Psychological Impressions Research Articles

Assessing thermal comfort in wooden buildings: A visual perceptual analysis through physiological characterization

As the use of wood, a representative low-carbon building material, increases to reduce greenhouse gases, analysis of the impact of wood spaces on occupants is important for effective environmental planning. Therefore the study delved into the visual and perceptual warmth effects of wood through a comparative of thermal sensations in spaces featuring various finishing materials. A living space was created using concrete, wallpaper, brick, and wood, respectively, through virtual reality. A total of 30 subjects experienced the four living spaces through virtual reality, while subjective thermal sensation questionnaires and four physiological responses were measured. In a slightly cool environment based on predicted mean vote, subjects ranked the perceived warmth in the following order: wood > brick > wallpaper > concrete, with wood surpassing concrete by 3.30, in terms of visual warmth. These results support the hue-heat hypothesis that materials in the yellow–red spectrum are commonly perceived as warm. Moreover, the representative psychological impression associated with wood, such as warmth and coziness, considerably influences these perceptions. Importantly, the positive impact of the visual and perceptual thermal effects of wood, alongside the impression of space (as being comfortable, positive, and relaxed), notably enhanced thermal comfort, especially in cooler conditions. Furthermore, the subjective evaluation of the thermal environment was validated through correlation analysis involving thermal perception biomarkers and thermal comfort model. Indoor spaces with wood finishing materials were perceived as warm, and the possibility of reducing heating load and greenhouse gas emissions was suggested by improving thermal comfort during the heating season

Effect of changes in surface visual properties of heat-treated wood on the psychological preference

Heat treatment of wood is an attractive, environmentally friendly modification, which can change surface visual properties of wood including color and grain, but it is unclear how heat-treated wood is perceived and evaluated compared with untreated wood. In this paper, Chinese fir was heat-treated at 160, 180, 200, or 220 °C for 2 or 4 h. The changes of wood surface color and grain contrast were measured. A subjective questionnaire and eye-tracking technology were used for psychological evaluation. The results showed that changes in the visual properties of heat-treated wood had a significant effect on psychological preference—heat-treated wood was generally more preferred than the untreated, particularly at 200 °C for 4 h. Grain contrast and hue played an important role in the preference for heat-treated wood. The preference gave people the positive psychological impression of warmth, weight, cost, prevalence, and comfort. Eye-tracking analysis showed that Chinese fir heat-treated at about 200 °C with high hue value and clear grain contrast was easier to gain more visual attention. The results would have a high technical reference value for the heat-treated wood in product visual design.

Linguistic Personality of the Marvel Cinematic Universe Character Nebula: Narrative and LIWC Analyses

Blockbuster films intended for an international audience often depict universally recognisable psychological motivations and limitations, presenting characters whose verbal expressions create distinct psychological impressions. This paper focused on the relationship between language use, including narratives and psychological categories of words, and the psychological traits of cinematic personalities. The study aimed to investigate how a character's language usage exposed their personality, psychological attributes, and transformations throughout their story arc and archetype. To achieve this, in the research a connection between Maslow's hierarchy of human needs, Jung's concept of archetypes, and Schmidt's typology of master characters in fiction was drawn, which expanded the understanding of the heroine Nebula from Guardians of the Galaxy verbal behavior. The research further defined the character's psychological image and arc by analysing their speech patterns. It identified the character's archetypes, namely the Backstabber and the Father's Daughter, and explored the progression between these archetypes. Additionally, the article employed the narrative analysis to construct the character's story. The narrative analysis was concluded with the implementation of the LIWC-22 psycholinguistic analysis in order to validate the findings derived from the psycholinguistics and cinematic studies. This method allowed for a comprehensive examination of the language used by cinematic characters, providing insights into their psychological traits and development. Ultimately, this research has contributed to the comprehension of how people's psychological characteristics are depicted and communicated through language in mass cinematography.

Trauma and Psychological Self-Destruction: An Overview of the Exasperating Emotional Imbalance in K R Meera’s The Unseeing Idol of Light

The present article discusses trauma and its impact on human emotions, particularly on women, in literature, with a focus on K R Meera's novel, The Unseeing Idol of Light. The research paper highlights the rise of trauma theory in literature and explores the cultural and psychological influence of trauma in literature. It also analyses the characters in the novel through the lens of emotional imbalance and interdependency and examines the interrelation between vision, love, and trauma. The prevalence of negative emotions over positive emotions in the novel has been discussed. The paper emphasises the importance of mental stability in contemporary society and discusses various themes such as psychic changes, loss, longing, and transformation. The researcher aims to analyse and relate the selected work with critical thinking to shed light on the cultural and psychological impressions of literature.

