Sense Of Confidence Research Articles

The emergence of autonomy in adolescence -Developing a process model focusing on the independence of the sense of <i>ibasho</i> from the sense of authenticity based on the <i>amae</i> theory-

The emergence of autonomy in adolescence -Developing a process model focusing on the independence of the sense of <i>ibasho</i> from the sense of authenticity based on the <i>amae</i> theory-

Aural Authenticity and Reality in Soundscape of VR Documentary

The documentary concept is a 'notoriously slippery eel,' or even the slipperiest one in the history of cinema (Kahana, 2016). With the involvement of virtual reality in the production of documentaries, the dialectic between virtuality and authenticity makes this concept even more elusive. Does documentary exist in VR films? When the spaces and mise-en-scène of the documentary are all artificially created through computing software, can it still be considered an authentic form of a documentary? How can this sub-genre of documentary continue to exist as a kind of proclaimed ‘non-fiction’ when the film is based entirely on fictional visual input? This paper aims to put the discussion on visual realities aside and provides a perspective for understanding how real auditory characteristics are built up in virtual environments (VE) of virtual reality documentaries. We develop this argument in three parts. In the first part, we define a virtual reality documentary and distinguish it from other virtual reality films based on Bill Nichols’s analysis of the boundary between traditional documentary and other types of films. Then, we describe the design and implementation of the aural simulation systems with HRTF (Head-Related Transfer Function) in virtual reality documentary sound design to illustrate how it could reproduce realistic physical hearing for viewers. In the final part, we explore the concept of ‘soundscape’ as it applies to VR documentaries, attempting to show that the sense of authenticity in the audition is related to generating the genius loci (spirit of place) of the viewers based on the case analysis of Anne Frank House VR. Such a spirit of place is embedded in the hearing experience of those who experienced it.

Marginalised Students’ Funds of Knowledge in Teaching and Learning Science: A Systematic Literature Review

Funds of knowledge refer to the historically accumulated and culturally developed bodies of knowledge and skills essential for household and individual functioning and well-being. Teachers face students from different backgrounds in the classroom. In order to provide the best possible education for all the students in a classroom, teaching practices must reflect an authentic sense of caring for a child in a way that recognises the importance of the utilisation of marginalised students’ fund of knowledge. Hence, reviewing existing literature systematically is very important for finding the gaps in using marginalised students’ funds of knowledge in science teaching and learning. A systematic Literature Review (SLR) is conducted to identify the type of funds of knowledge that can be used in science teaching and learning processes. Out of 321 articles identified from Scopus and Web of Science (WoS) databases, 28 articles were selected for the systematic review process. The finding of the analysis shows nine types of funds of knowledge that can be used in teaching and learning science, particularly for marginalised students. This research and its finding are expected to provide insight and information on the type of funds of knowledge for marginalised students that can be utilised in science education and contribute to the improved quality of science education in general.

When historically cultural and creative products meet AR: the effect of augmented reality–based product display on consumers’ product evaluation

