Emotional Charge Research Articles

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The article analyzes the attitude of parents of younger students to school, taking into account the main structural elements of the school (teachers, students, educational process, premises and equipment). 38 parents of 4th grade students of a secondary school in Nizhny Novgorod took part in the experiment. Of these, 20 are mothers and 18 are fathers. The age of the respondents is in the range of 29-45 years. The following methods were used in the study: theoretical analysis of scientific sources on the research topic, a questionnaire for V.Ya. Yasvin's parents, methods of quantitative and qualitative processing and presentation of results, generalization, the Mann-Whitney method. This study is a pilot study. Qualitative characteristics of parents' attitude to school were revealed. The attitude of parents towards school is more emotional in nature. Parents demonstrate a high emotional charge towards teachers and the educational process. Also, the attitude of parents towards school is heterogeneous and contradictory. Different structural components of the school have different significance for parents. The same component can be evaluated in different ways. Parents express their high willingness to help teachers. At the same time, information about the teacher is not important to them, help to the teacher is often expressed formally. It is important for parents to be informed about the education and upbringing of children. Parents show a good willingness to participate in the creation of comfortable, well-equipped school premises. The maximum interest is associated with the students. It is important for them to have complete and quick information on the success and difficulties of children in learning.

MARILLION’S CLUTCHING AT STRAWS

This research provides a comprehensive and interpretative narratological analysis of the album “Clutching at Straws” released by the British progressive rock band Marillion in 1987. It explores the lyrical narrative, central themes, musicality, and structure of the album, as well as the historical, emotional, and artistic context of the band at the time the work was recorded and released. To achieve this, we draw upon the theoretical framework of authors such as Herman (2009), Genette (1972,1997), Reuter (2002), Bakhtin (1975), and Graudeault (2004). We believe that the narrative depth and emotional charge of the album make it a captivating topic for narratological analysis, offering a possibility for investigation into the power of narrative in the musicological context.

A dispute about poems and beyond

The article is written in response to I. Plekhanova’s study published in the same issue of Voprosy Literatury, which calls A. Dolgareva’s poetry an undoubtedly leading phenomenon of contemporary poetry. E. Pogorelaya also acknowledges key defining characteristics of Dolgareva’s output: preference for lively colloquial language, references to personal experience and the reader’s civic stance, reliance on plots and archetypical images and motifs, as well as a leaning towards the Soviet literary tradition and Soviet past as the last era of stability and relative normalcy. Polemizing with Plekhanova and other admirers of Dolgareva’s poetry, the author points out that the backbone of her poetics is drawn from 2010s’ Internet poetry, e. g., A. Kudryasheva’s works. The author argues that Dolgareva’s free and unrestricted, if not haphazard, treatment of the language is rooted in that background and that her works share a lot of similarities with those by authors from the Internet. Therefore, Pogorelaya suggests a more critical and reflective approach to Dolgareva’s oeuvre, stressing that it is primarily written with a specific reference group in mind and mirrors the group’s emotional charge.

Sex differences in entrapment in a multinational sample: a network analysis perspective.

The concept of entrapment has been highlighted as a transdiagnostic element that manifests itself in disorders such as depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation. Although research has been conducted in different contexts independently, a comprehensive multi-country study to assess gender differences in entrapment through network analysis has not yet been carried out. The objective of this study was to evaluate the entrapment network in men and women at the multinational level. A sample of 2,949 participants, ranging in age from 18 to 73 years from six countries (Germany, Iran, Spain, Slovakia, El Salvador, and Peru), was considered. They completed the entrapment scale. A network analysis was performed for both men and women to identify the connectivity between indicators and the formation of clusters and domains, in addition to the centrality assessment in both sex groups. The study findings revealed the presence of a third domain focused on external interpersonal entrapment in the network of men and women. However, in relation to the interconnectivity between domains, variations were evidenced in both networks, as well as in centrality, it was reported that men present a greater generalized entrapment in various aspects of life, while women tend to experience a more focused entrapment in expressions of intense emotional charge. The multinational study identified variations in the structure of entrapment between genders, with three domains (internal, external, and external-interpersonal) and differences in the interaction of indicators and groupings, as well as discrepancies in centrality.

