scholarly journals Misokinesia is a sensitivity to seeing others fidget that is prevalent in the general population

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sumeet M. Jaswal ◽  
Andreas K. F. De Bleser ◽  
Todd C. Handy
Keyword(s):  
General Population ◽  
Support Groups ◽  
Emotional Response ◽  
Individual Variability ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Large Segment ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Repetitive Movements ◽  
On Line ◽  
Formal Recognition

AbstractMisokinesia––or the ‘hatred of movements’––is a psychological phenomenon that is defined by a strong negative affective or emotional response to the sight of someone else’s small and repetitive movements, such as seeing someone fidget with a hand or foot. Among those who regularly experience misokinesia sensitivity, there is a growing grass-roots recognition of the challenges that it presents as evidenced by on-line support groups. Yet surprisingly, scientific research on the topic is lacking. This article is novel in systematically examining whether misokinesia sensitivity actually exists in the general population, and if so, whether there is individual variability in the intensity or extent of what sensitivities are reported. Across three studies that included 4100 participants, we confirmed the existence of misokinesia sensitivity in both student and non-student populations, with approximately one-third of our participants self-reporting some degree of sensitivity to seeing the repetitive, fidgeting behaviors of others as encountered in their daily lives. Moreover, individual variability in the range and intensity of sensitivities reported suggest that the negative social-affective impacts associated with misokinesia sensitivities may grow with age. Our findings thus confirm that a large segment of the general population may have a visual-social sensitivity that has received little formal recognition.

scholarly journals A Common Human Problem Has a Name: Misokinesia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sumeet M. Jaswal ◽  
Andreas D. Blesser ◽  
Todd C. Handy
Keyword(s):  
Support Groups ◽  
Large Population ◽  
Individual Variability ◽  
Clinical Population ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The Public ◽  
Repetitive Movements ◽  
On Line ◽  
Human Problem ◽  
Formal Recognition

Abstract Misokinesia –– or the ‘hatred of movements’ –– is a psychological phenomenon that is defined as a strong negative affective or emotional response to the sight of someone else’s small and repetitive movements, such as seeing someone mindlessly fidgeting with a hand or foot. Among those who regularly experience misokinesia, there is a growing recognition of the challenges that it presents, as evidenced by blossoming on-line support groups. Yet surprisingly, scientific research on the topic is lacking. This article is novel in systematically examining whether misokinesia exists in the non-clinical population and if there are observable individual variability in the intensity or extent of reported misokinesia sensitivity in the general population. Across three studies that included 4100 participants, we confirmed the existence of misokinesia as a phenomenon in a non-clinical population, with approximately one-third of our participants self-reporting some degree of misokinesia sensitivity to the repetitive, fidgeting behaviors of others as encountered in their daily lives. Moreover, variability in the range of misokinesia sensitivities showed that the negative social-affective impacts that one experiences may grow with age. This study shows that a large population of the public may be suffering from something that has received little formal recognition.

The Hindu Renaissance and its Apologetic Patterns

1970 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agehananda Bharati
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Caste System ◽  
Protestant Ethic ◽  
Social Discourse ◽  
Urban Populations ◽  
Large Segment ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Political Talk ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Scientific Base

An anthropological and linguistic analysis of the idiom of modern Hindu religious specialists and their followers, an audience which embraces all English speaking Indians and a large segment of the urban populations of India. The highly eclectic, quasi-secular and neo-Hindu ideology inaugurated by such charismatics as Vivekananda, other “Swamis” and interiorized by Indian nationalists, expresses itself in a highly stereotyped coded parlance, informed by Victorian English as well as by diffuse elements which could be described as a Hindu Protestant Ethic. Both systematic and conscious obfuscation of scriptural categories as well as complex but predictable patterns of dissimulation extending over virtually all types of cultural and social discourse—the caste-system, “superstitions,” the “scientific” base of Hinduism, political talk, etc., are adduced and investigated as paradigms of contemporary Indian parlance, which is not the grass-roots idiom, but which is gathering momentum as the forensic instrument of India's leadership and of Indian administrators, educators, and the Indian intellectuals.

Development of computational thinking with on-line practices in time of pandemic: a possible road?

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilson Pereira dos Santos Júnior ◽  
Simone Lucena
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Computational Thinking ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Know How ◽  
Human Ability ◽  
On Line

We live in a society in which mobile and digital technologies are increasingly present in our daily lives and we cannot limit ourselves to knowing how to use them. It is important to know how to adapt them, personalize them and program them, if necessary, to solve our problems. Computational thinking is understood as the human ability to teach, humans or machines, to solve problems with the fundamentals of computing. Its development has gained space in education, formal and non-formal, through face-to-face practices. With the pandemic, the challenge arises to develop this skill with young people from high school in a public educational institution through online practices. In this article, we discuss the didactic design, based on the principles of online education, created for the development of computational thinking with online practices. The preliminary results indicate the feasibility of developing computational thinking from the perspective of online education.

scholarly journals Predictors of Seeking Health Information and Mental Health Support in U.S. Prisons: A Study Using 2014 PIAAC Data

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 337-337
Author(s):  
Candidus Nwakasi ◽  
Darlingtina Esiaka ◽  
Janardan Subedi
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
General Population ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Support Groups ◽  
Social Trust ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
Literacy Skill ◽  
Mental Health Support ◽  
Health Support

