People's Personal Experiences Research Articles

The Effect of Color on People's Emotions

Psychologists have studied the relationship between color and people's mental health and found that color can affect people's emotions. Generally speaking, red means happiness and enthusiasm. It makes people feel warm and full and stimulates the emotion of love. Yellow means happiness, brightness, cheerfulness, and joy. Green means peace and gives people a sense of peace, tranquility, and gentleness. Blue gives people a quiet, cool, comfortable feeling, make people open-minded. Gray makes people feel depressed and empty. White and black are the two poles of vision. Black makes people feel solemn, depressed and sad. White makes people feel elegant, pure and light. Research confirms that black can distract people's attention and make them feel depressed and dull. Long-term living in such an environment, people's pupils are extremely enlarged and numb. Over time, it has a negative impact on people's health and longevity. The rooms are arranged in a white, clean sense, but the white contrast is too strong, easy to stimulate pupil contraction, causing headache and other diseases. In a word, different colors can bring different effects on people's emotions and change their psychological activities. So People's personal experience shows that color has an important impact on people's psychological activities, especially with emotions.

Juridical Study of Article 43a in Amending Law Number 5 of 2018 Concerning Criminal Acts of Terrorism in Pre-Emptive Strike Policy

Finding out the effects of terrorist activities in Indonesia and the application of Law Number 5 of 2018 concerning Criminal activities of Terrorism Article 43A Against Strike Pre-Emptive Policies are the goals of the research. The research approach used is normative juridical, meaning that it is based on the primary legal literature and is carried out by looking at relevant laws, regulations, theories, and conceptions. Examining Law Number 5 of 2018 concerning Amendments to Law 15 of 2003 concerning the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Terrorism is the goal of the study. The amendment to Article 43A, which inserts and reads in the framework of dealing with Criminal Acts of Terrorism, contains dangerous articles. It is unclear what is meant by countermeasures, every certain person, allegedly brought or placed and a certain place. These are the results of the discussion in Law Number 5 of 2018 concerning Amendments to Law 15 of 2003 concerning the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Terrorism. None of these arrangements can be found in the current Indonesian criminal procedural law. The conclusion is that acts of terrorism have a significant impact on the community. They are not things, but rather frequent victims of Second Life. The preceding text makes it evident how many lives were lost in the blast. These fresh impacts originate from people's personal experiences. Acts of terrorism on a larger scale actually have an impact on many things, and that is a matter of life and death for people and the nation. This loss and threat can be explained from seven aspects/fields, namely defense and security, ideology, politics, economy, society, education, and religious relations. Related to article 43A regarding the prevention of Terrorism Crime, pre-emptive efforts are needed.

Nature benefit hypothesis: Direct experiences of nature predict self‐reported pro‐biodiversity behaviors

AbstractHuman activities are damaging the world's ecosystems, posing a serious threat to life on Earth, including humanity. To address this situation, widespread and significant changes in human behavior are necessary. Direct experiences of nature can encourage individuals to adopt positive actions towards biodiversity (hereafter pro‐biodiversity behavior), but this relationship has not been well studied. Using a large sample of Japanese adults, we demonstrate that both recent and childhood frequencies of nature experiences are associated with an increased likelihood of exhibiting pro‐biodiversity behaviors. This association was found to be consistent across various forms of behaviors, including purchasing ecofriendly products, reducing pesticide use in domestic gardens, and donating to conservation organizations. However, our research also reveals a declining trend of childhood experiences of nature in Japan, resulting in an “extinction of experience.” Our results suggest that enhancing people's personal experiences with nature could help promote desired behavioral change to halt biodiversity loss.

Multi-Class Classification of the YouTube Comments using Machine Learning

Due to huge data on Social media the people face difficulty to finding in qualitative content of the video if they find the qualitative content as per their judgment and knowledge, they do not confirm the actual content quality. People put their idea and subscriber watch the videos and put their feedback in the comments. Our purposed study help the subscribers to find the best-experienced idea based on the people personal experience here we classify the collection of comments collected using Google API’s(“Google API YouTube” n.d.) and annotate them in different classes which are Experience-positive, Experience-negative, Warning, Suggestions, Questions, Praise, these classes helps us to find the qualitative analysis of the comments but based on the these required classes. Our proposed model shows experiments that the best classifier for us is the SVM have accuracy is 89.18% and F1 score is 0.89 this shows that our model is productive and efficient for classification to help out the user as well as the author to find the best qualitative video content which is experienced and confirmed by the user’s experience(Abbas 2017).

