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Hattikudur, Mangesh, Elizabeth Hunt, and Will Pearson. mental floss presents Condensed Knowledge: A Deliciously Irreverent Guide to Feeling Smart Again. New York: HarperResource, 2004.
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White, Andrew Nathaniel. Andrew's Musical Enterprises, Inc. proudly presents Andrew White's from inspiration to publication in 32 days with process and feeling: Essays numbered 152 through 170. Wash[ington], D.C. (4830 S. Dakota Ave., N.E., Wash[ington], 20017): Andrew's Musical Enterprises, 2007.
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den, Ouden Bernard D., and Moen Marcia 1944-, eds. The Presence of feeling in thought. New York: P. Lang, 1991.
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Underman, Kelly. Feeling Medicine. NYU Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479897780.001.0001.
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Gynecological teaching associates (GTAs) are trained laypeople who teach medical students the communication and technical skills of the pelvic examination while simultaneously serving as live models on whose bodies these same students practice. These programs are widespread in the United States and present a fascinating case for understanding contemporary emotional socialization in medical education. Feeling Medicine traces the origins of these programs in the Women’s Health Movement and in the nascent field of medical education research in the 1970s. It explores how these programs work at three major medical schools in Chicago using archival sources and interviews with GTAs, medical faculty, and medical students. This book argues that GTA programs embody the tension in medical education between the drive toward science and the ever-presence of emotion. It claims that new regimes of governance in medical education today rely on the modification of affect, or embodied capacities to feel and form attachments. Feeling Medicine thus explores what it means to make good physicians in an era of corporatized healthcare. In the process, it considers the role of simulation and the meaning of patient empowerment in the medical profession, as well as the practices that foster caring commitments between physicians and their patients—and those that are exploitable by for-profit healthcare.
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Waterworth, J., and G. Riva. Feeling Present in the Physical World and in Computer-Mediated Environments. Palgrave Pivot, 2014.
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Feeling Present in the Physical World and in Computer-Mediated Environments. Palgrave Pivot, 2014.
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Lacoste, Jean-Yves, and Oliver O’Donovan. Perception, Transcendence, and the Knowledge of God. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198827146.003.0002.
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AbstractStarting from Husserl’s account of perception, this chapter argues that every perceptual experience is fragmentary, so that the perception of any “thing” goes beyond the moment-by-moment appearances. The realm of phenomena is wider than that of perceptible entities; it includes values, numbers, etc., and some appearances that present themselves to feeling. God may appear in the realm of feeling, where love has priority over knowledge. Unclarity and incompleteness are essential to an experience that lays claim to the presence of the Absolute. That presence is not a “parousia”; its appearing is understood only in relation to its transcendence of appearance.
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Solomonova, Elizaveta. Sleep Paralysis. Edited by Kalina Christoff and Kieran C. R. Fox. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190464745.013.20.
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Sleep paralysis is an experience of being temporarily unable to move or talk during the transitional periods between sleep and wakefulness: at sleep onset or upon awakening. The feeling of paralysis may be accompanied by a variety of vivid and intense sensory experiences, including mentation in visual, auditory, and tactile modalities, as well as a distinct feeling of presence. This chapter discusses a variety of sleep paralysis experiences from the perspective of enactive cognition and cultural neurophenomenology. Current knowledge of neurophysiology and associated conditions is presented, and some techniques for coping with sleep paralysis are proposed. As an experience characterized by a hybrid state of dreaming and waking, sleep paralysis offers a unique window into phenomenology of spontaneous thought in sleep.
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de Vignemont, Frédérique. Over and Above Bodily Sensations. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198735885.003.0003.
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At first sight, Martin (1995) provides a promising reductionist account of the first-personal character of bodily ownership in spatial terms: it is sufficient to feel sensations as being located in a part of one’s body to experience this body part as one’s own. There is nothing over and above the location of the sensations. However, Martin’s view fails to account for the following two puzzles. First, one generally experiences no ownership towards tools although one can feel some sensations as being located in them. Secondly, one can experience a sense of disownership towards one’s own limbs despite still feeling sensations in them. What these puzzles reveal is that we should not confuse the feeling of bodily presence and the feeling of bodily ownership: one can be aware of the body as a bounded object in a larger space without being aware of it qua one’s own body
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Stolen Feelings (Harlequin Presents, #77). Harlequin, 1997.
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Hindmarsh, D. Bruce. Art and Evangelical Spiritual Aspirations. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190616694.003.0009.
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Analyzing evangelical theological controversies in the context of contemporary art and aesthetics, it is clear that evangelicals’ spiritual aspirations concerned deep feeling. Arguments over art were parallel to theological controversies as Reynolds and Gainsborough, like Wesley and Whitefield, debated issues while “engrossed by the same pursuits” within a common “school.” Moreover, the evangelical Calvinist expressed spiritual aspirations that were a religious version of the sublime—that sense of “shrinking into the minuteness of one’s nature” felt in the presence of overwhelming vastness and power. And the evangelical Arminian expressed spiritual aspirations that appear as a religious version of the heroic—that feeling for the agony of moral choice demanded by the good that requires struggle and rests only in victory after travail. Ultimately, the Calvinist-Arminian tension among eighteenth-century evangelicals was concerned with the religious meanings of modern agency, modern moral aspiration, and the realization of good in the modern world.
