F Meaning Attribution (MeaAtt) categories in Study III

2020 ◽  
pp. 311-312
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Attribution

LSD, madness and healing: Mystical experiences as possible link between psychosis model and therapy model

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Isabel Wießner ◽  
Marcelo Falchi ◽  
Fernanda Palhano-Fontes ◽  
Amanda Feilding ◽  
Sidarta Ribeiro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Therapeutic Potential ◽  
Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire ◽  
Psychotic Experience ◽  
Creative Imagination ◽  
Double Blind ◽  
Alteration Of Consciousness ◽  
Therapy Model ◽  
Aberrant Salience ◽  
Mystical Experiences ◽  
Meaning Attribution

Abstract Background For a century, psychedelics have been investigated as models of psychosis for demonstrating phenomenological similarities with psychotic experiences and as therapeutic models for treating depression, anxiety, and substance use disorders. This study sought to explore this paradoxical relationship connecting key parameters of the psychotic experience, psychotherapy, and psychedelic experience. Methods In a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover design, 24 healthy volunteers received 50 μg d-lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) or inactive placebo. Psychotic experience was assessed by aberrant salience (Aberrant Salience Inventory, ASI), therapeutic potential by suggestibility (Creative Imagination Scale, CIS) and mindfulness (Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire, FFMQ; Mindful Attention Awareness Scale, MAAS; Experiences Questionnaire, EQ), and psychedelic experience by four questionnaires (Altered State of Consciousness Questionnaire, ASC; Mystical Experiences Questionnaire, MEQ; Challenging Experiences Questionnaire, CEQ; Ego-Dissolution Inventory, EDI). Relationships between LSD-induced effects were examined. Results LSD induced psychedelic experiences, including alteration of consciousness, mystical experiences, ego-dissolution, and mildly challenging experiences, increased aberrant salience and suggestibility, but not mindfulness. LSD-induced aberrant salience correlated highly with complex imagery, mystical experiences, and ego-dissolution. LSD-induced suggestibility correlated with no other effects. Individual mindfulness changes correlated with aspects of aberrant salience and psychedelic experience. Conclusions The LSD state resembles a psychotic experience and offers a tool for healing. The link between psychosis model and therapeutic model seems to lie in mystical experiences. The results point to the importance of meaning attribution for the LSD psychosis model and indicate that psychedelic-assisted therapy might benefit from therapeutic suggestions fostering mystical experiences.

Politics of alliance in the farmers’ march to Parliament in India

2021 ◽  
pp. 026858092110512
Author(s):  
Simin Fadaee
Keyword(s):  
Trade Unions ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Political Opportunities ◽  
Charles Tilly ◽  
Scant Attention ◽  
Meaning Attribution ◽  
Agrarian Crisis ◽  
Activist Groups ◽  
Alliance Building

On 30 November 2018 tens of thousands of Indian farmers marched to Parliament and demanded a special session to discuss the deepening agrarian crisis. The protest march to Parliament was only the latest in a series of protest marches which had been organized by an umbrella group of over 200 farmers’ organizations from all over India. Moreover, for the first time, an alliance of different activist groups, political parties, trade unions and students had cohered to support the farmers and their cause. Despite its political, empirical and theoretical significance, research on the formation of alliances has gained scant attention in sociological research. Based on original research, this article suggests alliance building should be understood with reference to political opportunities, processes of meaning attribution and framing, and as a strategy, which facilitates worthiness, unity, numbers and commitment (WUNC displays, as outlined by Charles Tilly).

The Effect of Form on Attributing Meanings to Materials

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elvin Karana ◽  
Wikke van Weelderen ◽  
Ernst-Jan van Woerden
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Materials Selection ◽  
Technical Aspects ◽  
Use Context ◽  
Meaning Attribution

Materials in product design used to be selected based especially on manufacturability concerns and technical aspects such as strength, conductivity, elasticity, etc. Nowadays, the increasing recognition for more intangible issues like meaning attribution or creating emotions in product design made designers shift their focus towards the intangible aspects in their materials selection activity as well. In this research, we aim to concentrate particularly on attributing meanings to materials. It is crucial to realize that several aspects (function, use, context, user, etc.) can be effective in attributing meanings to materials and they should be taken into consideration during the selection process. In this paper, we focus intensively on one of these aspects: the effect of form on attributing meanings to materials. The paper consists of four related studies exploring how people associate some forms with some particular materials and weather form can be effective in changing these ascribed meanings, or not.