Nocturnal exposure to a preferred ambient scent does not affect dream emotionality or post-sleep core affect valence in young adults

Emotions experienced within sleep mentation (dreaming) affect mental functioning in waking life. There have been attempts at enhancing dream emotions using olfactory stimulation. Odors readily acquire affective value, but to profoundly influence emotional processing, they should bear personal significance for the perceiver rather than be generally pleasant. The main objective of the present sleep laboratory study was to examine whether prolonged nocturnal exposure to self-selected, preferred ambient room odor while asleep influences emotional aspects of sleep mentation and valence of post-sleep core affect. We asked twenty healthy participants (12 males, mean age 25 ± 4 years) to pick a commercially available scented room diffuser cartridge that most readily evoked positively valenced mental associations. In weekly intervals, the participants attended three sessions. After the adaptation visit, they were administered the odor exposure and odorless control condition in a balanced order. Participants were awakened five minutes into the first rapid eye movement (REM) stage that took place after 2:30 a.m. and, if they had been dreaming, they were asked to rate their mental sleep experience for pleasantness, emotional charge, and magnitude of positive and negative emotions and also to evaluate their post-sleep core affect valence. With rs < 0.20, no practically or statistically significant differences existed between exposure and control in any outcome measures. We conclude that in young, healthy participants, the practical value of olfactory stimulation with self-selected preferred scents for enhancement of dream emotions and post-sleep core affect valence is very limited.

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Negative Phrases can Cause a Negative Emotional Assessment: an Empirical Study

Introduction. There are theoretical propositions declaring that negations carry a negative emotional charge. Indirectly, this is confirmed by a number of modern studies. However, it remains unknown whether negations in their most abstract lexical form are capable of causing a negative emotional effect. In the presented study, the negative effect of denial was revealed for the first time. Purpose. Theoretically substantiate the emotional negative effect of negations and empirically identify it by comparing evaluations of negative and affirmative phrases.Materials and methods. In studies related to the topic, it is difficult to differentiate the influence on the emotional assessment of the meaning of the negated concept from the influence of the negative form itself. To identify the negative emotional effect of lexical negations, we asked subjects to evaluate affirmative and negative phrases not only with a pronounced emotional meaning, but also with a neutral one, which allowed us to minimize the influence of the meaning of the phrase. The study involved 87 subjects who rated phrases using two methods: R. Likert’s direct scale assessment and color-mediated assessment (A. M. Etkind’s RCT method).Results. The results showed a high significance of the differences between the negation of the neutral and the assertion of the neutral, negative phrases were indeed evaluated more negatively. An additional comparison of phrases with emotional meaning showed that denial softens the emotional expression of the concept, shifting its assessment closer to the neutral part of the scale.Discussion. Previous studies have shown a connection between a negative response and negative emotional reactions. In our study, it was shown for the first time that even an abstract version of a negative phrase can significantly shift an assessment into the negative spectrum of the emotional scale. These data are consistent with the embodied approach to language analysis, where sensorimotor and emotional reactions underlie the formation of abstract language forms. For the first time, the revealed connection between lexical negation and negative emotional reactions deepens the understanding of one of the most frequent linguistic means.

Patterns of Interactions of the Complex City System: Emotional Urban Objects as Triggering Agents – A Secondary Publication

This article presents an analysis of the patterns of interactions resulting from the positive and negative emotional events that occur in cities, considering them as complex systems. It explores, from the imaginaries, how certain urban objects can act as emotional agents and how these events affect the urban system as a whole. An adaptive complex systems perspective is used to analyze these patterns. The results show patterns in the processes and dynamics that occur in cities based on the objects that affect the emotions of the people who live there. These patterns depend on the characteristics of the emotional charge of urban objects, but they can be generalized in the following process: (1) immediate reaction by some individuals; (2) emotions are generated at the individual level which begins to generalize, permuting to a collective emotion; (3) a process of reflection is detonated in some individuals from the reading of collective emotions; (4) integration/significance in the community both at the individual and collective level, on the concepts, roles and/or functions that give rise to the process in the system. Therefore, it is clear that emotions play a significant role in the development of cities and these aspects should be considered in the design strategies of all kinds of projects for the city. Future extensions of this work could include a deeper analysis of specific emotional events in urban environments, as well as possible implications for urban policy and decision making.

