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Showing 1 to 20 of 512 for “"Happy"”.
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Happy Faces
<p>“Happy Faces” is a series of sculptural masks which explore the layered facades people construct to hide their vulnerabilities or to please others. Each mask represents a vice; these are the unhealthy habits that allow people to escape their everyday lives and pressures. I have created these …
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Greedy Hunger and Happy Ruin
Greedy Hunger and Happy Ruin is a collection of poems that gathers a life of fragments and frayed ends into a loose narrative of desire, loss, language, and almost redemption. The poems examine the costs of leaving home, as seen in a mermaid's wish to become human, an immigrant family's aspirations …
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Are You Happy? Local Economic Development in Northern Thailand
<p>Thailand has had a long history of economic development. In recent years, Thailand began to focus on economic development initiatives a local level. The implementation process has been slow, but the introduction of social enterprise programs has proven a promising strategy in local economic …
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We Were Such a Happy Family: Lessons in Imperfection
<p>What does it mean to hold both your love of your family and their deep and sometimes harmful flaws? This memoir in essays, 100-word stories, and poetry examines themes of imperfection, love, and loss—and what it means to be a family—against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic.</p>
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Using Computational Psychology to Profile Unhappy and Happy People
Social psychology has a long tradition of studying the personality traits associated with subjective well-being (SWB). However, research often depends on a priori but unempirical assumptions about how to (a) measure the constructs, and (b) mitigate confounded associations. These assumptions have …
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Don't Worry, Be Happy? Neuroticism, Trait -Consistent Mood Regulation, and Performance
People regulate their mood to feel good or to achieve instrumental success (e.g., Martin, 2000). The present studies show that when driven by performance goals, people can be motivated to experience unpleasant mood states when they are trait-consistent, because of their instrumental benefits …
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Beyond Heuristic Information Processing: Systematic Processing in Happy and Sad Moods
… and inconsistent with these adjectives. Happy participants were more inclined than sad participants to use the initial trait descriptions as a basis for evaluating the target. Unlike sad participants, however, they recalled more trait-inconsistent behaviors than consistent ones, …
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The Disintegration of Marriage in Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s <em>Happy Hour</em> (2015)
<p>By using Happy Hour as a case study, this thesis argues Ryusuke Hamaguchi's approach to the Japanese home drama genre presents a changing perspective on the institution of marriage in contemporary Japanese society, reflecting shifts in gender roles and the growing trend of singlehood amongst …
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The organization and retrieval of life events by happy and unhappy persons
… versus negative events were obtained. However, happy Ss had more intense reactions to their positive events and less enduring reactions to their negative events than unhappy Ss, suggesting the reactions might have affected well-being by becoming conditioned to general self-related concepts. In …
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Understanding and Regulating Happy and Sad Emotional States in Driving Through Music
This research investigated the effects of happy and sad emotional states on driving performance and explored the utilization of auditory feedback to mitigate these effects, through two studies. Study 1 examined how induced emotions and musical interventions influence driving behavior and safety, …
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"Oh, happy day!": uma análise semiótica da campanha do Fiat Grand Siena 2013
Este trabalho busca compreender de que maneira estruturam-se as narrativas nos três filmes da campanha do Fiat Grand Siena 2013 e identificar as possíveis relações entre as narrativas e outros textos culturais. A estratégia metodológica adotada consiste na análise estrutural da narrativa de cada …
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Can Kids be too Happy in School? The Optimal Level of School Satisfaction
<p>Research to date has assumed linearity in the effects of school satisfaction (SS), with more positive outcomes associated with increasing levels of school satisfaction. This study investigated the consequences of very high levels of SS across academic achievement and social-relationship outcomes …
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