‘Impressed’ by Feelings-How Judges Perceive Defendants’ Emotional Expressions in Danish Courtrooms

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 250-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Victoria Johansen
Keyword(s):  
Emotional State ◽  
Physical Appearance ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Emotional Expressions ◽  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
Social Categories

Emotions constitute an integrated part of crime trials, but the evaluation of these emotions is dependent on broader cultural norms rarely addressed by legal practitioners. Previous research on emotions in the judiciary has also tended to underemphasize this cultural dimension of judges’ assessment of defendants’ emotional expressions. This article presents an ethnographic study of Danish judges’ considerations when they encounter defendants in court and get an impression of their behaviour, emotional state and physical appearance. Combining theories about emotions with intersectionality approaches, the article highlights the processes in which social categories are dynamically shaped through emotions. Judges’ assessments of emotions are mediated through their own cultural understandings, and what counts as ‘appropriate’ emotion is dependent on how the defendant is culturally and systemically situated.

scholarly journals Dogs can infer implicit information from human emotional expressions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Albuquerque ◽  
Daniel S. Mills ◽  
Kun Guo ◽  
Anna Wilkinson ◽  
Briseida Resende
Keyword(s):  
Emotional State ◽  
Food Resource ◽  
Emotional Expressions ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Emotional Information ◽  
Implicit Information ◽  
Emotional Display ◽  
Affective Information ◽  
Social Decision Making ◽  
Current Behaviour

AbstractThe ability to infer emotional states and their wider consequences requires the establishment of relationships between the emotional display and subsequent actions. These abilities, together with the use of emotional information from others in social decision making, are cognitively demanding and require inferential skills that extend beyond the immediate perception of the current behaviour of another individual. They may include predictions of the significance of the emotional states being expressed. These abilities were previously believed to be exclusive to primates. In this study, we presented adult domestic dogs with a social interaction between two unfamiliar people, which could be positive, negative or neutral. After passively witnessing the actors engaging silently with each other and with the environment, dogs were given the opportunity to approach a food resource that varied in accessibility. We found that the available emotional information was more relevant than the motivation of the actors (i.e. giving something or receiving something) in predicting the dogs’ responses. Thus, dogs were able to access implicit information from the actors’ emotional states and appropriately use the affective information to make context-dependent decisions. The findings demonstrate that a non-human animal can actively acquire information from emotional expressions, infer some form of emotional state and use this functionally to make decisions.

I have a student who…

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 356-371 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn S. Young
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Shared Understanding ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Small Stories ◽  
Education Coursework

This article investigates the use of co-constructed narrative strands to better understand the function of institutional narratives in teacher education. It uses data drawn from a large ethnographic study of talk in interaction in teacher education coursework. The analysis demonstrates how a series of similar small stories functions together to create a larger message about social categories in schooling. Narratives created by preservice teachers, through shared understanding of category systems like gender and disability, penetrate stories told in coursework and impact understandings of students in schools.

scholarly journals A DYNAMIC EMOTION REPRESENTATION MODEL WITHIN A FACIAL ANIMATION SYSTEM

2006 ◽  
Vol 03 (03) ◽  
pp. 293-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
EMMANUEL TANGUY ◽  
PHILIP J. WILLIS ◽  
JOANNA J. BRYSON
Keyword(s):  
Time Scales ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
Facial Animation ◽  
Emotional Expressions ◽  
Communicative Functions ◽  
Representation Model ◽  
Emotion Representation ◽  
Animation System ◽  
Different Time Scales

This paper presents the Dynamic Emotion Representation (DER), and demonstrates how an instance of this model can be integrated into a facial animation system. The DER model has been implemented to enable users to create their own emotion representation. Developers can select which emotions they include and how these interact. The instance of the DER model described in this paper is composed of three layers, each representing states changing over different time scales: behavior activations, emotions and moods. The design of this DER is discussed with reference to emotion theories and to the needs of a facial animation system. The DER is used in our Emotionally Expressive Facial Animation System (EE-FAS) to produce emotional expressions, to select facial signals corresponding to communicative functions in relation to the emotional state of the agent and also in relation to the comparison between the emotional state and the intended meanings expressed through communicative functions.

scholarly journals Comparing 6th Grade Science Classrooms: Inner-City versus Suburb

2006 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nida Syed
Keyword(s):  
Inner City ◽  
Cultural Transmission ◽  
School Funding ◽  
Sixth Grade ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
School Students ◽  
Science Classrooms ◽  
Ethnographic Studies ◽  
Learning Development

Do teachers in the inner-city have different expectations of their students than teachers in the suburbs? Ethnographic studies of the classroom such as one by Wilcox in 1982 suggest they do. Wilcox describes education as "primarily a process of cultural transmission". In other words, schools in a particular setting or neighborhood aim to instill in their students the cultural norms and behaviors accepted and expected in that setting. This project is an ethnographic study of two sixth grade science classrooms; one in an urban inner-city Detroit, Michigan neighborhood and one in the neighboring suburb of Dearborn. The study examines the way the two classrooms are run by the teachers and their teaching styles by comparing the types of assignments that are given to students and the implications they have on the students’ learning development. Other factors such as a comparison of school funding per pupil and the effect it has on the availability of resources necessary for learning in each classroom were also examined. We found that the Dearborn school students learned how to work individually and in groups whereas the Detroit school students learned only how to work in groups. We also found that Dearborn students were encouraged to read out loud to the class individually whereas Detroit students were often read to by the teacher.