Understanding the experience of rumination and worry: A descriptive qualitative survey study.

Rumination and worry have been implicated in the onset, severity, maintenance and relapse risk of depression and anxiety disorders. Despite this, little research has examined individuals' personal experiences of these processes. This study investigates how individuals experience these processes, which will provide insight into these common features of mental disorders and inform the development of an online intervention specifically targeting rumination and worry. An online qualitative survey was conducted to gain insight into people's personal definitions, experiences with and understandings of rumination and worry. Participants answered open- and close-ended questions about their personal understanding of rumination and worry, typical thought content, triggers, frequency, duration and coping strategies. Participant responses were coded into themes. Participants also completed self-report questionnaires of depression, anxiety and stress and repetitive negative thinking. Two hundred and seven adults completed the online survey (76% female; mean age=28.2 years, range=17-71), 51% of whom reported previously experiencing depression and anxiety. All participants were familiar with the concept of worry, whereas 28% of participants indicated they had never heard of rumination. Participants reported most commonly ruminating and/or worrying about personal relationships, past mistakes, negative experiences and conversations/social interactions. The most commonly reported triggers for rumination and/or worry were social situations/interpersonal interactions (25%) and negative events/experiences (24%). Distraction was the most common coping strategy (48%); however, 21% reported being unable to stop themselves from ruminating and/or worrying. The results provide a unique insight into the personal experiences and understandings of rumination and worry of potential end users of treatment programs targeting these processes.

The Impact of Global Trends on Organization and Customer Satisfaction

The study aims to examine the impact of global trends on MakeMyTrip company as well as its customer satisfaction. The study has been done with the help of information provided on the company's websites, people's personal experiences, various hypotheses, and some statistical data. Surveys are also done to collect data from customers about their hospitality experiences and satisfaction. The findings and results which are based on the facts provided by customers and organization website suggested that the global trend does give a significant impact on organization and customer satisfaction. The study is aimed to provide ideas and solutions for organizations based on the impacts shown.

Loneliness among older people living in care homes in Sri Lanka.

The aim of this study was to explore loneliness in older people (aged 65+) living in care homes in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Loneliness, defined as the subjective, unwelcome feeling of the lack or loss of companionship, is known to be associated with old age, especially among older people living in care homes. Although several studies have shown that loneliness is highly prevalent, we lack knowledge about older people's personal experience of loneliness when residing in a care home and the strategies that older people use by themselves on a day-to-day basis to alleviate loneliness. The participants (n=75) were randomly selected from three different types of care homes: governmental, non-governmental and private, and loneliness was screened using the Revised University of California-Los Angeles (R-UCLA) Loneliness Scale. The 15 participants with the highest score on the loneliness scale were purposively selected for individual interviews. The median loneliness score was 45 (range 20-80); no significant differences concerning loneliness were found between the care homes. No differences concerning loneliness were found for any demographic variable except marital status. Loneliness was experienced as coping with inner pain, which older people described as emotional suffering caused by feeling abandoned from the family network and fettered to the care home, anxious about their future and depressed. Participants managed their loneliness by accepting their loneliness, practising religion, staying in touch with family, engaging in daily activities and participating in social activities. Reliable and socio-culturally validated tools for screening loneliness and culturally applicable interventions targeting factors associated with loneliness are necessary in the care of older people residing in care homes. A person-centred approach involving family or significant others is recommended in clinical practice, and an increase in the number of nurses with specialist education in geriatric nursing seems urgent.

Giving Voice to Medicaid: Waivers, Public Comments and Kentucky's "Secret Sauce".

