Thrill Of Victory Research Articles

The Thrill of Victory and the Agony of Defeat: The First and Last One Hundred Days of a New and Old Administration

Ghana has had general elections in 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020. The next one is in 2024. Each administration comes with changes that are said to be inspired by ‘patrimonialism’ and ‘neopatrimonialism’. Objective: I reviewed how the successive political administrations of the National Democratic Congress and the New Patriotic Party have conducted their transitions to determine whether those actions were guided by principles of equity or patrimonialism/neo-patrimonialism. Method: I conducted extensive literature review about the conduct of the administrations in the first and last one hundred days to ascertain the approach used and the results each of the political parties created to determine if those measures were in consonance with the Constitutional provisions on human security and political transition. Result: The first 100 days of the incoming administration is full of joy and celebrations; interspaced with the inalienation of some of the winning party’s members with unmet needs. The review showed how appointees of the previous administration are disenfranchised or re-assigned to remote workstations. The typical Ghanaian President does not introduce laudable, economic transformative agenda but he is pre-occupied with reprisals against the appointees of the previous government. Conclusion: The first one hundred days offers the ‘thrill of victory and the agony of defeat’1. New cases of post-traumatic stress disorders associated with loss of relevance and social status emerge. The outgoing Presidents overburden the system with operational cost for new programs initiated in the eleventh hour of their departures.

The thrill of victory: Savoring positive affect, psychophysiological reward processing, and symptoms of depression.

Depression is characterized by a pattern of maladaptive emotion regulation. Recently, researchers have begun to focus on associations between depression and two positive affect regulation strategies: savoring and dampening. Savoring, or upregulation of positive affect, is positively associated with well-being and negatively associated with depression, whereas dampening, or downregulation of positive affect, is positively associated with depression, anhedonia, and negative affect. To date, no research has examined whether savoring or dampening can affect neurophysiological reactivity to reward, which previous research has shown is associated with symptoms of depression. Here, we examined associations between psychophysiological reward processing-primarily captured by the Reward Positivity (RewP), an event-related potential (ERP) deflection elicited by feedback indicating reward (vs. nonreward)-positive affect regulation strategies, and symptoms of depression. One hundred undergraduates completed questionnaires assessing affect, emotion regulation, and depressive symptoms and completed a computerized guessing task, once before and again after being randomly assigned to emotion-regulation strategy conditions. Results indicate that (a) the relationship between RewP amplitude and depressive symptoms may, in part, depend upon positive affect regulation strategies and (b) the RewP elicited by reward appears sensitive to a savoring intervention. These findings suggest that mitigating depressive symptoms in emerging adults may depend on both top-down (i.e., savoring) and bottom-up (i.e., RewP) forms of positive affect regulation and have important implications for clinical prevention and intervention efforts for depressive symptoms and disorder. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

Thrill of victory or agony of defeat? Perceivers fail to utilize information in facial movements.

Although the distinction between positive and negative facial expressions is assumed to be clear and robust, recent research with intense real-life faces has shown that viewers are unable to reliably differentiate the valence of such expressions (Aviezer, Trope, & Todorov, 2012). Yet, the fact that viewers fail to distinguish these expressions does not in itself testify that the faces are physically identical. In Experiment 1, the muscular activity of victorious and defeated faces was analyzed. Higher numbers of individually coded facial actions--particularly smiling and mouth opening--were more common among winners than losers, indicating an objective difference in facial activity. In Experiment 2, we asked whether supplying participants with valid or invalid information about objective facial activity and valence would alter their ratings. Notwithstanding these manipulations, valence ratings were virtually identical in all groups, and participants failed to differentiate between positive and negative faces. While objective differences between intense positive and negative faces are detectable, human viewers do not utilize these differences in determining valence. These results suggest a surprising dissociation between information present in expressions and information used by perceivers.

The thrill of victory: Women and sport shopping

This study explores a new shopper type, ‘Sport Shoppers’, who are unique in their actions, attitudes and behaviors. We present evidence that these shoppers exhibit behavior similar to that of competitive athletes in that they view bargain shopping as an achievement domain. Data were collected through open-ended surveys, in-depth interviews and closet inventories. Thematic analysis of transcripts was undertaken based on three achievement goal categories; task-oriented, ego-oriented and social approval-oriented. Achievement goal theory is employed to offer an explanation of the Sport Shoppers’ behaviors and motivations. We argue the Sport Shopper is an economically viable and important shopper for fashion retailers to target.

In Consideration of “Competition” — The Thrill of Victory; The Agony of Defeat

In Consideration of “Competition” — The Thrill of Victory; The Agony of Defeat

Thrill of victory and agony of defeat: Emotional rewards and sales force compensation

When sales territories are imbalanced, how do salespersons’ emotions-pride and disappointment in goal attainment-affect the choice between sales contests and sales quotas? First, profits in a quota system increase when pride in the weaker territory or disappointment in the stronger territory increase. In a sales contest, by contrast, feelings of disappointment reduce profits regardless of territory characteristics. Second, a simultaneous strengthening of pride and disappointment enhances the advantage of quota over contest created by territory imbalance. However, the interpersonal nature of the contest, pitting a salesperson against a known rival, may generate stronger emotions than a quota-system, with its impersonal sales targets. So, third, a contest may overcome the profit advantages of the quota-system. Fourth, if pride and disappointment are strongly felt because of territory imbalance, handicapping either contest or quota is unprofitable, and moreover, if pride and disappointment are greater in interpersonal situations, handicapping may be more detrimental to a contest than to a sales quota-system.