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Gutiérrez-Maldonado, José, Marta Ferrer-García, Antonios Dakanalis, and Giuseppe Riva. Virtual Reality. Edited by W. Stewart Agras and Athena Robinson. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190620998.013.26.
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In the last twenty years researchers have embraced virtual reality (VR) in order to integrate and extend the assessment tools and treatments currently in use for eating disorders (EDs). Specifically the VR protocols for EDs try to exploit clinically the sense of “presence,” that is, the feeling of “being there” inside the virtual environment. The sense of presence offered by VR can be a powerful tool in therapy because it provides the individual with a world in which he/she can be placed and live a particular experience. This triggers emotional reactions in patients and allows a higher level of self-reflectiveness than that provided by memory and imagination, and greater control than that offered by direct “real” experience. In particular, VR protocols for EDs use technology to alter the experience of the body (embodiment) in real time and as a cue exposure tool for reducing food craving.
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Stroud, Barry. Feelings and the Ascription of Feelings. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198809753.003.0012.
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This chapter is a philosophical discussion of beliefs, knowledge, sensations, and feelings. It also discusses self-ascription of actions and intentions. In particular, it examines David Finkelstein’s response to some remarks by Ludwig Wittgenstein about the conception of oneself, or the kind of self-consciousness, involved in ascribing feelings and sensations rather than thoughts or beliefs to ourselves. It also considers Finkelstein’s rejection of John McDowell’s claim that a sensation must be understood as ‘something that is not present prior to or independently of its being brought under a concept’. The chapter argues that when we come to the capacity for self-predication, knowledge of the truth of what is said is also part of competent self-ascription.
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Weinberg, Igor. More Than a Feeling? Edited by Louis G. Castonguay, Michael J. Constantino, and Larry E. Beutler. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med-psych/9780199324729.003.0011.
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This chapter describes how the author would implement each of the empirically based principles of change identified in Chapter 2, as they specific related to the three cases of social anxiety presented in Chapter 8. The chapter begins with the author’s initial reaction to the list of principles, as well as to the task of describing their implementation in his day-to-day clinical work. Also included in the chapter are the author’s case formulation and treatment for each case, which serve as the general context for the author’s detailed explanation of why and how he would apply the principles in ways that are best attuned to the needs of particular clients. The chapter ends with the description of the author’s thoughts and experience about writing this chapter.
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Mruk, Christopher J. Feeling Good by Doing Good. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med-psych/9780190637163.001.0001.
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Feeling Good by Doing Good: A Guide to Authentic Self-Esteem presents a new evidence-based approach to defining, understanding, and increasing self-esteem. The book translates decades of the author’s research and writing in the fields of self-esteem, positive psychology, and psychotherapy into everyday language. Its power comes from tracing the definition of self-esteem back to its very first use, which is based on doing that which is both just and right. Seen this way, self-esteem is not merely feeling good about oneself. Rather, it comes from actually doing something to earn that experience. In addition to distinguishing between low, defensive, and authentic self-esteem, the book helps readers consider the connections between self-esteem and positive psychology in regard to such topics as self-control, how self-esteem operates in domains of life such as school or work, how self-esteem acts as a compass to help us make healthier choices, practical suggestions to increase authentic self-esteem, and the connection between authentic self-esteem, relationships, and well-being. The words, diagrams, and activities in the book are written so that it can be used by clinicians, their clients, and intelligent general readers interested substance as well as practical applications.
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Wallace, David. Nuns. Edited by James Simpson and Brian Cummings. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199212484.013.0027.
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In his poemUpon Appleton House, Andrew Marvell implies that the Appleton nunnery in Yorkshire, along with all its works, vanish “in one instant.” The suggestion that the English nuns disappear the moment they are chased from their buildings is iconic both of English Renaissance imaginings and of modern scholarship. The mysterious absence of nuns was compounded with their excessive presence, a paradox that in many ways compares with medieval Catholic thinking and feeling about nuns. This article examines the representations of nuns in English Renaissance literature and their habitual failure to portray the kinds of lives, and conditions of enclosure, actually known to nuns in England. It also considers how the long history of convent literacies in England, leading from Anglo-Saxon and Latin to Anglo-Norman and English, results in gradual separation of women from the literacy of the clerical elite. The article analyzes Caesarius of Heisterbach’sDialogus Miracolorum, a compilation of miniature ascetic romances written for Cistercian novice monks.
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Hattikudur, Mangesh, and Elizabeth Hunt. Mental Floss Presents Condensed Knowledge: A Deliciously Irreverent Guide to Feeling Smart Again. Collins, 2004.
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Hattikudur, Mangesh, and Elizabeth Hunt. Mental Floss Presents Condensed Knowledge: A Deliciously Irreverent Guide to Feeling Smart Again. Collins, 2004.
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Williams, Redford B., and Virginia P. Williams. Managing Hostile Thoughts, Feelings, and Actions. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med:psych/9780195130447.003.0007.
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This chapter discusses hostility. It reviews the epidemiological evidence documenting the health-damaging effects of hostility and associated psychosocial characteristics; the biobehavioral mechanisms whereby these characteristics lead to poor health; and clinical trials documenting the benefits of behavioral interventions aimed at ameliorating the impact of psychosocial risk factors on health and disease. The chapter also presents a case study on the LifeSkills Workshop, which aims to train persons with a hostile personality to use coping skills.
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Thomason, Krista K. Ajax Reconsidered. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190843274.003.0003.
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Ajax sees no problem with the idea of becoming a murderer, but the shame of looking like a madman drives him to suicide. Ajax is one illustration of a common phenomenon: people either prefer being violent to feeling shame, or their feelings of shame are alleviated by acts of aggression. This chapter argues that neither the traditional view nor the naturalistic view can explain why people prefer violence to shame. A close examination of the connection between violence and shame will reveal important features of the experience of shame more generally. Two features of shame are present in the cases where shame and violence are linked: (a) people feel shame about some aspect of their identities that they do not control, and (b) that aspect of their identities makes them self-conscious about how they come across to others.
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Hogan, Patrick Colm. Gender and Regulatory Regimes. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190857790.003.0006.
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The fifth chapter continues the focus on regulatory regimes, now turning to gender and taking up ideology and socialization rather than coercion. This chapter first considers some short stories by Tagore. Specifically, it examines the role of humiliation in the inhibition of boys’ empathic response, especially sensitivity about attachment needs. From here, the chapter turns to Woolf’s Orlando. In this novel, Woolf presents a situationist account of gender regulation. Orlando’s apparently masculine or feminine behaviors are provoked by such seemingly trivial situations as the nature of his/her clothing. Woolf nuances the situationist account by showing that some forms of situated behavior, as well as thought and feeling, are likely to become habitual through repetition. In short, it is not differences in minds that produce differences in behaviors, which in turn create social situations. Rather, differences in social situations produce differences in behaviors, leading to differences in thoughts and feelings.
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Rymsza-Pawlowska, M. J. History Comes Alive. University of North Carolina Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469633862.001.0001.
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During the 1976 Bicentennial celebration, millions of Americans engaged with the past in brand-new ways. They became absorbed by historical miniseries like Roots, visited museums with new exhibits that immersed them in the past, propelled works of historical fiction onto the bestseller list, and participated in living history events across the nation. While many of these activities were sparked by the Bicentennial, M. J. Rymsza-Pawlowska shows that, in fact, they were symptomatic of a fundamental shift in Americans’ relationship to history during the 1960s and 1970s. For the majority of the twentieth century, Americans thought of the past as foundational to, but separate from, the present, and they learned and thought about history in informational terms. But Rymsza-Pawlowska argues that the popular culture of the 1970s reflected an emerging desire to engage and enact the past on a more emotional level: to consider the feelings and motivations of historic individuals and, most importantly, to use this in reevaluating both the past and the present. This thought-provoking book charts the era’s shifting feeling for history, and explores how it serves as a foundation for the experience and practice of history making today.
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Schlieter, Jens. The Presence of Religious Metacultures in Near-Death Discourse (1580–1975). Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190888848.003.0021.
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The conclusion of the discursive history outlines that in contrast to studies that argue for a broad decline of Christian narratives of deathbed experiences in the early modern centuries, there is ample evidence of a continuous stream of Christian reports. These reports are, from the 18th century onward, seconded by a broad current of Spiritualist–Occult and Gnostic–Esoteric reports. Transmitters of these reports were mostly religiously interested individuals—preeminently spokespersons of non-mainstream churches and denominations such as Pietists, Theosophists, Occultists, and Spiritualists, joined, in the early 20th century, by parapsychologists. Most common are descriptions of a paradisiacal realm, tranquility, quietness, and feelings of peace or mental clarity. Handed down in religious contexts were descriptions of a border, God, or angels. However, other elements such as the life review (absent in premodern narratives), autoscopic out-of-body experiences, or the “tunnel” clearly developed over time and assumed new meanings.
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Lears, Adin E. World of Echo. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501749605.001.0001.
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Between late antiquity and the fifteenth century, theologians, philosophers, and poets struggled to articulate the correct relationship between sound and sense, creating taxonomies of sounds based on their capacity to carry meaning. This book traces how medieval thinkers adopted the concept of noise as a mode of lay understanding grounded in the body and the senses. With a broadly interdisciplinary approach, the book examines a range of literary genres to highlight the poetic and social effects of this vibrant discourse, offering close readings of works by Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland, as well as the mystics Richard Rolle and Margery Kempe. Each of these writers embraced an embodied experience of language resistant to clear articulation, even as their work reflects inherited anxieties about the appeal of such sensations. A preoccupation with the sound of language emerged in the form of poetic soundplay at the same time that mysticism and other forms of lay piety began to flower in England. As the book shows, the presence of such emphatic aural texture amplified the cognitive importance of feeling in conjunction with reason and was a means for the laity — including lay women — to cultivate embodied forms of knowledge on their own terms, in precarious relation to existing clerical models of instruction. The book offers a deep history of the cultural and social hierarchies that coalesce around aesthetic experience and gives voice to alternate ways of knowing.
