Emotional Perspective Research Articles

Heroic Fear

The image of the heroic adventurer, who shot big game or traveled remote regions of the earth, populated the British Empire’s exploration and hunting narratives. Scholars have done much to deconstruct this image but have so far barely touched on the emotional dimensions of encounters between Britons and dangerous natural environments in tropical colonies. This article combines literary-historical criticism with a history of emotions perspective to show how the expression or, alternately, elision of fear in adventure memoirs helped to frame encounters with wild animals and sheer topography as part of imperialism’s moral project. It analyzes texts that recount events in and around India and parts of Africa, published between the 1890s and 1940s. The article’s author discusses a range of authors from obscure settlers and army officers to well-known proponents of the adventure genre such as Mary Kingsley, Jim Corbett, and Francis Kingdon-Ward. Together, these accounts demonstrated that fear held a legitimate and powerful place in heroic imperial narratives by helping readers to identify with the danger that a narrator had to overcome. Narratives of fear increased in number and forthrightness after the First World War, highlighting the impact of the wider British questioning of prewar models of heroic masculinity on imperial adventure literature.

Desire and Modesty in Post-Soviet Expectation for the Western Standard of Life: Contrasting and Empowering Narratives of Latvian Emigrants and Latvians who Stayed at Home

Post-Soviet subjects have often been portrayed as ‘winners’ or ‘losers’ of post-Soviet transformations, where those socioeconomically successful are seen as winners while the socioeconomically weak are losers. Such language of ‘winners’ and ‘losers’ carry neoliberal scripts of success, which are based on the western upper-middle-class standard. The ideas of neoliberalism also dictated the post-Soviet transformations in Latvia. From the perspective of meaning-making and emotion, this research seeks to complicate the dominant narrative of winners and losers to describe the effects of the post-Soviet transformations. Empirically, this study compares narratives of post-Soviet Latvian émigrés towards the West with those who remain to unravel deeper understandings of success as related to our perceptions of ‘livable life.’ Emigration tends to be narrated as a story of winning since it allows fulfilling expectations and desires for a ‘livable life’ migrants could not fulfill at home. However, those who remain at home, even under precarious circumstances, share their experiences as winners’ stories. While emigrants in their search for ‘livable life’ follow the western standard of good life, those at home speak of ‘livable life’ in terms of modesty. I interpret both stories as empowerment narratives that are interchangeable and coexistent.

Exploring the Expression of Sexual Desire in Ancient Egypt through a Selection of Primary Sources: An Approach from the Emotional Perspective

Sexual desire involves a subjective experience that may differ significantly from one individual to another and is closely linked not only to personal preferences but also to the circumstances of the moment, cultural norms, and social expectations. When experiencing sexual desire, there are not only positive but also negative dynamics at play, and such an experience can also trigger a wide range of emotions that might differ depending on the circumstances of the moment. The aim of this paper is to explore the expression of sexual desire as well as its relationship to a broad spectrum of emotions through a selected group of ancient Egyptian textual sources, such as love songs. byJudit Garzón RodríguezJohannes Gutenberg University of Mainzjgarzon@unimainz.de

Фольклорная символика рассказа И. Бунина «Ворон»

The article is devoted to a poetical analysis of Ivan Bunin’s short story “The Raven” (1944), which is a part of the cycle of short stories about love “Dark Alleys”. The research is undertaken in order to comprehend the role of folklore in the formation of the poetic world of Bunin’s love story, to identify the emotional and aesthetic perspectives of the images, motifs, and the central conflict of the short story, which is contextually conditioned and mediated by folklore symbols. The research is novel in that it is the first to analyze in detail the short story “The Raven”, its character system (images of the father, the son, the daughter, Elena Nikolaevna) and to identify the most important folklore components of the central conflict of the story (a love conflict). As a result, it is shown that the active involvement of folklore symbols (the folklorized concept “The Raven”, a color palette of folklore), which were close and understandable to the Parisian community of Russian emigrants, allowed Bunin (who adhered to national traditions, including folklore ones) to bring additional poetic intentions into the text of the shott story, imbued with imagery familiar from childhood and bright fairy-tale emotionality, to bring the perception of the text created in exile closer to the nostalgic memory of the abandoned homeland of Russia.