scholarly journals Non-Manual Expression – Sign Language as L2

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 101-111
Author(s):  
Cayley Guimarães ◽  
Rita Cassia Maestri
Keyword(s):  
Sign Language ◽  
Oral Language ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Pedagogical Strategy ◽  
Visual Spatial ◽  
Linguistic System ◽  
Brazilian Sign Language ◽  
Meaning Attribution ◽  
Symbolic Processes ◽  
Communication Culture

Sign Language is fundamental for Deaf communication, culture and citizenship. The Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) is a complet linguistic system, of visual-spatial modality, with specificities that present a challenge for teaching and learning as L2. Non-Manual Expression is on atributte of the language for meaning attribution. Meaning attribution occurs from visual symbolic processes where non-manual expressions acquire a central role, and differs from those used in the oral language. This requires adequate educational practices and pedagogical material for the acquisition of Libras as L2. This research proposes a learning object and a methodology for teaching and learning of Libras in the form of a game that focus on non-manual expressions. The proposed methodology comprises the context, the theme of the communication situation, the utterance of the sign in Libras, along with learning fixation activities. Validation shows the importance of valuing the grammar of Libras as a pedagogical strategy that is adequate to teaching and learning non-manual expression in Libras.

Exploring Member-Leader Behaviors and Interaction in an Online Support Group

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 452-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily A. Paskewitz ◽  
Stephenson J. Beck
Keyword(s):  
Support Groups ◽  
Support Group ◽  
Process Analysis ◽  
Online Support ◽  
Online Support Groups ◽  
Leader Behaviors ◽  
Online Support Group ◽  
Online Groups ◽  
Meaning Attribution ◽  
To Receive

Online support groups are a common way for people to receive social support. Utilizing online support sites allows members to connect with people in similar situations, without the need for geographic proximity. Many online groups rely on member-leaders, or individuals with personal experience, to lead groups. These member-leaders are often favored by members over professional leaders but often lack training in leadership. This project explored how member-leaders interact in an online support group. This article uses both interaction process analysis (IPA) and research on leader behaviors to understand how member-leaders communicate in online support groups. Results show that leaders primarily use task messages, with the majority of leader behaviors labeled as meaning attribution and use of self. Member-leaders primarily focused on perspective taking rather than discussion facilitation. An examination of the task and relational interaction profile in terms of leader behaviors is also explored.

scholarly journals The Effect of Simple Melodic Lines on Aesthetic Experience: Brain Response to Structural Manipulations

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefania Ferri ◽  
Cristina Meini ◽  
Giorgio Guiot ◽  
Daniela Tagliafico ◽  
Gabriella Gilli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Memory Load ◽  
Syntactic Structure ◽  
Superior Temporal Sulcus ◽  
Aesthetic Judgment ◽  
Brain Response ◽  
Fmri Study ◽  
Musical Knowledge ◽  
Meaning Attribution ◽  
Judgment Data

This fMRI study investigates the effect of melody on aesthetic experience in listeners naïve to formal musical knowledge. Using simple melodic lines, whose syntactic structure was manipulated, we created systematic acoustic dissonance. Two stimulus categories were created: canonical (syntactically “correct,” in the Western culture) and modified (made of an altered version of the canonical melodies). The stimuli were presented under two tasks: listening and aesthetic judgment. Data were analyzed as a function of stimulus structure (canonical and modified) and stimulus aesthetics, as appraised by each participant during scanning. The critical contrast modified versus canonical stimuli produced enhanced activation of deep temporal regions, including the parahippocampus, suggesting that melody manipulation induced feelings of unpleasantness in the listeners. This was supported by our behavioral data indicating decreased aesthetic preference for the modified melodies. Medial temporal activation could also have been evoked by stimulus structural novelty determining increased memory load for the modified stimuli. The analysis of melodies judged as beautiful revealed that aesthetic judgment of simple melodies relied on a fine-structural analysis of the stimuli subserved by a left frontal activation and, possibly, on meaning attribution at the charge of right superior temporal sulcus for increasingly pleasurable stimuli.

scholarly journals Retirement and Meaning Attribution: A study with Active Workers in Brazil

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Andrade ◽  
Cláudio Torres
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Policies And Programs ◽  
Meaning Attribution

Abstract The aim of this study was to investigate the meanings attributed to retirement by active workers. For this purpose, the Retirement Meaning Scale was constructed and administered to 275 active workers (53.5% women) aged 22 to 67 years. The results reveal an ambiguous meaning attribution to the phenomenon: on one hand, there is a positive idea of freedom; on the other hand, the workers report experiences of anguish and insecurity related to retirement. Among the variables investigated, the proximity to retirement was especially relevant to the perception of the phenomenon, which influenced three of the four factors identified. This study has implications for policies and programs that aim to promote healthy experiences in retirement.

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