The Thrill of Victory

Three men walk into a bar: an internist, a urologist, and a radiologist…—Anonymous Have you heard the one that goes, “Three radiologists walk into a bar…”? No? Three good friends, the Pollyanna, the Cynic, and the Enthusiast?

Team Loving and Loathing: Emotional Determinants of Consumption in Collegiate Football

The popularity of collegiate football in America is unprecedented. The fan frenzy surrounding teams, games, and the sport itself, is borderline barmy. Aptly described as the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat, fan emotions in college football are rampant; yet, research exploring such hedonic-related consumption is scant. To help close this gap, two studies, grounded in Mehrabian & Russell’s (1974) pleasure, arousal, and dominance (PAD) typology of emotions, were developed to help explain collegiate football sport consumption for loved and loathed teams. Study 1 examined PAD emotional determinants of fans’ purchase intentions and willingness to attend games of their favorite team. The findings indicated that the emotional dimension of arousal related positively with fans’ apparel and memorabilia purchase intentions and willingness to attend games; also, the pleasure and dominance emotional dimensions related positively to purchase intentions of apparel and memorabilia, respectively. Study 2 explored PAD emotional determinants of fans’ willingness to attend games involving their least favorite team. The findings revealed significant positive effects for the emotional dimensions of pleasure, arousal, and dominance on willingness to attend collegiate football games. Implications for sports marketers and future research suggestions are offered.

The Thrill of Victory: Measuring the Incentive to Win

There is ample evidence that incentive‐pay structures, such as tournaments, result in increased performance. Is this due to selection or increased individual effort, and is any increased individual effort caused by pecuniary incentives or merely thirst for the thrill of victory (TOV)? Prior literature has not separated the different effects. We look at performance in horse and dog racing and find that only horses, controlled by jockeys during the race, exhibit performance corresponding to pecuniary incentives, while both respond to selection and TOV. The results show that pay structures do matter.

PLoS Genetics Turns Three: Looking Back, Looking Ahead

PLoS Genetics Turns Three: Looking Back, Looking Ahead

The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat: Spontaneous expressions of medal winners of the 2004 Athens Olympic games.

Facial behaviors of medal winners of the judo competition at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games were coded with P. Ekman and W. V. Friesen's (1978) Facial Affect Coding System (FACS) and interpreted using their Emotion FACS dictionary. Winners' spontaneous expressions were captured immediately when they completed medal matches, when they received their medal from a dignitary, and when they posed on the podium. The 84 athletes who contributed expressions came from 35 countries. The findings strongly supported the notion that expressions occur in relation to emotionally evocative contexts in people of all cultures, that these expressions correspond to the facial expressions of emotion considered to be universal, that expressions provide information that can reliably differentiate the antecedent situations that produced them, and that expressions that occur without inhibition are different than those that occur in social and interactive settings.

The thrill of victory or agony of defeat, how pilotprograms can work to your advantage

The thrill of victory or agony of defeat, how pilotprograms can work to your advantage

The thrill of victory: at what price?

The thrill of victory: at what price?

History Held Hostage: Learned Lesson from the Conflict over the Smithsonian Institute Enola Gay Exhibit

This paper presents findings from a two year field research project focusing on the public conflict that erupted over the Enola Gay exhibit at the National Air and Space Museum (NASM). This conflict did not end with people reaching consensus, ceremoniously signing documents, shaking hands and piling accolades upon one another for solving a serious problem. It can more accurately be described as a stalemate and ultimately a lose-lose proposition even in light of the many opportunities that arose that could have produced at least a partial if not total agreement. The reason for studying this "failed" public conflict is to point out the major benefits that such cases have in regard to our understanding of the factors, dynamics and observable patterns that are endemic of many types of public conflicts. In fact, it makes sense for scholars of conflict resolution to place as much emphasis on what works and what does not--for we ultimately learn more from mistakes than we do from success. I contend that as conflict scholars and practitioners, we have deliberately done ourselves and the public a great disservice by ignoring cases like the Enola Gay. This paper is not about failure but about the hidden riches of information, knowledge and wisdom we can gain from a critical examination of less than perfect cases. As conflict specialists, we do not have to be pressured to live in a world of the "thrill of victory or the agony of defeat" if we learn to accept the assumption I make here that there is likely more to be learned from so called "failed" public conflicts than from those that are deemed "normal" cases. Ironically, once a form of conflict intervention becomes normal or predictable it is likely to receive even less critical examination. We are, then, stuck with a paradox of thinking like naive empiricists, wherein we ignore the obvious and shun the uncomfortable, leaving us in no better a position than if we had done nothing at all. So here, I examine a supposedly uncomfortable, unpredictable, uncontrollable and uncertain public conflict to demonstrate analytically that it is none of these.