Сердечные мотивы в творчестве Иосифа Бродского

The paper analyzes a number of poems by Joseph Brodsky that have not been previously investigated in detail by philologists and examines certain motifs and images that cause discrepancies in critics’ interpretations. The study aims to understand the poet’s creative work through a new perspective, to some extent, in a more “materialistic” and “physiological” way, which affects the emotional charge of the Nobel laureate’s main motifs. The study also aims to identify the role played by “heart” motifs in shaping Brodsky’s figurative and metaphorical world of poetry. The paper reinterprets the traditional connotations of heart imagery (life, death, pain, etc.) and shows how Brodsky’s worldview was shaped by the heart attacks, illnesses, and surgeries he endured. The scientific novelty of the study lies in its deep and detailed analysis of the system of motifs and images in Brodsky’s poetry, offering explanations for some obscurities in his poems that have caused significant difficulties and variations of meaning among critics. As a result, it has been proved that the philosophical inspiration of the persona and Brodsky’s overall poetic world is due to an alternative interpretation and understanding of heart imagery, endowing it with unique, Brodsky-specific connotations that form a dominant parallel between the poet and the heart.

Analysis of Pharmaceutical Companies' Social Media Activity during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Impact on the Public.

The COVID-19 pandemic, a period of great turmoil, was coupled with the emergence of an "infodemic", a state when the public was bombarded with vast amounts of unverified information from dubious sources that led to a chaotic information landscape. The excessive flow of messages to citizens, combined with the justified fear and uncertainty imposed by the unknown virus, cast a shadow on the credibility of even well-intentioned sources and affected the emotional state of the public. Several studies highlighted the mental toll this environment took on citizens by analyzing their discourse on online social networks (OSNs). In this study, we focus on the activity of prominent pharmaceutical companies on Twitter, currently known as X, as well as the public's response during the COVID-19 pandemic. Communication between companies and users is examined and compared in two discrete channels, the COVID-19 and the non-COVID-19 channel, based on the content of the posts circulated in them in the period between March 2020 and September 2022, while the emotional profile of the content is outlined through a state-of-the-art emotion analysis model. Our findings indicate significantly increased activity in the COVID-19 channel compared to the non-COVID-19 channel while the predominant emotion in both channels is joy. However, the COVID-19 channel exhibited an upward trend in the circulation of fear by the public. The quotes and replies produced by the users, with a stark presence of negative charge and diffusion indicators, reveal the public's preference for promoting tweets conveying an emotional charge, such as fear, surprise, and joy. The findings of this research study can inform the development of communication strategies based on emotion-aware messages in future crises.

Toward Embodied Defamiliarization: Immersion, Predictive Processing, and Anna Kavan’s Ice

ABSTRACT In an attempt to further develop debates at the intersection of cognitive and unnatural narratology, the article argues in favor of a framework for capturing immersion–defamiliarization interaction in narratives, which involves the possibility of defamiliarization being an embodied phenomena that does not adversely affect immersion. The article argues that when framing scalar models of the immersion–defamiliarization axis in embodied predictive processing and in the psychology of art, defamiliarization can in some cases take an embodied form, which does not obstruct immersion. The argument is developed with three interrelated claims showcasing that immersion requires some degree of defamiliarization in the first place, that stylistic features, far from being transparent, can mitigate defamiliarization effects in unnatural narratives and sustain immersion because of emotional charge, and those reflective or critical attitudes associated with defamiliarization can take a form of intuitions and sensations, remaining embodied rather than distanced and cerebral. The article illustrates this point by analyzing Anna Kavan’s avant-garde novel Ice, which is both a staple of unnatural narratives and unusual for its immersive capacities.

