scholarly journals “Golden Valleys”: On the New Novel by Roman Senchin

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (5) ◽  
pp. 7-12
Author(s):  
Ilia Nichiporov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Experience ◽  
Psychological Aspects ◽  
Central Character ◽  
Panoramic Image ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Novel

The article presents one of the first responses to the literary novelty of Roman Senchin’s novel “Golden Valleys” (2021). The socio-psychological aspects of the problem, the images of the heroes, the panoramic image of the regional life of the country over the past decades are considered. Special attention is paid to the consciousness of the central character of the 20-year-old geologist student as penetrating analyst of personal, family and social experience.

scholarly journals “At my age, you live in your mind”: Reviewing the Past in Bruno´s Dream by Iris Murdoch

2019 ◽  
pp. 33-55
Author(s):  
Mari´´angel Soláns García
Keyword(s):  
Life Review ◽  
Psychological Aspects ◽  
Central Character ◽  
Iris Murdoch ◽  
The Past ◽  
Last Stage ◽  
The Way

This paper analyses the way in which the ageing Bruno, the central character of Iris Murdoch´s Bruno´s Dream (1969), approaches his death and confronts the meaning of finitude. His last stage of life is understood as a time of reminiscence that brings up past conflicts. This study offers an opportunity to explore the moral and psychological aspects of guilt, regret and forgiveness, which trigger the process that Robert N. Butler called “life review.” It also aims to examine Murdoch’s philosophical concepts about love and her idea of unself.

A Macroergonomic Approach for Improving Safety and Work Design

1992 ◽  
Vol 36 (11) ◽  
pp. 859-861 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mitsuo Nagamachi ◽  
Andrew S. Imada
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Work Performance ◽  
Psychological Aspects ◽  
Work Design ◽  
Work Place ◽  
Human Suffering ◽  
The Past ◽  
Safe Work ◽  
Physical Dimensions

Over the past few years the concept of macroergonomics has heightened our awareness of how human factors can be successfully implemented in the work place. One application of this approach addresses the importance of psychological aspects of work that contribute to safe work performance. Traditionally safety interventionists, and to some extent, human factors professionals, have focused exclusively on the physical dimensions of work. Emphasizing the psychological and organizational impacts on safety represents a broader macroergonomic approach to human factors interventions. There is evidence that this approach has merit in reducing human suffering and costs.

scholarly journals Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)/SARS-CoV-2: Hopefully, the Human-Virus Battle Ends Soon on a Positive Note

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Venkata Ramana Kandi
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Potential Threat ◽  
European Continent ◽  
Human Virus ◽  
Smallpox Virus ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Novel ◽  
Late 18Th Century ◽  
Spanish Flu

The emergence and re-emergence of infectious diseases are not uncommon to humans. We have been seeing this, repeated many a time in the past, that the new/novel microbial species emerge and pose a potential threat to the whole of mankind. Among those infectious diseases which threatened mankind, the Smallpox virus appears to have had the greatest impact. Smallpox virus was suspected to be present on the earth since 10,000 B.C., but its presence and the effect on humans was established only in the late 18th century to the early 20th century when people suffered from its consequences. Most people (>75%) infected with smallpox died, leaving a sense of doom among humans. Later, or probably during the same time, there was the emergence of an infectious disease called “plague”, which swept across many countries and caused a lot of mortality. This disease was also called the black death, due to the nature of lesions caused and the thousands of people who were dying in very less time. We have also seen the emergence of a novel influenza virus, the Spanish flu (1918) which caused a severe pandemic. Interestingly, all these infectious diseases caused pandemics involving several countries, and causing increased mortality, especially in the European continent. In this editorial I discuss the significance of the most recent pandemic caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV2), also called Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19).

Philosophy, Science, and the Human Situation

1962 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 509-524
Author(s):  
John J. Fitzgerald
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Social Experience ◽  
Important Criterion ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Human Survival ◽  
The Past ◽  
Human Situation ◽  
Historical Processes ◽  
Historical Condition ◽  
The Universe

It is a commonplace of personal and social experience that, having once secured the conditions of human survival and temporal well-being, men have always turned their curiosities to the hows and whys of the universe and themselves in it. Generally, the results of such investigations have found expression in behavioral and systematic patterns formulated in their speculative learnings and assimilated into the language and culture of their times. These learnings and cultures, no less than the universe and societies of which they are the meaningful expressions, are the products of concrete and unique historical processes. To ignore this essentially historical condition of the emergence and development of human learnings and cultures is to risk sacrificing that all-important criterion by which any subsequent age is able to discern and assimilate the definitive achievements of every prior age and thus avoid the extreme alternatives of wholly accepting or wholly rejecting all of the achievements of any given age. To effect this discernment between the tentative and the definitive in the recorded results of our civilized past would seem, therefore, to require some broad yet genuine appreciation of the variables and the constants, the discontinuities and continuities in the past. It is to contribute something to the large task of that discernment that this analysis addresses itself.

