Affect Consciousness Research Articles

Omnichannel shopping habit development

AbstractGiven the growing importance of habit development in omnichannel literature, this study aims to explore the factors contributing to the development of omnichannel shopping habit and the subsequent impact on usage and word‐of‐mouth. Data from 512 omnichannel shoppers via an online survey were analysed using structural equation modelling. Results show that in‐store employee interactions strongly affect cognitive engagement, while digital interactions predominantly influence affective engagement. Affective engagement is key for value consciousness, which, along with affective engagement, drives habit development. Significant moderation impact of income and relationship length also suggest that higher income and longer omnichannel usage foster stronger habit due to value consciousness. Additional analysis reveals a significant moderating influence of habit between value consciousness and its outcomes. This research advances omnichannel retail literature by illustrating how the mode of interaction (digital or in‐store personal) can influence various types of engagement, and how habit works as a mediator and moderator for value consciousness in driving usage and word‐of‐mouth. Retailers can cultivate habitual omnichannel shopping by enhancing positive interactions across channels and monitoring affective engagement and value consciousness.

The Poetics of Affect Studies: Exploring Affective Turn to Gender, Culture and Society in Shashi Deshpande's The Intrusion and Other Stories

ffect Studies is an interdisciplinary cognitive science that incorporates and simultaneously discusses human psychology, medical humanities, science and technology, philosophy, history, politics, sociology, ecology, gender and queer studies, literary studies and critical theory. It also manifests various mental aspects of affective consciousness that introduce the academic cross-examination of emotional responses and experienced feelings to the social occurrences and structures of our familiar world. Affect Studies, thereby, shows the effect and reflection of social factors on the mind of people individually or collectively in diverse neural communication of human brain areas to focus on personal, social, cultural, religious, historical and political affairs. It raises affect theory as a dominant paradigm of twenty-first-century literary studies that attempts to bridge the gap between biological, psychological and social manifestations in contemporary textual criticism. Affect theory is a non-linguistic literary turn or approach to gender and sexuality, culture, society, media and communication, history, and politics and that measures mankind’s automatic feelings, emotions and reactions to the social and cultural predefined characteristics of the world. Shashi Deshpande has occupied the highly acclaimed position as a women writer in Indian English Literature and most of her writings minutely represent women’s traumatic memories and psychology, dilemma, day-to-day feelings over the poignant issue of gender discrimination, sexual harassment, rape and pregnancy, domestic violence and oppression, the traditional code and conduct of the marriage system, the melodrama of the man-woman relationship, and the crisis of women’s space and freedom in the androcentric society of India. This research paper aims to examine the theoretical discourses of affective turn to the integrated but controversial relationship between gender, culture and society in Shashi Deshpande’s ‘The Intrusion and Other Stories’ (1993). It also evaluates Deshpande’s textualization of the abstract emotion, sense of alienation and despair, sorrow and pain, inner conflicts and typical unhappy feelings of Indian women in the articulation of her female characters, their struggle for identity, and their negotiations and reactions to the matter of gender discrimination and alterity, sexual violation and marital rape, unwanted pregnancy, domestic violence and exploitation, the conventional marriage system and marital discordance, and the subjugation of women’s identity.

Cracking buildings, cracking capitalism: antagonism, affect, and the importance of squatting for housing justice

In this paper I argue that squatting provides a concrete and theoretical location for dismantling binaries between successful and failed resistance. Focusing on the development of a political and affective consciousness and the inherent antagonism within squatting above the temporality of an individual squat or occupation helps to recentre the ‘urban political’ and understand the value and power of the urban commons. I combine radical democracy and affect theory to argue for the centrality of squatting in challenging urban capitalist hegemony. Not only does squatting transform consciousness, but the physically and emotionally supportive practices that it engenders helps to return the emotive as well as the political to the urban environment. I support this claim with reference to the successful 2015 Aylesbury occupation in London, which the occupiers approached with affective solidarity and a desire to reclaim space through antagonistic urban insurrection.

Driven or lacking access: Integration types as a subdimension of the affect consciousness construct.

