ENERGY INTENSITY OF A WORD (BASED ON MIXED EMOTIONS)

Author(s):  
А.А. Штеба

В статье рассматриваются процессы эмоционально-смысловых модуляций семантики слов, а также факторы, приводящие к подобным изменениям конвенциональной семантики. На примере языковой категоризации смешанных эмоций, под которыми понимается объединение в синтаксически оформленное целое номинаций моно-, поли- и амбивалентных эмоциональных переживаний, показано, каким образом вербализация данного эмоционального переживания трансформирует семантику нейтральных лексических единиц. В соответствии с концепцией контекстных переходов (или bridging context) показано, что ситуативное (новое) значение лексической единицы, актуализируемое в той или иной коммуникативной ситуации, вступает в противоречие с нормативным значением. Данная внутренняя амбивалентность и противоречивость представляются движущим фактором развития, усложнения семантики. Поддерживается тезис о том, что семантика любого слова («внутреннее» слова) представляет собой энергийную сущность, а трансформация нейтральных лексических единиц в эмотивы является приемом объективации данного скрытого энергийного потенциала слова. В результате проведенного исследования показано, что экспликация смешанных эмоций выступает в функции катализатора энергийной сущности семантики слов. При этом любая лексическая единица характеризуется конвенциональной и индивидуальной семантикой. Последнюю, в свою очередь, актуализирует ряд факторов, к которым можно отнести контекст, коммуникативную ситуацию, коммуникативные намерения говорящего, его интенциональные векторы. The article deals with the processes of emotional and semantic modulations of word semantics, as well as factors that lead to such changes in conventional semantics. Using the example of language categorization of mixed emotions, which is understood as combining the categories of mono -, poly - and ambivalent emotional experiences into a syntactically formed whole, it is shown how the verbalization of this emotional experience transforms the semantics of neutral lexical units. In accordance with the concept of contextual transitions (or bridging context), it is shown that the situational (new) meaning of a lexical unit, which is updated in a particular communicative situation, comes into conflict with the normative meaning. This internal ambivalence and inconsistency seems to be a driving factor in the development and complexity of semantics. The thesis is supported that the semantics of any word (the interior word) is an energy entity, and the transformation of neutral lexical units into emotives is a method of objectification of this hidden energy potential of the word. As a result of the research, it is shown that the explication of mixed emotions acts as a catalyst for the energy essence of word semantics. At the same time, any lexical unit is characterized by conventional and individual semantics. The latter, in turn, actualizes a number of factors, which can include the context, the communicative situation, the speaker's communicative intentions, and his intentional vectors.

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 176-181
Author(s):  
Alexey A. Shteba ◽  

The article deals with the cognitive complexity of language categorization of emotional experiences on the example of mixed emotions. Using the concept of diplasty, which is a combination of opposite stimuli that destabilize human activity, it is shown that the explication of mixed emotions corresponds to the paradigm of complexity, the key elements of which are integrity, inconsistency, and non-linearity. The complexity paradigm presupposes the existence of a simplicity paradigm, which is a language system that has predetermined conventional means of expressing emotions in language and speech. By their cognitive complexity, mixed emotions introduce an element of instability and thus expand the potency of the system, transform it, and enlarge it. Mixed emotions, in which several types are inventoried (mono-, ambi-, and polyvalent), consist of a conscious or cognitive component and an actual emotional component that is directly experienced. The latter is defined in accordance with the methods of expressing the actual division of the sentence, when such components as the theme, the transition of Rema and Rema are distinguished within a syntactically linear explication of a mixed emotion, which correspond to the concept of informative significance. In this case, the Rema can be divided into sub-remas, the number of which is potentially unlimited. Taking into account the analysis of factual material from fiction and the results of the survey, it is proved that the dominant of mixed emotions for the speaker is not one of its components, but a complete indeterminate (mixed) emotional experience. At the same time, a relatively more active emotional experience forms the emotional dominant of the mixed emotion, regardless of whether this nomination is located in the prepositive or postpositive part of the lexical explication of the mixed emotion.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-90
Author(s):  
Lilian J. Shin ◽  
Seth M. Margolis ◽  
Lisa C. Walsh ◽  
Sylvia Y. C. L. Kwok ◽  
Xiaodong Yue ◽  
...  