Interrogation of foreign citizens: Criminal procedure and psychological aspects

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 57-67
Author(s):  
Madina Makarenko
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Criminal Procedure ◽  
Psychological Aspects ◽  
Average Decrease ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Psychological Features

The possibility of illegal movement of foreign citizens from countries of residence across state borders to the territory of the Russian Federation has led to the fact that most of them have been criminally active in recent years. Over the past three years, the rate of crimes committed by foreign citizens and stateless persons has not significantly decreased (an average decrease of 6% per year). Based on an analysis of the scientific literature and law enforcement practice, the article discusses some criminal procedural, psychological and other features of interrogation of foreign citizens in criminal investigations. The following features and factors that influence the conduct of interrogations with the participation of foreign citizens are highlighted as necessary: the legal status of a foreign citizen, including the presence or absence of legal immunity or citizenship; language barrier, a complex of ethno-social, ethno-cultural and psychological features of its existence and development.

How Do Adolescents Get Their E-Cigarettes and Other Electronic Vaping Devices?

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 420-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica K. Pepper ◽  
Ellen M. Coats ◽  
James M. Nonnemaker ◽  
Brett R. Loomis
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Social Experience ◽  
Completion Rate ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Social Situations ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Past ◽  
Over Time

Purpose: More adolescents “vape” (use e-cigarettes and similar devices) than smoke, but little is known about how underage users obtain vaping devices. This knowledge could inform efforts to prevent youth access. Design: Original cross-sectional survey with social media recruitment. Settings: Online. Participants: A total of 1729 adolescents (2809 qualified on screener; completion rate 61.6%) aged 15 to 17 years who vaped in the past 30 days. Measures: Adolescents’ vaping attitudes, ownership of vaping devices, how they obtain devices, and frequency of borrowing others’ devices. Analysis: Logistic regression. Results: Most adolescents (78.2%) owned a vaping device. The most common sources were purchasing from a store or online (31.1%), buying from another person (16.3%), or giving someone money to purchase for them (15.0%). The majority (72.8%) had used someone else’s vaping device in the past 30 days. Adolescents who vaped more often, did not own a vaping device, vaped in social situations, and had previously been refused purchase were more likely to frequently borrow others’ devices. Conclusions: Despite high rates of ownership, many adolescents borrowed devices, suggesting that borrowing is part of users’ social experience, not just a means of acquisition. Although better enforcement of age restrictions could lessen purchasing, future research is needed to understand why adolescents borrow and how their acquisition sources shift over time. That information could be harnessed for targeted, borrowing-related antivaping campaigns.

scholarly journals Memories from the Darkness in the Films of Pedro Costa and Affonso Uchôa

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (17) ◽  
pp. 38-56
Author(s):  
Edson Pereira da Costa Júnior
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Traumatic Events ◽  
Social Experience ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The Past ◽  
World Cinema ◽  
Representation Of Space

This essay analyses realist works from contemporary world cinema wherein the representation of space-time is directly affected by the color black, referring to both night and dark shadows. It investigates exactly how darkness participates in moments when the filmed subjects remember traumatic events and confront them through their courageous retellings. My hypothesis is that the color black converts the space—realistic and concerning the characters’ present time—into a place where different temporalities coexist. Through a comparative analysis of films made by the Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa and the Brazilian filmmaker Affonso Uchôa in the past two decades, I show how this modulation in space-time produced through color has a political meaning, since the narrated memories are related to a social experience of class and race.

Post-witness, counter-bystander and the (unclaimed) experience

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roma Sendyka
Keyword(s):  
Social Experience ◽  
Trauma Theory ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Past ◽  
Theoretical Frame ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Public Witness

Selected videos by Miroslaw Bałka are discussed within the theoretical frame of witnessing and post-witnessing. The concepts of bystander, counter-public witness, and implicated subject allow to understand the artist’s site and point toward Holocaust bystanders in Poland. Localized experience of the past violence is analyzed in the article in relation to trauma theory but trauma is understood here beyond the individual level, as a shared, cultural, and social experience.

Review Lecture Psychological aspects of short-term and long-term memory

1970 ◽  
Vol 175 (1041) ◽  
pp. 333-350 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Short Term Memory ◽  
Psychological Aspects ◽  
Long Term Memory ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Associative Interference ◽  
Term Memory ◽  
The Past

During the past decade, there has been a rapid increase in the number of published experiments on short-term memory. These have been stimulated by a clash between some investigators who regarded that form of memory as having distinct and peculiar qualities, and others who contended that the same principles apply both to short-term and to long-term memory. This latter group in particular wished to make use of the principle of associative interference, which has been established as of major importance in long-term memory. That is, much forgetting is due to the need to remember other things, rather than to deterioration of the desired memory itself. All parties now agree that an ‘iconic’ or ‘pre-perceptual’ storage exists, to which the principles of long-term memory do not apply. Once information has passed beyond this stage, however, it is clear that these principles do play a part even in short-term memory; but that there are nevertheless some major experimental differences between memory over short periods and over long periods.

Psychological Aspects of Serious Games

2013 ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Boyle
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Skill Acquisition ◽  
Serious Games ◽  
Psychological Aspects ◽  
Hard Science ◽  
The Past ◽  
Learning Skill ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
And Training

Over the past fifteen years there has been increasing interest in serious games as a new medium for learning, skill acquisition, and training. Developing and evaluating engaging and effective serious games presents an interdisciplinary challenge. Psychology is at the interface between hard science and social science and is uniquely placed to play an integrative role in advancing our understanding of the characteristics and impacts of serious games. As the diversity of the chapters in this book illustrates, psychologists have wide-ranging interests in serious games. The purpose of the current chapter is to introduce key concepts, constructs, theories, and research in psychology to examine areas where these are relevant to serious games and provide a context for subsequent chapters in the book.

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