Examination of Sound Environment Design Method for the Behavior of Office Workers

In recent years, offices have changed due to work style reforms and the impact of the corona crisis. In contrast to the conventional belief that a quiet office is desirable, studies are underway to create an office environment in which office workers can perform comfortably and efficiently by adding pleasant sounds. We have implemented a nature sound environment control system that provides relaxation and concentration through embracing biophilic design, high-quality sound reproduction and direction control to realize a comfortable space that suits people. While introducing this system in multiple office spaces and proceeding with demonstration experiments, it has become clear that the type of sound source and listening level that make people feel comfortable differ depending on the office work situation. Therefore, in order to quantify the effects on humans such as relaxation and concentration, we used psychological methods (adjustment method and rating scale method) to verify the type of sound and listening level suitable for the office situations, such as working or taking a break. In our paper, we examined the effect of the sound environment on workers' psychological impressions in paperwork and breaks, which are the main worker actions in the office.

Development of Sago-based Analog Rice Using Kansei and Value Engineering

This study used two product development methods: Kansei and value engineering. Kansei engineering was used to identify and translate consumer psychological impressions or feelings in the form of Kansei words to the design parameters, while value engineering was used to analyze the functional properties by considering cost, reliability, and performance. The consumers determined the priority attributes of analog rice products, namely a good taste, a fluffy and soft texture, as well as a bright color. Three alternative variations of the product development concept were formulated based on these priorities. The concept with the highest value was then concluded as an analog rice produced from 90% Sago flour and 10% MOCAF (Modified Cassava Flour) with a value of 1,131.

Mapping Global Research in Emergency Medicine; a Bibliometric Analysis of Documents Indexed in the Web of Science Database.

Emergency medicine is a relatively new and rapidly growing specialty, and its research monitoring is important for future policies. This study aimed to analyze the published literature related to emergency medicine, to create a documented research perspective for this field. This research is a bibliometric study that analyzes the research outputs of the subject area of emergency medicine indexed in the Web of Science database from the beginning to 2023. VOSviewer software was used to visualize and predict the trends in research on the topic. The findings showed that the University of California, The Journal of Neurotrauma and Brain Injury, Elsevier, and the USA were the most prolific units in the cycle of scientific productions in the field of emergency medicine. Results showed that most scientific productions in this field fall into 6 clusters: psychological impressions, injuries caused by traumatic events and the effects of traumas on children, pathophysiology and nervous system issues and related diseases, complications of traumatic events and injuries, biomechanics and complications caused by sports injuries, and consciousness. In addition to interventions and clinical complications, research in the field of emergency medicine has also focused on psychological structures. So, based on various measurement indicators, the subjects of this field have been the focus of researchers' attention.

DETERMINANTS OF SCHOOL CHOICE: A STUDY ON KHULNA CITY CORPORATION (KCC) AREA OF BANGLADESH

This study attempts to sort out the factors influencing school choice decision of parents inKhulna City Corporation (KCC) of Bangladesh. A semi-structured interview schedule, containing twenty-five Likert-type questions on determinants of school choice, was used to collect the data. A total of 150 randomly selected mothers, having at least one school going child, residing at Nirala Residential area of KCC were interviewed. Findings indicate that parental education and income play a decisive role in the decisions of school choice. The education level of children (p<0.000), the size of family (p<0.004) and the number of offspring are evidently influencing the selection of school as well. Moreover, parents’ psychological impression about schools (p<0.000), together with financial aspects (p<0.040), proved to be more pronounced than the schools’ academic reputations and facilities (p<0.065), nevertheless, the aforesaid issues are found to be positively linked with school choice (p<0.018). Parents’ preference for private schools over government schools, especially, for young educands (Class I to Class V), however, suggest their growing dissatisfaction about the quality of education offered by government primary schools. Therefore, to restore parents’ faith in government schools, concerned authorities should value the demands of parents and their children to improve the quality of services in schools and to enhance the efficiency of the teachers to increase academic opportunity, success and social responsibility across the country.