AbstractRecent theory suggests that members of interdependent (collectivist) cultures prioritize in-group happiness, whereas members of independent (individualist) cultures prioritize personal happiness (Uchida et al. Journal of Happiness Studies, 5(3), 223–239 Uchida et al., 2004). Thus, the well-being of friends and family may contribute more to the emotional experience of individuals with collectivist rather than individualist identities. We tested this hypothesis by asking participants to recall a kind act they had done to benefit either close others (e.g., family members) or distant others (e.g., strangers). Study 1 primed collectivist and individualist cultural identities by asking bicultural undergraduates (N = 357) from Hong Kong to recall kindnesses towards close versus distant others in both English and Chinese, while Study 2 compared university students in the USA (n = 106) and Hong Kong (n = 93). In Study 1, after being primed with the Chinese language (but not after being primed with English), participants reported significantly improved affect valence after recalling kind acts towards friends and family than after recalling kind acts towards strangers. Extending this result, in Study 2, respondents from Hong Kong (but not the USA) who recalled kind acts towards friends and family showed higher positive affect than those who recalled kind acts towards strangers. These findings suggest that people with collectivist cultural identities may have relatively more positive and less negative emotional experiences when they focus on prosocial interactions with close rather than weak ties.


2009 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Oceja ◽  
Pilar Carrera

The Analogical Emotional Scale (AES) permits respondents to represent the changes that occur in the course of two different emotions over the time in which they are experienced ( Carrera & Oceja, 2007 ). We tested whether the use of the AES allows us to go beyond the distinction between sequential and simultaneous emotional experiences. Specifically, the AES permits us to detect and discriminate at least four different patterns of mixed emotional experience: sequential, prevalence, inverse, and highly simultaneous. We carried out four studies in which different stimuli were used for inducing emotion: personal memories, verbal accounts, videos, and photographs. The results supported our expectation that these four patterns are associated with different levels of emotional ambivalence and tension along a continuum from lesser to greater: sequential, prevalence, inverse, and highly simultaneous.


2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-58
Author(s):  
Elena D. Andonova-Kalapsazova

The article undertakes the analysis of Ann Radcliffe’s novel The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents (1797) from a history of literary emotions perspective which, I argue, yields insights into the attitudes towards emotions embedded in Radcliffe’s works. A reading of the novel from such a perspective also complements the critical studies of the artist’s engaging with the eighteenth-century cult of sensibility. The novel is read as a text that registered but also participated in the dissemination of an epistemology of emotional experience articulated in the idiom of eighteenth-century moral philosophers – Francis Hutcheson, David Hume and Adam Smith - at the same time as it retained some of the older, theology-based conceptions of passions and affections. The dynamic in which the two frameworks for understanding the emotions exist in the novel is explored through a close reading of the vocabulary in which Radcliffe rendered the emotional experiences of her fictional characters. In this reading it is the passions which are found to have been invested with a variety of meanings and attributed a range of moral valences that most noticeably foreground the movement from a generally negative towards a more complex appreciation of powerful emotions.


2020 ◽  
pp. 34-35
Author(s):  
Rafael Lucio de Mattos

This research focuses on the development of emotionally directed gaming experiences demonstrating how the same game, when subjected to targeted audiovisual changes that do not affect its rules, objectives, and mechanics, can provide different emotional experiences. These experiences are related to the psychological and player motivation profiles of each individual. To this end, the research was structured into four main parts. The first, theoretical-conceptual, explored game design, seeking to find structures and elements that make up a game and the experience it proposes. A bibliographic review was carried out on: the study of emotions, including different classification approaches; a study on the relationships established between player, avatar, and game environment; and the concept of emotional design, proposed by Don Norman. The second part, analytical-investigative, consisted of the case study of three games (Journey, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, and Thomas Was Alone) with different gaming experience proposals. They were analyzed using a methodology based on game design elements and their relationship with the levels of emotional design. In this way, it was possible to understand how the design of each game contributes to the creation/development of different emotional experiences. In the third part, a field research was carried out to collect the psychological (Big Five) and player motivation (Quantic Foundry) profiles, through the application of questionnaires. The participants were then divided into groups according to their profiles (psychological and player motivation) to participate in the second part of this stage. Based on the information gathered by the previous steps, a short game was developed. From it, changes in its design were made to generate modified versions that, maintaining the game structure and essential rules, proposed different experiences to the players. All games had a player performance information collection system developed specifically for the research. The games were then made available to participants from the previous stages, who answered a final questionnaire. The responses, as well as information about the players’ performance, were used both to assess how each game affected the perception and to verify whether the psychological and motivation profiles of the player help to understand the emotional experiences of the game. Thus, the fourth part consisted of putting the knowledge into practice and testing the hypotheses developed from the previous steps and listed below. The research showed that 1) the visual and sound aesthetic influence of a game can have a considerable impact on the experience of playing, even if it does not affect the game mechanically; 2) The Big Five psychological profile and the player motivation profile are related to the emotional gaming experiences and can be used to better understand them.