Social Representation of Global Climate Change: An Exploratory Study Focusing on Emotions

Climate change is a complex, emerging concept, and emotions seem to play a vital role in its social construction. We aimed to explore social representations of global climate change, especially from the perspective of emotions. We investigated emotions as representational components and, by applying anxiety, as psychological anchors affecting the organization and contents of representations. Free associations to the inductor “global climate change” were collected from 287 Hungarian respondents (Mage = 32.7, SD = 12.1 years). They were submitted to specificities, prototypical and similarity analyses (IRaMuTeQ software). Anxiety was measured with STAI, using the Trait subscale. Results show an integrated representation of natural and human-related aspects. Fear and anxiety were the most frequently mentioned emotions. Fear was a prominent concept, as part of the representation was organized around it. More anxious participants tended to anchor climate change as more ominous and unavoidable. Less anxious participants had a distanced view, while actions were central for participants with medium anxiety. We discuss how these results compare to previous findings and what might be the sources and implications of group differences, especially from a climate communication view.

A Probe into the Strategies of Integrating Ideological and Political Education with Affective Factors in Translation Major Courses

Under the inspiration of General Secretary Xi, universities have carried out ideological and political education. As a window of international communication, translation major is one of the major battlefields of ideological and political education. In order to achieve its teaching objectives, improve the teaching quality, enable students to accept the teaching contents of spontaneous ideological and political courses from the heart, and internalize it into their own spiritual power, it is very important to cut into educational activities from the emotional perspectives. The article will explore the three stages of students' emotions in class, and put forward feasible integration ways.

A study on the impact of tourism destination image and local attachment on the revisit intention: The moderating effect of perceived risk.

The revisit intention of tourists is an important guarantee for the sustainable and healthy development of tourism destination, and has also received attention from the current academic community. However, there is still insufficient research on the antecedents of revisit intention from the perspectives of tourism destination, image and nostalgia emotion. This study takes China's ecological tourism scenic area (Guilin Lijiang Scenic Area) as a case study, and uses questionnaire survey method to obtain research data for empirical research. The results of this study confirm that tourism destination image has a positive impact on nostalgia emotions and local attachment, nostalgia emotion has a positive impact on local attachment, and local attachment has a positive impact on revisit intention. Perceived risk plays a negative moderating effect between local attachment and revisit intention. In addition, this study also examined the mediating effect of nostalgia emotion and local attachment. This study is beneficial for enriching the theory of the influence mechanism of revisit intention from the perspective of consumer psychology. It is an interdisciplinary research result of management and psychology, providing theoretical reference for improving revisit intention in tourism destinations and promoting their healthy development.

Conhecimento prévio e construção do conhecimento entomológico por estudantes de graduação indígenas e camponeses da região centro-oeste do Brasil

Abstract This study presents findings from research conducted with indigenous and peasant students (n = 53) in their first year of the Rural Education Degree (Countryside Education) program at a public university in the Brazilian Midwest. We investigated previous knowledge and methods for developing entomological knowledge using structured questionnaires with open, closed, and multiple-choice questions. As a result, we discovered 24 distinct types of animals known as insects. Indigenous peoples conceptualized insects using ecological principles, whereas peasants approached the subject from health and emotional perspectives. Our findings revealed that indigenous students’ prior entomological knowledge was primarily developed within their families, while peasant students developed it at school. This study provides important insights into pre-existing knowledge and the development of entomological understanding in an intercultural setting. It encourages reflection on the interactions of traditions, folk knowledge, and scientific understanding.