Contextualizing the development of social essentialism

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin Pauker ◽  
Christine Tai ◽  
Shahana Ansari
Keyword(s):  
Intergroup Relations ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Group Membership ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Cultural Variation ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Psychological Essentialism

Given the critical role that psychological essentialism is theorized to play in the development of stereotyping and prejudice, researchers have increasingly examined the extent to which and when children essentialize different social categories. We review and integrate the types of contextual and cultural variation that have emerged in the literature on social essentialism. We review variability in the development of social essentialism depending on experimental tasks, participant social group membership, language use, psychological salience of category kinds, exposure to diversity, and cultural norms. We also discuss future directions for research that would help to identify the contexts in which social essentialism is less likely to develop in order to inform interventions that could reduce social essentialism and possible negative consequences for intergroup relations.

scholarly journals Style syncretism of the beginning of the XX century: the novel “I Haven’t Seen Flowers” by Denys Lukiyanovych

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (23) ◽  
pp. 124-129
Author(s):  
Liliya Shmorlivska ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Auditory Perception ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Value ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
The Trinity

In the article the short story “I haven’t seen flowers” (1904) written by Denys Lukiyanovych (1873–1965) and published only in the edition of the “Literaturno-Naukovyi Visnyk” is analyzed. It is stated that the novel is closely included in the thematic, genre-stylistic paradigm of modernism of the beginning of the twentieth century, has the main stylistic features of the analyzed period, in particular the poetics of impressionism and expressionism, sometimes naturalism. The figurative system, genre features and motives of the work are studied. The following characteristic features of the poetics of impressionism are revealed: visual and auditory perception, the presence of a lyrical hero, focusing on the innerworld of the character, leveling the significance of the dynamics of the plot. The use of images inherent in impressionism works, such as death (fluidity of time), city (mechanical life), flowers (eternity in beauty), etc. is evaluated. Attention is paid to the reception of the use of characters and replicas of characters in an epic work. The trinity “author-narrator-lyrical hero”, formed on the basis of the merger of these images, is analyzed. The use of artistic contrast in the depiction of the experience of lyrical hero is evaluated. An attempt is made to demonstrate the fragmentary, allusiveness and unprovability of writing in herentin the Impressionist style. The article also focuses on the expression of the worldview of the heroes through the prism of personal and social problems. The cult of suffering of the main character as such, which is obvious in every earthly life, is analyzed. By leveling the significance of “temporary” values, the author shows that human life is only a temporary phenomenon, on of the intermediate links of existence. Because of such interpretation of this stylistic trend, another trinity is offered, that one can notice in the work, “author-hero-reader”, because it is the latter who has to “conduct” all these “expressions” through himself. It is noted that the manifestation of naturalistic details further exaggerate the concept of death and suffering. They vividly convey the physical and emotional state of the hero, who is struggling to survive as an earthly being, but still strives for eternity. The novel is compared with other texts similar in style and written in one temporal and cultural dimension. The features of literary “value" in comparison with other works of the mentioned epoch are clarified. The conclusion about the application of stylistic syncretism at the turn of the century is made.

scholarly journals Human Emotional State Assessment Based on a Video Portrayal

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 4-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
V.A. Barabanschikov ◽  
E.V. Suvorova
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Recognition Test ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
State Assessment ◽  
Identification Accuracy ◽  
Emotional Expressions ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Valence And Arousal

The article is devoted to the results of approbation of the Geneva Emotion Recognition Test (GERT), a Swiss method for assessing dynamic emotional states, on Russian sample. Identification accuracy and the categorical fields’ structure of emotional expressions of a “living” face are analysed. Similarities and differences in the perception of affective groups of dynamic emotions in the Russian and Swiss samples are considered. A number of patterns of recognition of multi-modal expressions with changes in valence and arousal of emotions are described. Differences in the perception of dynamics and statics of emotional expressions are revealed. GERT method confirmed it’s high potential for solving a wide range of academic and applied problems.

scholarly journals Representasi Maskulinitas Hegemonik dalam Iklan

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Deddy Suprapto
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Analytical Method ◽  
Hegemonic Masculinity ◽  
Physical Appearance ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
Three Dimension

This research aims at observing how advertisement define hegemonic masculinity and identifying the models of hegemonic masculinity in Indonesia. This research takes and focuses on Gudang Garam’s 2006–2010-released advertisements for the data. This research applies the analytical method of Fairclough's three-dimension of critical discourse analysis. First, the analysis is conducted by describing the advertisements. Then, the interpretation of the contexts of both the primary and secondary data. Finally, the explanation of the socio-cultural dimension. The results of this research shows that there are transformations on the representation of hegemonic masculinity from macho  to metrosexual, which is influenced by capitalism and consumerism. The transformation is only on the physical appearance, not in its essence.

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