This article examines integration types as a sub-dimension of the affect consciousness construct to account for individual differences in how problems with the experience and expression of affects manifest. The two integration types driven and lack of access describe prototypical ways of experiencing and expressing affect, differentiating between problems characterized by too much or too little affective mobilization. Archival data from a non-clinical sample (n = 157) was used to examine the validity and reliability of integration type scales from the Affect Integration Inventory (AII 2.0). Internal structure was assessed through confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs) by structural equation modelling. Nomological validity was examined through tests of patterns of hypothesized associations between integration types across various affects and specific types of interpersonal problems (as measured by the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems; IIP-64). CFAs indicated acceptable fit for the different integration type scales and overall construct structure. Distinct sinusoidal patterns of correlations between integration types and interpersonal problems were found for the various affects examined. All correlation patterns had good fit (GoF ≥ 0.87), with significant differences in magnitude between peak and low point correlations. We conclude that differences in prototypical ways of experiencing and expressing affects can be assessed easily, quickly, and reliably, have theoretically consistent intra-domain relationships and valid structural psychometric properties, are robustly related to interpersonal functioning in general, and are systematically and differentially related to specific and theoretically hypothesized interpersonal problem types.

Corporate Moral Credit

When do companies deserve moral credit for doing what is right? This question concerns the positive side of corporate moral responsibility, the negative side of which is the more commonly discussed issue of when companies are blameworthy for doing what is wrong. I offer a broadly functionalist account of how companies can act from morally creditworthy motives, which defuses the following Strawsonian challenge to the claim that they can: morally creditworthy motivation involves being guided by attitudes of “goodwill” for others, and these attitudes involve affect and/or phenomenal consciousness, which corporate agents cannot maintain. In response, I show that what matters about being guided by attitudes of goodwill is being directly concerned for others in one’s practical deliberation. Companies can achieve this direct concern through their decision-making procedures without affect or phenomenal consciousness. I also explore how a company’s moral creditworthiness, or lack thereof, should shape stakeholders’ relationship with it.

Hunger and adaptation practices of the Kazakh village

The famine of 1931-1933 caused incalculable damage to the people of Kazakhstan. The horrors of famine that engulfed the republic shocked the whole country. The population affected by hunger fled the country, seeking refuge in other countries. In many villages, only the remains of people who died of starvation remained without burial. This famine had a negative impact on the demography of Kazakhstan. The history of famine is not only statistical indicators of mortality, behind the terrible figures are human destinies. The authors sought to show the transformation of the Kazakh village and the family-hierarchical relations of the period of the Kazakh catastrophe. The article explains the consequences of the famine that occurred in Kazakhstan from 1931 to 1933, the social situation of Kazakh villages and government measures to curb hunger. The actions of the national intelligentsia and citizens against hunger are highlighted. Documents on the history of famine reveal unique pages of adaptation practices of the Kazakh clan, Kazakh family, Kazakh village, conditioned by affective social consciousness. The authors analyzed the behavioral reactions of the population in an extreme situation. The authors attributed to them the search for alternative food sources, antisocial and destructive phenomena of individual behavior, hungry aggression. Uncharacteristic asocial forms of behavior of the Kazakh family were revealed, such as abandonment of children and the elderly, the breakdown of family ties, cannibalism, necrophagia. Family and ancestral memory has preserved a traumatic experience, a story about hunger.

The Daily Grind of Living With Chronic Pain: An Applied Hermeneutic Exploration

The purpose of this research is to explore the philosophy regarding understanding the complex experience of living with chronic pain. As well, this article addresses a person’s suffering as an evolving process of learning to not only manage pain but to learn how to live well through exploring their suffering narrative. A hermeneutical interpretive approach was used to engage participants in this research and to offer a philosophical reinterpretation of living with chronic pain from a humanistic and tacit perspective. This work is offered to invite and extend our discussions about the complexity of living with chronic pain. It can also be understood as a process of rewriting oneself from a lived chaotic state of pain into a new affective historical consciousness. This transition from acute to chronic pain explored through a philosophical context can provide insight into the ways in which patients learn to live well with their condition.