PurposeAugmented reality (AR), an innovative interactive technology that can realize the synchronization and integration of virtual and reality, has been widely used in commodity displays and museum exhibitions. However, few studies have examined the effectiveness of AR-based product display in the context of historically cultural and creative product (HCCP) marketing. This study aims to focus on whether and how the application of AR technology to the HCCP display will influence consumers’ product evaluation.Design/methodology/approachThis study uses three experiments to examine the impact of an AR-based product display on consumers’ evaluation of HCCPs. In experiments 1 and 2, the researchers compared the consumer’s evaluation of HCCPs under the AR-based product display condition and two other display conditions (i.e. 3D model display and photographic display) and examined the mediating role of perceived authenticity in the evaluation process. Experiment 3 tested the moderating effect of the availability of artistic detail information on weakening the negative impact of AR-based product display on the evaluation of HCCPs.FindingsThis study found that using AR-based displays harms consumers’ evaluation of HCCPs by impairing perceived authenticity. The spatial-temporal cues of real-time circumstances impede consumers’ processing of the historical attributes of the product. The dynamic AR-based display makes it hard for consumers to build the product’s connection with historical prototypes. Thus, consumers’ perception of the authenticity of HCCP is reduced. Providing artistic details during the presentation makes artistic attributes more prominent than historical attributes, allowing consumers to pay more attention to the sensory experience caused by the artistic design instead of the spatial-temporal cues of the product. At this point, the negative impact of AR-based product display on the evaluation of HCCPs will be attenuated.Originality/valueFirst, this study shows the adverse effects of AR-based product displays in the field of HCCP marketing. AR-based product display degrades product evaluations when the displayed product has historical attributes. Second, this study extends the perceived authenticity theory to the technological experience context and establishes a theoretical connection with the AR literature. Third, this study explores the multiple characteristics of HCCPs. The historical attributes are the central attribute of HCCPs, leading consumers to perceive lower sense of authenticity due to the conflict with real-time spatiotemporal cues risen from the AR-based display. However, the artistic attributes, which are beyond the limitation of time and space, will attenuate this conflict when they become prominent.

What made undergraduate research experiences significant: a collaborative critical incident analysis with student co-researchers

ABSTRACT Undergraduate research (UR) as a high-impact practice has been increasingly embedded in the curriculum. However, there is a limited understanding of how undergraduates make sense of their research experiences amid an absence of student voice in the literature. This study investigated what students perceived as significant UR experiences through student co-researchers conducting critical incident interviews with fellow students and participating in collaborative analysis. The findings show that students generally perceived their research experiences as positive and associated significant experiences with achievement, ownership, challenges, real-world relevance, collaboration, and to a lesser extent, identification with research. Student co-researchers also provided unique insights such as students paying more attention to the utility value of their UR experiences. This article’s main contribution is the discovery of a sense of authenticity in UR from students’ perspectives emphasising more real-world relevance while less ‘being’ and ‘becoming’, which created challenges to form a researcher identity. The findings also point to both synergies and tensions between achieving authenticity and pursuing utility value, implying the need for enhancing UR through redesigned mentorship in the future.

Nietzsches ästhetischer Umgang mit dem Politischen. Ein Versuch zu JGB VIII

Abstract Nietzsche’s Aesthetic Approach to the Political. An Essay on BGE VIII. This article aims to present the aesthetic basis of Nietzsche’s dealings with politics in BGE VIII. In order to fulfill this task, the present text is divided into two parts: in the first part, I discuss how politics appears in BGE VIII as linked to a dispute over the concepts of “Völker” and “Vaterländer.” Understanding the meaning of these concepts requires an analysis of what I call the Nationenfrage. This question characterizes a theoretical effort in Europe to establish an authentic sense of personal and social identity. The contextualization of this theme is decisive for the second part of this article, in which I present Nietzsche’s strategies for carrying forth the debate concerning political phenomena, figures and events, based on purely aesthetic coordinates. The guiding theme will be the political phenomenon of democracy, which Nietzsche approaches both in BGE VIII and GS V. However, my goal is to make clear that Nietzsche’s interest in politics is conditioned by his interest in showing the aesthetic procedure of his philosophizing.

Anxious Dynamics of Exile and the Ambivalence of Arab American Identity in Diana Abu-Jaber’s Crescent: Critical Reflections and Contemplations

Abstract Diana Abu-Jaber’s Crescent is an Arab American literary piece of fiction that symbolizes the remarkable emergence of this kind of literature in the early years of the twenty-first century. The social and political atmosphere in the USA after 9/11 ushered in the rise of this ethnic literature to worldwide prominence. In addition to the desire to challenge the multi-faceted oppression that Arab Americans confront in the USA – gender-related, sexual, racial, and ethnic – the literary canon of Arab American writers also discuss the experiences of exile and displacement that Arabs go through when settling in the USA and how such experiences affect their sense of authenticity. As such, this paper examines the politics of exile as projected in Diana Abu-Jaber’s Crescent, taking the co-protagonist Han as a prototype of Arab exiles living in the USA. In addition to employing critical and analytical approaches to the novel, this paper relies on a socio-cultural conceptual framework based on perspectives of prominent critics such as Edward Said, Avtar Brah, and Svetlana Boym, to name a few. This paper argues that the politics of exile – such as nostalgia, memory, and displacement – make Arab American identity more convoluted and interlaced with the dilemma of authenticity, featuring feelings of estrangement, loneliness, and homesickness.

Simulation of Realistic Fur Texture Based on Piece Element Synthesis

Realistic fur texture is usually modeled and rendered with three-dimensional software. Due to the complexity and inefficiency of the three-dimensional software, it cannot meet general designers’ requirements to represent realistic fur texture quickly. In order to achieve the rapid drawing of real-quality fur, this work proposes an approach to simulating realistic fur texture based on the method of piece elements synthesis. To be specific, we used fur elements to represent fur units, the dislocation and superposition of which formed the fur visual effect. Also, we discuss the validity and feasibility of parameters that can be matched in Adobe Illustrator software. The method applied in this paper can not only meet the timeliness and convenience of designers when representing fur texture, but also visualize fur texture with a high sense of authenticity and diversity.

Armchair tourism: Exploring individuals’ innovative travel experience in the with-corona era

This study investigates the experiential components of armchair travelling and their effect on the armchair travelers’ responses, which include perceived authenticity, destination image, and behavioral intention, by using a mixed-method approach. A total of 414 survey responses collected through an online research panel were analyzed by conducting a confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling. The analysis reveals that a sense of telepresence and copresence are the major factors, which generate authenticity and a positive destination image. Perceived ease of use influences building a favorable destination image, whereas self-other online interactions significantly create a sense of authenticity with the armchair travel experience. The content analysis for the qualitative data collected using an open-ended question shows that the armchair travelers gain vicarious travel experiences and resolve mental stress through armchair travelling. Based on the results, this study provides meaningful theoretical and practical implications to the armchair tourism literature and industry.

Autobiographical memory functions in the recall of authentic moments

Authenticity, or being true to oneself, relies on integrating autobiographical memories into a coherent life-story. These autobiographical memories serve three adaptive functions: self-identity, social connection and directing behaviour in the future. But little is known about how memory and the subjective sense of authenticity interact. Using a between-subjects experimental design, we compared memories of authentic and inauthentic moments with controls. Memories of in/authentic events were more likely to use the self function and less likely to use the social function than controls. In addition, we noted a trend for memories of inauthentic events to be more likely than controls to use the directive function. These results highlight the importance of an ecological approach to memory as well as the potential adaptive value of recalling inauthentic experiences in developing a coherent sense of self.

Sustainable Drive Tourism Routes: A Systematic Literature Review

Drive tourism (DT) has become an attractive way to visit tourism destinations for an increasing number of visitors along driving routes. This flow of visitors has made sustainability a major issue, that is, the way by which tourism development ensure economic benefits for local communities and preserves local identity, along the route, without compromising the environmental resources. Many studies focused the topic of DT, mainly the analysis of a particular angle, either be economic sustainability, e.g., advantages of the ones related to economic and environment sustainability, such as the impact of tourists along the route environment. Nevertheless, little attention has been paid to the social consequences of DT in the local entrepreneurial environment and the resulting exaggeration of their cultural representativeness in the sense of authenticity. Our aim is to summon these points of view and achieve, through a systematic literature review, a clear and integrative picture of the driving tourism impacts in terms of sustainability along the routes throughout local communities. A systematic literature review was performed using the PRISMA guidelines (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) methodology. This systematic literature review sought to consolidate knowledge on the subject. In order to illustrate the link between major categories and their corresponding trends, authors used VOSviewer scientific software. The gathering of existing knowledge around the three components of sustainability highlighted the importance of community involvement and collaboration among DT stakeholders to address the trade-off between the protection and promotion of DT routes. Opportunities for future studies are suggested.

Review: The Princess and the Prophet: The Secret History of Magic, Race, and Moorish Muslims in America, by Jacob S. Dorman

Review: <i>The Princess and the Prophet: The Secret History of Magic, Race, and Moorish Muslims in America</i>, by Jacob S. Dorman

A diamond in the rough: Inauthenticity and Gems TV

This paper explores inauthenticity in the context of the Gems TV shopping channel using existential phenomenology. Objectively, subjectively and performatively Gems TV fails to convincingly stage a sense of authenticity. This is a televisual format featuring clearcut commercialism, obscure gemstones and opaque verification. Insincere screen performances are not only entertaining, but shoddiness and unpredictability of programming provides backstage glimpses that paradoxically stimulate fantasies of authenticity. Moments of intrapersonal and interpersonal connection arise around viewing. Accordingly, research into the neglected side of the authenticity-inauthenticity dialectic demonstrates that the latter may be a miasma of meanings as complex, contradictory and evocative as the former.

Exploring the Elements Dichotomy of Human Relations in Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan

The Indian partition experience has generally been seen as being extraordinarily complex and violent kind of appearance in literary works. There are manifestations of oppression and violence that are the most recognized themes in the context of postcolonialism. The “decolonization” of writing, which aims to transcend this colonial history, will bring about and illuminate a wide range of subjects through its interpretation. Numerous books have been published about post-colonialism in India, but writers like Khushwant Singh have seen this magnificent historical period as a matter terrifying phenomenon. His novel, Train to Pakistan (1956) was written on the backdrop of Indian partition. The unavoidable reason of partition has been examined in this novel which was a sprout of radicalism and fundamentalism sparked by bolstering community attitudes. They effectively and precisely express the fear and exposure of human existence brought on by the pangs and enigmas of the consequences of the Partition. In addition to offering a wealth of information, Train to Pakistan is also unconventional in the matter of themes, style and narrativity. Khushwant Singh has provided human qualities that would interpret any sense of authenticity, dismay, and credibility rather than presenting the events in political terms. Thus, the story not only describes the existence of man and his struggle to survive, but it also demonstrates that despite social exclusion, people may still be a source of inspiration for others who are unhappy, upset disappointed and misinformed.

An attachment-based framework for disordered personality development: Implications for intersubjective psychodynamic psychotherapy.

Infant-caregiver dyads show high heterogeneity in terms of compatibility. Several lines of evidence indicate that the modalities by which areas of good and poor fit were emotionally recognized and managed by caregivers influence the infant's personality development, the integration of their personality traits, the overall sense of authenticity, as well as the modalities of transference that typically manifest during psychodynamic psychotherapy. Within an intersubjective framework, the relationship between patient and psychotherapist will inevitably recreate compatibility issues, although the specific areas of incompatibility will likely differ from the scenarios present in the caregiver relationship. In other words, emotional friction may originate from personality traits that were not problematic in the first place. The author hypothesizes that disclosure of the challenges associated with the management of areas of incompatibility will not only promote emotional honesty within the dyad, but also offer an excellent opportunity for introjection. Such disclosures are not at risk of being interpreted as an attempt to build an intersubjective experience, but represent a window into authenticity, which in turn enables patients to develop awareness of their personality and relational traits, along with the challenges and vulnerabilities that occur when such traits interface with otherness.