In the 21st century the opportunity for the public to comment to an administrative agency typically means an invitation to go to a website, type words into a box, and hit send. Many advocacy groups provide templates for people to submit a statement in support or opposition to specific proposals. However, standardized comments do not capture the voice of Medicaid. They do not share people's personal experiences and insights. This article describes how consumer advocates in Kentucky devised a strategy, their Secret Sauce, to help consumers participate in the public comment process that is now required for Section 1115 Medicaid demonstration waiver applications. It shows how advocates can help real people's voices be heard in the public comment process, not through templates but through a process that assists people to tell their own stories in their own words. This is Medicaid's voice, the stories of real people who rely on Medicaid. Medicaid's voice can help policy makers understand the real-life impact of policy choices they make. It can also provide relevant evidence for courts reviewing the Secretary's grant of a Section 1115 waiver. Medicaid's voice can also help build political momentum, bringing those who rely on Medicaid to the polls and into the political conversation about the future of Medicaid.

Islamophobia, Racism and the Vilification of the Muslim Diaspora

Is Islamophobia a new phenomenon? Are Islam and the Judeo-Christian West still hateful of and hostile toward each other? Do Muslim women with veils and headscarves constitute a threat to the West's secular and liberal values? What has fueled the sudden rhetoric of Islamophobia in the United States of America and Europe? How does Anglophone print and digital media report pressures, prejudices and discriminatory practices against male and female students? How do Western media cover the social exclusion of the Muslim diaspora? These questions need a thoughtful coverage and concentration in academia. It is believed that most of the grievous and painful stories experienced, for example, by Muslim immigrants— be they legal or illegal, asylum seekers, refugees, or whatsoever, still do not find a room in scholastic research. This paper utilizes the narrative research method to study and probe into the problem of Islamophobia, the vilification of and racism against Muslims in the United States of America and Europe. The usage of human stories, people's personal experiences and narrative accounts or recounts of Islamophobic incidents (real or imagined) as the basis of this inquiry is particularly suitable for research because it can help understand the status quo of Muslim diaspora in the United States of America and Europe. Narrative data are retrieved from five major US-news publications and press elite (e.g., Foreign Policy, The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today and Chicago Tribune). The analysis of these data can be used to improve the situation of Muslim diaspora and their interaction with non-Muslims all over the world. The mediums cited above have been chosen because they are the prime source of information for intellectuals and policy-makers. Decidedly, they construct and build up ample epistemologies on Islamophobia and other epiphenomena of racism.

User Experience Design Elements and its Application in Product Design

At present, the product design is to use the user experience and feelings as a starting point, analyze the user experience results, apply some of the user's ideas to the design of the product, integrate into the product design concept. This paper will start from the design concept of electronic products, analysis the application of design elements in product design, take people's personal views and life experience as a design concept.

Popular media records reveal multi-decadal trends in recreational fishing catch rates.

Despite threats to human wellbeing from ecological degradation, public engagement with this issue remains at low levels. However, studies have shown that crafting messages to resonate with people’s personal experiences can enhance engagement. Recreational fishing is one of the principal ways in which people interact with aquatic environments, but long-term data from this perspective are considered rare. We uncovered 852 popular media records of recreational fishing for an Australian estuary across a 140-year period. Using information contained in these articles we analysed the species composition of recreational catches over time and constructed two distinct time series of catch and effort (n fish fisher-1 trip-1; kg fish fisher-1 trip-1) for recreational fishing trips and fishing club competitions (mean n and kg fish caught across all competitors, and n and kg fish caught by the competition winner). Reported species composition remained similar over time. Catch rates reported from recreational fishing trips (1900–1998) displayed a significant decline, averaging 32.5 fish fisher-1 trip-1 prior to 1960, and 18.8 fish fisher-1 trip-1 post-1960. Mean n fish fisher-1 competition-1 (1913–1983) also significantly declined, but best n fish fisher-1 competition-1 (1925–1980) displayed no significant change, averaging 31.2 fish fisher-1 competition-1 over the time series. Mean and best kg fish fisher-1 competition-1 trends also displayed no significant change, averaging 4.2 and 9.9 kg fisher-1 competition-1, respectively. These variable trends suggest that while some fishers experienced diminishing returns in this region over the last few decades, the most skilled inshore fishers were able to maintain their catch rates, highlighting the difficulties inherent in crafting conservation messages that will resonate with all sections of a community. Despite these challenges, this research demonstrates that popular media sources can provide multiple long-term trends at spatial scales, in units and via a recreational experience that many people can relate to.

