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Black German ◽

10.5949/liverpool/9781781383117.003.0003 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Theodor Michael

Keyword(s):

Negative Experiences ◽

African Heritage ◽

People’S Attitudes

This book would never have been written if the children and grandchildren of two big families hadn’t pestered me for years to put my memories on paper. My children have had to suffer rejection, exclusion, insults and undisguised racism as a result of their heritage. Their children, the great-grandchildren of Theophilus Wonja Michael from the German colony Cameroon, whose African heritage is now barely visible, have rarely had to suffer such negative experiences. That means that if anything they are proud of their African heritage and their appearance. So the question is: When will there be a change in people’s attitudes to Germans who at first sight look foreign?...

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Factors influencing local attitudes towards the conservation of leopard cats Prionailurus bengalensis in rural Taiwan

Oryx ◽

10.1017/s0030605318000984 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 54 (6) ◽

pp. 866-872 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ian Best ◽

Kurtis Jai-Chyi Pei

Keyword(s):

Wildlife Conservation ◽

Animal Husbandry ◽

Demographic Variables ◽

Negative Attitudes ◽

Negative Experiences ◽

Demographic Groups ◽

Positive Attitudes ◽

Leopard Cat ◽

Prionailurus Bengalensis ◽

People’S Attitudes

AbstractUnderstanding the human dimension is critical for effective conservation management of species involved in human–carnivore conflict. There is also a need to recognize who among the local human population is supportive of wildlife conservation. We investigated how local people's attitudes and knowledge of the leopard cat Prionailurus bengalensis are influenced by socio-demographic variables, encounter rates and the nature of encounters with the felid in Taiwan. During June–August 2014 we interviewed 150 residents in Miaoli County in northern Taiwan, where the leopard cat is known to occur. More than half of the participants indicated they were supportive of leopard cat conservation. The majority of those who expressed positive attitudes towards protection of the leopard cat belonged to younger, more educated socio-demographic groups. Negative attitudes towards leopard cat conservation were most prevalent among farmers, who also reported the highest incidence of negative experiences, mainly involving predation of poultry. We provide recommendations to mitigate human–felid conflict, including changes to animal husbandry practices. We also describe how conservation efforts for this species and wildlife in general in Taiwan could be improved, for example through incentive and awareness-raising programmes.

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Minimizing Carry-Over Effects After Treatment Failure and Maximizing Therapeutic Outcome

Zeitschrift für Psychologie ◽

10.1027/2151-2604/a000180 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 222 (3) ◽

pp. 171-178 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Mareile Hofmann ◽

Nathalie Wrobel ◽

Simon Kessner ◽

Ulrike Bingel

Keyword(s):

Treatment Failure ◽

Human Subjects ◽

Subsequent Treatment ◽

Clinical Samples ◽

Administration Route ◽

Healthy Human ◽

Negative Experiences ◽

Analgesic Treatment ◽

Balanced Design ◽

Carry Over

According to experimental and clinical evidence, the experiences of previous treatments are carried over to different therapeutic approaches and impair the outcome of subsequent treatments. In this behavioral pilot study we used a change in administration route to investigate whether the effect of prior treatment experience on a subsequent treatment depends on the similarity of both treatments. We experimentally induced positive or negative experiences with a topical analgesic treatment in two groups of healthy human subjects. Subsequently, we compared responses to a second, unrelated and systemic analgesic treatment between both the positive and negative group. We found that there was no difference in the analgesic response to the second treatment between the two groups. Our data indicate that a change in administration route might reduce the influence of treatment history and therefore be a way to reduce negative carry-over effects after treatment failure. Future studies will have to validate these findings in a fully balanced design including larger, clinical samples.

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Emotional Impact Feedback Changes How We Remember Negative Autobiographical Experiences

Experimental Psychology (formerly Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie) ◽

10.1027/1618-3169/a000042 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 57 (5) ◽

pp. 354-359 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Melanie K. T. Takarangi ◽

Deryn Strange

Keyword(s):

Well Being ◽

The Other ◽

Personal Perspective ◽

Emotional Impact ◽

Potential Mechanism ◽

Negative Experiences ◽

Negative Memory ◽

The Relationship ◽

Negative Memories ◽

Over Time

When people are told that their negative memories are worse than other people’s, do they later remember those events differently? We asked participants to recall a recent negative memory then, 24 h later, we gave some participants feedback about the emotional impact of their event – stating it was more or less negative compared to other people’s experiences. One week later, participants recalled the event again. We predicted that if feedback affected how participants remembered their negative experiences, their ratings of the memory’s characteristics should change over time. That is, when participants are told that their negative event is extremely negative, their memories should be more vivid, recollected strongly, and remembered from a personal perspective, compared to participants in the other conditions. Our results provide support for this hypothesis. We suggest that external feedback might be a potential mechanism in the relationship between negative memories and psychological well-being.

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