Emotion regulation (ER), the regulatory component of temperament, has important implications for emotional, behavioral, and physical health throughout the lifespan. Researchers have examined various factors, such as maternal ER functioning and parenting behaviors, that influence…
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pale shadows of cracked kettles is a 15-minute composition written for SATB choir and two percussionists which explores language and communication in both their strengths and shortcomings. The piece does not feature a set text, but it does pull keywords from various quotes about…
Social controversy is a sustained, mediated debate between at least two oppositional parties which is more than just a difference of opinion; rather it is a persistent conflict over the political and cultural implications that dominant forms of communicative reasoning, practices…
My dissertation aims to show the subjectivity and diversity of marginality, by examining the interplay among marginality, emotions and performances of verbal genres among the Petalangan people in Indonesia. I conducted ethnographic and linguistic field research among the Petalan…
From March 2006 until March 2008 I worked and did research with young people in El Salvador. I coordinated a local youth participation project in the capital, where, at the same time, I conducted fieldwork for my PhD research. The youth project aimed at empowering young people t…
Political disillusionment is widespread in contemporary Japanese society, despite people’s struggles in the recession. Our social relationships become entangled, and we can no longer clearly identify our interest in politics. The search for the outside of stagnant reality someti…
In this thesis I argue that the category of emotion is a social natural kind and that this claim has implications for the scientific study of emotion. It is a social kind because it includes social features that are necessary for the explanation of emotional phenomena. It is a n…
The mid-nineteenth century has been presented in popular and academic narratives as a crucial period in the history of modern leisure in Britain, as urbanisation and changes to working hours provided new opportunities for recreation. These leisure practices shaped individual and…
This thesis explores the spectator’s experience of emotions in Euro-American contemporary theatre dance. It proceeds through a dialogue between philosophical views of the spectator’s experience and a particular focus on the analysis of videos of performance. The study explores t…
Autism spectrum condition (ASC) is a lifelong developmental condition. Along with restricted interests and deficits in social imagination, people with ASC have difficulty understanding the social world. Evidence suggests that ASC individuals have difficulty understanding the emo…
This thesis comprises a critical review and suggestions for enhancement of the Community of Inquiry Framework (CoIF), the frequently cited model of collaborative community-based online learning. It combines a systematic engagement of relevant literature and research, with the ap…
This thesis seeks to investigate the ways in which late medieval English drama produces and theorises emotions, in order to engage with the complex nexus of ideas about the links between sensation, emotion, and cognition in contemporary philosophical and theologial thought. It c…
The main aim of this thesis is to investigate how environmental preference for the built environment, either in-situ or based on visual representations (e.g. visualisations of final architectural design), may be affected by three distinct variables. One of them is emotion, opera…
The principal claim defended in this thesis is that for Aristotle arousing the emotions of others can amount to giving them proper grounds for conviction, and hence a skill in doing so is properly part of an expertise in rhetoric. We set out Aristotle’s view of rhetoric as exerc…
The importance of good relationship among parties in the construction industry has been accepted as one of the central issues of an organisation's success. The growing acceptance to the Relational Contracting approaches that representing partnering, supply chain alliances and ot…
Writing a history of the development of the ancient Egyptian mind, wrote the Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt a century and a half ago, "is an impossibility." While the ancient Egyptian civilization came to an end thousands of years ago, traces of their environment, art, archite…
This dissertation presents research on functional and neural mechanisms of cognition-emotion interaction in incentive learning (preference formation) and related decision making (preference expression) in three chapters. A novel reward-based preference formation and expression t…
Sociality and individual differences may play an important role in emotional processing. Using behavioral and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) experiments, this dissertation aims (1) to characterize the behavioral and neural activation patterns associated with proces…
This study was a provocative examination of leadership through the worldview of participants in an emotionally charged situation that is considered deviant by the parent organization. The focus of this study and the research strategy encompassed generating a greater understandin…