‘Who do you want to kill?’ Affectual and relational understandings at a sorcery rock art site in the southwest Gulf of Carpentaria, northern Australia

This article explores the affectual and relational contexts in which rock art is embedded through an exploration of the encounters, reactions, and responses to a well‐known sorcery rock art site known as Kurrmurnnyini in northern Australia's southwest Gulf country. These encounters with a culturally powerful place, and the emotions derived from people's personal memories and experiences of Kurrmurnnyini and its sorcery‐infused rock art, are vital to establishing an understanding of contemporary perceptions of what is clearly more than an ‘archaeological site’. We contend that by turning our attention to the often‐overlooked affectual and relational dimensions of rock art and the contexts in which it is found, researchers place themselves in a better position to access and become aware of the agency and affect of graphic imagery as well as the significance these powerful images and places hold for people today.

How exposure to policy tools transforms the mechanisms behind public acceptability and acceptance—The case of the Gothenburg congestion tax

ABSTRACTAn increasing body of literature suggests that acceptance of environmental policy instruments tends to change along with increased experience of the same. Among the more popular examples of this is the growing number of congestion pricing initiatives emerging around the world. In several cases, the acceptability of these projects among the public has been relatively low before implementation, but then acceptance has increased as experience of the project has grown. The question is just how, and in particular, why? That is, what is it really that experience does to people's propensity to accept initially quite unpopular measures? In this article, we analyze how the relationship between political trust, policy-specific beliefs (PSBs), and public support for policy tools is moderated or affected by people's personal experiences of those policy tools. On the basis of the experience of previous research, we test the way in which PSBs, institutional trust, and the legitimacy of the political decision-making process affect public attitudes toward a policy tool. In addition—and consistent with other studies—we expect these effects to be significantly reduced post-implementation, as people gain first-hand experience of a policy tool. More specifically, we theorize that the often emphasized process legitimacy is only valid as a factor driving support before implementation, and that the effect of general institutional trust is replaced by the level of trust specific to the implementing institutions after the introduction of the policy tool. We tested these hypotheses using a natural experiment; that is, by studying public attitudes toward the introduction of congestion fees in the Swedish city of Gothenburg both before and after their introduction. By doing so, we were able to comprehensively analyze both the drivers behind public sentiments toward congestion charges and how these mechanisms transform as people are exposed to the costs and benefits of the policy tool in practice. Among other things, we found that with regard to fairness and environmental effectiveness, there is a clear symmetry in our results. The level of acceptance increased most noticeably among those who experienced that the environment was improved by the implemented tax, or that the system turned out to be fairer than expected. However, the opposite is also the case. Thus, among those experiencing that the environment was not improved, or that the system appeared to be less fair than expected, the level of acceptance decreased significantly after implementation. These results may have important policy implications.

Ecological influences on individual differences in color preference.

How can the large, systematic differences that exist between individuals' color preferences be explained? The ecological valence theory (Palmer & Schloss,Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107:8877-8882, 2010) posits that an individual's preference for each particular color is determined largely by his or her preferences for all correspondingly colored objects. Therefore, individuals should differ in their color preferences to the extent that they have different preferences for the same color-associated objects or that they experience different objects. Supporting this prediction, we found that individuals' color preferences were predicted better by their own preferences for correspondingly colored objects than by other peoples' preferences for the same objects. Moreover, the fit between color preferences and affect toward the colored objects was reliably improved when people's own idiosyncratic color-object associations were included in addition to a standard set of color-object associations. These and related results provide evidence that individual differences in color preferences are reliably influenced by people's personal experiences with colored objects in their environment.

The Effects of Country-Related Affect on Product Evaluations

Affect toward countries can be generated by people's personal experiences with the country or by targeted advertising campaigns designed to create positive affect toward the country. In four experiments, this research examines the effect of country-related affect (CRA) on the evaluations of products originating from the country. Country-related affect (CRA) systematically influences product evaluations depending on the valence as well as the warmth or competence associations of CRA. Positive CRA enhances evaluations of products with favorable country-related product (CRP) associations, but it boomerangs and decreases evaluations of products with unfavorable CRP associations. Positive CRA engenders high (vs. low) construal processing that directs consumer attention to CRP associations under low (vs. high) arousal conditions (experiments 1 and 2). Experiments 3 and 4 establish that CRA is a unique type of incidental affect that influences product evaluations based on its warmth or competence associations. The implications for country of origin research are discussed.

