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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"affective dynamics"”.
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Exploring individual differences in the affective dynamics of bipolar spectrum psychopathology
Affective dysregulation characterizes both clinical and subclinical bipolar spectrum psychopathology. However, little is known about whether affective dysregulation is present across multiple timescales and contexts. Our preliminary studies suggested that bipolar spectrum psychopathology is …
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Examining the Conjoint Impact of Depressive Symptomatology and Mind Wandering on Affective Dynamics in Response to Emotionally Salient Visual Stimuli
… defined in part by a dysfunction in the temporal dynamics of affect, which often entails the sustainment of negative mood states and attenuated experiences of positive emotion. Investigators have identified several negatively-biased cognitive processes that appear central to depressive affect …
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Emotion, Mood, and Mind Wandering: Laboratory and naturalistic studies with respect to mental health
Affective experiences colour much of human experience, shaping how we feel about, respond to, and regulate daily life. While emotion and mood are distinct though related affective phenomena, many studies use these terms interchangeably and draw conclusions on the latter based on findings that may …
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Pleasures and Powers of Affective Disorientation: Iconoclastic Ambivalence and Polyvalence in the NDW
This dissertation analyzes the rich affective dynamics characterizing the music of the Neue Deutsche Welle (NDW) and its ambivalent critical reception, with a particular focus on gender representation. It argues that NDW music expresses the conflicted structures of feeling (Williams) that …
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What does it mean to flourish? A psychosocial investigation.
… of exploring flourishing takes account of the affective dynamics that shape social relations in the contemporary social and cultural context, together with the potential spaces that can be opened up for change and transformation. The purpose of my thesis is to get a purchase on the complex and …
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Robots as Social Catalysts: A Multidisciplinary Framework for Designing Embodied Social Agents that Foster Long-term Human Collaboration and Connection
… to possess three social capabilities: social-affective perception, context awareness, and social adaptation. These capabilities are elaborated in detail within the framework, together with a comprehensive, iterative process for their design, evaluation, and enhancement. This process needs to …
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Undoings: A Feminist Art Practice Investigating Female Sexed Corporeality and Othered Phenomenological Bodies
… qualities, expressive characteristics and affective dynamics present in the processes and materials of my arts practice, that serve to provoke specificities of female sexed subjects. A combination of feminist phenomenology, new materialism and a practice of vulnerability provide a …
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Examining Dynamics of Student Disciplinary Engagement in Science
… social (social norms and collaborations), and affective (emotional experiences- the joy of a successful experiment or frustration over a failed one). With science being a multidimensional endeavor, there is a need to view and understand students' disciplinary engagement in science as a …
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Literacy remains: learning and loss in the brain drain of Filipino migrant labor
… including an ever on-going project of mediation. Affective literacies, I argue, offer the means for migrants to practice critical literacy work when professionalized literacies and intellectually constraining workplaces offer little room for critical engagement. Based on forty-eight …