A Preliminary Exploration of Comprehensive Interventional Methods for Cultivating National Confidence in the Teaching Process

The professional English course for undergraduate students majoring in Electrical Engineering and Automation is one of the important foundational courses. In order to fully utilize the educational function of the curriculum, combined with the characteristics of the curriculum itself and the corresponding learning stages of students, this paper explores the method of integrating “professional confidence, national confidence” ideological and political elements into professional knowledge learning in the course teaching process. On the basis of elucidating the necessity of “cultivating national confidence spirit” as an ideological and political element reflected in this course, this paper discusses the specific methods of integrating this ideological and political element into the classroom from the perspectives of knowledge, skills, and emotions. The aim is to improve the educational effect of electrical engineering English classroom teaching, stimulate students’ learning motivation to “serve the country professionally”, and enhance their professional confidence and national pride.

Supplemental Material for Leaders Laughing in the Line of Fire: An Emotional Aperture Perspective on Leader Laughter in Response to Critical Questions

Supplemental Material for Leaders Laughing in the Line of Fire: An Emotional Aperture Perspective on Leader Laughter in Response to Critical Questions

Color Use and Psychological Feeling in Modern Interior Design - Based on Emotional Calculation Perspective

Abstract In this paper, the HSV color space model is used to collect the color characteristics of modern interior design and classify them into three types: hue (H), saturation (S), and luminance (V). At the same time, it combines with the theory of color psychology to construct a PAD emotion model for interior design. Then, it selects experimental samples and data analysis tools to carry out an example analysis of interior design from the emotional perspective. The data show that the selection of people warm and bright color interior design in the interior design of the background color across the amplitude of the largest and more concentrated in the 47.5°, the main body color across the amplitude of the smallest and most stable, the accent color value of the whole relatively high, the highest 123.6°, the background color saturation is the highest of 34.6°, and the brightness of more than 63.9°, the overall presentation of the warmth of comfort indoor environment. Error-values were 0.004, 0.0698, and 0.038 in order, with the errors all below 10%. This study integrates psychology and color into interior emotional design to better create visually appropriate, comfortable, and culturally rich interior environments for people, and also to promote the development of the interior design field.

“Not a drop of tears, or any sweat from fear came from her”: Interrogating Mind, Body, and Emotions in Early Modern German Witch Trials

In early modern German witch trials, how defendants looked and moreover how they behaved on trial—physically and emotionally—was crucial to whether they were deemed innocent or guilty. This was particularly the case in trials of witchcraft, a crime that often left little tangible evidence in its wake. Indeed, notions of the body are integral to understanding early modern witchcraft beliefs, particularly at a time when the boundary between mind and body was viewed as porous and permeable. This was a time when emotions were seen to have physical consequences, and this belief played a key role in witchcraft cases. Through a close reading of a seventeenth-century trial of witchcraft from a history of emotions perspective, this article examines the ways in which the body, mind, and soul were interrogated in the heartland of early modern witch persecutions: the Holy Roman Empire.

Coping with transition pain: An emotions perspective on phase-outs in sustainability transitions

With this perspective paper, we aim to raise awareness of and offer starting points for studying the role of emotions and associated behavioural responses to losses in relation to phase-outs. We start from a psychological perspective and explain how losses due to phasing out dominant practices, structures, and cultures may threaten core psychological needs and lead to - what we introduce as - ‘transition pain’. We borrow insights from the psychological coping literature to explain that different forms of transition pain may elicit characteristic coping responses (e.g. opposition, escape, negotiation), shaping individual meaning-making and behaviour in ongoing sustainability transitions. We then expand this psychological lens and present three additional perspectives, namely, that transition pain is (1) dynamic and process-dependent, (2) collectively shared and socially conditioned, and (3) political. We discuss how a ‘coping with transition pain’ lens can contribute to a better understanding of individual and collective meaning-making, behaviour and agency in transitions as well as a more emotion-sensitive governance of phase-outs.

