Examining the Effects of I-Sharing for Future White-Black Interactions

2016 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 125-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah E. Gaither ◽  
Jessica D. Remedios ◽  
Jennifer R. Schultz ◽  
Keith B. Maddox ◽  
Samuel R. Sommers
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Social Experience ◽  
Positive Experience ◽  
Subjective Experiences ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Interracial Interaction ◽  
Anxious Behavior

Abstract. Research shows that I-sharing, or sharing subjective experiences with an outgroup member, positively shapes attitudes toward that outgroup member. We investigated whether this type of social experience would also promote a positive interracial interaction with a novel outgroup member. Results showed that White and Black participants who I-shared with a racial outgroup member (vs. I-sharing with a racial ingroup member) expressed more liking toward that outgroup member. However, I-sharing with an outgroup member did not reduce anxious behavior in a future social interaction with a novel racial outgroup member. Therefore, although sharing subjective experiences may increase liking toward one individual from a racial outgroup, it remains to be seen whether this positive experience can influence behaviors in future interactions with other racial outgroup members. Future directions are discussed.

scholarly journals Social experience vs. social technology in enhancing the intention to use social commerce: a case study of Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yonathan Dri Handarkho
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Direct Effect ◽  
Indirect Effect ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Social Experience ◽  
Social Technology ◽  
Intention To Use ◽  
Social Commerce ◽  
User Intention ◽  
Content Type

PurposeThis study proposed a theoretical model to understand user intention to use social commerce (SC) of an emerging market based on social experience and social technology. The SC scope was limited to the third-party Social Network Sites utilized by the vendor to establish social interaction and communication with and among the customer about commercial activity.Design/methodology/approachA total of 750 Indonesian respondents were used to examine the research model using online and offline self-administered questionnaires.FindingsThe findings from the final model showed Perceived Enjoyment from the social technology factor has the most substantial direct effect on behavior intention in SC followed by the direct effect of Perceived Usefulness, the indirect effect of content quality, and social presence. Meanwhile, from social experience, the perceived herd was found to have a strong immediate effect on intention, followed by the direct effect of emotional support and indirect effect of subjective norms.Originality/valueConcerning SC study in emerging markets, the previous research also explored user intention from social and technical aspects, especially with the focus on consumer's desire to purchase. Meanwhile, the focus of this study was to investigate the determinant of social interaction intention by engaging in the SC community, which differs from prior research.

scholarly journals GRASPING THE SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF EVENT EXPERIENCES: INTRODUCING THE EVENT SOCIAL INTERACTION SCALE (ESIS)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lénia Marques ◽  
Carla Borba ◽  
Janna Michael
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Social Experience ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Interaction Ritual Chains ◽  
Interaction Processes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Multiple Interaction ◽  
Survey Responses ◽  
Similar Experience

Experience has been widely recognised as an essential part of an event’s success, but few studies have analysed the processes underlying the event as social experience. This paper contributes to a better understanding of the social processes which make an event a social interaction platform. The social interaction processes that shape the event’s social experience is examined using a framework which brings together co-creation practices, group socialization and interaction ritual chains. This exploratory study investigates the social interaction processes that shape the event’s social experience, by developing a quantitative tool, the Event Social Interaction Scale (ESIS), which attempts to pinpoint and measure different social dimensions of the event experience. The ESIS was applied at a popular culture event, the festivities of São João in Northeast Brazil, and 625 survey responses were collected in 2016 and 2017. Findings suggest that multiple interaction rituals occur. People who are more directly and actively engaged in the event are more likely to be open for contact with unknown others. The event becomes a multi-dimensional platform where different types of social interaction are not only possible but fostered. The ESIS contributes to charting the footprint of the event as social experience, revealing a similar experience footprint across different years of the study. The ESIS and the implications of its processes for the event can be useful for academics, practitioners and policy-makers interested in understanding and facilitating better event social experiences.

scholarly journals Current Progress and Future Directions for Theory and Research on Savoring

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred B. Bryant
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Attentional Focus ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Positive Experience ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Positive Stimuli

As research on savoring has increased dramatically since publication of the book Savoring: A New Model of Positive Experience (Bryant and Veroff, 2007), savoring has gradually become a core concept in positive psychology. I begin by reviewing the evolution of this concept, the development of instruments for assessing savoring ability and savoring strategies, and the wide range of applications of savoring in the psychosocial and health sciences. I then consider important directions for future theory and research. To advance our understanding of how naturalistic savoring unfolds over time, future work should integrate the perceptual judgments involved in not only the later stages of attending to and regulating positive experience (where past research has concentrated), but also the initial stages of searching for and noticing positive stimuli. Whereas most research has investigated reactive savoring, which occurs spontaneously in response to positive events or feelings, future work is also needed on proactive savoring, which begins with the deliberate act of seeking out or creating positive stimuli. To advance the measurement of savoring-related constructs, I recommend future work move beyond retrospective self-report methods toward the assessment of savoring as it occurs in real-time. The development of new methods of measuring meta-awareness and the regulation of attentional focus are crucial to advancing our understanding of savoring processes. I review recent research on the neurobiological correlates of savoring and suggest future directions in which to expand such work. I highlight the need for research aimed at unraveling the developmental processes through which savoring skills and deficits evolve and the role that savoring impairments play in the etiology and maintenance of psychopathology. Research is also needed to learn more about what enhances savoring, and to disentangle how people regulate the intensity versus duration of positive emotions. Finally, I encourage future researchers to integrate the study of anticipation, savoring the moment, and reminiscence within individuals across time.

scholarly journals Social Interaction and Network Structure in Groups of Drosophila are Shaped by Prior Social Experience and Group Composition