Hunger and adaptation practices of the Kazakh village

The famine of 1931-1933 caused incalculable damage to the people of Kazakhstan. The horrors of famine that engulfed the republic shocked the whole country. The population affected by hunger fled the country, seeking refuge in other countries. In many villages, only the remains of people who died of starvation remained without burial. This famine had a negative impact on the demography of Kazakhstan. The history of famine is not only statistical indicators of mortality, behind the terrible figures are human destinies. The authors sought to show the transformation of the Kazakh village and the family-hierarchical relations of the period of the Kazakh catastrophe. The article explains the consequences of the famine that occurred in Kazakhstan from 1931 to 1933, the social situation of Kazakh villages and government measures to curb hunger. The actions of the national intelligentsia and citizens against hunger are highlighted. Documents on the history of famine reveal unique pages of adaptation practices of the Kazakh clan, Kazakh family, Kazakh village, conditioned by affective social consciousness. The authors analyzed the behavioral reactions of the population in an extreme situation. The authors attributed to them the search for alternative food sources, antisocial and destructive phenomena of individual behavior, hungry aggression. Uncharacteristic asocial forms of behavior of the Kazakh family were revealed, such as abandonment of children and the elderly, the breakdown of family ties, cannibalism, necrophagia. Family and ancestral memory has preserved a traumatic experience, a story about hunger.

Emotional Affectivity and the Question of Appraisal, Viewed in the Light of a Phenomenological Account of Pre-Reflective Affective Consciousness

The paper considers the problem of various different forms of pre‑cognitive affective appraisal and their role in the process of gaining self-knowledge. According to the phenomenological approach, if we are to understand our inner states (our emotional experiences), these cannot be extracted from the context within which they arise. Emotions not only refer to the inner states of the subject, but also to the outer world to which they are a form of response. Brentano, Husserl and Scheler claimed that emotions are directed towards values. It is to this essential feature of emotional experience that I would like to turn. I shall therefore re-examine Sartre’s views concerning affectivity (i.e. the capacity to reveal evaluatively significant qualities of one’s environment), as well as the dual-aspect theory of (reflective and non-reflective) consciousness. The main argument of this paper is that a plausible account of the essential role of affectivity in the emotions may be provided on the basis of a phenomenological theory of pre-reflective consciousness and its relation to reflexivity. I will focus on three different claims about pre-reflective (affective) consciousness. According to the first of these, a large part of cognition is of a prelinguistic (pre-reflective) nature; I argue that the evaluative content of emotion is not only conceptually determined, but may also take a non-conceptual form (as affective appraisal). The second claim refers to the notion of affect, which ought to be distinguished from (unintentional) bodily sensations. The third conceives of the relation between pre-reflective (affective) consciousness and reflective consciousness (propositional attitudes) as normative (rather than causal). I aim to demonstrate that a plausible view of emotional affectivity must appeal to a phenomenological account of the pre-reflective aspect of consciousness.

Changes in Affect Integration and Internalizing Symptoms After Time-Limited Intersubjective Child Psychotherapy-A Pilot Study.

Time-limited intersubjective child-psychotherapy (TIC) is an intensive, structured right-brain oriented therapeutic approach for children and caregivers aimed at both symptom reduction and strengthening core developmental processes such as affect integration. This is the first study to investigate changes in internalizing symptoms and affect integration after TIC. Thirty-three children between 9 and 13 years with internalizing difficulties were assessed after 10 h of TIC. Internalizing symptoms were assessed through the child behavior checklist and affect integration with the affect consciousness interview (ACI). Scores from the children with internalizing difficulties were modeled in a mixed linear model along with data from a control group without internalizing difficulties (n = 24) to control for effects of time and learning. Affect integration increased significantly from time 1 to time 2 in the children with internalizing problems, but not in the control children. Internalizing symptoms were also significantly reduced in the children with internalizing difficulties from time 1 to time 2. The results indicate that TIC may contribute to a decrease in symptoms along with an increase in affect integration in children with internalizing difficulties, making the children better able to notice, tolerate and communicate affective states. This can, in turn, aid development and day-to-day regulation and interactions. The article explores key elements of TIC, such as affective attunement, relational repair, and work with caregivers using one of the individual therapies in the study as an example. The article argues that TIC represents a right-hemisphere to right-hemisphere therapeutic approach to healing that can both enhance important common therapeutic factors such a relation and alliance and bring about growth-promoting change.

Playback Theatre and the significance of intra-actions in staging social artistry

The author draws attention to Playback Theatre’s ability to translate stories that speak to social injustice in South Africa. When the Playback Theatre ensemble intra-acts with stories, it encourages affective consciousness through social artistry. This is crucial in highlighting the potential of Playback Theatre to stage stories that steer away from reductionist portrayals. The author undertakes a diffractive analysis of two stories within the performance that concerns the contestation of gender roles and patriarchy in South Africa. Narrative reticulation and intra-actions are employed to reveal how performative translations in Playback Theatre provide an opportunity to magnify issues pertaining to social justice.

