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Showing 1 to 20 of 117 for “"Self-consciousness"”.
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Self-Consciousness: a novel story
… I gave, James suffered from a lack of self-belief that many will recognise as symptomatic of our age—in which the good lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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Reflexive Awareness (Consciousness, Self-Consciousness, Self-Awareness)
… of an experience of dissociatively watching oneself. I call this awareness, RA*. It is to be contrasted with two other sorts of reflexive awareness: (i) awareness of the fact that I am now aware (e.g., there is a visual object before me, therefore I must be seeing), (ii) awareness of past …
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Anger expression and blood pressure : the influence of self- consciousness
The validity of the Self-Consciousness Scale (SCS) for use with adolescents was investigated. Also, a path model of blood pressure based on the cognitive social learning theory was tested using sets of biological (i.e., family history of hypertension and age), psychological (i.e., public …
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An investigation of priming, self-consciousness, and allegiance in the diegetic camera horror film
… The thesis also considers how priming and self-consciousness eventually affect the audience’s perception and cognition of the films, most significantly in relation to the theory of personal imagining (Currie, 1995).
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An Investigation of International Students' Self-Esteem and Public Self-Consciousness on Classroom Communication Apprehension
… U.S. campuses. This study examines the impact of self-esteem and public self-consciousness on classroom communication apprehension of international students on U.S. campuses. The study uncovers significant correlations between self-esteem and communication apprehension, and between public …
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Allocentrism - Idiocentrism, Self-Consciousness, and Interpersonal Attraction (self-Monitoring, Person Perception, Self-Esteem, Autonomy, Gender Differences)
… of a broad-base allocentrism-idiocentrism to self-conciousness, self-monitoring, self-esteem, social desirability, and several scales of the Personality Research Form (PRF). I found allocentrism-idiocentrism to be unrelated to any of the non-PRF scales in a direct way. Multiple regression …
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Clothing style preference of working women related to self- image/clothing-image congruity and public self-consciousness
… to extend knowledge concerning the influence of self-image congruity and public self-consciousness on clothing behavior from the symbolic consumption perspective. Thus, relationships among the three major constructs, public self-consciousness (PSC), self-image/clothing-image congruity (actual …
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African Self-Consciousness and Academic Outcomes Among African-American Students at a Predominantly White University: An Examination of the Mediating Role of Social Support
… mediated the relationship between African Self-Consciousness and Academic Self-Concept were examined among 158 African American students (53 males and 105 females) attending a Predominantly White University. Hierarchical mediated regression analyses were conducted to test the relationships. …
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The Role of Situational and Dispositional Factors on Sub-Optimal Performance
… decreases performance for those with high self-consciousness when distracted, but the effects of pressure and distraction are not known for those with low self-consciousness. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to assess whether a distraction would improve the performance of those with …
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Color and Consciousness: Research and Painted Process of Inundate, Intumesce, Hermetic, and Luminiferous
… to visually communicate the ineffable. Color and self-consciousness, and the link between the two, are major concepts behind my work. I focus on color, a visual phenomenon, and self-consciousness, a metaphysical phenomenon, because both share a varied and indefinable nature, and everyone …
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Feelings of doing good for myself or others: Discussing effects of self-conscious emotions on sustainable consumption
… aspects. Thus, this research proposed that self-conscious emotions play an essential role of sustainable consumption behavior, and such emotions are driven from private and public self-consciousness. Study 1 examined participants’ general evaluations toward two emotions and sustainable …
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"The Hazards of Being Free": Thinking About Not Thinking in Infinite Jest
<p>This paper is about self-consciousness and how it figures in David Foster Wallace’s <em>Infinite Jest</em>. Because <em>Infinite Jest </em>is such a large novel (1079 pages, including the indispensable footnotes), it serves, like other large novels before it, as a kind of encyclopedia of …
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Relationships between body concept and clothing attitudes of blind and visually handicapped adolescents
… Concept Questionnaire. These two constructs, self-consciousness and body satisfaction, were then correlated with the summed scores of the three subscales and then with the 33 individual items of the Importance of Clothing Questionnaire, by Pearson product moment correlations. Two of the six …
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A Standpoint for Critique: The Metaphorical Status of Critique in Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason'
… significant Kantian metaphor for transcendental self-consciousness. This claim is complex, involving two antecedent propositions: (1) there is a Kantian theory of metaphor; (2) critique is such a metaphor.</p> <p> In Chapter 1, I argue that theorizing about metaphor is too diverse to allow for …
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The self and self-conscious theatre on the Renaissance stage
The thesis provides a timely re-evaluation of self-conscious theatre, or metatheatre, in relation to emerging notions of the intersubjective self in early modern culture. It proposes that the self-conscious theatre of Shakespeare and his contemporaries produces a concomitant self-consciousness …
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Effects of Feedback Video in Mediated Communication
… do not afford any form of feedback about self-presentation to individuals; video conferencing has the ability to provide a continuous feedback video loop. Previous work in this area has shown that this form of feedback can cause issues related to vanity and distraction. However, effects on …
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The self-conscious chanson : creative responses to the art versus commerce debate
This thesis investigates self-consciousnessin chanson. It examines,in particular, French popular songs that question and problematise the chanson form and the role of the chanson artist. While certain forms of self-consciousnessc an be traced back to the troubadours, this thesis will argue that the …
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Reevaluating the God-Human Relationship Through the Psychological Origin of Sin: A Comparative Theology of Schleiermacher and Kierkegaard on the Doctrine of Sin
… as a determination of our primordial, religious self-consciousness and located in the sphere of psychology. Furthermore, he systematically covers how the susceptibility to sin functions as original sin. Similarly, in <em>The Concept of Anxiety</em>, where psychology is in service of dogmatics, …
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Reconceptualizing Flow from a Self-Regulatory Framework
… and awareness, centering of attention, loss of self-consciousness, temporal distortion, sense of control, and autotelic nature. In a flow state, individuals persist on a task without regard or awareness of themselves or their surroundings. Currently, flow is a two-stage model in which the three …
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