7. The appetite for music

2018 ◽  
pp. 95-108
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Aesthetic Responses ◽  
Psychology Of Music ◽  
Life Circumstances ◽  
Musical Memory ◽  
Affective Dimensions ◽  
The Way ◽  
Musical Preferences

Music can seem captivating and integral to our lives, yet these affective dimensions are precisely the ones for which understanding remains most elusive. It is relatively straightforward to study something like musical memory by manipulating excerpts in various situations and seeing whether people remember them; however, studying the way music moves us requires deeper thought. It also represents a unique opportunity for the psychology of music. “The appetite for music” considers emotional responses to music. How does sound so easily take on such powerful associations with the life circumstances in which it was encountered? Aesthetic responses to music, musical preferences, and the motivations behind people’s interest in music are also discussed.

Co-workers’ perceptions of and reactions to employee’s involuntary demotion

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 740-757 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Hennekam ◽  
Subramaniam Ananthram ◽  
Steve McKenna
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Emotional Reaction ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Informational Justice ◽  
Behavioural Responses ◽  
Behavioural Reaction ◽  
Three Stages ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
The Way

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how individuals perceive and react to the involuntary demotion of a co-worker in their organisation. Design/methodology/approach The authors draw on 46 semi-structured in-depth interviews (23 dyads) with co-workers of demoted individuals. Findings The findings suggest that an individual’s observation of the demotion of a co-worker has three stages: their perception of fairness, their emotional reaction and their behavioural reaction. The perception of fairness concerned issues of distributive, procedural, interpersonal and informational justice. The emotional responses identified were feelings of disappointment/disillusion, uncertainty, vulnerability and anger. Finally, the behavioural reactions triggered by their emotional responses included expressions of voice, loyalty, exit and adaptation. Originality/value Perceptions of (in)justice perpetrated on others stimulate emotional and behavioural responses, which impacts organisational functioning. Managers should therefore pay attention to the way a demotion is perceived, not only by those directly concerned, but also by co-workers as observers.

scholarly journals From romantic jealousy to sympathetic joy: Monogamy, polyamory, and beyond

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Psychology ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Relational Identity ◽  
Romantic Jealousy ◽  
Serial Monogamy ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Way

This paper explores how the extension of contemplative qualities to intimate relationships can transform human sexual/emotional responses and relationship choices. The paper reviews contemporary findings from the field of evolutionary psychology on the twin origins of jealousy and monogamy, argues for the possibility to transform jealousy into sympathetic joy (or compersion), addresses the common objections against polyamory (or nonmonogamy), and challenges the culturally prevalent belief that the only spiritually correct sexual options are either celibacy or (lifelong or serial) monogamy. To conclude, it is suggested that the cultivation of sympathetic joy in intimate bonds can pave the way to overcome the problematic dichotomy between monogamy and polyamory, grounding individuals in a radical openness to the dynamic unfolding of life that eludes any fixed relational identity or structure.

10. Defending a Claim

2021 ◽  
pp. 170-193
Author(s):  
Lucilla Macgregor ◽  
Charlotte Peacey ◽  
Georgina Ridsdale
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Responses ◽  
The Way

This chapter considers the options open to a defendant faced with a claim against him. It covers the emotional responses of the defendant, as well as the defendant’s pre-action position. It discusses the way in which a defendant may fund the litigation. It details the essential steps needed to respond to a claim; the substantive responses to the action; and tactical responses to the claim.

Reconsidering Informed and Participatory Citizenship in the Current Media Ecosystem

2021 ◽  
pp. 87-110
Author(s):  
Maria Elizabeth Grabe ◽  
Ozen Bas
Keyword(s):  
Human Brain ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Verbal Processing ◽  
Participatory Citizenship ◽  
Media Ecosystem ◽  
The Media ◽  
Memory Knowledge ◽  
The Way

The focus of this chapter is on how changes in the media landscape have forced the reconsideration of the way in which ‘memory’, ‘knowledge’, and ‘informed citizenship’ are understood, defined, and researched. Thus, for example, journalism needs to take account of the phenomenon of so-called news grazing (the active consumption of news by flipping through channels and skipping unwanted material) and that of incidental news exposure (unintended exposure to news when media users go online for non-news functions). Traditional views of informed citizenship (as simply acquiring appropriate facts and information) are challenged by calls to include applied understanding and comprehension of social issues and emotional responses to those issues. The chapter is critical of an excessive reliance on verbal tests of memory and stresses the need to develop visual measures, given that the human brain is better adapted for visual than verbal processing.

1. Should ideologies be ill-reputed?

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Freeden
Keyword(s):  
Karl Marx ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Friedrich Engels ◽  
The Way

Ideology is a word that evokes strong emotional responses. ‘Should ideologies be ill-reputed’ examines how ideologies are perceived. For many, ideologies are associated with -isms, such as communism, fascism, or anarchism. Ideology is viewed with suspicion and ‘ism’ as a faintly derogatory term. However, ideologies offer competing interpretations of events and seek to impose a pattern on them. The influence of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in shaping and developing the concept of ideology is examined in more detail. Particularly the way in which they linked class and ideology, and how their ideas have influenced non-Marxists.

scholarly journals Viewing I, Daniel Blake in the English Regions: Towards an Understanding of Realism through Audience Interpretation