Objects, Memory, and Restorative Justice (A Personal Reflection on Conservation’s Meaning)

ABSTRACT Humans and objects are deeply entangled through systems of knowledge, exchange, production and consumption. The entanglement is also emotional. Objects have symbolic power and therefore emotional charge. Insofar as the individual psyche can be a model for the collective one, thinking of the objects we each carry with us throughout life can be a helpful way to understand how objects acquire emotional significance beyond their original function, and how they are critical to identity and memory construction. This in part equates to say that what societies keep or do not keep, as well as how they keep it, is critical in defining how we deal with our past and therefore how we define both present and future. Conservators have been increasingly aware of this fact. Because of their emotional power, dealing with objects and how they shape memory can also help heal collective wounds. I argue that the emotional power of material objects could be more systematically harnessed by turning to the principles of Restorative Justice, an emerging social science that emphasizes interconnectedness within communities and societies. Restorative Justice is a useful lens through which to consider decision making in conservation, while conservation can contribute significantly to restorative efforts.

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Archpriest Nikoloz Natidze (1853-1921) was known in the Georgian literature of the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century by his pseudonym: Melania.&#x0D; Melania’s not numerous writings were noticeably popular among readers during his lifetime and later (although some of his unpublished texts were published later, after the death of the writer).&#x0D; It is usual for Melania’s writings to shift themes from story to story, however, for the most part, these themes change form or merge with other themes during such a journey.&#x0D; The story is often built around some impressive symbol, the acquisition or possession of which acquires a defining value for the actor, whose possessions determine the public-social weight of an individual (or so these people themselves think!).&#x0D; The sequence of events – sometimes throughout the entire text, from beginning to end – is conveyed only in the form of a dialogue or monologue, where the author is generally hidden, which gives dynamism, immediacy, and emotional charge to the text.&#x0D; The author’s writings are characterized by a broken ending, as if the plot never ends, and this incompleteness or interruption of the story enhances the feeling of their uniqueness. The reader is given an open opportunity, after he has perceived the general structure of the story, to imagine many possibilities for its continuation and development.&#x0D; The creative loading of language and mythos in Melania’s prose requires special attention, however, unlike Vasyl Barnov and Vazha-Pshavela, they are not given a decisive importance in shaping or presenting the author’s artistic world.&#x0D; Melania’s work, like the heritage of many other forgotten writers of the past, really needs an academic publication, study, understanding and giving it a proper place.

Ghost-Stitching American Politics

Ghost-Stitching American Politics

Acts of Feeling

In this essay I address the emotive charge of James Welling’s photographic abstractions from the early 1980s, described by the artist as “images about the act of feeling.” Welling’s endeavor to stage this “act,” I argue, places his work within a wider effort by peers like Sherrie Levine, Cindy Sherman, and David Salle to reassess what it meant for art to be “expressive.” At a moment when modernist models of this concept had lost their credibility and “expressionism” as a genre had come to appear politically toxic, such an inquiry took on new urgency, raising questions that remain central to ongoing debates about the relationship between art, affect, and the social.

Fear of the pandemic of the new variant of COVID-19 in the population of the Puente Piedra district in North Lima

Introduction: fear is one of the perceptions that respond to how vulnerable a person is to a situation of risk of contagion by COVID-19 and compromises their well-being, so its research objective is to determine the fear of pandemic due to the new variant of COVID - 19 in the population of the Puente Piedra district in North Lima.Methods: it is a quantitative, non-experimental, descriptive, cross-sectional study, with a total population of 577 participants, who answered a virtual survey with sociodemographic data and the COVID-19 fear scale.Results: in its results, we observe that in the population of the district of Puente Piedra, 82 (14,2 %) presents a low effect on fear of COVID - 19, 260 (45,1 %) a moderate effect on fear of COVID - 19 and 235 (40,7 %) a high effect on fear of COVID – 19.Conclusions: therefore, it is concluded that the negative emotional charge due to the fear of COVID - 19 considerably affects the mental health of the population

The dual effect of background music on creativity: perspectives of music preference and cognitive interference.

