Yesterday’s News: A Temporal Discontinuity in the Sting of Inferiority

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 643-656 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander C. Kristal ◽  
Ed O’Brien ◽  
Eugene M. Caruso
Keyword(s):  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Simple Function ◽  
Temporal Discontinuity ◽  
The Future ◽  
Temporal Location ◽  
Upward Comparison ◽  
Valentine's Day ◽  
Good Lives

Reactions to other people who get desirable outcomes should be a simple function of how much one desires those outcomes. Four studies ( N = 4,978) suggest that one’s reactions depend on the temporal location of outcome acquisition: Observers care more (e.g., feel more envy) right before, versus right after, other people have identical experiences (Studies 1, 2a, and 2b). For example, participants’ envy in February rose as Valentine’s Day approached (as a peer’s enviable date loomed in the future) but abruptly plateaued come February 15 onward (after the date occurred). Further, the passing of time specifically assuaged the pain of comparison (whereas positive reactions, such as feeling inspired, remained high; Studies 3a, 3b, and 3c); therefore, taking a past perspective can be used to regulate negative emotions in the present (Study 4). Time asymmetrically shapes the experience of upward comparison, despite other people’s desirable outcomes indeed being achieved. Other people’s good lives sting less if they have already lived them.

scholarly journals Mengasah Potensi Kepribadian Anak melalui Pendekatan Komunikasi Positif

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 152
Author(s):  
Nur Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Communication Patterns ◽  
Science Park ◽  
Positive Communication ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
The Future ◽  
Positive Environment

<p>Positive communication is communication that is able to develop its positive potency of children. Positive communication is built to form the fabric of a child’s personality that will also be established between parents and children. It can cultivate emotional intelligence. Of course, these two things will make a valuable provision for children’s development in the future. While missed communication would cause them uneducated and ignorant. Failure in communicating would<br />normally make a child called weird or crazy. Actually there are a few tips to succeed in realizing the potency of the child’s qualified personality, such as provide exemplary son, make the house as a science park, provides a vehicle for creativity, avoid negative emotions and always pray for children to be always given a good personality and mental health. Later in the development potency of the child’s personality can also be affected by a variety of factors. One of them is the positive communication patterns of parents towards their children (get them to always communicate in a positive environment). If the communication patterns of parents are bad, the negative impact will be felt by the child as well.</p>

Conceptualizations of Forgiveness

2004 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Etienne Mullet ◽  
Michelle Girard ◽  
Parul Bakhshi
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Mothers And Fathers ◽  
Immoral Behavior ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
The Future ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Dyadic Process

The objectives of the survey were to examine the extent to which (1) laypeople agree with conceptualizations of forgiveness encountered in literature, notably that forgiveness supposes the replacement of negative emotions toward the offender by positive emotions, (2) forgiveness is a process that can only take place between an offended and an offender who is known to the offended, and (3) forgiveness is not a process that devalues the forgiven but a process that encourages him/her to behave better in the future. It was also aimed at examining the extent to which parents and children share the same conceptualizations about forgiveness. A total of 343 students participated in the study as well as their mothers and fathers. Four conceptualization factors were identified: Change of Heart, More-Than-Dyadic Process, Encourages Repentance, and Immoral Behavior. Only a minority of participants agreed with the idea that forgiving supposes regaining affection or sympathy toward the offender (23%), and with the idea that forgiveness can encourage repentance from the forgiven (33%). More participants, however, agreed with the ideas that the forgiver can be somebody in close relationship with the offended and that the forgiven can be an unknown offender or an abstract institution (46%). Very few participants (4%) agreed with the idea that forgiveness is immoral. Parents and their children tended to conceptualize forgiveness similarly.

scholarly journals Does Psychological Capital Influence Employees’ Burnout? A Review Paper

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 36-42
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Review Paper ◽  
Psychological Capital ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Poor Mental Health ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Critical Issues