Семантический потенциал осязательной метафоры (на материале слов, именующих свойство мягкости)

This article describes the results of the study on the psychophysiological phenomenon of synaesthesia projected onto language and speech. Synaesthesia is considered on the basis of words with the root myagk- (myagky, myagko, myagkost’, smyagchit’), which in their original meaning name the tactile sensation of softness. The paper aimed to identify the potential of this vocabulary and the sensory impression behind it as a means of conceptualizing knowledge about the world as well as to study the mechanism for the development of metaphorical, primarily synaesthetic, semantics. It is important to assess the sequence of expression of synaesthetic semantics and meanings that go beyond synaesthetic meanings, as well as to study whether vocabulary with the original semantics of softness can figuratively conceptualize knowledge. The research revealed a universal ability of this kind of vocabulary to conceptualize all types of sensory impressions (visual, auditory, olfactory and gustatory) when used metaphorically. In addition to conveying a multimodal perception of the world, these words can express new sensory sensations, unusual for the speaker, for which there are no special names in the language. Along with the synaesthetic semantics itself, vocabulary with the meaning of softness is able to reflect the psychological impressions of comfort, pleasure and enjoyment, as well as the psychological characteristics of a person and the psychological aspect of interpersonal interaction, including speech. The next stage of abstraction of the tactile impression is the development on its basis of quantitative semantics, i.e. the meaning of low intensity of the manifestation of an attribute or an action in their psychological perception. The results obtained can be used to identify the mechanism for conceptualizing sensory impressions and forming synaesthetic metaphors, as well as applied in the practice of lexicographic description of cognitive metaphors.

The role of fragrance and self-esteem in perception of body odors and impressions of others.

Human sweat odor serves as social communication signal for a person's traits and emotional states. This study explored whether body odors can also communicate information about one's self-esteem, and the role of applied fragrance in this relationship. Female participants were asked to rate self-esteem and attractiveness of different male contestants of a dating show, while being exposed to male participant's body odors differing in self-esteem. High self-esteem sweat was rated more pleasant and less intense than low self-esteem sweat. However, there was no difference in perceived self-esteem and attractiveness of male contestants in videos, hence explicit differences in body odor did not transfer to judgments of related person characteristics. When the body odor was fragranced using a fragranced body spray, male contestants were rated as having higher self-esteem and being more attractive. The finding that body odors from male participants differing in self-esteem are rated differently and can be discriminated suggests self-esteem has distinct perceivable olfactory features, but the remaining findings imply that only fragrance affect the psychological impression someone makes. These findings are discussed in the context of the role of body odor and fragrance in human perception and social communication.

Music transformation in architectural morphology: A case study in Villa Isola Bandung

Music and architecture are part of the arts, which are artistic and natural human expressions. A work of art cannot be separated from several internal or external influences. Influences that come from outside or external factors include humans, space and time. Music and architecture influence both, and the connections and aspects between the two are things that certainly have a relationship. Music and architecture have similarities in that both have rules that work in harmony—sensitivity to aesthetic principles: harmony, rhythm, balance, and emphasis. The psychological impression of colour, materials and construction also complements the realization of a complete and integral design. Music can be visualized in other forms of art, namely architecture, a field of art with a wide range of scientific fields. This article will examine the relationship between the art of music and other arts, namely architecture, including its interrelated elements and a description and analysis of the transformation of music into architectural form in Villa Isola Bandung. The discussion of this problem will use a descriptive method with a deductive approach, namely taking a case study and analyzing it in general, specifically related to theories related to music and architecture.

Effect of the degree of wood use on the visual psychological response of wooden indoor spaces

The exhausting fast pace of life in modern urban society is leading to overwhelming stress and diminished cognitive alertness. Moreover, people are spending more and more time indoors due to building densification and urban lifestyle. Therefore, indoor environments that can promote positive psychological perception will become more important. Use of wood in indoor settings and its health benefits are currently receiving increased attention from design and research communities. In this work, a comparative study was conducted on the different degrees of wood use in indoor spaces. The results show that the effect of the physical attributes of degree of wood use, wood coverage and change of wood surface (different type and application position of wood) on the visual psychological responses (visual attention and psychological impression) of wooden indoor spaces were significant. The wooden indoor spaces with medium degree of wood use were easier to get more visual attention and were more helpful to give people the psychological impression of naturalness, warmth, relaxation, and desire to use. In addition, the results also show that when considering the influence of change of wood surface, people tended to pay more attention to indoor spaces with relatively high wood coverage and preferred the experiences in such spaces. The change of wood surface was an all-important aspect that needs to be considered on top of wood coverage. These results provided guidance for the design of healthy indoor environments.

Müslüman Yaşlılarda Pandemi Sürecine İlişkin Ruhsal Etkilenimler ve Dini Düşünceler

This study is about Muslim elders' psychological impressions and religious/spiritual thoughts during the pandemic process. The religious/spiritual thoughts of the elderly who are in the high risk group in the pandemic is important in terms of pointing to their inner resources and in terms of making sense of their experiences and providing them in combating the pandemic, which has turned into a psychological process. The aim of the study is to bring these sources and bases to light in the dimension of religious thought. The data obtained in accordance with the qualitative research paradigm using the interview technique were analysed. Even though they had to face negative mental effects, it was concluded that the pandemic process was encountered with a kind of prosperity and maturity by Muslim elders, they approached this process with moderation, they got support from their beliefs and used them wisely. As a result, it is understood that Muslim elders have an existential and encompassing understanding based on their beliefs against the effects of the pandemic process, all of which are related to their ego integrity and maturity.

Ocean imagery relates to an individual's cognitions and pro-environmental behaviours

The coming decade will bring new challenges to marine management, governance and conservation. Understanding people's relationship with this environment is fundamental for guiding scientists and decision makers. This article deconstructs mental ocean imagery and explores how these images relate to one's marine value orientations, personal norms, emotional involvement (fear), attitudes toward marine sustainable use of resources, acceptability for ocean use, and pro-environmental behaviours. Data were collected through a self-administered questionnaire across coastal communities on the island of Newfoundland, Canada. We used a word-association technique to elicit ocean images. Frequency analyses revealed beautiful, fishing, cold, pollution and vast as the most cited images. Through an inductive exploratory content analysis, we identified psychological impression, place identity, utilitarian, environmentalist and naturalist as the main theme dimensions. Correlation analyses found that mental images correlate with the way people feel, think and act toward the ocean. Demographic characteristics had a significant effect on some of the images: psychological impression was higher among women and older generations, whereas naturalist was higher among young people. Environmental related images were higher in urban areas. Findings expanded our knowledge on how people imagine the ocean and shows the ambivalence of human nature (i.e., admiring and fearing the ocean while exploring its vastness and resources and understanding its fragility and decay caused by humans).

Intelligence Perception from Text: Accuracy and Cues

The present study deals with the first impression about a person’s intelligence, based solely on their text. We attempted to calculate the accuracy of a reader’s judgment, and to determine which features of the text are associated with both the reader’s impression as well as the author’s intelligence test scores (Brunswik lens model). The study involved 116 participants aged 16 to 23 years. Each of them read and evaluated 4 out of 20 texts that were written by other participants in an earlier study. Participants evaluated both the general impression of the author’s intelligence and of the text itself, scoring responses to questions such as “How smart is the author of this text?” and to other text features that may be associated with intelligence judgement, including “vocabulary richness” and “grammar complexity”. In addition, objective indicators such as readability (Flesch-Kincaid score), length, and relative errors were calculated for the texts. The accuracy of reader judgments, estimated in a text-based analysis as the Spearman correlation coefficient between the “how smart is the author” score and the actual author test scores, did not reach statistical significance. However, the data indicate the presence of a nonlinear relationship. As revealed by a participant-based analysis, authors from the lower quartile (based on test scores) tend to be rated lower by participants as well. Readability, vocabulary richness, grammar complexity, and the relative number of words longer than six letters all were utilized by the reader participants in their judgments (i.e., correlated with impression scores) and at the same time were valid (i.e., correlated with test scores). We discuss the problem of the narrowness of scientific and psychological impressions on intelligence, compared to everyday perceptions

Geometric morphometric analysis of Japanese female facial shape in relation to psychological impression space

Facial appearance has essential consequences in various social interactions. Previous studies have shown that although people can perceive a variety of impressions from a face, these impressions may form from a relatively small number of core dimensions in the psychological impression space (e.g., valence and dominance). However, few studies have thus far examined which facial shape features contribute to perceptions of the core trait impression dimensions for Asian female faces. This study aimed to identify the commonalities between various facial impressions of Japanese female faces and determine the facial shape components associated with such impressions by applying geometric morphometric (GMM) analysis. In Experiment 1 (Modeling study), Japanese female faces were evaluated in terms of 18 trait adjectives that are frequently used to describe facial appearance in daily life. We found that Japanese female facial appearance is indeed evaluated mainly on the valence and dominance dimensions. In Experiment 2 (Validation study), we confirmed that all the trait impressions were quantitatively manipulated by transforming the facial shape features associated with valence and dominance. Our results provide evidence that various facial impressions derived from these two underlying dimensions can be quantitatively manipulated by transforming facial shape using the GMM techniques.

