Showing papers on "Feeling published in 1982"

Felt, false, and miserable smiles

Abstract: Theoretically based distinctions linked to measurable differences in appearance are described for three smiles: felt smiles (spontaneous expressions of positive emotion); false smiles (deliberate attempts to appear as if positive emotion is felt when it isn't); and, miserable smiles (acknowledgements of feeling miserable but not intending to do much about it). Preliminary evidence supports some of the hypotheses about how these three kinds of smile differ.

Assessment and Treatment

Abstract: What can be done to alleviate the plight of parents with children of deviant social development? How can the feeling to be unloved and to be unable to get along with others be relieved? And how can society be protected against the misdeeds of maladjusted and antisocial children and adolescents?

Self-awareness and aversive experience in everyday life

Abstract: One hundred and seven adults reported their activities, thoughts, and feelings at randomly designated intervals over seven days, resulting in more than 4,800 self-reports. The present investigation focused on the relation of self-awareness and voluntariness to the quality of experience. Results indicated that perceived voluntariness is associated with positive experience, while self-awareness is associated with lower affect, activation, and personal involvement, but only when the activity is felt to be voluntary. This conditional association between self-awareness and aversive experience is discussed as it relates to current theory on self-awareness and recent models of human motivation.

The Effect of Smiling on Person Perception

Abstract: Summary The effect of smiling on interpersonal attraction and perception was examined in a 2 (sex of perceiver) x 2 (sex of stimulus person) x 2 (facial expression) experiment. Ss were presented a photograph of a stimulus person either smiling or not smiling. Results lend strong support to the prediction that Ss liked a smiling person more and evaluated him or her more positively than a nonsmiling person. Moreover, a smiling person was perceived to be more intelligent and could create in the perceiver a warm feeling more so than a nonsmiling person.

Overlearning and the Feeling of Knowing.

Abstract: Previous research on the feeling of knowing for nonrecalled items has focused on the validity of the feeling of knowing as a predictor for subsequent performance but generally has overlooked the question of what factors the feeling of knowing might be based upon. We explored the hypothesis that one factor underlying the feeling of knowing is the degree of prior learning for the sought-after item. Undergraduates learned a list in which various items were acquired to a criterion of either one correct recall, two correct recalls, or four correct recalls. Four weeks later, the subjects had a recall-retention test, then rank ordered the nonrecalled items in terms of the relative feeling of knowing for each of the nonrecalled items, and finally had a recognition test on the nonrecalled items. A major finding (in addition to those summarized at the end of the article) was that the magnitude of the feeling of knowing for nonrecalled items increased with the degree of prior learning.

Mothers' Perceptions of Their Competence in Managing Selected Parenting Tasks.

Abstract: Mothers' perceptions of their competence in managing selected parenting tasks were examined for five stages of parenting (Infancy, Toddlerhood, Preschool, Schoolage, and Adolescence). Subjects were selected from a list of mothers who had scheduled appointments for their children at a private pediatric office. Overall, these mothers reported feeling highly competent in most areas of parenting; however, each stage presented unique challenges. Mothers of adolescents felt the least comfortable about their effectiveness in their parenting role. The findings are discussed with regard to their implications for parent education programs.

Dorians and Ionians

Abstract: In his ‘Essay on the value of applying the ethnic criterion to the study of Greek history and civilisation’, Edouard Will examined the two most numerous and politically important ethnic divisions of the Greek race in Classical times, the Dorians and the Ionians, and came to the conclusion that they inspired no true ethnic feeling amongst the Greeks. Other historians have tended towards a similar view. Although some writers have felt unconvinced of the thesis, no one has analysed the sources used by Will and his supporters to suggest why they may not after all imply the conclusions which Will drew. This article will attempt to do so. In particular I shall try to show first that there is good evidence for the importance of ethnic feeling at the time of the Peloponnesian war, and, secondly, that we should not regard Peloponnesian war propaganda as the sole cause of this feeling. The article will concentrate upon the treatment of this subject by Thucydides and Herodotus, the interpretation of which is, I think, most in need of revaluation. Their evidence seems to me most important because they frequently document and in some cases give their own analysis of occasions where ethnic feeling seems to play a part, many of which are either contemporaneous with them or lie in the fairly recent past. I shall, however, also consider to what extent their evidence is supported by other sources.

Community stressors, mediating conditions and wellbeing in urban neighborhoods.