Old and New Testaments (review)

occasionally distracting. This is natural for a book that began in part as journal articles, but that doesn't make the reading any easier. That difficulty aside, Conway's achievement here is considerable. She has presented an argument that changes the way we think about the history ofthe banjo and the importance ofthe African-American banjo tradition in the American evolution of that instrument. And, simultaneously, she has made available a wealth of engaging primary material—a contribution made all the more poignant by her Epilogue, in which she recounts the deaths of the last three black banjo players in the tradition. Powell, Lynn. Old and New Testaments. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. 68 pages. Hardcover $17.95. Paperback $9.95. The poems in this book fulfill the prophecy of the title: they are as rich in biblical allusions as one might anticipate. The first poem, "Nativity," begins like this: Some parents shy away from the body, but we hush up about the cross— rereading our daughter the story about Jesus we most believe in: mother and father kneeling after the hard birth, humbled by the exhaustions of love. This stanza prefigures the religious struggle that will surface throughout the volume: the narrator does not apparently embrace the faith of her fundamentalist childhood, but neither does she dismiss Christianity easily —or at all. Indeed, tension arises in the book because she has chosen to rear her children (for whom "God is great and good") in the pale of Christian understanding, attempting to preserve some aspects of her tradition while eliminating some of the more violent and difficult. In "Judgments ," for example, she removes the message that "Great-Grandma" has included with her daughter's "Picture-the-Bible Coloring Book": "Jesus / died to save you from your sins. Love & kisses." And later in the poem, she is glad to see that her child—shocked by animal sacrifice —"slowly, with lavender / cools the covenant / salves the unsuspecting lamb." The daughter's presence, in a work so grounded in family life, is fitting. But she is not the most compelling little girl: Powell herself is. A close engagement with the book reveals that the shadow of a little girl 71 Stands behind every shifting voice. As a result, it seems to me, the psychological center of the volume is this bright, sensitive child growing up as a true believer—fully participating in her Christian fundamentalist subculture. But whether the speaker is mother or sister or mate, we hear those shifting, adult voices as instances of whom that little girl would become. This centering may have less to do with the quantity of childhood memories than with their stunning acuity, an accuracy which allows her details to resonate, to become cumulatively richer as the book progresses. Powell portrays only too well the emotional strain of many of us who, at fundamentalist church camp, waited for "The Calling" of God: "Jesus noticed me and started to knock. Already saved, / I looked for signs to show me what else He would require." And she recalls the innocent energy and devotional fervor in "Sword Drill"—here the narrative may be cast in irony, but the sincerity of the Bible racers, as well as the thrill of victory, is real, as the little girl stands "clutching / the coveted words, unsheathed / in time." Possibly most engaging and unsettling, though, are the vignettes juxtaposed in the triptych "Immersion ." In section one, the child's emotions swing from guilt that the pictures she has drawn with her finger in the "pew's pink velveteen nap" will not quite disappear, to the spiritual fervor precipitated by an evangelist's trumpeting, the music "toppling a domino in my chest that branched its quiver down / my arms, belly, legs longing to come all down the aisle / while his fingers flashed." In the poem's second section, Powell achieves a splendid coupling of the holy and the profane in her powerfully incarnational image ofa child, who, having assured her mother, "I can wait till after," cannot, and instead urinates in the baptismal pool, though her legs were "clenched / not to choose what went right on and chose itself...." The poem concludes with still another...

Extensive-disease small-cell lung cancer: the thrill of victory; the agony of defeat.

Extensive-disease small-cell lung cancer: the thrill of victory; the agony of defeat.

The thrill of victory, the agony of defeat

This paper presents experimental evidence from a rent-seeking exercise where the highest bidder wins the rent, but all bidders, including the winner, lose their wagers. This exercise closely resembles the rent-seeking dilemma facing agents in many settings. There are two main conclusions from the results. First, there is a tendency towards overdissipation of the rent. Second, some individuals are willing to pay more for a rent than its face-value would warrant. We attribute this phenomenon to a “thrill of victory” effect.

The thrill of victory, the complexity of defeat: Self-esteem and people's emotional reactions to success and failure.

The thrill of victory, the complexity of defeat: Self-esteem and people's emotional reactions to success and failure.

The thrill of victory, the complexity of defeat: self-esteem and people's emotional reactions to success and failure.

Low self-esteem people are assumed to have more severe emotional reactions to failure than are high self-esteem people, but this assumption has not received consistent empirical support. In this article the authors report 2 investigations that found that self-esteem differences of this sort emerge for emotions that directly implicate the self (e.g., pride, humiliation) but not for emotions that do not directly implicate the self (e.g., happiness, unhappiness). Additional evidence suggested that this occurs, in part, because low self-esteem people overgeneralize the negative implications of failure. The relevance of these findings for understanding the nature and functions of self-esteem is considered.

Extensive disease small cell lung cancer the thrill of victory; the agony of defeat

Extensive disease small cell lung cancer the thrill of victory; the agony of defeat