Music, an influential environmental factor, significantly shapes cognitive processing and everyday experiences, thus rendering its effects on creativity a dynamic topic within the field of cognitive science. However, debates continue about whether music bolsters, obstructs, or exerts a dual influence on individual creativity. Among the points of contention is the impact of contrasting musical emotions-both positive and negative-on creative tasks. In this study, we focused on traditional Chinese music, drawn from a culture known for its 'preference for sadness,' as our selected emotional stimulus and background music. This choice, underrepresented in previous research, was based on its uniqueness. We examined the effects of differing music genres (including vocal and instrumental), each characterized by a distinct emotional valence (positive or negative), on performance in the Alternative Uses Task (AUT). To conduct this study, we utilized an affective arousal paradigm, with a quiet background serving as a neutral control setting. A total of 114 participants were randomly assigned to three distinct groups after completing a music preference questionnaire: instrumental, vocal, and silent. Our findings showed that when compared to a quiet environment, both instrumental and vocal music as background stimuli significantly affected AUT performance. Notably, music with a negative emotional charge bolstered individual originality in creative performance. These results lend support to the dual role of background music in creativity, with instrumental music appearing to enhance creativity through factors such as emotional arousal, cognitive interference, music preference, and psychological restoration. This study challenges conventional understanding that only positive background music boosts creativity and provides empirical validation for the two-path model (positive and negative) of emotional influence on creativity.

The pragmatic dimensions of swearing in films: Searching for coherence in dubbing strategies

Swearing is exploited to release strong emotions, attack the interlocutor's face and build interpersonal solidarity, both in spontaneous interactions and in film. In audiovisual translation, it tends to be toned down or omitted, with research mostly explaining neutralisation as censorship-driven and treating the translation of taboo language as an internally-undifferentiated, arbitrary procedure. In the present corpus-based study we move away from the external, socio-cultural motivations for loss to assess whether specific pragmatic, structural-functional and textual dimensions of swearing account for preferred translational strategies and impact the translational outcomes. All occurrences of F-words in a parallel corpus of Anglophone films and their Italian translations are examined in their bilingual concordances at the utterance level and in the wider multimodal context. The quantitative and qualitative analyses outline the interaction between structural-functional patterns and pragmatic functions with reference to the translation strategies of full translation, mitigation, de-swearing and omission. The findings unveil coherence in Italian translators' preferences for pragmatically-motivated cross-linguistically viable language patterns which foreground the heightened emotional charge and the abusive dimensions of taboo words, thus pointing to a principled approach to translational solutions which boost the conflictuality intrinsic to film.

Pedro Calderón de la Barca. Life is a dream. Silence is gold

This review of P. Calderón’s collected plays focuses on a stylistic analysis of Natalya Vankhanen’s new Russian translation of Life Is a Dream [La vida es sueño], considered the crowning glory of Spanish baroque theatre, as well as its interpretation and the dramatic nuances of the translated play in the stage version of the Moscowbased Elektrotheatre Stanislavsky, including their effect on the production’s portrayal of Segismundo. The reviewer stresses the translator’s unique, authorial view of Calderón’s poetic text. It results, firstly, in the translation’s heightened emotional charge, signaled by a profusion of exclamation and question marks and ellipses, and, secondly, in a shift of semantic emphases from the topic of overcoming one’s animalistic instincts to that of discovering the reasons for ‘animalistic’ behaviour in humans. The same topic — the father’s fault for raising a tyrant — is accentuated in Elektrotheatre’s production where Segismundo is shown to become despotic only in the palace upon learning of his mistreatment by the family.

World-class sporting events as arenas of emotional eruptions on social media

ABSTRACT Sporting events are arenas of emotional bursts, and social media is a place where such emotional irruptions of fans are encoded in their words and button clicks. This study investigates the use of Facebook reactions by sports fans during the most significant world-class sporting events in 2016: the UEFA Euro, the men’s football championship of Europe, and the Summer Olympics Games, a major international multi-sport event. Our research challenge is to find out how people react to sports content and underscore the importance of emotional processes in shaping collective outcomes. In the paper, we propose a model for measuring the intensity of emotional charge, in terms of Facebook reactions and virality, and the results show what Facebook users think and feel about both sports events. According to our findings, the Olympics are the sporting arena of “emotions of peace”, and the Euro is the sporting arena of “war of emotions”.