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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"emotional affect"”.
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Strain, negative emotional affect, and the criminal adaptations of women
<p>This study explores the capacity of Agnew's General Strain Theory to explain the self-reported criminality of women. Using a sample of chemically addicted women, this research examines how strains with special relevance for women---losing custody of a child, homelessness, being a victim of …
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That Thing: Confronting Difficult Trauma
… trauma by forcing viewers to engage with the emotional affect. She does this in three key ways throughout her body of work: Blankouts, an immersive wheat-pasted installation, which looks at the covert ways in which society suppresses womens stories of assault through the use of coded language …
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Redeeming Procrastination: Self-Compassion and Creativity
… a self-compassion or control writing task. Emotional affect and state self-compassion were then measured. Lastly, participants completed a written business proposal to measure creativity. Creativity scores were not significantly higher for those who received a self-compassion intervention, …
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An examination of the emotional impact of the insertion of documentary footage into trauma cinema
… staged narratives and, furthermore, enhance emotional affect for the spectator. It deploys David Bordwell’s and Kristin Thompson’s (2017) formalist film theory to textually analyse a range of films, while also considering the dialogue between journalistic approaches and contemporary critical …
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A study on the effects of music on performance outcomes of Judo competitors
… of circuit completion time, attentional focus, emotional affect, rate of perceived exertion, motivation and emotional attachment to music. Paired samples t-test were run to compare baseline and post condition (for circuit completion time, attentional focus, PANAS, RPE) to determine any potential …
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Talking of transcendence: A discursive exploration into how people make sense of their extraordinary experiences
… the Universe or something Higher and a deep emotional affect. In considering the relevance of these experiences for sociology, it is argued that language is a social activity and TEHE accounts are therefore also social. However, this raises a paradox: whilst these experiences are often …
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The elusive digital frame and the elasticity of time in painting
How can we gain a deeper understanding about the emotional affects of painting with respect to temporality by working with the mechanisms and languages of the moving image? This practice-based doctoral research aims to add to our understanding of the perception of temporality in painterly surface …
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Passive Categorisation Training for Tinnitus Management
… Evaluated eight tinnitus replicas based on their emotional affect and ability to replicate participant’s tinnitus. Effortless auditory categorisation study (n=29): Compared the effects of an effortless auditory categorisation training (CT) paradigm to conventional white noise (WN) ST. Results: …
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Pragmatic word learning in monolingual and bilingually exposed children
… ostensive teaching of an action word, and use of emotional affect. We found several developmental effects, and bilinguals to be more adult-like and to significantly outperform monolinguals (compared to a baseline control condition) in all tasks which involved reasoning about communicative …
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Effects of Parental Incarceration: Strains, Negative Emotions, and Mental Health
A mid-year 2007 estimate conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics reported that 52% of state and 63% of federal inmates reported being parents to an estimated 1.7 million children (Lee et al., 2013). Previous research indicates that parental incarceration can lead to many secondary …