Performative Memories

Performative Memories

Authenticity among distilleries: Signaling, transparency, and essence

Organizations benefit when they are perceived as authentic. Yet, explanations for this effect typically rely on context-specific attributions that can carry different meanings for different people. Here we develop some elements of a broader theory of authenticity. In sketching our theory, we draw from ideas about signaling and transparency in organization theory, and essentialism in psychology. Using signaling and transparency, we derive arguments implying that observable organizational features representing obviously costly investments convey a sense of authenticity. Using essentialism, we derive alternative counter-arguments that posit unobservable features associated with the intangible essence of a firm will generate perceptions of authenticity. We study distilled spirits producers across a multi-method program of empirical studies including wiki surveys, archival analyses, surveys and online experiments. In the empirical work, we find that producers who present profiles with clusters of observable backward vertical integration activities (including internal production systems) are more likely to be described as authentic by potential consumers. But we also find that individual observable features (e.g., internalized stills, farms) presented in isolation from other features do not consistently appear more salient to consumers than unobservable features (e.g., tradition and terroir). Because they carry multiple messages in varying modalities, profiles of clustered features may be more widely recognized and impactful in projecting authenticity.

The palm tree as a vision source in Saudi painting

The elements that surround the artist in his local environment is one of the important components that formed the art painting, the palm tree has an important value and eminent place in the Saudi environment, led to its presence in the Saudi Art as one of the vision sources with its aesthetic and symbolic connotations in the artistic expression. The research aimed to track the palm tree depiction in the Saudi painting, and highlight its meanings, and the artistic methods to utilize the palm tree in art painting and that’s by several aspects: the shape, the symbolism and the expressive side. The research outcome shows the depiction of palm tree started with the beginning of the Saudi Art with its pioneers, and it is still had eminent place as a distinguished visual element in the current Saudi painting, that indicates the Saudi artist awareness to the visual and symbolism values of the palm tree as it considered one of Saudi visual culture component, he painted it with a realistic style, reformulate it with different symbolisms and images in his artworks that goes beyond the direct image of the palm tree into visions that hold meanings and symbolisms that are attached to the artist feelings to express his identity, heritage, habits and traditions in paintings that have a sense of authenticity in a contemporary way.

Knowing and being known: Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy and the sense of authenticity.

Participants in MDMA- and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy often emerge from these treatments with new beliefs about themselves and the world. Studies have linked changed beliefs with mystical experiences reported by some participants during drug sessions. While there has been some debate about the epistemic value of drug-induced mystical experiences, and about the need for consent to treatments that may alter metaphysical beliefs, less attention has been given to the sense of authenticity that attends these experiences. In this paper, I consider the intersubjective context in which these changed beliefs arise. I suggest that the sense of authenticity people experience with MDMA- and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy derives from a simultaneous feeling of knowing and being known. The medications used in these treatments reduce the defensive barriers which ordinarily prevent powerful feelings from being intersubjectively shared, allowing the subject to experience knowing and being known with the therapist and/or internalized or imagined others. In explaining this thesis, I discuss Ratcliffe's “existential feeling;” ipseity in incipient psychosis and psychedelic states; Winnicott's notions of the True Self, omnipotence, creativity, and transitional phenomena; implicit relational knowing and moments of meeting; infant-mother dyad research; predictive processing and the relaxed beliefs model of psychedelic action; the role of the “partner in thought” in knowing and feeling known. I propose that a “transitional space” model of MDMA- and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy is well-suited for working through “not-me” or dissociated experience

Mobile trust regimes: Modes of attachment in an age of banal omnivorousness

The 21st century rise of culturally omnivorous tastes and classifications proffers a new dilemma for how markets create attachments and achieve trust for global consumers. Consumer entities must be both globally circulatable and offer a sense of localized authenticity without compromising either. Drawing from research on market trust and attachment, this article introduces the concept of mobile trust regimes to account for how sets of actors and repertoires attempt to address this tension. Through two case studies from gastronomic industries—food halls and natural wine—we investigate the devices of mobility used to facilitate the global circulation of the local. These include standardized aesthetic and affective templates communicated through physical décor, recurrent narratives, and social media curation. We argue that the concept of mobile trust regimes helps clarify two key issues in contemporary consumer culture: tensions between homogenization and heterogenization and how the symbolic value of omnivorous tastes becomes institutionalized and even banal.