Therapeutic writing in a programme for binge eating disorder-A tool to come closer to clarifying feelings.

Therapeutic writing involving affect consciousness (AC) can be used to put difficult topics into words. In this study, we investigated how patients with binge eating disorder (BED) experienced therapeutic writing and AC in the context of cognitive behavioural therapy. The elements were included in an existing cognitive behavioural therapy group programme and the participants' experiences investigated qualitatively. To investigate therapeutic writing as experienced by patients in the context of a BED group programme focusing on AC. A phenomenological, hermeneutic design with semi-structured interviews was employed. Eight participants were recruited after completing the BED programme at a Community Mental Health Centre on the West Coast of Norway. Four sub-themes emerged: Struggling to achieve a flow in the writing process, Deeper understanding of eating patterns through writing, Moving specific feelings towards the surface by writing and Greater insight into oneself as a human being by shared writing. Based on the sub-themes, one main theme was developed: Therapeutic writing in a binge eating disorder programme means focusing on oneself as a human being by becoming closer to one's feelings. Therapeutic writing offered in treatment for BED involves individual movements at different levels, including processes of awareness of feelings, cognitions and oneself as a human being.

Serotonin and consciousness – A reappraisal

The serotonergic system of the brain is a major modulator of behaviour. Here we describe a re-appraisal of its function for consciousness based on anatomical, functional and pharmacological data. For a better understanding, the current model of consciousness is expanded. Two parallel streams of conscious flow are distinguished. A flow of conscious content and an affective consciousness flow. While conscious content flow has its functional equivalent in the activity of higher cortico-cortical and cortico-thalamic networks, affective conscious flow originates in segregated deeper brain structures for single emotions. It is hypothesized that single emotional networks converge on serotonergic and other modulatory transmitter neurons in the brainstem where a bound percept of an affective conscious flow is formed. This is then dispersed to cortical and thalamic networks, where it is time locked with conscious content flow at the level of these networks. Serotonin acts in concert with other modulatory systems of the brain stem with some possible specialization on single emotions. Together, these systems signal a bound percept of affective conscious flow. Dysfunctions in the serotonergic system may not only give rise to behavioural and somatic symptoms, but also essentially affect the coupling of conscious affective flow with conscious content flow, leading to the affect-stained subjective side of mental disorders like anxiety, depression, or schizophrenia. The present model is an attempt to integrate the growing insights into serotonergic system function. However, it is acknowledged, that several key claims are still at a heuristic level that need further empirical support.

Sex and Prediction Error, Part 3: Provoking Prediction Error.

In parts 1 and 2 of this Lacanian neuropsychoanalytic series, surplus prediction error was presented as a neural correlate of the Lacanian concept of jouissance. Affective consciousness (a key source of prediction error in the brain) impels the work of cognition, the predictive work of explaining what is foreign and surprising. Yet this arousal is the necessary bedrock of all consciousness. Although the brain's predictive model strives for homeostatic explanation of prediction error, jouissance "drives a hole" in the work of homeostasis. Some residual prediction error always remains. Lacanian clinical technique attends to this surplus and the failed predictions to which this jouissance "sticks." Rather than striving to eliminate prediction error, clinical practice seeks its metabolization. Analysis targets one's mode of jouissance to create a space for the subject to enjoy in some other way. This entails working with prediction error, not removing or tolerating it. Analysis aims to shake the very core of the subject by provoking prediction error-this drives clinical change. Brief clinical examples illustrate this view.

Sex and Prediction Error, Part 2: Jouissance and The Free Energy Principle in Neuropsychoanalysis.

Jouissance refers to an excess enjoyment beyond (yet tied to) speech and representation. From the perspective of some Lacanian analysts, jouissance is precisely what testifies against any relationship to the brain-jouissance "slips" out of cognition. On the contrary, it is argued here that jouissance has a central place in contemporary neuropsychoanalysis. In part 1 of this series the metapsychology of jouissance was presented in relation to the real and symbolic registers. Here, in part 2, Mark Solms's neuropsychoanalytic model of Karl Friston's free energy principle is summarized. In this model, "predictions" aim to resolve prediction errors-most notably, those signaled by affective consciousness. "Surplus prediction error"-prediction error that arises at the point where the predictive model fails-is proposed to be a neural correlate of jouissance. This limit within prediction is analogous to the real as a structural negativity within the symbolic.

