A Study on the Conceptualization of Consumers’ Mixed Emotions and Its Responses

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 57-90
Author(s):  
Eun Kyoung Lee ◽  
Jung Ok Jeon
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Author(s):  
Christoph Klimmt

This comment briefly examines the history of entertainment research in media psychology and welcomes the conceptual innovations in the contribution by Oliver and Bartsch (this issue). Theoretical perspectives for improving and expanding the “appreciation” concept in entertainment psychology are outlined. These refer to more systematic links of appreciation to the psychology of mixed emotions, to positive psychology, and to the psychology of death and dying – in particular, to terror management theory. In addition, methodological challenges are discussed that entertainment research faces when appreciation and the experience of “meaning for life” need to be addressed in empirical studies of media enjoyment.


2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gergana Y. Nenkov ◽  
Deborah MacInnis ◽  
Maureen Morrin

Author(s):  
Ananda Kanagaraj S ◽  
Shahina A ◽  
Devosh M ◽  
Kamalakannan N
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1990 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Christopher Daniel

Computers inspire mixed emotions among political scientists. Love, hate, fascination, ennui, and frustration sometimes occur during the course of a single computer work session. Individuals come to terms with the beast in varying ways; obviously personal work style and level of computer dependency are each scholar's own business. However, expanded use of information technology in the disciplinary curriculum is a common concern deserving discussion. Like earlier debates between behavioralists and traditionalists, the current discussion raises questions about the discipline's central purpose. This essay reviews proposals to “computerize” political science curricula in light of contemporary theories about information and managerial work.Historically, political scientists' computer involvement has been limited, but it is now intensifying in response to educational, technological, and environmental influences. Political scientists have used computers as teaching tools since at least the early 1970s, when the APSA “SETUPs” began appearing, but as novelty items, diversions reflecting the devotion of idiosyncratic individuals. This publication has disseminated many such “experiments,” as have Social Science Computer Review and the National Collegiate Software Clearinghouse. Even as desktop machines began proliferating in the early 1980s, their use in the classroom was considered to be optional, something peripheral to the discipline which one could attempt if one had the inclination.This laissez-faire ambience may be ending in the face of societal transformations. In the classroom political scientists foster intellectual skills broadly useful to former students. A student may be an activist or an avid pre-lawyer, but his or her future professional development will be built on analytical, and communications skills honed in political science courses. This linkage between political science classrooms and the professional world could weaken if we do not adopt to societal change.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iris K. Schneider ◽  
Angela Rachael Dorrough ◽  
Celine Frank

The COVID-19 pandemic poses one of the largest behavioral change challenges in the last decades. Because currently, there is no widely available pharmaceutical treatment available to contain the spread of infection, governments worldwide rely – at least to some extent – on behavioral recommendations aimed at reducing spread. The success of this strategy is dependent on the number of people that follow the recommendations. Most recommendations need people to change their behavior or adopt a new behavior. We propose that such behavioral change, with direct costs and delayed benefits, is a source of conflict and mixed feelings. This ambivalence negatively affects adherence to such recommendations. We present three studies that support our hypotheses: the more ambivalent people are about the recommendations, the less they follow them. We also examined the effect of the mixed emotions of hope and worry on adherence and find that it positively relates to adherence. Our findings replicated both in a U.S. sample as well as a representative German sample. Our work is the first to investigate the role of ambivalence in large-scale behavior change and highlight the importance of understanding the conflict that comes with changing behavior. We discuss implications for policy and communication.


Author(s):  
Patti Williams ◽  
Jennifer Lynn Aaker
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PLoS ONE ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. e103940 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Braniecka ◽  
Ewa Trzebińska ◽  
Aneta Dowgiert ◽  
Agata Wytykowska
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2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 1881-1889 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer C. Veilleux ◽  
Megan Conrad ◽  
Jon D. Kassel

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