Awesome, Awful: Emotional Flow in Environmental Messaging

ABSTRACT Pro-environmental media content, such as nature documentary programming, often features awe-inducing scenes of Earth’s natural beauty, and exposure to this kind of content has been shown to increase persuasive outcomes. Yet environmental messaging is increasingly likely to portray the tragic impacts of human activities on these natural wonders alongside content about Earth’s beauty. How might emotional responses evolve during exposure to sequenced messages that juxtapose positively-valenced (beauty) and negatively-valenced (negative impacts) pro-environmental content? Embracing an emotional flow perspective as our overarching lens, we put forth two accounts for how emotions might shift during sequenced messaging: contrast effects and the elicitation of poignancy. We tested these accounts in a between-subjects experiment with U.S. adults (N = 979), following a 5 (focus: beauty-only, impacts-only, beauty→impacts, impacts→beauty, or control) × 2 (topic: coral reefs or forests) design. We found no evidence for contrast effects in discrete emotion intensity (awe, hope, sadness, or fear). The sequenced messages evoked greater poignancy than the static messages, which in turn predicted greater intentions to share the message. Although the sequenced messages indirectly predicted sharing intentions and policy support via several other emotion-based mechanisms, these outcomes did not differ between the static and sequenced conditions.

Determining influence of service quality on user identification, belongingness, and satisfaction on mobile social media: Insight from emotional attachment perspective

WeChat has burgeoned into a predominant mobile communication platform that facilitates instantaneous text and voice-mediated dialogues. Currently, it stands out as a quintessential mobile social media platform in mainland China. The primary objective of this study is to meticulously dissect the ramifications of entire service quality on user assessments of WeChat, encompassing facets such as user satisfaction, identification, belongingness, and perceived benefit, whilst unraveling the correlation between user assessments and their proclivity towards emotional and service attachment. This scholarly endeavor is amongst the scant researches that empirically scrutinize the intricate interplay between entire service quality, user evaluations, emotional attachment specific to WeChat, and overarching service attachment within the mobile social media milieu. The research paradigm was rigorously evaluated through the harnessing of data collected from the Sojump database, which contains 598 valid observational data points. Employing the robust methodology of structural equation modeling, the research model was subsequently corroborated and authenticated. Obtained results validate the path effects, demonstrating that entire service quality exerts a positive influence on WeChat users’ identification, belongingness, satisfaction and benefit. Furthermore, emotional attachment significantly contributes to service attachment. Based on attachment theory, the revelations from this study shed light on the profound mechanisms through which entire service quality in mobile social media can invigorate and solidify user evaluations, fortifying their predisposition towards sustained product and service affiliations.

How social media fatigue feigning and altering emotion discourage the use of social media

PurposeSocial media fatigue (SMF) has been widely recognized; however, previous studies have included various concepts into a single fatigue construct. Fatigue has typically been explored from the stressor-strain-outcome (SSO) or stimulus-organism-response (SOR) perspectives. To further investigate SMF, the authors split it into the two constructs of exhaustion and disinterest. Furthermore, the authors introduced the concept of emotional labor and identified rules that may affect surface and deep acting strategies.Design/methodology/approachThe authors designed and conducted a survey to collect data from social networking platform users.FindingsResults from 364 users of social networking platforms supported most of the authors' hypotheses. First, most of the display rules affect the choice of deep or surface acting. Second, both types of acting lead to exhaustion, but only surface acting leads to disinterest. Third, discontinuance intention is affected by both types of fatigue.Originality/valueThis study contributes to SMF research by adding more antecedents (deep and surface acting) based on the emotional labor perspective and showing the impacts of communication rules on emotional labor. In addition, this study also distinguishes disinterest-style fatigue from exhaustion.

Racism and the representation of the murder of Stephen Lawrence in audio: An analysis of audience experience of the immersive story environment

This article investigates the power of audio as a storytelling medium and its capacity to provide immersive narrative-based experiences. In particular, it examines the potential of immersive or spatial audio to engage young people with the complex and pressing issue of racism by focusing on the artwork [re]locate: a multi-channel sound installation revisiting the racially motivated murder of Stephen Lawrence in 1993. [re]locate metaphorically places the audience at the bus stop where Stephen Lawrence was attacked, and allows them to experience an audio-only reconstruction of events associated with his murder and its aftermath. Based on a reflexive thematic analysis of the qualitative feedback elicited after encounters with the artwork, the article seeks to understand young people’s perspectives on events, their sense of engagement with the story and the aesthetic and technical features of the installation that create a sense of immersion, and induce presence. It argues that the perceived potency of the artwork and its ability to engage young people with the issue not only resides in the inherent qualities of sound, but also in the capacity of the spatial audio design of the installation to heighten the sense of immersion, induce presence and enhance cognitive and emotional perspective taking.

