scholarly journals Experience-dependent reshaping of body gender perception

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giulia D’Argenio ◽  
Alessandra Finisguerra ◽  
Cosimo Urgesi
Keyword(s):  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Social Deficits ◽  
Male Body ◽  
Relative Contribution ◽  
Gender Perception ◽  
Object Based ◽  
Male Gender Role ◽  
The Individual ◽  
High Level ◽  
Biased Perception

AbstractProtracted exposure to specific stimuli causes biased visual aftereffects at both low- and high-level dimensions of a stimulus. Recently, it has been proposed that alterations of these aftereffects could play a role in body misperceptions. However, since previous studies have mainly addressed manipulations of body size, the relative contribution of low-level retinotopic and/or high-level object-based mechanisms is yet to be understood. In three experiments, we investigated visual aftereffects for body-gender perception, testing for the tuning of visual aftereffects across different characters and orientation. We found that exposure to a distinctively female (or male) body makes androgynous bodies appear as more masculine (or feminine) and that these aftereffects were not specific for the individual characteristics of the adapting body (Exp.1). Furthermore, exposure to only upright bodies (Exp.2) biased the perception of upright, but not of inverted bodies, while exposure to both upright and inverted bodies (Exp.3) biased perception for both. Finally, participants’ sensitivity to body aftereffects was lower in individuals with greater communication deficits and deeper internalization of a male gender role. Overall, our data reveals the orientation-, but not identity-tuning of body-gender aftereffects and points to the association between alterations of the malleability of body gender perception and social deficits.

Conspicuous consumption of luxury experiences: an experimental investigation of status perceptions on social media

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolin Siepmann ◽  
Lisa Carola Holthoff ◽  
Pascal Kowalczuk
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Conspicuous Consumption ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Luxury Goods ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Status ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
The Individual ◽  
High Level

Purpose As luxury goods are losing their importance for demonstrating status, wealth or power to others, individuals are searching for alternative status symbols. Recently, individuals have increasingly used conspicuous consumption and displays of experiences on social media to obtain affirmation. This study aims to analyze the effects of luxury and nonluxury experiences, as well as traditional luxury goods on status- and nonstatus-related dimensions. Design/methodology/approach After presenting the theoretical foundation, the authors conduct a study with 599 participants to compare status perceptions elicited by the conspicuous consumption of luxury goods, luxury experiences and nonluxury experiences. The authors investigate whether experiences that are visibly consumed on Instagram are replacing traditional luxury goods as the most important status symbols. Furthermore, the authors examine the effects of the content shown on nonstatus-related dimensions and analyze whether status perceptions differ between female and male social media communicators. Finally, the authors analyze how personal characteristics (self-esteem, self-actualization and materialism) influence the status perceptions of others on social media. Findings The results show that luxury goods are still the most important means of displaying status. However, especially for women, luxury experiences are also associated with a high level of social status. Thus, the results imply important gender differences in the perceptions of status- and nonstatus-related dimensions. Furthermore, the findings indicate that, in particular, the individual characteristics of self-actualization and materialism affect status perceptions depending on the posted content. Originality/value While the research has already considered some alternative forms of conspicuous consumption, little attention has been given to experiences as status symbols. However, with their growing importance as substitutes for luxury goods and the rise of social media, the desire to conspicuously consume experiences is increasing. The authors address this gap in the literature by focusing on the conspicuous display of luxury and nonluxury experiences on social media.

scholarly journals THE SPECIFIC FEATURES OF THE SPIRITUAL INTELLIGENCE DEVELOPMENT AMONG THE FUTURE EDUCATORS

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduard Pomytkin ◽  
◽  
Daria Bohdanova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Self Regulation ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Spiritual Intelligence ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Success Factor ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
The Individual ◽  
High Level ◽  
Intelligence Development

The results of theoretical research identify the following specific features of spiritual intelligence development among future educators: awareness of self-realization, ability to forecast, professionalism, and capability of the person to self-regulation. Spiritual intelligence is represented as the highest form of intelligence of the teacher’s personality, which determines the structure of one’s values, is used for self-expression (which is the primary goal of pedagogical activity), and is a determining success factor in the process of forming a model of understanding the meaning of life by the followers. The spiritual intelligence of a teacher guides one’s ability for self-improvement and self-motivation for effective, humanistic-oriented pedagogical activity, and is the main mean of finding teacher's own “Me” within the framework of the professional activity. The core traits of the highly-developed spiritual intelligence of the teacher are seen in one’s ability to inspire others, to a deep self-awareness, to flexibility in making pedagogical decisions, as well as in one's capability of representing compassion and openness in relation to the learners. Spiritual and intellectual abilities and skills may have significant differences among people, depending on the individual characteristics of the individual, one’s spiritual beliefs, religious preconditions for one’s formation and development. The spiritual intelligence of the individual can be advanced throughout life, and this tendency may be referred to as the necessary prerequisite for the professional development of teachers and their achievement of a high level of pedagogical mastery.

scholarly journals Modern methods of forming the motivational sphere of students in music classes

2020 ◽  
Vol 210 ◽  
pp. 18125
Author(s):  
Irina Korsakova ◽  
Vitalij Belobragin ◽  
Ekaterina Putria ◽  
Nelli Islamova ◽  
Tatiana Mozdykova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Self Development ◽  
Personal Approach ◽  
Psychological Knowledge ◽  
The Individual ◽  
High Level ◽  
Level Of Motivation

This paper discusses the concept of “motivation” in relation to the process of music education. The most effective ways of teaching are highlighted, which allow achieving a high level of motivation among students learning music, among which the method of active learning is recognized as the most effective for achieving this goal. The system of various motives that induce the student to educational activity is considered. Particular attention is paid to the process of formation and development of motives and needs; emphasis is placed on the importance of a personal approach to learning, taking into account the individual characteristics and abilities of each student. The personality of the teacher and the nature of his relationship with students are recognized as one of the fundamental factors affecting the success of training. The main pedagogical conditions that contribute to the increase of the motivational sphere of students are highlighted, such as: a personal approach, the creation of a special motivational atmosphere, the aspiration for the transition to self-education and self-development, the choice of the most effective forms of work. The conclusion is made about the necessary presence of internal motivation for the process of learning a subject (in this case, music) for productive educational activity. The problems in the field of music education are revealed, which consists in the lack of psychological knowledge among music teachers about the specifics of the formation of the motivational sphere of students.

scholarly journals Teacher’s burnout syndrome: the phenomenology of the process

2017 ◽  
Vol 127 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nataliya Bulatevych
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Response ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Burnout Syndrome ◽  
Diagnostic Tools ◽  
Individual Determinants ◽  
Psychological Assistance ◽  
The Individual ◽  
High Level ◽  
Emotional Burnout

Abstract Introduction. The article is devoted to the phenomenology of burnout symptoms among teachers and determining their individual characteristics. Aim. The aim was to study the phenomenology of the burnout process among teachers and to define its individual determinants. Material and methods. The theoretical basis for the study was a burnout model described by V.V. Boyko considering the burnout as a mechanism of psychological protection of personality in response to the traumatic circumstances of the environment. The following diagnostic tools were used: the Boyko’s Emotional Burnout Inventory, the Inventory on behavior and experience in the working environment by W. Schaarschmidt and A. Fischer and the individual-typological questionnaire by L.Sobchik. In order to calculate and evaluate the results, methods of mathematical statistics were applied. Results. The results of polling 132 teachers show that more than one third of working teachers show prominent features of high level burnout. This is combined with a number of personality traits and features of behavior, and with an emotional response of the teacher to the circumstances of the working environment, what suggests the need for the development and systematic implementation of prevention programs and correction of burnout among working teachers. Conclusions. A significant part of the surveyed teachers show signs of burnout expressed at a significant level. Thus, the problem of psychological assistance and psychological support for working teachers remains relevant and requires the search for effective technologies and techniques for providing psychological assistance.

scholarly journals INDEPENDENCE IN EDUCATION AS A LEADING FACTOR OF PROFESSIONAL GROWTH OF FUTURE AVIATION PROFESSIONALS

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (194) ◽  
pp. 56-61
Author(s):  
Natalia Savchenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Professional Growth ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
Educational Activities ◽  
Self Development ◽  
The Individual ◽  
High Level

Today, a modern aviation specialist needs to have a high level of professional skills, psychophysiological reliability, general culture, skills to work in a team, skills to work with a modern amount of information, non-traditionally approach to solving various extreme situations, as well as to be able to organize professional activities on a prognostic basis. During the information explosion, accompanied by the latest technologies of priority in professional training of cadets, are tasked - to form skills of self-education, to instill the need for self-perfection, to teach the cadets of probable stylish thinking, quick perception of new ideas.Professional and personal development of the future aircraft in educational activities are the requirement of the present. The achievement of this goal is closely linked to the increase of the role of independence of cadets in educational activities. Independent educational activity is capable of determining the success of professional development of future aircrafts. It depends on the level of its development it depends on the formation of subjects of the cadet. Manifesting the independence of cadets in educational activities, their creative independent activity is a major factor in effective professional development. In this approach, the result of independent activity is not only educational tasks, but also formed subjects of the cadet, its ability to solve problem situations independently, reflect, self-motivate and self-regulate their own actions, and thus enrich individual experience in professional growth. To do this, it is necessary to provide relevant pedagogical conditions that will contribute to the independent training activities of future aircrafts. In our opinion, its effectiveness can be provided by adequate adaptation of the educational burden to the individual characteristics of cadets and the formation of an individual algorithm for independent educational activity.The overwhelming majority of modern researchers determine the independence of students in educational activity as quality, the property of the person, which it uses both tools to achieve a certain educational and cognitive goal, and which needs to be purposefully formed. Independence, thus, is the result of this activity. The ability of a person to identify independence in educational independence for its own self-development is an important argument, because through the autonomy of future aircrafts it is possible to intensify the mechanisms of professional self-development.

scholarly journals Speech portrait of a journalist V. M. Peskov as a carried of the full-range type of speech culture

Litera ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 41-47
Author(s):  
Olga Sokolova ◽  
Susanna Stanislavskaya
Keyword(s):  
Life Experience ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Current State ◽  
Range Type ◽  
Major Attention ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
High Level ◽  
Modern Mass

This article is dedicated to the speech portraying of linguistic personality of the journalist – one of the relevant problems of modern linguistics, substantiated by development of the methodology of reconstruction of linguistic personality, as well as the current state of journalism and linguistic problems of modern mass media. The authors attempt to create a speech portrait of personality of V. M. Peskov, whose words signify an example of journalistic mastery and high level of speech culture. Major attention is paid to the individual characteristics of artistic matter of the journalist that describe his linguistic personality, worldview and values. The conclusion is made that the individual speech portrait of V. M. Peskov allows determining his linguistic personality as the carrier of full-range type of speech culture that possesses not only professional, but also life experience and established system of ethical values. His signature speech indicates creative individuality and skillful use of expressive means, as well as following the laws of journalism genre and compliance with the norms of literary language. The novelty of this research consists in the authors’ attempt to reveal the individual speech characteristics of V. M. Peskov on the one hand, and qualities typical for a top-notch newspaper journalist, which would allow to develop criteria for classification of the carrier of high speech culture.

THE IMPACT OF FAMILY PLANNING SUPPLY FACTORS ON UNMET NEED IN RURAL EGYPT 1988Ð1989

1999 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 311-326
Author(s):  
FIONA STEELE ◽  
FATMA EL-ZAHRAA M. M. GEEL
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Contraceptive Use ◽  
Unmet Need ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
The Family ◽  
Potential Factors ◽  
The Individual ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Impact

This paper examines the reasons for the high level of unmet need for contraception in rural Egypt, using data from the individual survey and service availability module of the 1988Ð89 Egypt Demographic and Health Survey. Two broad sets of potential factors are considered: characteristics of a woman which influence her desire for children and thus her propensity to use contraception, and factors relating to the family planning service environment in which she lives. The results from a multivariate analysis show that certain individual characteristics, such as family composition and education, have a strong impact on the level of contraceptive use and on the proportion of total demand for spacing or limiting childbearing that is met by use of family planning. Unmet need, however, remains fairly constant across demographic and socioeconomic subgroups of the population. The largest variations in unmet need are regional, but elements of the family planning services, namely the provision of a community-based nurse who distributes family planning and female doctors at clinics, also play an important role.

scholarly journals THE STUDY OF THE OSTRACIZING TENDENCIES OF THE PERSONALITY WITH THE HELP OF THE PROJECTIVE TEST «I MET A STRANGER»

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 4-11
Author(s):  
Viktoriya V. Nazarevich
Keyword(s):  
Effective Means ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Rejection ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Diagnostic Tools ◽  
General Description ◽  
Projective Test ◽  
Protective Strategies ◽  
The Individual ◽  
High Level