In this globalization era, burnout has been known as one of the critical issues in organizations. Overlooking the issue of burnout could lead to negative consequences, such as negatively affecting the overall organizational performance, and poor mental health among employees. It is crucial to know the factors that can help to improve burnout. One of the factors that can reduce burnout is psychological capital. Psychological capital is known as one of the elements that could help to reduce negative emotions. However, it was claimed that the influence of psychological capital is remained unexplored. Hence, this article reviewed the past studies that were conducted in the past decade (2008-2018) on the linkage between psychological capital and employees’ burnout. From the findings, it was revealed that there are inconsistency of the findings in the past studies. Hence, this has triggered a need for further exploration on the linkage between psychological capital and employees’ burnout. It is suggested that more empirical researches to be conducted in the future to provide a more concrete evidences on the linkage between psychological capital and employees’ burnout.

scholarly journals The School for us and us for the School

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Xisto ◽  
D. Catarino
Keyword(s):  
Free Time ◽  
Green Spaces ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
The Future ◽  
Valentine's Day

The main purpose of this project was to make the school more appealing, by working in the greenhouse, green spaces and leisure places. Transforming the school and making it a more active and welcoming place, was, from the beginning, the problem that was identified by the students. In their opinion, the school looked a little sad and they knew they would need help to transform it into a better place, where they could feel like home. With this purpose in mind, students attended a meeting with the local authorities and the Parents’ Association. To start the project, students made healthy gums to offer to other students, on Valentine’s Day, andthey also made soaps to sell to the community. These activities allowed us to begin the greenhouse project. The occupation of these young people’s free time became different and it was a very enriching experience. The seed of the OSOS project is germinating, and we believe that, in the future, it will continue to give beautiful flowers. Together we were able to make thedifference!

Relational Utility Affects Self-Punishment in Direct and Indirect Reciprocity Situations

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruida Zhu ◽  
Tao Jin ◽  
Xueyi Shen ◽  
Shen Zhang ◽  
Xiaoqin Mai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Transmission ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Personal Goals ◽  
Indirect Reciprocity ◽  
The Future

Abstract. Previous studies of self-punishment focused on negative emotions and information transmission between wrongdoers and victims. We propose that self-punishment can be moderated by relational utility and can work not only in direct but also indirect reciprocity. In Studies 1 and 2, participants were more inclined to punish themselves when the victim could benefit the participants in future interactions than when the victim could not. In Study 3, participants were more inclined to punish themselves when the bystander could potentially offer lots of benefits to them in the future compared to when the bystander could only offer few or no benefits. These findings support our hypothesis, suggesting that wrongdoers strategically use self-punishment to pursue profits through repairing damaged relationships which are really conducive to achieve their personal goals. It helps us to understand self-punishment better in real life.

Queer Deviations from the Future on Screen

Old Futures ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 175-212
Author(s):  
Alexis Lothian
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Independent Film ◽  
Special Effects ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Temporal Location ◽  
Work Done ◽  
Media And Communication

As part 3 (It’s the Future, but It Looks like the Present: Queer Speculations on Media Time) turns to the cultural and technological reproduction of speculative futures imagined in audiovisual form, chapter 5 focuses on two speculative films whose genealogy in queer screen history is secure yet which rarely appear in canons of science fiction media: Derek Jarman’s 1978 punk dystopia Jubilee and Lizzie Borden’s 1983 lesbian political fantasy Born in Flames. It argues that that the construction of science fiction film as a heteronormative, capitalist genre defined by spectacular special effects obscures the work done by queer speculative independent film. Alternatively, Jarman and Borden project politicized futures into the people and locations of a present whose shifting temporal location refuses progressive teleologies. The films share an intense focus on media and communication even as they offer contrasting strategies for building futures out of a present moment saturated with representations of the end of the world. Jubilee brings the present to light as a dystopian future whose polite public face hides deep-seated violence; Born in Flames shows us how the politics of revolutionary transformation replicate the problems of the untransformed world through the failure to reckon with them.

scholarly journals Developing Temporal Systems

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 126-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard M. Weist
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Development ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Time Travel ◽  
Memory Processes ◽  
Conversational Context ◽  
Language Structure ◽  
The Future ◽  
Knowledge Of Language ◽  
Temporal Location

AbstractThis paper reviews a body of research that reveals how children acquire the capacity to express the temporal location of episodes that they remember and those they anticipate for the future. The paper shows how the child’s knowledge of language structure provides a window on the conceptual development of memory processes and the capacity for conceptual time travel away from the conversational context of the speech act.