Medicalizing disabled people's emotions-Symptom of a dis/ableist society.

The theoretical-conceptual article at hand explores how emotional discourses shape social relations by specifically focusing on the medicalization of disabled- and chronically ill-people's emotions. Medicalization is a concept from medical sociology that describes medicine's expansion into non-medical life areas, for instance into the realm of emotions, sometimes in order to challenge this expansion. The emotions of disabled people are often presented as a medicalized problem, rather than recognizing their embeddedness in a dis/ableist socio-cultural context. Such discourses instrumentalize feelings in order to individualize the responsibility for disability. For a contextualized and emancipatory approach, this study reviews papers on medicalized emotions from Disability Studies-a research program that can provide a rich archive of experiential accounts yet to be theorized through a comprehensive emotional perspective. The medicalization of disabled people's emotions can manifest in different ways: (1) In a dis/ableist society, able-mindedness is compulsory; i.e., we fail to question that a healthy mind is the norm and something to strive for unconditionally. This is also true on an emotional level; after all, some medical diagnoses are based on the wrong degree or temporality of emotionality. (2) Unpleasant feelings such as sadness are misunderstood as symptoms of impairment rather than effects of discrimination. (3) The expression of hurt feelings, e.g., related to discrimination, can easily be dismissed as hysterical. This assumption epistemologically disables patients. (4) Love and desire are delegitimized as fetish, for example, the desire for a disabled lover or the wish to start a family despite a chronic illness. The medicalization of disabled people's emotions individualizes and delegitimizes unpleasant emotions that emerge in a dis/ableist society. Different facets of medicalization enforce medical treatment instead, albeit in different ways. Disabled and sick people are cast as not feeling and desiring the right way, while hegemonic discourse prescribes psychological treatment against the effects of discrimination and bodily symptoms it cannot explain. Beyond the dismissal of disabled people's experience, adverse effects on healthcare delivery and health outcomes can be expected.

Research on the Role of Geographic Literature in the Establishment of Tourism Image in the Context of Informatization

Abstract This paper utilizes web crawler in network text mining technology to obtain the Jiangsu garden review data on several OTAs and tourism UGC platforms, such as Baidu Tourism, Ctrip.com, and Ma’s Nest. The data preprocessing work such as text de-weighting, word frequency classification, and parameter solving is carried out on the document dataset by using the lexical algorithm, and the preprocessed text data is subjected to TF-IDF keyword extraction and LDA topic extraction. Starting from the characteristics of the cultural lineage, the intrinsic attraction elements affecting the commercial transformation of tourist attractions are explored, and taking the planning of the industrial, cultural tourism town in Ezhou as an example, the process of planning and designing from the establishment of tourism planning concepts, and thus the completion of the visual IP image, is elaborated. The tourism image perception of the four major gardens in Jiangsu is examined from both cognitive and emotional perspectives using the results of TF-IDF and LDA extraction. The results show that the trend of the frequency of each fraction of the emotion of the Humble Administrator’s Garden, Liouyuan Garden, Lion Grove, and Canglang Pavilion scenic spots is roughly the same, and the mean value of emotion is 0.758, 0.851, 0.828, and 0.845, respectively, reflecting the tourists’ average emotional perception of the individual scenic spots. This study provides new methods and ideas for promoting the integrated development of culture, commerce and tourism in small and medium-sized cities so that the culture and tourism industry can be developed sustainably.

The Moderator Role of Age in the Relation between Nursing Educators’ Emotional Regulation Styles and Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence

The Moderator Role of Age in the Relation between Nursing Educators’ Emotional Regulation Styles and Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence