Shared Feelings Research Articles

Sharing the struggle: constructing transnational solidarity in global social movements

ABSTRACTStruggles for peace, self-determination and demilitarization are common near military installations around the world. Increasingly, these struggles have become linked in globe-spanning assemblages of activism. Based on interviews in South Korea, Okinawa, Puerto Rico, Hawai’i, and Guåhan (Guam) this paper analyzes how activists in these locales develop a sense of shared oppression that serves as a basis for connecting geographically distant activist communities. Through visiting each other’s places – and participating in activities such as direct action protests, eating together and dancing – activists develop a recognition of shared circumstance not only through intellectual discussion, but also through the production of shared visceral and emotional states. This shared feeling of mutual oppression then serves as a basis for solidarity and mutual aid among social movements that protest militarization and challenge traditional conceptualizations of security in international relations.

Group Affective Tone and Team Performance: A Week-Level Study in Project Teams

Group affective tone is an emergent state that can be shared by group members during interdependent tasks. Groups can experience positive group affective tone (PGAT), a shared feeling of e.g., excitement, enthusiasm, or activation as well as negative group affective tone (NGAT), a shared feeling of e.g., distress, anxiety, and hostility. So far, previous cross-sectional research suggests that PGAT and NGAT are related to team performance outcomes. However, little is known about how the dynamic and fluctuating group affective states are related to team performance over an extended period of time. Therefore, the current study investigated the relation between PGAT, NGAT, and performance over the course of 34 software engineering projects. We hypothesized that PGAT is positively related to team performance, whereas NGAT is negatively related to team performance. Based on the punctuated equilibrium model and the feeling-as-information-theory we expected that these associations become stronger in the second half of the project. Using week level design with 165 participants in 34 software engineering teams, we repeatedly assessed PGAT, NGAT, and team performance over 14 weeks. Data were analyzed using multilevel structural equation modeling. As expected, PGAT was positively related to team performance, whereas NGAT was negatively related to team performance – between teams over the course of the projects as well as within teams over time. More importantly, the weekly relationships were stronger in the second half of the project. Our study indicates that weekly variations in group affective tone are more relevant after projects reach a temporal midpoint. We discuss theoretical and practical implications for project teams.

Urban landscapes and the atmosphere of place: exploring subjective experience in the study of urban form

Urban landscapes are produced through the combination of material forms and subjective human experience. Drawing on the concept of atmosphere, we argue that human experience of urban spaces drives alterations to the built environment, making it critical that these are studied in tandem. Atmosphere is created through the combination of human activity, individual emotional responses and subjective perceptions of built forms. Though unique to the individual, it can also create a shared feeling of place. Drawing on ethnographic methods to examine people’s experience of the Balsall Heath district in Birmingham, UK, a series of examples is used to illustrate how the interrelationship of subjective experience and built forms creates different atmospheres within the neighbourhood. These, and the desire to alter them, are in turn driving morphological change.

Seizing opportunities for change at the operational level.

Purpose - This paper presents a method for handling everyday opportunities for improvement, led by floor staff in healthcare institutions. More than 400,000 incidents and accidents were recorded in Quebec healthcare institutions in 2013. The burden of treatment falls on hospital floor staff. The purpose of this paper is to raise the visibility of this problem and support staff better in their efforts to handle opportunities for improvement. Design/methodology/approach - Based on issues identified in the literature, which have been found to exist in various organizations, the method involved reviewing practices in the field, proposing a solution, and testing it to assess its relevance and limitations. The method was tested in partnership with the Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, in the internal medicine unit at Hôtel-Dieu campus. The test lasted three months. Indicators from this test have been compared to results in the literature. Findings - The proposed method presents a 68 per cent increase in ideas generated per person and per week compared to the reference study. The mean time for closing actions was about 41 per cent better (lower) than in the reference case. Research limitations/implications - The test lasted 15 weeks; a longer test is needed to collect more data. Practical implications - The first practical implication of this study was the creation of a method allowing employees to seize opportunities for improvement in their daily work. The application of this method revealed: first, the operational nature of the proposal (empowerment of the work team); second, the operationalization of continuous improvement (71 per cent of ideas were finalized while the initiative was monitored); third, the smooth operation of the mechanism for facilitating continuous improvement (organization of weekly meetings and team participation in these meetings in 90 per cent of cases); and fourth, a shared feeling that intra- and inter-team communication had been strengthened. Originality/value - The main value of this paper is that it proposes a simple problem-solving process that gives employees an opportunity to improve their daily work. The originality of this paper resides in comparing results to a standard case and observing an improvement. This paper proposes a new problem-solving structure and tests it scientifically.

