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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Social responses"”.
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Social Responses to HIV Positive Suicide Ideators.
… of the present investigation was to examine responses to suicidal ideation by an HIV positive male described as heterosexual/homosexual in a promiscuous/monogamous relationship.</p> <p>Men (101) and women (137) enrolled in introductory psychology courses participated in the study. …
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Media are social actors: Individuals' social responses to social robots and mobile phones
The Computers are Social Actors (CASA) paradigm was proposed more than two decades ago to understand humans’ interaction with computer technologies. Today, as emerging media technologies including social robots and smartphones become more personal and persuasive, questions of how users respond to …
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Psychoanalysis and disability : an exploration of the utility of psychoanalytic methods and analyses in the interrogation of social responses to impairment
… approach in interrogating societal responses to disability is discussed, making use of experiential accounts of visually impaired university students gathersd via group analytic methods. The re-integration of psychoanalytic thinking and methods into disability studies is …
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"We Have Never Allowed Such A Thing Here...": Social Responses to Saskatchewan's Early Sex Trade, 1880 to 1920
… sex trade investigates the histories and social responses to the buying and selling of sex, revealing the complex and, at times, contradictory place of sex workers and the sex trade in Saskatchewan’s early history.
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SOCIAL REACTIONS TO DISCLOSURE OF TRAUMATIC CHILDBIRTH EXPERIENCES: ASSOCIATIONS WITH COPING, POSTTRAUMATIC COGNITIONS, AND TRAUMATIC STRESS AND DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMOLOGY
… stress disorder (PTSD). Negative or unsupportive responses from social partners to disclosure (i.e., communication of personally relevant information, thoughts and feelings) of a traumatic event may maintain symptoms of psychological distress after the stressor has passed. Negative or unsupportive …
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Subjective frameworks of meaning of kidney transplantation among African recipients
… patients, in particular about psychological and social responses to the process. Hospital staff often find it difficult to break through communication barriers that exist as a result of language differences. Several studies have found that the medical discourse (as opposed to the lay person's …
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Suburban House (The Language of a House)
… meaning and invoke architectural as well as social responses in people. While a traditional-appearing home may invoke social nostalgia, the impression one has is soon infected by the material deception that holds up a confused linguistical display. The typical house is not traditional, it …
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Overcoming the State of Oblivion: Decolonial Approaches within Engaged Art Practices
… research project focuses on tracking artistic responses to social, ecological, and economic sustainability, as well as social responses to artistic movements that go beyond turning art into a commodity in service of a neoliberal agenda. In this doctoral thesis, I provide a critical analysis of …
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Poetics of furniture : augmenting furniture with technologies
… explores the role of furniture as mediators of social interactions, as well as its potential for eliciting emotional and social responses from users. To understand the ways in which augmentations of furniture are manifested, examples of augmented furniture have been analyzed and classified into …
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Pandemic panic : a network-based approach to predicting social response during a disease outbreak
Epidemic trajectories and associated social responses vary widely between populations, with severe reactions sometimes observed. When confronted with fatal or novel pathogens, people exhibit a variety of behaviors from anxiety to hoarding of medical supplies, overwhelming medical infrastructure and …
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Moral Code: The Design and Social Values of the Internet
… study of the Internet has mainly focused on the social responses to the technology or offered contending visions of the future forms of the Internet with little or no regard for the import of the technical features that contribute to these possibilities. Philosophy lacks a sustained investigation …
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Sensory Sensitivities of Gifted Children
… modulation of sensory input affecting emotional responses emotional/social responses, and behavioral outcomes of sensory processing. Thus, gifted children were found to be more sensitive to their physical environment. Further, it is suggested that gifted children respond to their physical …
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Effect of Extreme Temperature on Stroke Incidence and Mortality in General
… should integrate lived experiences and social responses through qualitative methods for a holistic understanding.
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Critical theory, adult learning and‘xenophobia’: a critical perspective on Umoja wa Afrika’s human rights peer education programme
… contexts has spawned new issues and a range of social responses. These include the emergence of ‘xenophobia’ in the terrain of discrimination and the subsequent development of popular educational responses to this. As part of popular educational responses, adult education programmes have assumed …
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Being the parent of a child with a visible difference : a focus on parenting a child with a cleft lip and/or palate and limb difference
… ‘normality’; (3) managing and making sense of social reactions toward their child; (4) the intrinsic role of support: developing a collective connection and enabling shared knowledge. Clinical implications once more concern the provision of emotional support. In addition, the management of …
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Women's Experiences Disclosing and Dealing With a History of Childhood Sexual Abuse in Close Relationships
… study sought to empirically specify the range of responses that are helpful and unhelpful to women and girls in disclosing and dealing with a history of childhood sexual abuse in their relationships with relatives, romantic partners, and friends. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 42 …
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Korean/Korean American adolescents' responses to young adult fiction and media created by Korean/Korean Americans
… of their own experiences; to gain insight on social issues as well as personal issues; and to enhance cross-cultural awareness. How might Korean/Korean American youth cope with everyday life as a minority or a model minority if they had early and consistent exposure to literature depicting the …
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Cinemacraft: Exploring Fidelity Cues in Collaborative Virtual World Interactions
… of virtual human (or avatar) fidelity to social interaction in virtual environments (VEs) and how sensory fusion can improve these interactions. VEs present new possibilities for mediated communication by placing people in a shared 3D context. However, there are technical constraints in …
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Gender-based violence: strengthening the role and scope of prehospital emergency care by promoting theory, policy and clinical praxis
… systems in the context of global health-sector responses. The paradigm was critical theory and the methodology was exploratory sequential mixed methods. Interviews with managers/policy-makers, focus group discussions of clinician-educators and non-participant observation of simulated practice …
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Essential Elements of Ecological Literacy and the Pathways to Achieve It: Perspectives of Ecologists
… the United States is too low to enable effective social responses to current environmental challenges. However, the actual meaning of ecological literacy varies considerably between academic fields and has been a topic of intensive deliberation for several decades. Within the field of ecology in …
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