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Assa Bentzur ◽  
Shir Ben-Shaanan ◽  
Jennifer Benishou ◽  
Eliezer Costi ◽  
Amiyaal Ilany ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Network Structure ◽  
Group Composition ◽  
Social Experience

The Social Experience of Entertainment Media

2011 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 111-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randi Shedlosky-Shoemaker ◽  
Kristi A. Costabile ◽  
Haylee K. DeLuca ◽  
Robert M. Arkin
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Influence ◽  
Social Experience ◽  
Current Work ◽  
Entertainment Media ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Peer Evaluations ◽  
The Social

People often look to others for guidance when selecting narrative entertainment. Previous work has demonstrated that this social guidance forms the basis of people’s expectations and subsequently affects people’s experience. The current work extends previous research by exploring the influence of peer evaluations of a story, on enjoyment of and psychological transportation in the written narrative. In two experiments, participants read peer evaluations prior to reading the story. Results of Experiment 1 revealed that social influence guides readers’ expectations, attention to elements in the narrative, reported enjoyment, and feelings of transportation in the narrative. This influence was particularly apparent when readers were given unfavorable reviews of the stimulus. In the second experiment, readers were given peer evaluations that were either confirmed or disconfirmed by other readers. Results indicated that valence of peer evaluations influenced both transportation and enjoyment. Additionally, inconsistent evaluations increased feelings of transportation, but consistency alone had no effect on reported enjoyment. Implications for social media experiences and future directions in research on entertainment media are discussed.

Everyday Thoughts in Time: Experience Sampling Studies of Mental Time Travel

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy Baumeister
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Conscious Experience ◽  
Experience Sampling ◽  
Time Travel ◽  
Mental Time Travel ◽  
Subjective Experiences ◽  
Sampling Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
Future Thought

Time is an important yet mysterious aspects of human conscious experience. We investigated time in everyday thoughts. Two community samples, contacted at random points for three (Study 1; 6,686 reports) and 14 days (Study 2; 2,361 reports), reported on their most recent thought. Both studies found that thoughts about the present and future were frequent, whereas thoughts about the past were rare. Thoughts about the present were common during social interaction, felt pleasant, but lacked to meaningfulness. Thoughts about the future included desires to satisfy goals and usually involved planning. Thoughts about the past were relatively unpleasant and involuntary. Subjective experiences of past and future thoughts often were similar and differed from present focus, consistent with views that memory and prospection use similar mental structures. Taken together, the present work provides unique insights into the conscious experience of time highlights the pragmatic utility of future thought.

Beyond Jewish Christianity: Ancient Social Taxonomies and the Christianity-Judaism Divide

2020 ◽  
pp. 144-184
Author(s):  
Matt Jackson-Mccabe
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Social Experience ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Central Question ◽  
The Social ◽  
Jewish Christianity ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Primary Division

This concluding chapter demonstrates how one can get around the problems created by Jewish Christianity by approaching the question of the origins of Christianity and the Christianity–Judaism division as a study in the production and dissemination of ancient social taxonomies. The central question from this perspective is neither the similarities and differences in culture nor even the social interaction among ancient Christians and Jews, but how early Jesus groups imagined themselves and their characteristic cultures in relation to Judeans and theirs. At what point did some Jesus groups begin to assert that Judeans and their distinguishing culture were, per se, “other” and to reify that difference by postulating a distinction between Christianism and Judaism? Whatever its various social consequences, how widespread was this taxonomy before its imperial adoption in the centuries after Constantine? Through an examination of a few exemplary cases, a significant distinction can be observed well into late antiquity between Jesus groups who made sense of their social experience with reference to such a notion of Christianism and those who did not; between those who came to differentiate a new “us” from the Judeans and the Nations alike, and those for whom Judeans and the Nations remained the primary division.

Oxytocin and Vasopressin: Powerful Regulators of Social Behavior

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 517-528 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather K. Caldwell
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Social Behavior ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Social Memory ◽  
Mammalian Species ◽  
Social Experience ◽  
Social Environments ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Cooperative Behaviors

For many, the terms oxytocin and vasopressin immediately evoke images of animals interacting with one another, as both of these neuropeptides have been implicated as being part of the neurochemical “glue” that socially binds animals. However, social environments and social interactions are complex and include behaviors that bring animals together as well as behaviors that keep animals apart. It is at the intersection of social context, social experience, and an individual’s sex that oxytocin and vasopressin act to modulate social behavior and social cognition. In this review, this complexity will be explored across mammalian species, with a focus on social memory, cooperative behaviors, and competitive behaviors. Implications for humans as well as future directions will also be considered.

Subjective Experiences of Coping Among Caregivers in Palliative Care

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Uren ◽  
Tanya Graham
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Cumulative Effect ◽  
Central Component ◽  
Subjective Experiences ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Care Organisation ◽  
Palliative Care Setting ◽  
Central Resource ◽  
Caregiver Coping

Several research studies have sought to quantify the effects of formal caregiving on the caregivers; however, limited research has described the experiences of caregiving using a qualitative research design. In this study, we used an interpretative, phenomenological method to explore how coping operates as a central resource for trained caregivers and professional nurses in a palliative care setting. Eleven participants from a community-based, palliative care organisation in South Africa provided narrative accounts of coping within the caregiving process. Our findings identified seven themes related to the different dimensions of coping and the implications of these responses on individual caregivers. In this article, we discuss the cumulative effect of caregiver exposure to stressors, consider future directions to enhance caregiving, and conclude that effective caregiver coping plays a substantial role in caregiver and patient wellbeing and should therefore be a central component of enhancing palliative care interventions.

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