementary analyzes were carried out and were found differences based on sex. The present research provides empirical support …
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The Arts and Social Capital For the American 21st Century: A College Course
… for how we carry out democracy and maintain our common resources. Social capital is the embedded value of our social connections with others. Our mutual trust and reciprocity contributes to the health, wealth, tolerance, and efficient governance of society. We will explore the unique ability of …
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Devising dialogue : structuring intercultural encounters through the process of workshop theatre
… as group members recognise each other's common humanity. Theatre research, on the other hand, seems more able to nurture an intergroup dialogue, in which group members acknowledge and contextualise cultural differences. At the same time, this dissertation proposes that it is unethical and …
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The Personal Is Political: Promoting Empathy Through the Exchange of Personal Narratives About Gender Towards Social Change
… dismantle the gender binary towards realizing a common humanity. Reflecting on the collective evidence presented in this paper, I argue that experiencing someone’s story, through which one can imagine being in the other’s place, has the potential to effect change on an interpersonal and larger …
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Disability in South Africa : collective recourse for family members as right bearers
… is a person through other people, each sharing a common humanity and oneness. Bringing the principle of Ubuntu to bear on the regime of disability rights would therefore highlight disability as a collective issue, thus bringing affected families and their rights into the realm of disability rights.
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Validation of the Self-Compassion Scale: Correlations with the Beck Depression Inventory-II
… total scores and the Self-Kindness (r = -.35), Common Humanity (r = -.37), and Mindfulness (r = -.35) subscales of the SCS. Statistically significant positive correlations were found with BDI-II total scores and the Self-Judgment (r = .49), Isolation (r = .59) and Over-Identified (r = .43) …
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Television as cosmopolitan education: a comparative case study of Face Me and Smile and Modern Family
… requests people to have an intuitive sense of a common humanity based on both rational and emotional engagement. This study argues that conventional multicultural education in formal schooling has limited impact in empowering cosmopolitanism, since this direction mainly focuses on offering …
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Compassion Informed Mindfulness For Teachers: A Case Study
… week) addressing compassion, self-compassion, common humanity, mindfulness, and resilience exclusively for educators. Analysis of data through an ethnographic case study, supported by triangulated mixed-methodological design, suggests CIMT corroborates research supporting the efficacy of …
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"Social work" and missionary work as part of the power game
… living and depending upon each other, the common humanity was of far more importance than the differences. Among other findings the study shows that the official writings and documents of the missionaries and their supporteres might tell one thing and practical action another. The case of …
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Self-Compassion Versus Self-Esteem for an Experience of Ostracism
… consists of three main components: mindfulness, common humanity, and self-kindness. Self-compassion offers a promising alternative to the construct of self-esteem for predicting and influencing responses to ostracism, a specific type of social exclusion in which an individual is ignored for …
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Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Decrease High-Prevalence Psychopathology by Targeting Self-Compassion: A Randomized Controlled Trial
… to consist of self-kindness, mindfulness, and common humanity. Although a body of research shows the importance of self-compassion to psychological functioning, Neff's theory is not based on a basic science of behavior change and may therefore be limited in its utility to inform treatment …
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