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McCarty, Megan, and Steven Karau. Social Inhibition. Edited by Stephen G. Harkins, Kipling D. Williams, and Jerry Burger. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199859870.013.9.
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Social inhibition is the tendency for behaviors that are exhibited when one is alone to be minimized in the presence of others. Despite the long tradition of research investigating the effects of social presence on behavior, research on social inhibition does not constitute a cohesive literature. This chapter integrates social inhibition research from different traditions, focusing on helping behaviors, emotional expression, and behaviors that elicit social disapproval. We discuss moderators and processes that explain when and why social inhibition occurs: arousal, ambiguity, pluralistic ignorance, diffusion of responsibility, feelings of capability, evaluation apprehension, and confusion of responsibility. Key distinctions between social inhibition and related concepts are presented, helping to establish social inhibition as a central social influence concept. We conclude with an analysis of why social inhibition research has not formed a cohesive literature, and we hope that our review of social inhibition facilitates the integration of future research on the topic.
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Efklides, Anastasia. Metamemory and Affect. Edited by John Dunlosky and Sarah (Uma) K. Tauber. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199336746.013.1.
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Research in the last decade has produced growing evidence on relations of metamemory with affect, particularly in a self-regulation framework. The chapter presents an overview of empirical evidence suggesting that (a) affect (e.g., mood, stimulus emotionality) can have an impact on metamemory, and particularly on metacognitive experiences such as feeling of difficulty, mental effort, or confidence; (b) metacognitive experiences can have an impact on affect (e.g., feeling of not knowing can trigger curiosity); and (c) cognitive events or states (e.g., interruption) can trigger both affective and metacognitive responses, such as surprise and feeling of difficulty. The mechanism underlying the interrelations between metamemory and affect involves, besides fluency/disfluency and related experiences, metacognitive knowledge (including remembered utility) and self-concept. The theoretical implications of empirical findings on the interrelations between metamemory and affect are discussed and challenges for future research on metamemory pointed out.
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van der Vlies, Andrew. Present Imperfect. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198793762.001.0001.
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Present Imperfect asks how South African writers have responded to the end of apartheid, to the hopes that attended the birth of the ‘new’ nation in 1994, and to the inevitable disappointments that have followed. The first full-length study of affect in South Africa’s literature, it understands ‘disappointment’ both as a description of bad feeling and as naming a missed appointment with all that was promised by the anti-colonial and anti-apartheid Struggle (a dis-appointment). Attending to contemporary writers’ treatment of temporality, genre, and form, it considers a range of negative feelings that are also experiences of temporal disjuncture—including stasis, impasse, boredom, disaffection, and nostalgia. Present Imperfect offers close readings of work by a range of writers—some known to international Anglophone readers (J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Ivan Vladislavić, Zoë Wicomb), some slightly less wellknown (including Afrikaans-language novelists Marlene van Niekerk and Ingrid Winterbach), others from a new generation (Songeziwe Mahlangu, Masande Ntshanga). It addresses key questions in South African studies about the evolving character of the historical period in which the country now finds itself. It is also alert to wider critical and theoretical conversations, looking outward to make a case for the place of South African writing in global conversations, and mobilizing readings of writing marked in various ways as ‘South African’ in order to complicate the contours of World Literature as category, discipline, and pedagogy. It is thus also a book about the discontents of neoliberalism, the political energies of reading, and the fates of literature in our troubled present.
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Farrell, Justin. Bringing Moral Culture into the Fray. Princeton University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691164342.003.0001.
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This introductory chapter briefly presents the conflict in Yellowstone, elaborates on the book's theoretical argument, and specifies its substantive and theoretical contributions to the social scientific study of environment, culture, religion, and morality. The chapter argues that the environmental conflict in Yellowstone is not—as it would appear on the surface—ultimately all about scientific, economic, legal, or other technical evidence and arguments, but an underlying struggle over deeply held “faith” commitments, feelings, and desires that define what people find sacred, good, and meaningful in life at a most basic level. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.
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Wittmann, Marc, and Karin Meissner. The embodiment of time: How interoception shapes the perception of time. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198811930.003.0004.
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Within the framework of the embodiment of time, this chapter presents accumulating evidence of how interoception and associated brain networks process time. Functional MRI studies have shown that climbing neural activation in the posterior insular cortex correlates with stimulus duration in a time-estimation task in the multiple-second range. Given the close connection between the insular cortex and ascending body signals, the authors suggest that the accumulation of physiological changes in body states is the basis for the subjective impression of duration. Psychophysiological findings reveal linearly increasing cardiac periods and decreasing skin-conductance levels during duration-estimation tasks in the multiple-second range. Accordingly, the feeling for the passage of time at the present moment is based on the perception of the bodily self.