Individual differences in the rubber-hand illusion: Predicting self-reports of people's personal experiences

Can we assess individual differences in the extent to which a person perceives the rubber-hand illusion on the basis of self-reported experiences? In this research, we develop such an instrument using Rasch-type models. In our conception, incorporating an object (e.g., a rubber hand) into one's body image requires various sensorimotor and cognitive processes. The extent to which people can meet these requirements thus determines how intensely people experience and, simultaneously, describe the illusion. As a consequence, individual differences in people's susceptibility to the rubber-hand illusion can be determined by inspecting reports of their personal experiences. The proposed model turned out to be functional in its capability to predict self-reports of people's experiences and to reliably assess individual differences in susceptibility to the illusion. Regarding validity, we found a small, but significant, correlation between individual susceptibility and proprioceptive drift. Additionally, we found that asynchrony, and tapping rather than stroking the fingers constrain the experience of the illusion.

How information about other people's personal experiences can help with healthcare decision-making: A qualitative study

ObjectiveTo investigate people's views of using ‘general facts’ and information about other people's ‘personal experiences’ for health-related decision-making. MethodsSixty-two people, who between them had experience of five different focal health issues, participated in 12 focus groups and 9 interviews. Exploration of uses of the two types of information was supported by discussion of illustrative excerpts. ResultsThere was less discussion of ‘general facts’; participants thought it obvious that good decisions required these. Participants reported having used ‘personal experiences’ information to: recognise decisions that needed consideration; identify options; appraise options and make selections (including by developing and reflecting on their reasoning about possible choices); and support coping strategies. Their inclination to use ‘personal experiences’ information was apparently moderated by assessments of personal relevance, the motives of information providers and the ‘balance’ of experiences presented. ConclusionPeople can use ‘personal experiences’ information in various ways to support their decision-making, and exercise some discrimination as they do. Practice implications‘Personal experiences’ information may help people in a number of ways in relation to decision-making. However, ‘personal experiences’ information does not replace the need for ‘general facts’ and care should be taken when it is used in resources for patients.

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Determinants of public trust in complementary and alternative medicine

BackgroundIn the Netherlands, public trust in conventional medicine is relatively high. There is reason to believe that public trust in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is rated lower. The aim of this study is to gain insight into public trust in CAM and the determinants that lie at the root of it. We hypothesized that public trust in CAM is related to (perceived) institutional guarantees, media information on CAM, information from people's social network, personal experiences, the role of general practitioners (GPs) and trust in conventional medicine.MethodsA postal questionnaire on public trust in CAM was mailed to 1358 members of the Health Care Consumer Panel. 65% of the questionnaires were returned. Data were analysed using frequencies, ANOVA, post hoc testing and linear regression analyses.ResultsIn the total sample, the level of public trust in CAM was a 5.05 on average on a scale of 1-10. 40.7% was CAM user (current or past) and displayed significantly higher levels of trust toward CAM than CAM non users. In the total sample, public trust in CAM was related to institutional guarantees, negative media information, positive and negative information reported by their social network and people's personal experiences with CAM. For non users, trust is mostly associated with institutional guarantees. For users, personal experiences are most important. For both users and non users, trust levels in CAM are affected by negative media information. Public trust in CAM is for CAM users related to positive information and for non users to negative information from their network.ConclusionsIn the Netherlands, CAM is trusted less than conventional medicine. The hypotheses on institutional guarantees, media information, information from the network and people's personal experiences are confirmed by our study for the total sample, CAM non users and users. The other hypotheses are rejected.

A chronicle of chaos

The extraordinary breaking news story of Hurricane Katrina offered an opportunity to document how multimedia and interactive features interfere with the carefully crafted news story of a newspaper. Scholarship on news narratives and medium theory informed this case study, a textual analysis of the 2005 Hurricane Katrina coverage in The Times-Picayune and its web partner Nola.com. The main finding was that the New Orleans' newspaper tale of a mythic Flood in an American city transformed into a chronicle about people's personal experiences in cyberspace. In the process, audiences joined with journalists and reshaped the news narrative, which took on unique cyber-temporal and cyber-spatial qualities.