Inventing the Spectator: Subjectivity and the Theatrical Experience in Early Modern France

Joseph Harris. Inventing the Spectator: Subjectivity and the Theatrical Experience in Early Modern France. Oxford University Press, 2014. 304 pp. $85.00 USD, £55 (hardback). ISBN 9780198701613.Inventing the Spectator by Joseph Harris a lucid study of how early modern theorists conceptualized the spectator's experience with performances and literature. The author covers a wide range of drama theory in France from the first decades of the 1600s to the pre-Revolutionary period. By focusing on the relationships between subjectivity and theatre, Harris demonstrates that dramatic theory can offer privileged insight into the supposedly universal nature of human psychology (7). The author provides new insights into famous French theorists and dramatists (D'Aubignac, Corneille, Diderot, and Rousseau, for example) and brings to light the innovations of overlooked writers, such as Jean-Baptiste Dubos, Jean Chapelain, and Rene Rapin. Harris' writing clear and refreshing; he helpfully guides the reader through complex arguments without jargon or repetition.Harris' book perhaps the past decade's most exhaustive study of French theory for two reasons: first, he investigates theories from both classical and Enlightenment traditions, whereas most scholars separate the two (e.g., Georges Forestiers and John Lyons' recent work on the seventeenth century, or Pierre Frantz' and Scott Bryson's work on the eighteenth century); second, Harris examines both pro-theatrical (Corneille, Dubos, Diderot) and anti-theatrical (Pierre Nicole, Jacques-Benigne Bossuet, Bernard Lamy) conceptions of the spectating experience; most accounts of drama focus only on the former.Inventing the Spectator unfolds in eight chapters, several of which investigate the theories of specific writers, like D'Aubignac, Corneille, Dubos, Rousseau, and Diderot; other chapters discuss key emotional states of spectating, such as enthrallment, intellect, and identification. Despite the neat separation of ideas and authors in the table of contents, a few theoretical currents cut across most chapters. For example, Harris provides a particularly strong analysis of identification-a psycho-dramaturgical concept about which he has already published several articles. The author proves that identification far more complex than mere shared feelings between the members of the audience and the characters on stage. Several authors indeed present identification in this basic schema (D'Aubignac, for example), however, as Harris proves, identification far more variegated and complex in most theories at the time. Corneille, for example, undergirds his theory of identification in a set of a priori expectations by the spectator that are then met (or not) by the dramatist (96); while for Rousseau, identification less a function of illusion on stage than of an ideology inherent to theatre and theatrical life (207).In his chapter on Diderot, Harris proves that the model of identification proposed by the philosophe not in fact like the individualized, psychological connection between character and spectator that critics, both past and present, commonly associate with the drame. Instead, Diderot's identificatory scheme is metonymic rather than metaphorical; the spectator recognizes a broadly cognate self or neighbour in the character rather than wholly replacing one identity with another; and this operation succeeds, according to Harris, owing to the drame 's projection of a shared social context (243). …

PS-261 Parental Needs In Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Parent participation in the nursing process significantly contributes to the overall wellbeing of a newborn and the whole family. It is important to ensure that nurses, who take care of newborns and collaborate with their family members, are well-acquainted with the influence that an infant‘s illness and critical condition as well as the stress have on the functioning of a family unit The Aim To compare parents’ and nurses’ perceptions of parents needs in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The study was conducted in Kaunas University Hospital NICU. The sample consisted of 181 parents and 37 nurses. The NICU Family Needs Inventory was used for data collection. The instrument included five following subscales of needs: proximity, information, assurance, support and comfort. Reliability of the scale was identified as 0.94 using Cronbach’s α. The parents’ needs perceived by both groups were compared within the subscales. Using Mann’o-Whitney rank test the significant differences between the parents’ and nurses’ assessments of individual statements were identified. The majority of statistically significant differences between parents and nurses have been found in case of assessment of proximity (75.0%) and informational (72.7%) needs related to the possibility for parents to be close to their newborn and to receive timely and adequate information about their newborn’s health condition. Parents, if compared to nurses, assessed these needs as more important. The assessment of support needs showed the lowest number of differences (38.9%). There was a statistically significant difference in case of the decision making needs related to the newborn care that parents identified as being more important. Nurses perceived as being more important the needs related to parent-to-parent support and possibility to share feelings. The comparison of parents and nurses perceptions of parents needs in NICU showed that there are statistically significant differences of individual statements assessment within the all five subscales.

"More than words": social validation in close relationships.

Conversations are susceptible to many disturbances: A speaker's hesitations, distractions, or, when communicating online, technical hiccups that may cause brief delays. Research among previously unacquainted individuals revealed that brief disruptions in conversational flow can have profound social consequences: Silences or delays in mediated communication threaten the need to belong and validate one's ideas. The present research, however, shows that when occurring in close relationships, flow disruptions may be ironically beneficial. We hypothesized that when flow disruptions occur, partners fall back on their relationship beliefs to infer mutual agreement and the existence of a shared reality. When a relationship is perceived as secure, partners may believe that "no words are needed" to understand each other. Flow disruptions can thus paradoxically make shared cognitions accessible and foster feelings of social validation. Data from two experiments, using partners in different types of relationships, supported this hypothesis.

Affect, creativity, and community‐making in a Congolese song‐dance performance: or how to follow the movement of the social

In rural Punu society, song‐dance performances of rejoicing are deeply connected with forces of regeneration; they not only celebrate the sexual encounter but also, in their constituent dynamic, aim progressively to awaken a shared feeling of joy that leads to the intensification of the dancing and to the creation and diffusion of new songs. I seek to account for this regenerative potential by pursuing Turner's processual view of ritual performance, which acknowledges moments of structure and lack of structure. In this regard, I develop the dynamic of community‐making and creative flow in the performances with reference to Collins's reading of Durkheim's collective effervescence and Tarde's idea of imitation. As a whole, I argue that paying attention to rhythm and affect, inasmuch as they are a lived realization of structure and flow, is essential for understanding the revitalizing articulation between these terms and for following the ongoing movement of the social.

Treating Distressed Animals as Participants: I Know Responses in Veterinarians’ Pet-Directed Talk

This article reports on video analyses of 110 veterinary appointments in which pet-directed I know receipts were uttered by 15 veterinarians as responses to companion animals’ vocal and visible signals of distress. Patients’ distress was typically occasioned by medical activities constituting the appointment. The dual functions of I know as a claim of (a) prior knowledge of animals’ experiences and (b) shared feelings and affiliation with animals’ experiences made it an interactional resource for addressing client anxiety arising from the disalignment of animal patients with the goals of the appointment. Analysis of prosody, prefacing, the presence or absence of repeats, and postpositioned components demonstrated the flexibility of the I know receipt in modulating veterinarians’ stances toward their patients’ expressions of distress. Findings are discussed in relation to studies on the management of patient distress and pain in pediatric procedures and to previous research on clinician–patient empathy in veterinary medicine. Data are in Canadian English.

The Role of Discourse of Techno-Nationalism and Social Entrepreneurship in the Process of Development of New Technology: A Case Study of Stem Cell Research and Therapy in Iran

This paper discusses the role of social entrepreneurship and the discourse of techno-nationalism in defining national selfhood in contemporary Iran. To examine the issue, this paper develops an in-depth case study of the development of stem cell research, and shows how an alliance between the leaders of the scientific community and Iran's politico-religious authority contributed to building technological capacity in the field of stem cell research in the first decade of the twenty-first century. The paper also highlights how the preliminary success of stem cell research, along with other knowledge-intensive technologies, has created a shared feeling of national pride and has served as the material base for the contemporary discourse of techno-nationalism. The paper concludes with the notion that the techno-nationalist discourse has the inherent potential to unwittingly help to redefine the dichotomy between Iran and the West in such a way that it becomes less antagonistic, should other factors permit.

The Effect of Parental Communication on the Belief System of Teenage Girls: A Case Study

Healthy development during adolescent age is very important. The major issue is experimentation to understand the base of thinking direction of this age group. The questions were given to participants in a workshop. The answers analyzed. Total 48 female students between age group 14 and 16 responded. Fifty percent wanted economical independence but 30% have it. Majority of those who wanted this independence felt that friendship between boys and girls is necessary and they found communication with parents difficult, shared feelings with friends. Improvement in communication between children and parents will help in solving issues about irresponsible behavior of the children.

Unsexing Petrarch: Charlotte Smith’s Lessons in the Sonnet as a Social Medium

CONSERVATIVE CLERGYMAN RICHARD POLWHELE INCLUDED CHARLOTTE Smith among Unsex'd Females in his 1798 satire of women writers, failing to notice that Smith had effectively unsex'd herself in constructing her original Petrarchan poetic identity. (1) With her first small volume of poetry titled Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Essays, Charlotte Smith of Bignor Park entered the English literary marketplace in 1784 as a for her era, aspiring to both the lifetime recognition and lasting fame achieved by her laureled fourteenth-century Italian predecessor. Petrarch's Rime sparse, the frequently expanded and revised sequence of sonnets and songs lamenting his failure to win reciprocal recognition from his beloved Laura, gave Smith her model for forging her own virtual community of poems and readers. Her poetic persona took shape as an unsex'd seeking an affective connection with readers through what Smith refers to in her Preface as sensibility of heart: shared feelings of isolation and frustrated desires transmitted primarily though not exclusively in sonnet form. (2) Smith acknowledges her debt to most obviously in the small sequence of three sonnets From Petrarch that appear in her first two editions of Elegiac Sonnets, but her reading and radical reenactment of the Rime sparse is deeply embedded throughout this introductory collection that established her as a popular poet. The first two editions of Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Essays--printed within months of each other in London and in Chichester, respectively, and containing the same nineteen poems in slightly different orders (3)--suggest that Smith's reading of imbued her with poetic ambitions as strong as those of the canonical male Romantic poets who succeeded her. Although she deviates from Petrarch's sonnet rhyme scheme and names no equivalent to his Laura, Smith's speaker emulates Petrarch's in giving sonnet form to the affect of alienation and in making poetry a proxy for love. The intensity of Smith's early homage to becomes diluted as Elegiac Sonnets expands through seven more editions and a second volume before her death in 1806. Readers who encounter her work in later and larger collections, including those produced in the recovery of her work since the 1990s, see as one of several male voices she assumes or echoes. Critics who recognize a feminist strain in Smith sometimes underestimate or overlook her collusion with Petrarch, who is often read as a misogynist for objectifying Laura and denying her autonomy. (4) Daniel Robinson, for example, has acknowledged that Smith's extensive poetic conversation with dominates these original editions, but he and others, including Kathryn Pratt, Karen Weisman, Theresa Kelley, and Edoardo Zuccato, read Smith as resisting or challenging the Petrarchan tradition by granting more voice or agency to Laura. (5) Smith may well have had reason to identify with Laura: Susannah Dobson's popular Life of Petrarch, published in 1775, presented Laura as the mother of many children who was trapped in an unhappy marriage. (6) The same profile fit Smith when she first began to publish after an early, arranged marriage, the birth of eleven children in eighteen years, and time spent in debtors' prison with her problematic husband. (7) However, Smith had stronger motivation to identify with Petrarch's speaker, who paradoxically proclaimed his agency impaired by Laura's repeated refusals to acknowledge him with love or pity. Smith's agency was restricted by the social and legal structures of her place and time that left her [s] tripped by marriage of a separate identity and autonomous property. (8) In the 1784 editions of Elegiac Sonnets, Smith modeled her speaker after Petrarch's to elicit from readers an intellectual and emotional reciprocity missing from her immediate circumstances. In Smith's lifetime, and Laura had returned to British culture on a wave of French texts, creating multiple opportunities for encountering the pair as reconstructed heroes of sensibility. …

MR PROUST’S WAY : des lectures woolfiennes de la Recherche

Starting in 1921, the work of Woolf is haunted by the presence of Proust. A close analysis of both the critical essays and the autobiographical writings allows us to better understand the impact la Recherche had on the work of Woolf as a novelist, on a personal as well as a creative level, since Proust becomes the main inspiring force at work in her creative process. At the same time Woolf is drastically reevaluating the importance of Proust on the British intellectual scene of the 20s. Shared feelings, literary heritage, textual-reinvention, these seem to us the main aspects liking profoundly Woolf and Proust.

At the End of the Tunnel, We Must See the Light

This essay represents my process of thinking, rethinking, and assessing trauma and loss from my “I” as a woman who grew up during a dictatorship, as a scholar today in a Chilean public university. Feeling and listening is a form of creating knowledge in the process of studying trauma in Chilean former political prisoners of Pinochet’s regime. I start this essay by thinking about past and static concepts of trauma and loss that were developed in a present and living “thing” that I cannot separate to Memory and Redress. Story telling, dreams, and short stories in a performative text shape this essay to seek shared feelings, experiences, and ideas about trauma and loss, today, and to encourage readers to action. My feelings are identified as part of this “thing” popularly called trauma, which is understood as my own personal construction about some aspects of these events during Pinochet’s regime.

Contagious scratching: shared feelings but not shared body locations

Contagious scratching: shared feelings but not shared body locations

Intimate partner violence: patients' experiences and perceptions in family practice

To understand how women affected by intimate partner violence (IPV), felt their family physicians cared for them and to identify where gaps in care exist. Interviews were conducted with ten women (mean age 50 years and minimum to maximum ages of 40-73 years). Content analysis was used to identify common themes. Women acknowledged a lack of insight into their abusive relationships given a lack of physical violence, preconceptions about IPV or presumed reasons their abusers had for violence. After identifying abuse, most shared feelings of fear, preventing them from disclosure. They feared being judged, not believed and consequences from their abuser. Perceptions' about their family physician's role prevented disclosure particularly misconceptions regarding physician's interest and time to discuss non-medical issues. After disclosure, women valued their family physicians listening, following up, providing validation and advocacy. All women experienced isolation secondary to the abuser, the family practice clinic, the physician and/or the 'system' itself. Women were not aware of family doctors' interest in issues aside from physical health. They appreciated a confidential and non-threatening environment and valued follow-up and advocacy on their behalf. They expressed frustration with open access scheduling and multiple providers. To improve care, family physicians should educate patients about their role, provide safe environments for disclosure and offer follow-up and support. Recommended system changes include measures to ensure continuity of care and easy booking of appointments. Finally, family physicians should recognize that there is a need to follow these patients long term as the effects of IPV are long lasting.

Dealing with Our Losses: When Our Work Hits Home (513)

1.Review literature regarding how health care providers can deal with death and serious illness on a regular basis and maintain purpose and avoid burnout.2.Discuss strategies for dealing with and preventing burnout in hospice and palliative medicine.3.Explore possible means to dealing with our own personal losses, in the midst of ministering to the needs of our patients. Twenty-five years have passed since Balfour Mount's “Dealing with Our Losses” highlighted the relationship between loss, stress, and clinical performance in field of oncology. In the years that have followed, the field of hospice and palliative medicine (HPM) has blossomed and become a viable career option, both for seasoned professionals pursuing a second career and newer providers coming right out of training. Evidence suggests that burnout may result from dealing repeatedly with suffering, death, and loss--a reality of our profession. While scant literature has surfaced regarding burnout in HPM professionals, it has been suggested that narrative is a major avenue for dealing with suffering and loss. The telling of the story and the opportunity share feelings and responses to situations with others appears to be valuable for HPM providers; the process being more cathartic than any potential outcome. Unfortunately, one loss all HPM providers will invariably encounter is personal loss--often in the form of death of a loved one. Positively, this may serve as the motivation to become an HPM professional or a source of ongoing professional satisfaction. Negatively, personal loss may affect interactions with HPM patients or intensify normal grief associated with patient loss. How HPM providers process their own losses may indeed impact how their patients are cared for, perhaps even more than in other fields. The goal of this session is to explore collectively--audience and presenters--how our personal and professional stories may impact the care of our patients. We will discuss how to incorporate personal experiences appropriately, without allowing them to unfairly shape our practice. Lastly, we will explore strategies on how to “insulate oneself” from the repeated suffering witnessed as HPM providers, leveraging individual coping strategies, in an effort to promote sustainability and improve patient care.