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Fay, Jennifer. Antarctica and Siegfried Kracauer’s Extraterrestrial Film Theory. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190696771.003.0006.
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`Siegfried Kracauer’s film and photographic theory along with cinematic records of early Antarctic exploration explain how this utterly inhospitable continent (Antarctica) and this media theory advance an alternative and denaturalized history of the present. Cinema has the capacity to reveal an earth outside of human feeling and utility without sacrificing the particularity that gets lost in scientific abstraction. And Antarctica, for so long outside of human history altogether, simply numbs feeling and refuses to yield to human purpose. It is also a continent on which celluloid encounters its signifying limits. Kracauer, this chapter argues, helps us to imagine an estranged and selfless relationship to an inhospitable or even posthospitable earth that may not accommodate us.
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Kim, Christine. Multiculturalism, Minor Publics, and Social Intimacy. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040139.003.0001.
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This introductory chapter presents the debate that lies at the heart of the multiculturalism project in Canada, examining why the proposed inclusion of an Asian-looking woman on the $100 bill is a contentious move if Canada is a multicultural country. In many respects, the $100 bill story dovetails with the larger concerns of this book because both highlight how the politics of multicultural recognition obfuscate racialized feeling. In studying this recent episode in Canadian public life, this book aims to emphasize how the language and logic of multiculturalism structure race and racialization for a liberal imagination in Canada; to note that although the rhetoric of multicultural recognition may permeate the nation, multicultural feeling does not; and to propose that the minimal amount of public debate about the $100 bill is indicative of a more general public inability to recognize the racialized nature of citizenship.
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Koopmann-Holm, Birgit, and Jeanne L. Tsai. The Cultural Shaping of Compassion. Edited by Emma M. Seppälä, Emiliana Simon-Thomas, Stephanie L. Brown, Monica C. Worline, C. Daryl Cameron, and James R. Doty. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190464684.013.21.
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In this chapter, we first review the existing literature on cross-cultural studies on compassion. While cultural similarities exist, we demonstrate cultural differences in the conception, experience, and expression of compassion. Then we present our own work on the cultural shaping of compassion by introducing Affect Valuation Theory (e.g., Tsai, Knutson, & Fung, 2006), our theoretical framework. We show how the desire to avoid feeling negative partly explains cultural differences in conceptualizations and expressions of compassion. Specifically, the more people want to avoid feeling negative, the more they focus on the positive (e.g., comforting memories) than the negative (e.g., the pain of someone’s death) when responding to others’ suffering, and the more they regard responses as helpful that focus on the positive (vs. negative). Finally, we discuss implications of our work for counseling, health care, and public service settings, as well as for interventions that aim to promote compassion.
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Greenberg, Danna, and Jamie J. Ladge. Maternal Optimism. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190944094.001.0001.
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Every working mother’s path is unique and should be celebrated, not lamented. Yet all too frequently, working mothers are presented with advice, rules to follow, or guidelines as if all our experiences are the same. The goal of this book is to provide readers with stories and research that support the notion of owning and feeling confident in the choices they make as they navigate a series of work and family transitions. Furthermore, we often reduce work/life challenges to a single point in time, such as the decision to return to work after the birth of a child. However, work and family decisions are anything but stagnant. They shift as life and careers shift and are often filled with unpredictable events. By understanding and anticipating these shifts, working mothers can develop the resiliency they need at home and at work. We hope women will pick up this book at times when they may not be feeling confident, when they may regret a choice, or when they are stepping into an unknown situation, so that they can reframe any negative emotions they may be feeling in a more positive light. We believe that if women approach uncertainty about their current or future state with hope, rather than fear, they will have a greater likelihood of living life with maternal optimism.
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Ravetto-Biagioli, Kriss. Digital Uncanny. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190853990.001.0001.
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We are confronted with a new type of uncanny experience, an uncanny evoked by parallel processing, aggregate data, and cloud-computing. The digital uncanny does not erase the uncanny feeling we experience as déjà vu or when confronted with robots that are too lifelike. Today’s uncanny refers to how nonhuman devices (surveillance technologies, algorithms, feedback, and data flows) anticipate human gestures, emotions, actions, and interactions, intimating we are machines and our behavior is predicable because we are machinic. It adds another dimension to those feelings we get when we question whether our responses are subjective or automated—automated as in reducing one’s subjectivity to patterns of data and using those patterns to present objects or ideas that would then elicit one’s genuinely subjective—yet effectively preset—response. This anticipation of our responses is a feedback loop we have produced by designing software that studies our traces, inputs, and moves. Digital Uncanny explores how digital technologies, particularly software systems working through massive amounts of data, are transforming the meaning of the uncanny that Freud tied to a return of repressed memories, desires, and experiences to their anticipation. Through a close reading of interactive and experimental art works of Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Bill Viola, Simon Biggs, Sue Hawksley, and Garth Paine, this book is designed to explore how the digital uncanny unsettles and estranges concepts of “self,” “affect,” “feedback,” and “aesthetic experience,” forcing us to reflect on our relationship with computational media and our relationship to others and our experience of the world.
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Mulligan, Kevin. Thrills, Orgasms, Sadness, and Hysteria. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198766858.003.0012.
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Austrian and German philosophers, in particular the heirs of Brentano, such as Stumpf and Scheler, as well as Wittgenstein, criticized in detail William James’s influential account of emotions. The chapter presents, analyses, and assesses these criticisms in the context of the largely unknown accounts of bodily feelings, sensory feelings, such as localized pains, and emotions given by Stumpf, Husserl, Scheler, and other early phenomenologists. In these accounts, the modes of emotions are distinguished from their contents and objects. Within the latter category, the proper object of an emotion, for example, a dog which is feared, is distinguished from the danger the dog represents and the fearfulness of the situation of which the dog is a part.
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Delmas, Candice. Resistance in the Age of Trump. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190872199.003.0010.
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This chapter uses the book’s previous arguments to inquire into American citizens’ and officials’ present political obligations under President Donald Trump. Citizens are bound by the natural duty of justice, the principle of fairness, the Samaritan duty, and political association to resist the various injustices threatened or enacted by Trump’s administration, including by protesting, educating themselves, disobeying the law, intervening in cases of hate crimes, acting in solidarity, and donating cash and time to movements. The chapter then presents the recent debate over whether to serve under Trump, and argues that civil servants (officials and bureaucrats) have a political obligation to minimize damage from within, that is based on the duty of justice and the principle of fairness. Finally, it argues that resistance from within, given its anti-democratic appearance, should generate feelings of ambivalence among civil servants.
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Kieschnick, John. Material Culture. Edited by John Corrigan. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195170214.003.0013.
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Attention to material culture reveals generally shared responses across cultures to size, light, and representations of the human form. Even without specific cultural knowledge, monumental sculpture tends to provoke a sense of awe and small dark spaces a sense of foreboding and mystery. For this reason, whether for small-scale studies of individual practices or events or for comparative religion on a grander scale, attention to material culture has great explanatory potential. Before returning to the value of an appreciation of objects for understanding emotion and religion, this article presents a brief introduction to the term “material culture” and problems specific to the study of the material culture of religion. It then looks at intense emotions in extraordinary contexts, including the ecstasy of a shaman in trance, the anger of a crowd driven to violence, the weeping of saints, and the wonder of devotees in the presence of the miraculous. The article also considers objects that play a role in more pedestrian, though not necessarily less important, feelings.
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Matin, Samiha. Private Femininity, Public Femininity. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036613.003.0007.
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This chapter examines the contemporary costume film's unique interrelationship of femininity and privacy by focusing on how the historical constraints of privacy force the post-feminist heroine to make herself anew as a feminine subject. It uses the two poles of privacy and publicness to organize relationships between gender, feeling, time, aesthetics, and identity, worked through and re-envisioned by costume films for present-day viewers. By these means, the values of privacy and publicness are recalibrated to accommodate a mutable femininity that uses aesthetics and feeling as creative methods of adaptation. The heroine's process of identity construction consists of tests, experiments, and play with self-presentation to find and utilize the sanctioned meanings and covert privileges afforded by femininity. In reassembling elements of gender and galvanizing their force to new ends, spaces for covert resistance and pressure-release emerge. This course is one of “tactical aesthetics,” or the deployment of style to access power which makes use of gendered acts, expressions, dress, and etiquette to design new advantages. To explore this concept, the chapter analyzes two films, Elizabeth (1997) and Marie Antoinette (2006), as divergent visions of femininity.
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Goswami, Usha. 4. Friendships, families, pretend play, and the imagination. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780199646593.003.0005.
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‘Friendships, families, pretend play, and the imagination’ examines the influence of the people around infants as well as their imaginative games on cognitive and social/emotional development. How important is the presence of siblings to a child’s cognitive development? Research suggests having siblings is beneficial for social cognition, and even sibling disputes play a vital role. The way in which parents deal with their own emotions influences how a child learns to manage their feelings. Observing pretend play, with adults, siblings, or alone, provides a way to understand the development of mental states and is an important aspect of child development.
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Noakes, Lucy, Claire Langhamer, and Claudia Siebrecht, eds. Total War. British Academy, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197266663.001.0001.
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War is often lived through and remembered as a time of heightened emotional intensity. This edited collection places the emotions of war centre stage. It explores emotional responses in particular wartime locations, maps national and transnational emotional cultures, and proposes new ways of deploying emotion as an analytical device. Whilst grief and fear are among the emotions most immediately associated with the rhetoric, experience, and memory of war, this collection suggests that feelings such as love, shame, pride, jealousy, anger, and resentment also merit attention. This book explores the status and uses of emotion as a category of historical and contemporaneous analysis. It goes beyond the cataloguing of discrete feelings to consider the use of emotion to understand the past. It considers the emotional agency of historical actors and the contexts, modes, and time frames in which they communicated their feelings. Wartime provides a dynamic context for thinking through the possibilities and limitations of the emotional approach. This collection provides case studies that explain how emotional registers respond to world events. These range from First World War Germany, interwar France, and Second World War Britain to the Greek Civil War and to the post-war world. Several chapters trace the emotional legacy of war across different conflicts and to the present day: they show how past, present, and possible futures intersect in the emotions of a moment. They also reveal links between the intimate, the national, and the international, between interiority and sociality, and between conflict and its aftermath.