作为方法的“时间” : 论中国现代小说的发生

It is very meaningful for us to put the novels of late Qing Dynasty and May 4th together and examine “the occurrence of modern Chinese novels” around the “time” of the novels. Modernity is a problem of time. Thinking around “time” is a return to the problem itself, which should expand and extend the topic of “the occurrence of modern Chinese novels”. The occurrence of modern Chinese novels is closely related to the narrative time and modernity time of novels. From the perspective of narrative time, whether it is from “full time” to “cross section”, or from “pause” to “omission”, or the psychological presentation of narrative time, all play an important role in the occurrence of modern Chinese novels, and the psychological presentation of narrative time in novels is also very important. With the emergence of psychological impression novels, the plot timeline of novels has almost completely collapsed, the structure of novels has shifted from plot time to psychological space, from the outside to the inside, and the novels have completed the modern transformation from writing stories to writing people, from the outside to the inside. From the perspective of modernity time, compared with the time-space form of novels, the changes of modernity time in novels are more lively and rapid. The growth process of human beings and the evolution process of events are put into concrete time-space and into a linear development time-space. The character changes of characters and the causal development of events all exist in the time process. Therefore, the characters in novels have real psychological and life activity tracks, which is fundamental to the promotion of the modern transformation of Chinese novels.

Psychological Model of Phonosemantics

Phonosemantics is a school of thought which believes that each sound or phoneme carries a specific psychological impression allotted by nature. And these psychological impressions were used to evolve different languages. Work has been done on this ground, but there is still scope for further research into the subject. The paper presents a new hypothesis, explaining the psychological representations of all the important IPA alphabets. The paper proposes a model of psychological mind, on which all the basic phonemes are placed, enabling us to understand the basic relationship between psychological semantic values and their phonetic values. To prove the correctness of the allocation, the paper applies these semantic features to 245 words of different languages, along with some additional evidences. The paper resolves the confusion regarding the same name for different objects, different names for the same object, the question of arbitrariness, and other queries raised by modern linguists.

The Experiences and Perceptions of Health-Care Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Muscat, Oman: A Qualitative Study.

IntroductionPredominantly, studies on COVID-19 report quantitative data that often miss the social implications and other determinants of health. The objective of this study was to explore the experiences and perceptions of health care workers (HCWs) in primary health care in the management of COVID-19 with respect to medical response experiences, socio-cultural and religious reforms, psychological impressions, and lessons learned.MethodsThis was a qualitative study using an empirical phenomenological approach. Six focus group discussions were conducted across various stakeholders working frontline in the management of COVID-19 (managerial, public health/field/community and primary care health centers). They participated in semi-structured, in-depth group discussions from 11th to 20th May 2020. All discussions were audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim and analyzed using thematic analysis.ResultsForty participants were involved in this study. Three themes emerged related to the medical response experiences, including the rapid re-structuring of the PHC services, use of technology and challenges of working on COVID-19. Perceptions on the socio-cultural and religious reforms included changes in social and religious norms, and anticipated gaps in accessing health care among the vulnerable groups (elderly, expatriates, and individuals with low economic status). Perceptions on psychological disturbances were themed as consequences of social distancing, management of dead bodies, exhaustion among the health care workers, and risk of exposure. Finally, lessons learned were centered around building on the existing epidemiological and public health capacities, improving access to health care and overcoming resistance to change. Most participants labelled their experience in COVID-19 as an “experience of wisdom” in which learning was a continuous process.ConclusionThis qualitative study amongst primary HCWs revealed certain aspects of response to COVID-19 in Muscat, Oman. Results has unfolded various aspects of COVID-19. The situation was perceived by primary HCWs as a new experience that challenged the primary health care; enforced the utilization of public health/epidemiological skills, and linked to unfavorable socio-religious and psychological events.

The Effect of Health Education about Menstruation on Psychological Readiness of Pre-Adolescent Girls in Facing Menarche

Adolescence is a period of transition between age and adulthood, where growth spurts occur, secondary sex-features arise, fertility occurs and better psychological and cognitive conditions, in which girls are marked by the emergence of menstruation (menarche). Menarche is the first menstrual period that occurs during puberty in a woman. In some cases, this accelerated growth can affect a woman's psychological, changes that can occur include or mistakes that often occur. Information that really can be used to improve the ability of young women.Health efforts that can be done to increase knowledge to learn the correct information about menarche for young women, one of which is health promotion through health education. The purpose of this study was to find out the Psychological Impression of Pre-Adolescent Girls (the fifth grade students) Facing Menarche at SDN 02 Sanur, Denpasar.