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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"decentering"”.
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Manifest Density: Decentering the Global Western Film
<p>The Western is often seen as a uniquely American narrative form, one so deeply ingrained as to constitute a national myth. This perception persists despite its inherent shortcomings, among them its inapplicability to the many instances of filmmakers outside the United States appropriating the …
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Decentering Russia: Art and Empire, 1900-1973
This dissertation examines the representation and theorization of art historical and geographical peripheries in late imperial Russia and the Soviet Union, from the last decades of tsarist rule through the Soviet Union’s ascent as a leader of global decolonializing movements (1900-1973). Previous …
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A Novel without a Self: Decentering the Protagonist in the Modernist Bildungsroman
This dissertation offers a new way of conceptualizing the modernist Bildungsroman, one that accounts for the oft-noted incongruity between modernist experiment and the entrenched realism of the Victorian Bildungsroman. Specifically, I argue that modernist novels such as Virginia Woolf’s The Waves, …
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Decentering the writing program archive: How composition instructors save and share their teaching materials
<p>This dissertation decenters the writing program archive through research on instructors’ digital archives. Artifacts of composition instruction are no longer saved to print archives alone; rather, digital technologies expand the locations where artifacts of writing pedagogy can be archived and …
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Decentering and Dismantling white Prominence in Music Education: Portraits of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives
As racial and ethnic diversity increases in a multicultural pluralistic society, professional music education institutions like orchestras and higher education institutions strive to incorporate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives into their programming, missions, and values. …
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Psychedelic Use and Psychological Flexibility: The Role of Decentering, Mystical Experiences, Ego-Dissolution, and Insight
… intention, feelings of comfort and safety, decentering, mystical experiences, ego-dissolution, and insight. The first hypothesis was that perceived meaningful intention and feelings of comfort/safety during the psychedelic experience were expected to be associated with PF, decentering, …
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Notice, Observe, Step Back and Experience: The assessment and potentiation of psychological decentering for adolescent mental health
… of these active ingredients may be psychological decentering, a self-reflective capacity featuring across a spectrum of psychological therapies. Psychological decentering is a skill through which distressing internal events, including difficult thoughts, feelings, and memories, are re-perceived …
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The Mindful Path to Valued Living: Understanding the Associations Between Mindfulness and Valued Living
… dispositional mindfulness and valued living, but decentering did not. In Study 2, change in attention mediated the relationship between group (MBSR or control) and valued living, but acceptance, self-compassion, psychological flexibility, self-clarity, and decentering did not. Lastly, both studies …
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Virtual Students/Virtual Teachers: the Reality of Student Responsibility in Education
… collaboration, responsibility for learning, decentering of authority, understanding of the social construction of knowledge, the practice of freedom from dominant structures in society, and critical thinking skills. In this thesis, I demonstrate through the evaluation of freshman composition …
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Metric aspects of zoom vision
… distortion (L$\sb1$), and two parameters of lens decentering distortion (P$\sb1$ and P$\sb2$). With the exception of affine scaling, these parameters were effected by changes in the focal length and were modeled as functions of f using first and second degree polynomials. It was also found that …
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Efficacy of an Internet-delivered self-compassion intervention in preventing depressive relapse and recurrence: A randomized controlled trial in a clinical sample
… of self-compassion (SCS), mindfulness (FFMQ-15), decentering (EQ-D), and fear of self-compassion (FCSS) across conditions and time. A total of 158 participants meeting eligibility criteria (87% identifying female; M number of prior depressive episodes = 2.88 [SD = 1.82]) were randomized into the …
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Apropos Obsolescence
… end in itself helpful for humanity? Through its decentering of humanity and imposing an acknowledgement of contingency upon us, the entire realm of objects is paradoxically elevated. This decentering could be the only thing that saves our species from extinction. It may be the objects that save …
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A Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial of a Mindfulness Intervention for Grief in Widows and Widowers
… In addition, yearning, grief rumination, decentering, and grief severity were assessed at two additional time points at weeks two and four of the intervention/wait list period to preserve a temporal connection between mediators and outcomes. Results: Controlling for relevant covariates, …
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The Application of Mindfulness for Interpersonal Dependency: Effects of a Brief Intervention
… Mediation analyses supported the notion that the decentering facet of state mindfulness fully mediated the improvements in both state anxiety and state negative affect. The findings of this study evince that mindfulness training may be a beneficial adjunct for treating interpersonal dependency and …
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Getting Over the Self: The Decentered Subject and Contemporary Political Theory
… This thesis explores this postmodern "decentering" of subjectivity and argues that is a useful insight for contemporary political theory. Using the work of Judith Butler and William Connolly, I argue that a perspective that refuses to assume any foundational premises on which essential …
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Neural Correlates of Stress Recovery in a Positive Emotional Context
… recovery through enhancing cognitive control (decentering thoughts) and providing positive contextual information (positive video thoughts). Positive video thoughts also correlated with stronger vmPFC activation during stress recovery.
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Risk, Language, and Power: The Nanotechnology Environmental Policy Case
… enriched environmental policy debates would be a decentering of language concerning risk by developing within discourse language and practice directed toward enriching the human and environmental condition.
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ATTENTION TRAINING AND MINDFULNESS AS INTERVENTIONS FOR RUMINATION: ASSOCIATIONS WITH COGNITIVE CONTROL
… in attention predicted lower state rumination. Decentering, however, was not impacted by attention training or mindfulness. Focus of attention did not impact mood recovery despite significant improvement in sad mood across all conditions. Overall, one session of attention training and …
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The Rural Settlements of Hellenistic and post-Hellenistic Central Asia: an Archaeology of Indigenous Life under Colonial Rule
… Central Asia from a post-colonial perspective in decentering scholarly emphases on Hellenism in the east in favor of a new paradigm that emphasizes the diversity of indigenous lifeways among ancient, colonized Bactrians and Sogdians. Drawing on a vast overlooked dataset of Soviet and post-Soviet …
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