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Massimini, Marcello, and Giulio Tononi. A Brain in Your Hand. Translated by Frances Anderson. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198728443.003.0001.
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This chapter introduces the problem of the relationships between matter and consciousness by asking the reader to step in the shoes of a medical student who is given a human brain to hold during an autopsy. From this perspective, the brain is just another worldly object. A thing with mass and borders. How can this be? Holding a brain, feeling its texture and weight, must be like seeing the Earth from the Moon as a tiny blue dot. It is a sublime experience, and it is both a source of mental anguish and liberation. In this way, the reader is presented with basic scientific questions that have an existential flavor.
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Risse, Guenter B. Location. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039843.003.0005.
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This chapter discusses the problems of pesthouse siting. For more than half a century, strong, collective feelings of fear, anger, and disgust drove the relentless opposition to the various sites suggested for San Francisco's pesthouse. San Franciscans continued to appeal to miasmatic theories of disease to justify threatening to burn down and destroy existing structures. Political decisions about “place making” for an institution housing “loathsome” bodies were always highly emotional, contentious, and bitterly fought. Eloquently expressed at neighborhood meetings and in lobbying efforts, these sentiments suggest the presence of an emotional climate that developed within the context of nineteenth-century dangers associated with urbanization and industrialization in San Francisco.
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West, John. Enthusiasm and Political Crisis. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198816409.003.0003.
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This chapter examines how the Exclusion crisis of 1678–82 affected Dryden’s theorization of the role of enthusiasm in literature and drama. Dryden’s essays of the late 1670s seem to move back towards the rule of judgement, but his work from this period also tries to preserve some semblance of enthusiasm’s literary relevance. The chapter argues that this adjustment was informed by the partisan politics of the late ’70s and early ’80s. Initially, the chapter explores this through Dryden’s engagement with Shakespeare, before analysing his major political and religious poems of the period, Absalom and Achitophel (1681), The Medall (1682), and Religio Laici (1682), as well as the Whig responses to them that brandished Dryden a mere enthusiast. Dryden was working out how to preserve a version of enthusiasm denoting the strong passions amid a political culture where personal feeling seemed to be elevated as the sole guide of public judgement.
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Foa, Edna B., Kelly R. Chrestman, and Eva Gilboa-Schechtman. Prolonged Exposure Therapy for Adolescents with PTSD Therapist Guide. Oxford University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med:psych/9780195331745.001.0001.
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Traumatic events, including sexual abuse, experiencing or witnessing violence, and natural disasters, are common among adolescents, and this online therapist guide presents a proven treatment for PTSD that has been adapted for the adolescent population. It applies the principles of Prolonged Exposure (PE) to help adolescents emotionally process their traumatic experiences and follows a four-phase treatment where the patients complete each module at their own rate of progress. It includes modules on motivational interviewing, case management, the rationale for treatment, information-gathering about the trauma, common reactions to trauma, and explains that by systematically confronting situations associated with the trauma, adolescents can overcome avoidance and fear. It covers how memory of the traumatic event can help distinguish the past from the present and promote feelings of mastery, and also includes modules on relapse prevention and treatment termination. It covers the importance of the adolescent's age and developmental level while in therapy, and includes developmentally appropriate materials and guidance on tailoring the treatment to each client's unique situation, including trauma type and family structure.
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Atkins, Richard Kenneth. Charles S. Peirce's Phenomenology. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190887179.001.0001.
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No reasonable person would deny that the sound of a falling pin is less intense than the feeling of a hot poker pressed against the skin, or that the recollection of something seen decades earlier is less vivid than beholding it in the present. Yet John Locke is quick to dismiss a blind man’s report that the color scarlet is like the sound of a trumpet, and Thomas Nagel similarly avers that such loose intermodal analogies are of little use in developing an objective phenomenology. Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914), by striking contrast, maintains that the blind man is correct. Peirce’s reasoning stems from his phenomenology, which has received little attention as compared with his logic, pragmatism, or semiotics. Peirce argues that one can describe the similarities and differences between such experiences as seeing a scarlet red and hearing a trumpet’s blare or hearing a falling pin and feeling a hot poker. Drawing on the Kantian idea that the analysis of consciousness should take as its guide formal logic, Peirce contends that we can construct a table of the elements of consciousness, much as Dmitri Mendeleev constructed a table of the chemical elements. By showing that the elements of consciousness fall into distinct classes, Peirce makes significant headway in developing the very sort of objective phenomenology which vindicates the studious blind man Locke derides.
