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Showing 1 to 20 of 248 for “"distancing"”.
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Ironic Distancing: Injecting Bigotry into the American Mainstream
This dissertation defines ironic distancing as a particular function of the trope of irony used to deny a speaker's agency and/or responsibility for a statement by claiming, often post-hoc, that the ostensible meaning of their statement has been misinterpreted and was, in fact, meant to be …
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Using Trait Self-Distancing to Predict Affective States
… of a third-person, which is called self-distancing, buffers against negative emotional changes. Self-distancing and its conceptual opposite, self-immersion, have been previously studied as induced and spontaneously occurring states. I argue that the perspective that one takes when …
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Emotion Regulation Through Distancing: Developing a Novel Neurocognitive Model
<p>Distancing is a type of emotion regulation that involves simulating a new perspective to alter the psychological distance and emotional impact of a stimulus. The effectiveness and versatility of distancing make it a promising skill for clinical applications. However, the specific neurocognitive …
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Racial distancing and sensitivity to stigmatization among future black professionals
… subjective or objective, there was some form of distancing from the broader Black community. The three studies of the present dissertation used national and regional samples to test the problem of whether future Black professionals endorsed racial distancing behaviors. Results showed that racial …
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MAKING UP URBAN SPACE. A COMPARATIVE ETHNOGRAPHY OF SOCIAL DISTANCING ON PUBLIC TRANSPORT
While social distancing has emerged as a global strategy in addressing the COVID-19 pandemic, its relevance in social science, particularly as a category for the study of everyday life, remains a subject of debate. This research, relying on the complementary aspects of interactionist studies, …
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Understanding Distancing Behaviors in Social Justice Activism and Organizations: An Interpretive Descriptive Study
… one common difficulty is the presence of distancing, division, and oppression within movements, especially when more centered members of a movement contribute to the marginalization and oppression of the more marginalized members (Crenshaw, 1991; Dzodan, 2011; Lorde, 1998; Smith, 2006). …
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Self-Distancing as a Persuasive Amplifier for Increasing Help-Seeking among People with Depression
… perspective-taking and mental time-travel self-distancing writing tasks have shown potential. However, a video that asked people to think, rather than write, about help-seeking from a distanced perspective failed to increase help-seeking outcomes. This dissertation tests a new approach where …
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Assessing Attachment Anxiety as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Self-Distancing and Emotions Following Relationship Conflict
… attachment orientation in relation to self-distancing and self-reflection of interpersonal conflict in order to explain the potential mechanisms driving these inconsistent results.
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The Efficacy of the Protection Motivation Theory in Predicting Cruise Ship Passengers' Intentions Regarding Norovirus Disease Incidence
… available; however, handwashing and social distancing can have significant impact upon the course of an outbreak. The respondents of this study completed a scenario-based questionnaire regarding norovirus disease incidence in response to a simulated outbreak while at sea. The results …
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Risky Business: Millennials’ Protection Motivation Factors for Norovirus Outbreaks on College Campuses
… Appraisals, Handwashing Intentions, and Social Distancing Intentions) were re-validated through EFA and CFA. The subsequent structure model demonstrated perceived susceptibility to a hNoV infection on a college campus significantly and positively impacted millennials intentions to wash their …
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Essays in Experimental Economics
… COVID-19 lockdown. The experiment studies social distancing using a repeated game where subjects interact in groups of 5 on a fixed network. We find that both the network position and the disease contagiousness matter for social distancing. Furthermore, fines for non-adherence to social distancing …
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Essays on Peer to Peer Lending
… We then investigate the role of psychological distancing and language intensity in P2P funding performance. We bridge the P2P lending literature and psycholinguistics literature and set out to explain how psychological distancing manifested by linguistic styles can influence lenders’ decision …
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The Influence of Subtle and Blatant Prejudice on Group Identity
Recent research on social distancing and intergroup relations focuses on the black sheep effect—the notion that individuals will distance themselves from deviant group members—and out-group discrimination (Johns et al., 2005), but does not examine the relationship between the black sheep effect and …
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ICE-MILK: Intelligent Crowd Engineering using Machine-based Internet of Things Learning and Knowledge Building
… of occlusions, mobility and contact tracing, and distancing. In this dissertation, we propose an Intelligent Crowd Engineering platform using Machine-based Internet of Things Learning, and Knowledge Building approaches (ICE-MILK) to enhance the accuracy, scalability, and crowd safety management …
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Horses for discourses: the discursive construction of guided human equine interactions
… the horse has an impact, not only on the spatial distancing between the client and practitioner, but also on their relational distancing. This distancing enables the client to be positioned as the expert at the centre of the intervention. However, expert client positioning was only apparent as …
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Investigating the Effectiveness of Supermarket Transmission Control Measures on the Spread of COVID-19 in the Presence of Super-Spreaders through Agent-Based Modelling
… include: Vaccinations, Capacity Limiting, Social Distancing, Staff COVID-19 Testing, and the use of Sanitizers. Results indicate high levels of effectiveness for the use of Vaccinations at reducing transmission with minimal impact on customer dynamics. The results also highlight the negative …
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Modeling and responding to pandemic influenza : importance of population distributional attributes and non-pharmaceutical interventions
… strategies such as travel restrictions, social distancing and improved hygiene. In addition, as we witnessed with the SARS outbreak in 2003, human behavior is likely to change during the course of a pandemic. We propose several different novel approaches to incorporating reactive social …
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Exploring therapeutic bias towards adolescent non-offending minor attracted people using a mixed methods approach: "We experience fear too!”
… MAPs, resulting in stigmatisation and societal distancing. Non-Offending MAPs are sexually attracted to children but suppress their attraction. Due to societal stigma, Non-Offending MAPs often struggle to seek or receive therapy, which in a professional context may manifest as therapeutic bias. …
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Soul Secrets in Plain Sight: Attuning to the Task Within the Task, in Psychology’s Dance with the Sacred
… Attunement, Seeing What Is Heard; Boundaried Distancing, Seeing But Not Perceiving; Impasse Distancing, Hearing But Not Seeing; Closing the Gap in Understanding and Working Through Dilemmas To Attunement. One core category surrounded all of the categories: Spanning the Gulf Between ‘Doing’ and …
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