Abstract: Individual and community measures of stress are related to the presence of depression/demoralization symptoms (Feeling Bad), to positive Wellbeing (Feeling Good) and to the combination of these two (Wellbeing), in an urban sample of 549 adults. The mediation and moderation of these effects by indicators of social support, evaluation of status, and belief variables intended to measure aspects of individual coping tendencies are examined and tested. The findings suggest the absence of moderating effects of any of the support and coping variables on each stressor or on the effects of stressors on Feeling Bad, Feeling Good, and Wellbeing. A number of the variables do, however, have significant main effects, and thus appear to operate directly on the dependent variables, regardless of the presence or level of stress. Differences between apparent effects on Feeling Good and Feeling Bad and the increase in effects for the combination measure are discussed.

The Feeling Wheel A Tool for Expanding Awareness of Emotions and Increasing Spontaneity and Intimacy

Abstract: The Feeling Wheel is designed to aid people in learning to recognize and communicate about their feelings. It consists of an inner circle with 5 sectors and two outer concentric circles. The sector...

Emotional Development in Adolescence

Abstract: Publisher Summary Feelings are essentially educable. One set of experiences may leave emotions untutored and primitive, whereas other sorts of experience can lead to emotional maturity. This chapter discusses the types of experience within secondary education that nourish positive emotional growth, the emotions that are life-enhancing. The chapter discusses the control of negative emotions such as anger, fear, and jealousy. Emotional control is the outcome of mature, confident emotionality derived from formative experience, not of a deliberate denial of impulse. Emotional education during adolescence is considered as an essential dimension of the complete educational process, seen not as any sort of inculcation but as the development of potentialities and the encouragement of growth. The task of education is to mobilize the emergent feelings of adolescents in the service of their own growth towards the attainment of concerned, involved, effective maturity.

Role of Home in Adult Development: Women and Men Living Alone Describe Their Residential Histories.

Abstract: Ten women and men living alone were asked to describe all the places they had lived in individual open-ended interviews. Assessment of interviews yielded a sequence of environmental and psychological changes participants experienced after leaving their parental home. They involved: an initial phase of feeling "not at home"; an incipient awareness of their need for a home; and the psychological and physical arrival at a place that felt like home. These findings indicate that home has varying environmental and psychological dimensions across people's lives and does not seem to depend upon traditional family structure for its meaning.

Meanings and Implications of NDEr Transformations: Some Preliminary Findings and Implications

Abstract: This paper discusses the positive implications of experiencing NDEs. "The available evidence shows, in decreasing order of saliency: greatly increased concern for others; lessened fear of death and increased belief in an afterlife; increased religious interest and feeling, both non-institutionalized and institutionalized; and lessened desires for material success and approval of others" (abstract). "NDErs might be harbingers of a more humane future" (abstract).

Assessing patient satisfaction with state hospital and aftercare services.

Abstract: To assess patients' satisfaction with state hospital and aftercare services, the authors administered an open-ended interview to 22 former state hospital patients. The patients expressed marked dissatisfaction with their treatment in the hospital, but 78% said they were helped by the aftercare services. Important components of their satisfaction were feeling helped, feeling understood, and feeling that the aftercare worker was available when needed. Frequency and length of meetings and types of assistance were not related to satisfaction. The patients reported that the psychotherapeutic and task-oriented assistance were equally helpful.

Group therapy with sexually abused adolescents.

Abstract: The sexually abused adolescent girl is attempting to cope with a disturbing past, threatening present, and disrupted future. She may also be feeling cut off or different from her friends at a time when, developmentally, peer contact is vital. This paper describes a group therapy experience offered to six 13 and 14 year old abuse victims in order to help them feel better about themselves, improve their social skills and reconnect with others their own age. The group focused on the girl's present, everyday functioning and the effects the family disturbances and abuse have had on them. The male and female co-therapists attempted to create an atmosphere of trust and mutual aid; discussions centered on the relationships among group members and the connections the girls make with their important others, including family, friends, and social agencies. As the sessions progressed, four main themes of concern emerged; the girls shared feelings of violation, loss, anger and, finally, hope for their future. The paper illustrates these themes, delineates some of the girls' group experiences, and changes they underwent, and points out some organizational issues for the therapists in running this type of group.