2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (8) ◽  
pp. 1346-1357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik C. Nook ◽  
Stephanie F. Sasse ◽  
Hilary K. Lambert ◽  
Katie A. McLaughlin ◽  
Leah H. Somerville

People differ in how specifically they separate affective experiences into different emotion types—a skill called emotion differentiation or emotional granularity. Although increased emotion differentiation has been associated with positive mental health outcomes, little is known about its development. Participants ( N = 143) between the ages of 5 and 25 years completed a laboratory measure of negative emotion differentiation in which they rated how much a series of aversive images made them feel angry, disgusted, sad, scared, and upset. Emotion-differentiation scores were computed using intraclass correlations. Emotion differentiation followed a nonlinear developmental trajectory: It fell from childhood to adolescence and rose from adolescence to adulthood. Mediation analyses suggested that an increased tendency to report feeling emotions one at a time explained elevated emotion differentiation in childhood. Importantly, two other mediators (intensity of emotional experiences and scale use) did not explain this developmental trend. Hence, low emotion differentiation in adolescence may arise because adolescents have little experience conceptualizing co-occurring emotions.


Author(s):  
David H. Barlow ◽  
Kristen K. Ellard ◽  
Christopher P. Fairholme ◽  
Todd J. Farchione ◽  
Christina L. Boisseau ◽  
...  

This online patient workbook is a radical departure from disorder-specific treatments of various emotional disorders, and is designed to be applicable to all anxiety and unipolar mood disorders, as well as other disorders with strong emotional components, such as many somatoform and dissociative disorders. It covers the Unified Protocol (UP), which capitalizes on the contributions made by cognitive-behavioral theorists by distilling and incorporating the common principles of CBT present in all evidenced based protocols for specific emotional disorders, as well as drawing on the field of emotion science for insights into deficits in emotion regulation. It discusses the seven modules of UP, and focuses on four core strategies: becoming mindfully aware of emotional experience; reappraising rigid emotion laden attributions; identifying and preventing behavioral and emotional avoidance; and facilitating exposure to both interoceptive and situational cues associated with emotional experiences.


2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karla Straker ◽  
Cara Wrigley

Purpose The purpose of this study is to identify and understand the emotions behind a passenger’s airport experience and how this can inform digital channel engagements. Design/methodology/approach This study investigates the emotional experience of 200 passengers’ journeys at an Australian domestic airport. A survey was conducted which implemented the use of Emocards and an interview approach of laddering. The responses were then analysed into attributes, consequences and values. Findings The results indicate that across key stages of the airport (parking, retail, gates and arrivals) passengers had different emotional experiences (positive, negative and neutral). The attributes, consequences and values behind these emotions were then used to propose digital channel content and purpose of various future digital channel engagements. Research limitations/implications By gaining emotional insights, airports are able to generate digital channel engagements, which align with passengers’ needs and values rather than internal operational motivations. Theoretical contributions include the development of the technology acceptance model to include emotional drivers as influences in the use of digital channels. Originality/value This paper provides a unique method to understand the passengers’ emotional journey across the airport infrastructure and suggest how to better design digital channel engagements to address passenger latent needs.


Author(s):  
Irina Chiriac ◽  
Gabriela Ignat ◽  
George Ungureanu ◽  
Dragoş Alexandru Robu ◽  
Carmen Luiza Costuleanu

Bio-economy is a major area of the strategy that must enable the European Union to achieve growth: smart, through the development of knowledge and innovation; and sustainable, based on a greener, more efficient economy in resource management. We believe that the progress of bio-economy cannot be achieved without the harnessing of intellectual capital. Our research aimed to emphasize the benefits of the dynamics of the intellectual capital growth on the evolution of the bio-economy. The aim of this analysis was to study the established link between the Energy Intensity of the Economy (EIE) and a number of factors that can measure the intellectual capital, such as: Market Capitalization of Bitcoin, Patent applications listed by European Patent Office and the Turnover from Innovation as a proportion of the total Turnover. The ultimate goal was represented by the generation of a regression model to see what factor influences mostly the progress of the bio-economy at European and Romanian level.


Author(s):  
Irina Chiriac ◽  
Gabriela Ignat ◽  
George Ungureanu ◽  
Dragoş Alexandru Robu ◽  
Carmen Luiza Costuleanu

Bio-economy is a major area of the strategy that must enable the European Union to achieve growth: smart, through the development of knowledge and innovation; and sustainable, based on a greener, more efficient economy in resource management. We believe that the progress of bio-economy cannot be achieved without the harnessing of intellectual capital. Our research aimed to emphasize the benefits of the dynamics of the intellectual capital growth on the evolution of the bio-economy. The aim of this analysis was to study the established link between the Energy Intensity of the Economy (EIE) and a number of factors that can measure the intellectual capital, such as: Market Capitalization of Bitcoin, Patent applications listed by European Patent Office and the Turnover from Innovation as a proportion of the total Turnover. The ultimate goal was represented by the generation of a regression model to see what factor influences mostly the progress of the bio-economy at European and Romanian level.


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