In the article, the authors try to determine the features of the application of the projective test «I met a stranger” or». Meeting a person with special individual characteristics” to study the ostracizing tendencies of the individual. Particular attention is paid to the consideration of ostracism or social rejection, which lead to devastating results in both individual and social well-being. The article is devoted to social isolation, which is an effective means of social punishment, as ostracized individuals cannot take advantage of group efforts and diagnose the existence of ostracizing manifestations, using projective tools. Attention is paid to the peculiarities and regularities and prospects of application of the projective test “I met a stranger” in the methodology of diagnostic tools of ostracism. Peculiarities of diagnostics of ostracizing tendencies of an individual with the help of projective technique «Meeting of a person with special individual characteristics», which acts as a multifunctional tool depending on the goals and methodology of studying the projective components of the image of an ostracized person. It is pointed out that depending on the purposes of modifications of the method it is possible to study: stereotypical perception of strangers, who in turn act as ostracizers, when in the process of analysis the image is studied – another in the public consciousness. The second most important functional load for us is the reflection of the structure of the relationship between the two objects of interaction and the dyad (alien – not alien). The attention paid to the specifics of this test, so sufficient abstract and vague instructions leave enough space for the manifestation and modeling of individual situations of the meeting, so an important component is a post-picture interview. If the interview shows manifestations of fear and a high level of ostracized tendencies on the scales of the methodology, it can be argued about ostracism. It was found that the irrational fear of «foreign» persons is determined using the method of «Meeting with a» foreign «person», and makes it possible to analyze the protective strategies that actually reinforce this psychological phenomenon. There are a number of questions and a protocol, which reflects the main questions of the psychologist related to the general description of the picture. It is concluded that to effectively study the trends of social rejection of people with special individual manifestations, using the projective test «I met a stranger» should take into account: how often portray a person with special individual manifestations and other people around him, random ordinary, himself with someone from acquaintances; the activities of the people depicted in the figure; additional details in the picture, objects that are needed to interact with a person with characteristic individual manifestations. We see further consideration of this problem in the creation of new tools for studying the tendencies of individuals to ostracize people with characteristic individual manifestations, using projective methods.

The Relative Contribution of High-Level (Semantic) and Low-Level (Boundary) Information to Object-Based Attentional Guidance

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul S. Scotti ◽  
Andrew Collegio ◽  
Sarah Shomstein
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Category ◽  
Object Representations ◽  
Attentional Allocation ◽  
Attentional Guidance ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Relative Contribution ◽  
Object Based ◽  
Level Information ◽  
High Level ◽  
Semantic Identity

Attentional selection is constrained by object representations (object-based attention) that consist of low-level (e.g., boundaries signaled by closure) and high-level (e.g., semantic category) properties. Whereas low-level information has repeatedly been shown to constrain object-based attention with the use of simple geometric figures, high-level information (such as meaning) has only recently been shown to be an important factor in object-based guidance of attention. Here, we characterize the relative contributions of object boundaries (low-level) and object semantic identity (high-level) to attentional allocation by systematically reducing the contribution from both levels of description. We directly measure the degree to which attentional allocation is flexibly influenced by a combination of these factors. Object-based attentional guidance was observed only when either boundaries or semantic category was preserved, with a larger contribution for preserved semantic category. When both boundary and semantic category were disturbed, object-based influence was reduced. Object-based attentional guidance was therefore more reliant on high-level than low-level properties, suggesting that object-based attention efficiently guides behavior even in naturalistic conditions with real-world objects and environmental fluctuations (e.g., dim lighting, fog, blurry vision).

scholarly journals ETHNIC IDENTITY OF KUZBASS RESIDENTS (BASED ON THE RESULTS OF A SOCIOLOGICAL SURVEY)

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (3) ◽  
pp. 19-24
Author(s):  
Елена Морозова ◽  
Elena Morozova ◽  
Оксана Кочнева ◽  
Oksana Kochneva ◽  
Анна Сухачева ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Adult Population ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Point Scale ◽  
Low Degree ◽  
The Individual ◽  
High Level ◽  
Interethnic Interaction ◽  
Integral Indicator

<p><span>Interethnic interaction, which is traditionally important in science, politics, and everyday life, largely depends on one’s ethnic identity: the degree of identification with a particular national group, its foundations, culture, and mentality. The information about the manifestations of ethnic identity can timely identify emerging national and international problems in society and find the ways to resolve them. The purpose of this article is to analyze the individual characteristics of the ethnic identity of the population of the Kemerovo Region, obtained by a regional sociological survey conducted by a street express interview in October 2017 among the adult population of the region with a representative sample. </span>The obtained sociological facts demonstrate a relatively low level of cognitive and, especially, behavioral identity of Kuzbass residents, the vast majority belonging to the Russian population. A little more than a third of the respondents admitted a sufficiently high level of awareness of their national culture peculiarities. Most of the national customs and traditions are observed by less than 30 % of the region inhabitants. Two-thirds of Kuzbass residents have never protected the interests of their nationality in any disputes or conflicts. The integral indicator of the level of ethnic identity was just over 3 points on a five-point scale. A low degree of ethnicity speaks of the need to adjust national policies at the regional and municipal levels.</p>

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