Step Tracking Shrinking Targets

1987 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 248-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter W. Johnson ◽  
Sandra G. Hart
Keyword(s):  
Reaction Time ◽  
Time Pressure ◽  
Movement Time ◽  
Fixed Time ◽  
The Other ◽  
Simple Function ◽  
Target Size ◽  
Movement Speed ◽  
Subjective Workload ◽  
The Future

Four models describing how people might acquire targets that dynamically vary in size were examined; two that described movement speed as a simple function of target size (either initial or final) and two that described movement speed as a function of the predicted size of the targets at a fixed time in the future (one was referenced to the beginning of the reaction time phase, and the other to the end of this phase). It was found that movement time was best described as a function of a size prediction made at the end, rather than the start, of the reaction time phase. Subjective workload ratings primarily reflected the total amount of time needed to acquire the targets rather than the time pressure imposed by the diminishing size of these targets.

Emotional Consequences of Collective Action Participation

2011 ◽  
Vol 37 (12) ◽  
pp. 1587-1598 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia C. Becker ◽  
Nicole Tausch ◽  
Ulrich Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Positive Affect ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Collective Actions ◽  
Behavioral Consequences ◽  
The Future ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Positive And Negative Emotions ◽  
Willingness To Engage

The present research examines the emotional and behavioral consequences of collective action participation. It demonstrates that “positive” and “negative” emotions can be experienced simultaneously as a result of collective action participation, yet it is important to distinguish outgroup-directed from self-directed emotions. Results of two experiments ( N = 71 and N = 101) that manipulated participation in collective action illustrate that whereas collective action participants experience more outgroup-directed anger and contempt, they feel more self-directed positive affect. Furthermore, collective action participation predicted willingness to engage in moderate and radical collective actions in the future. These relations were mediated by outgroup-directed, but not by self-directed, emotions, suggesting that outgroup-directed rather than self-directed emotions play a crucial role in the maintenance of protest behavior. Theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed.

Biospecimen donors' views about biobank closure.

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. TPS6625-TPS6625
Author(s):  
Rebecca D. Pentz ◽  
Margie D Dixon ◽  
Samuel C Allen
Keyword(s):  
Medical Research ◽  
Information Transfer ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Tissue Bank ◽  
Biological Materials ◽  
For Profit ◽  
International Bank ◽  
The Future ◽  
National Bank

TPS6625 Background: The future of biobanks is often uncertain due to sporadic funding. A survey of 456 biobank administrators found that they consider the loss of funding to be either a "massive (40%)" or "moderate (31%)" concern. Only 26% of biobanks reported having a plan in the event of closure (Cadigan et al., Life Sciences, Society and Policy, 2013). Biospecimen donors’ views on how they want their tissue handled following biobank closure is unknown. Our study will be the first to determine how biospecimen donors want their data and biological materials handled if their biobanks were to close. We believe this report of 100 biospecimen donors’ views will be useful to researchers and tissue bank administrators in creating contingency tissue bank closure plans that incorporate biospecimen donors’ perspectives. Methods: We will complete accrual of 100 oncology biospecimen donors (current accrual is 65 patients) at one institution by interviewing them about their views of bank closure and preferences for the handling of their tissue post-closure. The interview asks participants if they have a preference for the handling of their tissue and information in the event of bank closure, and if so, if they prefer transfer of their materials to another tissue bank or destruction. Feelings about closure are captured in three categories: sad/disappointed, angry/frustrated, and other negative emotions. The effect of tissue bank closure upon trust in medical research is captured in three categories: decreases trust, does not decrease trust, and may decrease trust under certain circumstances. We ask the participants to rank the following options for transfer of their tissue and information: transfer to another local academic tissue bank, to a for-profit or pharmaceutical bank, to an international bank, or to a national bank. We also ask if any of these options are deemed absolutely unacceptable. Results: NA Conclusions: NA

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