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Adolescents’ Academic Emotions and Academic Achievement Across the Transition to Lower Secondary School : The Role of Learning Difficulties
2020
This study examined the role of learning difficulties in academic emotions and achievement across the transition to lower secondary school among 848 Finnish adolescents. Reading difficulties (RD) and math difficulties (MD) were identified based on test scores in Grade 6 and 7. Students with difficulties were identified as having resolving, emerging, or persistent RD/MD. Students rated their academic emotions and information on students’ academic achievement was acquired from school registers. The results showed that a decline in academic emotions and achievement was typical among all students across the transition. Resolving, emerging, or persistent types of RD/MD were also meaningfully ref…
Emocionalitāte apsveikuma runās
2015
Bakalaura darba mērķis ir izskaidrot emocijas no dažādām perspektīvām, vairāk koncentrējoties uz kognitīvās lingvistikas emociju teoriju. Darbā arī tiek pētīta verbālās un neverbālās komunikācijas nozīme emocionālās valodas paušanā. Turklāt, tiek sniegts ieskats runas aktu teorijā, iekļaujot informāciju par runas aktu veidiem un funkcijām. Pētījuma empīriskajā daļa tiek analizētas Baltijas valstu politiķu apsveikuma runas. Tika pielietota kvantitatīvā izpētes metode. Tika veikta diskursa analīze, lai noteiktu emocionālās valodas iezīmes un funkcijas analizētajā runās. Kā arī tika veikta salīdzinošā analīze, lai salīdzinātu vīriešu un sieviešu apsveikuma runas. Veiktā analīze atklāj, ka siev…
Inside “Pandora’s Box” of Solidarity: Conflicts Between Paid Staff and Volunteers in the Non-profit Sector
2020
Non-profit organizations (NPOs) are quite complex in terms of organizational structure, diversity at the workplace, as well as motivational mechanisms and value rationality. Nevertheless, from the perspective of organizational psychology, the systematic analysis of this context is scarce in the literature, particularly regarding conflicts. This qualitative study analyzes types, prevalence, and consequences of conflicts in a large NPO considering as theoretical framework several consolidated organizational psychology theories: conflict theory, social comparison theory, and equity theory. Conflicts were analyzed taking into account volunteers' perspective, who have been the consistent protago…
The origins of the aesthetic enjoyment of music - A review of the literature
2009
Listeners attribute a positive or negative value to music. This aesthetic experience is known to be observable over the individuals’ entire life span, from early childhood to old age, and in every culture. It is then often concluded that such an aesthetic experience constitutes part of the human nature, having an important biological foundation. This assumption leads to the question of how aesthetic experience of music originated in the biological evolution. In this paper, we will explore this question in the light of evolutionary psychology, cognitive science, and systems neuroscience. After reviewing the existing proposals, we conclude that the explanation of the origin of aesthetic expe…
The role of reading difficulties in the associations between task values, efficacy beliefs, and achievement emotions
2018
The aim of this study was to examine the situational associations of reading-related task values and efficacy beliefs with achievement emotions, and whether these associations are moderated by reading difficulties (RD). The sample comprised 128 Finnish sixth-grade students (66 with no reading difficulties [No RD], 31 with mild reading difficulties [Mild RD], and 31 with severe reading difficulties [Severe RD]) who were randomized to complete either a non-challenging or challenging reading task. Students reported their reading-related task values (attainment and interest) and efficacy beliefs right before and their achievement emotions both before and after performing the reading task. The r…
Video Visualization of Predictors of Emotions Dynamically Expressed by Music
2013
Music is particularly appreciated for its capacity of evoking a large range of emotions. A growing area of research in music psychology and computer music endeavors to understand and model the role of the different constituents of music in its overall emotional impact. Whereas research so far has mainly focused on global musical and emotional descriptions, our project investigates more in detail the relationship between the dynamic evolution of musical content and the dynamic development of the resulting emotional reaction. We introduce a new method for predicting the dynamic appreciation of emotion based on audio and musical descriptions. We focus on one particular emotion: power. We propo…
Violenza ed emozione comica nel teatro di Aristofane
2011
The article shows the specificity of comic violence, quite different from the epic and the tragic one. With the exception of the farcical scenes of beating and whacking, violence is effectively absent, but left only to the words, death is threatened with grotesque and ridiculous ways, as it shown in the parody of Telephus in the scene of the threat of killing the little Orestes, in Acharnians and Thesmophoriazusae, with the use of reification. Then, it is claimed that the absence of violence in comedy scene is determined by the deliberate will of the poet to exclude from its theater the constituent element of the tragic genre, opposite and complementary to the comic.
Aesthetic responses to music: A questionnaire study
2009
We explored the content and structure of the cognitive, knowledge-based concept underlying aesthetic responses to music. To this aim, we asked 290 Finnish students to verbally associate the aesthetic value of music and to write down a list of appropriate adjectives within a given time limit. No music was presented during the task. In addition, information about participants’ musical background was collected. A variety of analysis techniques was used to determine the key results of our study. The adjective “beautiful” proved to be the core item of the concept under question. Interestingly, the adjective “touching” was often listed together with “beautiful”. In addition, we found music-speci…
Musical structure modulates semantic priming in vocal music.
2004
It has been shown that harmonic structure may influence the processing of phonemes whatever the extent of participants' musical expertise [Bigand, E., Tillmann, B., Poulin, B., D'Adamo, D. A.,Madurell, F. (2001). The effect of harmonic context on phoneme monitoring in vocal music. Cognition, 81, B11-B20]. The present study goes a step further by investigating how musical harmony may potentially interfere with the processing of words in vocal music. Eight-chord sung sentences were presented, their last word being either semantically related (La girafe a un tres grand cou, The giraffe has a very long neck) or unrelated to the previous linguistic context (La girafe a un tres grand pied, The gi…
A Review on "Lyricism and Chinese Modern Poetics" by Zhang Songjian
2015
La recensione mette in luce il nodo focale della ricerca dello studioso cinese Zhang Songjian nella sua analisi sul Modernismo nella poesia cinese degli anni '40. Lo studioso innova l'ambito della ricerca introducendo i concetti di "lyricism", "anti-lyricism" e "deep lyricism" che contribuiscono ad aprire nuove prospettive nel dialogo critico Occidente-Oriente sulla poesia cinese. The review underlines the focus of the research of the Chinese scholar Zhang Songjian in his analysis of Chinese poetry Modernism of the 40s. His innovative research is based on the concepts of "lyricism", "anti-lyricism" and "deep-lyricism" that contribute the opening of new perspectives in the Western-Eastern di…