Flânerie and Invasion in the Monstrous City: São Paulo in recent cinema

Changes in the physical space of São Paulo are the focus of three films released early in the 21st century: O Príncipe (2002; The Prince), by Ugo Giorgetti; Urbânia (2001), by Flávio Frederico; and O Invasor (2002; The Trespasser), by Beto Brant. All three films convey a sense of deep division in the urban space by focusing on the “invasion” of certain parts of São Paulo by people who supposedly do not belong there: homeless, squatters, inhabitants of periferia. But they do so in different ways. The first two films play with the identification between viewers and the gaze of their flâneur-protagonists, creating, as a result, a shared feeling of nostalgia for a city that no longer exists. O Invasor, by contrast, uses camera work to de-stabilize the viewers' gaze, much complicating our attempts to identify with its protagonists and their ways of looking at the city. This paper will examine how gaze (camera gaze, characters' gaze, implied viewers' gaze) relates to issues of class difference and spatial division in the three films, paying most attention to O Invasor. By comparing this film to O Príncipe and Urbânia, it will re-assess the meanings of the invasion suggested in its title.

Knowledge sharing in emerging economies

PurposeOne of the new factors in Eastern European countries (and there is an acknowledgement that this aspect is displayed in other countries too) is this concept of freely sharing information, i.e. the concept of what is known in knowledge management (KM) literature of “Knowledge Sharing”. Sharing only takes place where there is trust and where there is a shared feeling of ownership of goals. The reasons behind the tendency to share are based on the kind of interpersonal relations between co‐workers inherent within the organization and the effects of social relationships within organizational teams. Strengthening the social relationships between individuals in the team is crucial in motivating team members to share knowledge. The purpose of this paper is to add to the understanding of how KM impacts on an small‐ to medium‐sized enterprise (SME) and create a framework of best practice of KM in SMEs.Design/methodology/approachNew research is currently investigating the concept of “sharing social relationships” and one of the aims of the project is to investigate the barriers to sharing information in a particular type of business – that of the (SME) in order to form a comparative study. The results of the study will be used to from a model of “information sharing best practice” for SME which are setting up or using KM systems. The paper will examine the barriers to sharing in two newly emerging economies (Poland and Hungary) and one relatively established economy (the UK). At the time of writing, the work with Poland and Hungary has been completed and this paper gives the initial results from the Hungarian study.FindingsThe findings are complex and varied but in the case of the Hungarian results there is a clear energy, enthusiasm and commitment to knowledge sharing in order to ensure the success of the business.Research limitations/implicationsEmerging economies are by their nature changing economies and so this work forms a snapshot of life at a particular moment in time.Practical implicationsThe paper shows that there is a need for an increase in training, and that government support is helpful and enabling.Originality/valueKnowledge sharing is important and the study described in the paper will allow cross comparisons between different countries. It is intended that a model of best practice will be one of the outcomes of the project.

Classroom justice and psychological engagement: students’ and teachers’ representations

This article presents the results of a study carried out with the aim to: (1) analyze secondary school students’ and their teachers’ ideal representations of classroom justice, (2) deepen the topic of students’ sense of injustice, and (3) explore the links between students’ perceived injustice and their psychological engagement in school, measured on different aspects (identification with one’s own class, learning motivation, dialogue with teachers). A questionnaire was distributed to 400 Italian secondary school students and their 79 teachers. Results show that the representations of ideal classroom justice refer to communication, principle of equality and principles of effort/need, and that the positions of teachers and students on these representations differ. Moreover, students report a rather diffuse and shared feeling of being treated in an unjust manner by their teachers, and this affects their psychological engagement in school. Results are commented on their theoretical, methodological and applicative implications.