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Showing 1 to 20 of 3001 for “"Feelings"”.
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Hopeful feelings : inducing the feelings of hope and examining its social and cognitive effects
… the cognitive and social implications of hopeful feelings. Four studies tested various manipulations intended to induce hopeful feelings distinct from general positive mood. Images of baby faces and tree saplings were found to successfully induce hopeful feelings, even when controlling for …
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Behaviors and Feelings Toward Immigrants
The purpose of this thesis is to examine how people behave and feel toward immigrants, specifically Mexican immigrants, predicted by a number of independent variables. The independent variables of interest are (1) people’s perception of immigrants’ competence and warmth, (2) two factors of …
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The Interpretation of Cognitive Feelings
The present thesis deals with cognitive feelings, which are derived from an ease or fluency dimension of ongoing cognitive processes. Such experiences influence many judgments and inferences: For example, judgments about the frequency of events, inferences about the truth of statements or decisions …
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Navigating Netherne: correlating feelings with place
… concerning affect, emotion, and atmosphere. The feelings we constantly involuntarily attribute to place may be subtle, hard to name, describe, or remember, and when noticed are often only too readily dismissed as unworthy of our attention; ‘background noise’, insignificant creases in the texture …
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'No hard feelings': Resolving and Redefining Threatened Masculinity
This project sheds light on men's choice in the face of threats to their masculinity: to compensate to appear more masculine or to revise their definitions of manhood. Research has demonstrated that men overcompensate in their displays of masculinities when faced with challenges to their dominant …
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The Role of Geometry in Wordsworth's "Science of Feelings"
… logic, and the fundamental principles of moral feelings, or ignored the connections between these domains, this dissertation presents Wordsworth as imaginatively reprocessing the discipline of geometry through poetry, or what he refers to as a “science of feelings.” Despite the many developments …
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An exploration of how therapists experience erotic feelings in therapy
… is to explore how therapists experience erotic feelings in therapy. The second aim is to examine how therapists’ experience of the erotic is constructed, and the third aim is to identify how therapists’ accounts construct the social world. The objectives of the study are to (1) make meaning of …
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Buried Feelings, Standing Stones: Secularity, Animism, and Late-Victorian Pagan Revivalism
… of subjectivity that make room for kinds of feelings such as ecstasy, “primitivity,” and a sense of immersion in an ecology of animistic agencies. Chapter three situates the popularity of the goat-god Pan within this developing paganism. I argue that Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Louis …
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Imposter phenomenon and counseling self-efficacy : the impact of imposter feelings
… the imposter phenomenon suggested that imposter feelings persist beyond the early levels of trainees’ development. The imposter phenomenon, however, moderated the relationships between two experience variables, months in practicum and number of counseling hours, and counseling self-efficacy. The …
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The impact of school resource officers on students' feelings of safety
Rowell, Amy Jo In recent years, the visibility and responsibility of the school resource officer (SRO) has evolved. The perspectives most commonly considered that have guided this transformation are those of law enforcement officials, school administrators, and the general public. Increasingly, …
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On the Origin of Shame: Feelings of Disgust toward the Self
Shame and disgust are believed to be evolved psychological solutions to different adaptive challenges and, thus, independent emotions. Shame is thought to promote the maintenance of social hierarchies (Gilbert, 1997; Fessler, 2004), whereas disgust is believed to encourage disease avoidance (Curtis …
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New Latinx Feelings: Race, Affect, And Form In Queer Latinx Literature
… generation, I argue that literary form registers feelings of racialization in narratives about sexuality, positioning both form and feeling as new metrics of Latinx historiography, interpretation, and subjectivity. By reading legal cases alongside novels and short stories, I sustain that Latinx …
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Dealing with feelings : perspectives on the emotional labor of school leadership
… effort by team members to manage their own feelings as they managed the feelings of others within their school communities, and in an effort to be better leaders. The data illuminated the labor involved in displaying appropriate positive emotions, which participants perceived to be aligned …
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Raw Feelings: Ecologies of Race and Sexuality in Contemporary American Literature
Raw Feelings reads contemporary literary texts, from Derek Walcott to Carmen Maria Machado, that are characterized by what I call “raw feeling.” I theorize this term as narrative moments that turn to more-than-human raw matter—for instance, the pulpy flesh of fruit, fresh roadkill, or even bad …
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Sociocultural differences in students' cognitions and feelings about school learning and achievement
… make a difference in their cognitions and feelings and also their perceived parental cognitions and feelings about school learning and achievement. Sociocultural background was defined in terms of the ethnicity, gender, and SES of the students.
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All about 'attacks' and remaining 'mindless' to feelings - psychoanalytic reflections in playtherapy
… a primitive mode of communication of unbearable feelings which cannot be tolerated, but at the same time unconsciously desire expression. Providing the theory for this is Bion's formulation of the container - contained model of early object relations and his explicit appreciation of the …
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Supportive psychotherapy : an exploratory study of expressed views, feelings, practices and problems
… this dissertation explores some of the views, feelings, practices and problems regarding supportive psychotherapy reported by a number of clinicians at the hospital. An essentially qualitative research approach, involving interviews with 26 clinicians from various professional disciplines, is …
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Psychometric Testing of the Walker's Feelings and Thoughts About Weight Scale in Taiwan
… properties of a Chinese Version of the Feelings and Thoughts About Weight (FATAW) scale. Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive design and a convenience sample of postpartum women three-to-nine month postpartum were recruited over a 6-month period (September 2005 through February 2006). …
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