БОЛАШАҚ БАСТАУЫШ МЕКТЕП МҰҒАЛІМІНІҢ ӨЗІН-ӨЗІ ТАНУЫ МЕН ӨЗІН-ӨЗІ ДАМЫТУЫН ҚАЛЫПТАСТЫРУ

The article describes the methods of formation of self-knowledge and self-development of students in the course of psycho-pedagogicalworkshop. The article describes the structure and content of the workshop aimed at the formation of self-knowledge and self-development ofthe future elementaryschool teacher, and presented methods implemented during operation: Self-diagnosis, self-examination, self-observation, role play, game exercises. The dynamics of growth in the level of formation of cognitive and affective components ofprofessional consciousness of the future teachers of primary school

Relational and affective neuroscience: a quiet revolution in psychiatric and psychotherapeutic practice

SUMMARYWe consider some advances in relational and affective neuroscience and related disciplines that attempt to resolve some fundamental aspects of the mind–brain problem. We consider the key role of affect in generating consciousness and in meeting our essential survival needs; the neural correlates of relating; how self and other are represented in the brain and awareness of self and other is generated through interoceptive predictive processes. We describe some leading models of the generation and purpose of consciousness, linking theories of affective and cognitive consciousness. We discuss psychiatric and psychotherapeutic innovations arising from this research, new integrated biopsychosocial interventions and the obstacles to be overcome in applying these models in practice.

Mentalización: encuentros y divergencias con conceptos afines. Una revisión.

El objetivo de esta revisión es presentar una delimitación del concepto de Mentalización dentro del campo de la psicología. Se describen antecedentes históricos y teóricos del tema y se establecen diferencias y similitudes entre éste y otros constructos psicológicos similares como la Teoría de la Mente (ToM), Mindfulness y la Conciencia Afectiva (AC). Por último, se revisan intervenciones clínicas aplicables a la población colombiana.

Critical Zone as a Planetary Animist Sphere

This article offers a new animist study of ‘the affective consciousness of earth’ to explore deeper meanings and values of the earth as a planetary life system. Woven together as an interdisciplinary text with perspectives, concepts, and imaginative visions from earth sciences, religion and ecology, and environmental humanities, it introduces a conceptual proposition that the earth’s Critical Zone is a planetary animist sphere for the purpose of highlighting the livingness of the earth as a union of the biotic and the abiotic worlds. By interfacing relevant planetary perspectives from humanities and natural sciences, it argues that the metaphor of Gaia, as employed in geophysiology, inadvertently engenders a metaphoric animism that is a form of new animism in which the livingness of the earth is expressed in biochemical, sentient, and affective terms. The recognized complementarity of Critical Zone science and new animist studies in this article is meant to articulate a planetary environmental consciousness that is a hybrid of scientific and humanist endeavors for environmental sustainability.

The impact of using negative versus positive Karma framing in donation appeals at grocery checkouts on the facilitating store's outcomes

AbstractThere has been an increasing trend of soliciting donations for a store's charity partner by cashiers at grocery checkouts. A number of such charity appeals use the philosophical concept of Karma, which suggests equivalent outcomes to an individual's actions. Even though this concept is inherently neutral in stating the corresponding outcomes to both types of actions (i.e., good or bad), a majority of donation appeals use Karma's negative tenant alone (e.g., “when you don't donate, someone in your neighborhood goes without food”). Where previous message‐framing research has mainly focused on donation outcomes (e.g., pledged‐dollars), this research is a first of its kind to not only investigate the impact of using Karma's negative (vs. positive) tenants in prosocial messaging separately, but to also assess its effects on the largely‐ignored but critical store outcomes of purchase satisfaction and revisit intentions. Results from four scenario‐based experiments demonstrate that using a negative (vs. positive) Karma connotation in donation appeals at grocery checkouts significantly lowers consumers' purchase satisfaction at the store as well as their intentions to revisit the store in the future (with no major impact on the donation outcomes). Following established research on negativity bias, affect and moral consciousness, this research also shows that instead of emotions, lowered consumer mood mediates these effects. Furthermore, it evidences that the negative effect of using Karma's negative (vs. positive) connotation in checkout donation solicitations on the store outcomes attenuates when consumers' grocery basket consists of more hedonic (vs. utilitarian) products based on the former's mood‐uplifting properties.