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Landau, Iddo. Conclusion II. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190657666.003.0019.
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This chapter continues the discussion of general issues related to the meaning of life. The book has argued that to see life as meaningless is to see it as lacking a sufficient number of aspects of sufficient value. But many people describe the meaninglessness of their lives differently, mentioning existential guilt, anxiety, and despair. Others portray their meaningless lives as a joke, a lie, or an unfulfilled promise. The chapter argues that the analysis of meaninglessness presented in the book explains rather than conflicts with the ways in which people actually describe their feeling of meaninglessness. The chapter also stresses the importance of investing effort and work in enhancing meaning in life and, lastly, reviews the most crucial of the practical guidelines this book offers.
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Bittner, Edward A., ed. 50 Studies Every Intensivist Should Know. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190467654.001.0001.
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There has been an explosion of clinical trials in critical care medicine since the inception of the specialty more than 50 years ago. This explosion has made it challenging as a trainee in critical care medicine to gain expertise in evidence based medicine. Determining how best to care for patients and understanding the basis for our practice is a never-ending process for all clinicians and it is particularly daunting for trainees. Even for the practicing intensivist, feeling confident in one’s knowledge base of foundational studies in the ever-growing field of critical care practice is no easy task.50 Studies Every Intensivist Should Know presents key studies that have shaped the practice of critical care medicine. Selected using a rigorous methodology, the studies cover topics including: sedation and analgesia, resuscitation, shock, ARDS, nutrition, renal failure, trauma, infection, diabetes, and physical therapy. For each study, a concise summary is presented with an emphasis on the results and limitations of the study, and its implications for practice. An illustrative clinical case concludes each review, followed by brief information on other relevant studies. Selection of studies that emphasize topics that come up frequently on ICU rounds was a priority. This book is a must-read for health care professionals and anyone who wants to learn more about the data behind clinical practice.
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Jack, Jordynn. Inventing Gender. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038372.003.0006.
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This chapter studies how individuals may invent alternative gendered identities from available gender topoi. Memoirs by Donna Williams and Dawn Prince-Hughes, along with blogs and online forum posts, reveal that autistic individuals offer alternative understandings of gender, using and combining disidentificatory or idiosyncratic terms such as nongendered and third gender or combining terms such as trans, gay, lesbian, bisexual, and androgyne. Indeed, when autistic individuals write about feeling nongendered or ungendered, they contest hegemonic genders and develop new types of gendered characters with which to present themselves and their experiences. Thus, genders can be invented using available terms, in that some autistic individuals employ a gender copia, or multiplicity of gendered topoi, to understand themselves and their roles in the world.
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Duvernoy, Russell J. Affect and Attention After Deleuze and Whitehead. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474466912.001.0001.
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The book develops a process metaphysical conception of subjectivity from the work of Gilles Deleuze and Alfred North Whitehead. This alters existential orientations towards affect and attention in ways described as ecological attunement. The study is guided by two methodological commitments: (i) demonstrating the importance and relevance of responsible speculative thinking and (ii) translating metaphysical ideas into their existential implications. Both commitments are motivated by a contemporary context of ecological crisis and paradigm transformation. In the course of its argument, the book relates the work of Deleuze and Whitehead to other speculative trends in recent philosophy, particularly posthumanisms and speculative realisms. Deleuze and Whitehead are read in a shared lineage of radical empiricism that emphasizes processes and events as metaphysically primary. A key theme is understanding subjectivity through dynamic processes of individuation at variable scales where feeling/affect and attention acquire metaphysical rather than psychological scope and status. Whitehead’s analysis of “feeling” as metaphysical operation is explored in relation to Deleuze and Guattari's Spinozist-inspired deployment of affect. Attending participates as a crucial bridge between the metaphysical and the existential in processes of consolidation of present real actual occasions. The book develops existential implications of these claims in the context of an expanded philosophical conception of ecology. These implications challenge dominant modes of subjectification under what Guattari calls “Integrated World Capitalism” (IWC). The book concludes with discussion of how speculative philosophy may contribute to alternative futures.
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Brown, Andrew, Christopher T. Flinton, Josh Gibson, Brian Grant, Barrie Greiff, Duane Hagen, Stephen Heidel, et al. Use Technology Wisely. Edited by Andrew Brown, Christopher T. Flinton, Josh Gibson, Brian Grant, Barrie Greiff, Duane Hagen, Stephen Heidel, et al. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190697068.003.0010.
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This chapter provides information on the wise use of technology in the workplace. In a world where electronic communication is ubiquitous, face-to-face interactions are critical. Technology can be used to promote depth in relationships, but the use of technology needs to be tailored to the individual. Relationship problems and difficult feelings have always been present in the workplace, but with electronic communication they now present more quickly, at unpredictable times, in larger numbers, and often with greater urgency. Managers face relationship repercussions from technology on a daily basis. Generally speaking, in many of the relationships in which difficulties arise, coworkers and managers have only a superficial understanding of the other party’s emotional needs due to decreased face-to-face interaction.