Abstract Being in prison increases the vulnerability to poor health, especially mental illnesses. This is evident in the documented health disparities between prison inmates and the general population. For example, suicide rates among inmates are higher than in the general population. There is an urgent need to understand how inmates experience mental well-being. This is important as some inmates serve long/life sentences and some will need to successfully re-integrate into the society. Although they have a constitutional right to health care access through the Eight Amendment, little is known of the health information and mental health support seeking patterns among inmates. The current study examined factors associated with the amount of health information accessed, and participation in mental health support groups in US prisons. Data (N= 645) from the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (2014) were analyzed using linear and logistic regressions. Sample weights were applied in the analyses. Results show statistically significant relationships between amount of health information acquired and age (66 years and above), race, health-status, readiness to learn, literacy skill, and numeracy skill. Social trust moderated the effect of education on the odds of participating in mental health support groups. Also, gender, work duration, attending substance abuse support and life skills groups were significant predictors. Our study may provide insight for stakeholders (e.g., policymakers, clinicians, social workers, and wardens, etc.) working in partnership to deliver a more tailored health interventions for inmates, by highlighting key contextual issues predicting mental health and well-being within prison settings.

scholarly journals Consent by GDPR vs. Blockchain

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-166
Author(s):  
Bruno Moslavac
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Method ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Personal Data Protection ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Explicit Consent ◽  
Data Processor ◽  
On Line ◽  
A Chain ◽  
The Right

The role of consent in personal data protection today is probably the first question for researches on how it impacts in our daily lives, ordinarily or on-line. This paper uses comparative method analyzes seemingly opposed essential parts of consent due to lawfulness of personal data processing versus inclusion of same data in a chain using blockchain technology, with the hypothesis that freewill public announcement of personal data substitute explicit consent for their processing. Finally, the author concludes that the principle of lawfulness stated by GDPR is not violated if the personal data processor using blockchain technology does not obtain consent for the processing of personal data, voluntarily put into the chain by another subject in the same “chain” and the “right to be forgotten” isn’t absolute right.

scholarly journals DESIGNING CANCER GROUPS FOR MAXIMUM EFFECTIVENESS

Groupwork ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-69
Author(s):  
Barry M Daste
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Support Groups ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
On Line ◽  
Service Groups ◽  
Shed Light

This article attempts to shed light on some of the problems involved in developing optimum service groups for cancer patients and offers ideas concerning the design, content, leadership and membership of these groups. The article begins with a literature review of current research on issues faced by cancer patients and how these have been handled in support groups and therapy groups across the country. Following this, suggestions are offered to assist those involved in planning for these groups to deal with some of the potential difficulties encountered by many of these groups. Interest in this project grew out of the author’s personal experience with cancer and from the experience of being first a participant, and later a leader, in groups for cancer patients.Publisher’s note: We are now putting all back issues of Groupwork on line. Articles in this issue have been scanned to pdf files as viable original typesetting files no longer exist. Though they may not look it, these files are to some extent searchable. This issue was published nearly 30 years ago. We have stated author professional details as received at time of publication.

Conclusion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Hughes
Keyword(s):  
General Population ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Social Standing ◽  
Personal Safety ◽  
Middle Ground ◽  
Irish Republican Army ◽  
Small Minority ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Economic Survival ◽  
Irish Revolution

Examining the grass-roots dynamics of the Irish Revolution emphasises the difficulty of defining revolutionary activity in neat or binary terms. Only a small minority operated at either end of a scale of allegiance or compliance while the majority are to be found in a massive and fluid middle-ground. The IRA surely relied on the support of the general population in conducting its guerrilla campaign (whether that support came actively or passively, willingly or unwillingly) but if taken too generally the idea of widespread civilian assistance becomes an oversimplification, missing many of the complexities and nuances inherent in individual and communal behaviour. Civilian behaviour was regularly motivated by concerns over personal safety or economic survival and could also be influenced by greed, jealousy, or rivalry. Minority groups were not necessarily targeted by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) specifically as a result of identity markers like religion, politics, or social standing but these remained important identifiers, variously competing with or complementing other local and national factors.

Can Dance Reflect the Structural and Expressive Qualities of Music? A Perceptual Experiment on Balanchine's Choreography of Mozart's Divertimento No. 15

1997 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol L. Krumhansl ◽  
Diana Lynn Schenck
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Response ◽  
Temporal Organization ◽  
Materials Analysis ◽  
George Balanchine ◽  
Bodily Movement ◽  
Interactive Relationship ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
On Line ◽  
General Schema ◽  
Stimulus Materials

A perceptual experiment investigated the structural and expressive mappings between music and dance. The Stimulus materials were based on the Minuetto from W. A. Mozart's Divertimento No. 15 choreographed by George Balanchine. Participants were assigned to one of three conditions: Music Only, Dance Only, and Both Music and Dance. They performed four on-line tasks: indicating the occurrence of section ends and new ideas, and judging the amount of tension and emotion expressed. Each of the tasks showed strong similarity across the three conditions, including the Music Only and the Dance Only conditions which contained none of the same Stimulus materials. Analysis of the music and dance uncovered a large variety of elements that define mappings between music and dance. These operate on different hierarchical levels and suggest non-accidental relationships between music and bodily movement. The Both Music and Dance condition could be predicted as a combination of the Music Only and Dance Only conditions, with a stronger contribution of the former. The findings for this excerpt suggest an additive, non-interactive relationship between the music and dance. All three conditions exhibited the same temporal pattern among the tasks. New ideas were introduced at section beginnings when levels of tension and emotion expressed were low. These levels tended to increase within sections, reaching a peak just before section ends. These results suggest that a general Schema of temporal Organization operates in both music and dance. Finally, the three conditions produced very similar judgments of the type of emotional response, supporting the idea that both music and dance can engage similar representations of emotions.

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