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 259-279
Author(s):  
David Forrest ◽  
Peter Merrington
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Audience Studies ◽  
North West ◽  
North East ◽  
South West ◽  
Political Views ◽  
Narrative Characters ◽  
Affective Dimensions

This article examines focus group responses to Ken Loach's I, Daniel Blake (2016). Situated in four English regions (North East, North West, South West and Yorkshire and Humber), the focus groups were structured around a process of film elicitation that gathered a set of plural and richly textured responses to the film. Focusing on the participants’ understanding of realism within the film, the article complements existing textual analyses of realism in order to understand better the kinds of interpretive resources that audiences bring to their engagement with films such as I, Daniel Blake. We examine in detail how participants drew on different interpretive resources as a set of personal, emotional and intellectual anchoring points that they used to situate and articulate their readings of the film. These resources ranged from related life experiences and personal memories to emotional responses and political views. In particular, we examine how participants interpreted the film through differing degrees of personal familiarity and empathy with the narrative, characters and places depicted, how the participants dealt with the emotional labours of realism and the feelings evoked through representations of place. Using film elicitation to understand the plurality of interpretations of realism has allowed us to develop a located and multifaceted understanding of the affective dimensions of realist film, and to extend the reach of audience studies to a hitherto under-explored genre.

A Critique of Habit

2018 ◽  
pp. 167-182
Author(s):  
Alexander Regier
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Good Sense ◽  
The Real ◽  
Original Meaning ◽  
Historical Moment ◽  
Affective Dimensions ◽  
The Way

This chapter shows how Blake and Hamann connect their exorbitant critique of conventional thinking and its deadening force with their sharp analysis of institutional religion, matrimony, and pedagogy. As deeply spiritual writers, they are particularly appalled with their historical moment and the position institutional religion has assumed as a form of organization and disciplining that perverts creativity and freedom. Remarkably, one of their common examples for such a negative development is the sacrament of marriage, which they see stripped of all its original meaning. Similarly, they produce an account which makes clear how pedagogy in the eighteenth century (and beyond) is being used to close off the real and affective dimensions of spirituality, ensuring conventional thinking. The way in which these thinkers translate such insights into their own lives forms the central discussion of this chapter, giving the reader a good sense of their biographical circumstances and their exorbitant arguments.

Dancing the Strata: Investigating Affective Flows of Moving/Dancing Bodies in the Exploration of Bodily (Un)Becoming

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamara Borovica
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Performance Ethnography ◽  
Sociological Work ◽  
Affective Dimensions ◽  
The Way ◽  
A Performance

This article draws on recent sociological work that explores the intangible, sensory, and affective dimensions of social life. In particular, I look at elusive, sensory, and affective elements of young women’s bodily becoming, through feminist lens. My intention behind this is to problematize narrow understandings of (women’s) embodiment in social sciences. I explore the stratification of bodies (through sex, gender, class, and race) and the way in which stratification works on bodies, what it produces, and how it limits and/or enforces bodily potentials. To this end, I follow affective flows between young women’s dancing bodies as they participate in a performance ethnography I have conducted to explore embodiment. To work with partial, dynamic, multisensory data, and to explore the potentiality of what bodies sense, feel, and do, I use a poetic analysis of the participants’ dance encounters.

Anthroposemiotics of literature: The cultural nature

Semiotica ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 (213) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Taha
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Evolutionary Epistemology ◽  
Literary Study ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Nature Literature ◽  
The World ◽  
Cognitive Activities ◽  
The Way

AbstractSemiotics is not merely about knowledge but primarily about knowing. Representation is about knowledge while literature as a semiotic medium is about modeling. Modeling is not a technique used by writers to represent the world but a target meant to show the way the writer models the world so that the reader responds accordingly and offers her/his own model. Knowing as semiosis is produced from such a kind of comparison between the two models. Meaning itself, knowledge, does not interest semioticians, whose concern is rather with the way it is produced. Literature teaches us how to learn more about our nature. Literature trains our natural faculties of modeling. All possible fragments of knowledge we may get from a literary text and the cognitive and emotional responses they provoke are only parts of a whole. They are associated with the mega-meaning of literature. In literature, knowing stands for mega-meaning, whereby it becomes an anthroposemiotic concept. In this paper, I hope to contribute to the new wave of interest in the natural linkage between anthroposemiotics and literary study through three major possible epistemologies tightening the linkage between both fields: evolutionary epistemology, emotional and cognitive activities, and cultural, including social and historical, conventions. All of these three levels conduct some kind of communication and naturally work together in harmony.

Spun Steel and Stardust: The Rejection of Contemporary Compositions

1989 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. David Smith ◽  
Jordan N. Witt
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Music ◽  
Orchestral Music ◽  
Modern Music ◽  
Psychology Of Music ◽  
Serial Works ◽  
Affective Dimensions

Audiences consistently reject contemporary orchestral music. One reason given for this is that inaccessible form and syntax cause cognitive/perceptual difficulties for listeners. Another possible explanation is that contemporary music is impoverished in emotional or referential expression. Why do listeners say they reject atonal music? We compared their responses to tonal and serial works by the same two composers (Schoenberg and Webern). Listeners rejected the atonal works, found them less expressive along some affective dimensions but not others, and found them less rich in referential meanings. In fact, emotional and referential considerations determined preference at least as strongly as syntactic considerations. We discuss the modern music revolution in this light and consider the importance of nonsyntactic aesthetic dimensions in a psychology of music.

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