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Showing 1 to 20 of 581 for “"intimacy"”.
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Autobiographical performances and intimacy
… through the relation between autobiography and intimacy and not intimacy or autobiography alone. In the first chapter, I introduce the main issues and theories related to the performer-audience relation in autobiographical performances. Secondly, I introduce ideas on empathy, intersubjectivity …
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Exploring perceptions of barriers to sex and intimacy in an inpatient intimacy recovery service
… service providers’ perceptions of barriers to intimacy at Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences. The service under investigation was Our Place—a clinical service room clients can book for intimate activities. Study 1 provided an overview of utilization rates for Our Place and asked …
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Towards the Affect of Intimacy
… Project can impact on our understanding of intimacy and identity. Indeed, Ambient Intelligence Technologies may play the role of reference groups (Shibutani 1987), groups who are real or imaginary and whose standpoints are being used as the frame of reference for the human actor. Given that …
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Perspectives on intimacy during pregnancy
… four different perspectives of patterns of intimacy during pregnancy. Intimacy is a complex concept and, as a consequence of this, much of the research previously conducted has restricted its focus to a particular aspect of intimacy. Characteristically, it has also taken intimacy to be …
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Spirituality in American Muslim Marriages: An Investigation of Marital Sanctification, Spiritual Intimacy and Emotional Intimacy
The current study investigated how spiritual intimacy and emotional intimacy potentially mediated the impact of marital sanctification on positive and negative marital quality. Moreover, the present study examined if gender differences were present in participants endorsement of positive marital …
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Intimacy issues : a content analysis of intimacy levels and engagement rates between celebrities and influencers.
… researcher identified key components of online intimacy and analyzed Instagram content from three celebrities (Kendall Jenner, Ariana Grande and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) and three influencers (Miranda Sings, Lilly Singh and Tyler Oakley). The researcher examined N=320 Instagram posts to …
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Intimate Encounters; Staging Intimacy and Sensuality
This text is a partial record of the conception and development of Reflections of Red in a Mirror of Desire that opened on February 20th 2006 for a three day run ending on February 22nd. The majority of the text is focused on the events and research that provided the concept for the show. Some of …
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Conceptions of intimacy: men in relationships
… this study was to investigate the conceptions of intimacy held by men in on-going heterosexual relationships. Existing conceptions and theories of intimacy have traditionally focused on behaviors isolated from the context of the person. Furthermore, the principles guiding existing theory have not …
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Sounding Subjectivity: Music, Gender, and Intimacy
… and gendered discourses of embodiment, intimacy, pleasure, and danger. Specifically, this project consists of textual analyses of music censorship discourse and ethnographic analyses of female musicians and listeners who seek out shared musical experiences in explicitly gendered contexts …
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Use Of Humor And Relationship Intimacy
… that may either enhance or detract from social intimacy. The purpose of this study was to examine relationships between different uses of humor and intimacy in relationships. It was hypothesized that positive and expressive uses of humor would lead to increases in intimacy within the …
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Exploring depression: attachment, intimacy and personality traits
… (introjective), have emerged. Attachment and intimacy have also been implicated as important to mental health in young adults, and vulnerability to depression has been linked to intimacy, sociotropy, autonomy and attachment. Therefore the aim of the current study was to examine depression in …
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Relations and Folds in Leibniz: Monadological Intimacy
<p>My goal is to provide a clear explanation of Leibniz’s notoriously difficult system of relations. Relations among ‘windowless’ substances that exert no causal power over one another seems like a pipe dream that should be abandoned. However, I demonstrate that each substance expresses its …
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Transnational technologies of gender and mediated intimacy
Against widespread prognostications, the Internet has not entailed the demise of commercial women's magazines. Yet print publications are being supplanted by online versions, which are proliferating. These websites offer similar content free of charge and significantly greater opportunities for …
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Confession and intimacy in England, 1851-1913
… of what I argue already forms the history of intimacy. I propose that a promising way to deepen the study of the history of intimacy is to study intimate practices. I further suggest that the history of nineteenth-century confession—in both the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of …
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How Virtues and Values Affect Marital Intimacy
… understand how virtues and values affect marital intimacy. Ten married couples were given a marital satisfaction assessment and participated as individuals in 1-1/2 hour interviews which were audiotaped and then transcribed. Using grounded theory and also the constant comparative method, …
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Intimacy with the natural world: A humanistic perspective
<p>Thomas Berry's "intimacy with the natural world" is not an alternative to the anthropocentric-biocentric dispute, which belong to the same rationality. The frontier story and environmentalism are both part of the same rationality because they ignore people. While anthropocentrism is focused on …
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Intimacy, marital satisfaction, and sexuality in mature couples
… study investigated the relationship between intimacy and marital satisfaction, as well as between intimacy and sexuality. Participants were 30 couples, with a mean age of 49. Participants had been involved in a romantic relationship for an average of 20 years. Couples were asked to complete a …
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