Brain Mechanisms in Hedonic Processes

Abstract: From the start of physiological psychology in Wilhelm Wundt’s laboratory in 1879, there has been a concern with the biological basis of sensation, including feeling or feeling tone. In 1894, William James offered a theory, later known as the James-Lange theory, of how our feelings of emotion such as fear arose. He knew about the cardiovascular and visceral reflexes that occurred in emotion and theorized that it was the sensation of those changes that led to the experience of fear. In a similar vein, Cannon (1934) directed our attention to the sensations of hunger and thirst, arising as his experiments indicated from local changes in the stomach and throat. These theories put the emphasis on the role of peripheral factors and concerned themselves with the sensations or feelings that could be reported by humans. Bard (1928) and Lashley (1938), in contrast, emphasized the central nervous system’s role in emotion and motivation and studied animal behavior rather than human experience. The so-called Cannon-Bard theory (Cannon, 1927), in contradistinction to the James-Lange theory, thus assumed a central hypothalamic mechanism that gave rise to the peripheral cardiovascular and visceral changes in emotion, and through direct cortical influences produced the experience of emotion.

The relationship between emotional and cognitive development

Abstract: Some theorists think thinking dominates feeling. Some feel that feeling shapes thought. How do feeling and thinking fit together? A developmental approach may provide a new view of the connection.

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy in Japan: the issue of dependency pattern and the resolution of psychopathology.

Abstract: In this paper, I have tried to describe some of the characteristics of psychoanalytic psychotherapy in Japan in terms of dependency patterns in the psychotherapeutic relationship and the resolution of psychological problems. In the beginning of my paper I described problems concerning the professional network of psychiatry and psychotherapy in Japan and looked at the general attitude of the people toward this type of therapy. Then I briefly mentioned the attraction of traditional folk healing practices and outlined two of the academically acknowledged psychotherapies which originated in Japan. I have also presented characteristics of psychoanalytic psychotherapy practice in conjunction with those Japanese psychotherapies, discussing them in terms of the following issues: 1. General differences in psychoanalytic psychotherapy as contrasted to Naikan and Morita therapies and problems in psychoanalytic treatment that result from these differences. 2. Symptom resolution patterns in psychoanalytic treatment in Japanese patients and in relation to dream interpretation. 3. The cultural pattern of transference and how this relates to the Buddhistic figure of Kannon. 4. The Ajase Complex, a model of maternal transferential issues and an interpretation of objected-relations among the Japanese, namely the importance of forgiveness as a resolution of guilt and resentment. 5. The Amida Complex, a model of the cultural pattern of countertransference and the feeling of omnipotence and need for praise in the therapist. 6. Some complications and characteristics of a patient's perception of psychoanalytic interpretation. 7. The patient's perception of the psychoanalytic psychotherapist.

Are professional women overworked? Objective versus subjective perception of role loads

Abstract: This was a study of 164 faculty women's estimation of the time they spend on their professions, their housework and child care. The focus of the study was to compare their reports about time spent on these activities with their feelings of being overworked. The subjects were divided into four groups according to their marital and motherhood status. Although all subjects reported working many hours, they did not report feeling particularly overworked. Those who have children, and by their own report work well over 107 hours per week, felt no more overloaded than did the childless subjects who reported working about 78 hours a week. The study makes a distinction between objective-quantitaties perception of role load and subjective-qualitative perception of role load. It also offers possible explanations for the findings.

Maternal Employment: The Child's Perspective.

Abstract: Approximately fifty elementary school children from a Canadian city completed a qicestionnaire related to their perception of having working mothers. Using the statistical technique of 'path analysis, it was fbund that older children, girls, and children who staiv alone after school feel more negatively aftected by their mothers' employment than younger children, boys, and children who are supervised after school. Children's attitudes about their mothers' employment are influenced by their perception of their mothers' feelings about employment. These and other findings indicate that children's perceptions of their mothers' employment should be considered in the research on this topic.

Stress and Coping of Volunteers Counseling the Dying and Bereaved

Abstract: The stress and coping experience of forty-five community volunteers who have counseled dying clients and their families for three to thirty-five months is reported. Many volunteers joined SHANTI having experienced the death of a significant other, having a positive view of their friends/family, and having a professional interest in counseling or a related profession. Volunteers most frequently reported turning to themselves or to the client when distressed, although they also turned to peers, friends, and family. Volunteers most frequently associated feeling of uplift (“something that makes you feel good”) with empathic contact with the client or as a result of their own evaluation of their client contact. The perception that the “social climate” of SHANTI provided training, a milieu conducive to resolving personal and counseling issues, and a common role-defined purpose seemed to be a significant factor in the stress response and coping experience of this population.

Attorneys as caregivers during divorce.

Abstract: In a survey of the emotional and practical problems presented by divorce clients, 74 attorneys reported spending one-fifth of their time in such cases dealing with clients' extralegal problems. While most attorneys reported feeling generally effective in this caregiving role, an overwhelming majority would welcome mental health consultation. Types of extralegal problems and of attorney responses are analyzed, and implications for further collaboration in both practice and research are discussed.