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"She Can Too" Persuasive Health Campaign
Get PDFWomen’s Sports Foundation (WSF) is an organization that promotes female athletes and supports and empowers women through sports. WSF encourages women across the nation to reach their full potential and live a healthy life (Women’s Sports Foundation, n.d.). In order to continue the effort in supporting young women and equality in sports, the campaign “She Can Too” was created. The goal behind such a campaign is not only to raise awareness regarding the inequality that currently exists in the realm of sports, but also to encourage more young women to join a cause that promotes a healthier, more active lifestyle. Through different persuasive attempts, the campaign is intended to resonate with young women around the world
The Armenian Genocide: Applying Psychological Theories
Get PDFGenocides have cumulated through the years, but the psychological understandings behind large-scale massacres are not well known. This analytical paper looks at the Armenian Genocide and attempts to apply psychological theories to better understand how Genocides occur. This paper examines cultural and religious divisions to dissect a large historical time period
Seems Like Old Times: Staging, Control, and (Mis)memory in Annie Hall
Get PDFThe refrain that viewers can (or should) ‘separate the art from the artist’ relies on the assumption that a problematic artist does not leave traces of their transgressions in their work. But the techniques of manipulation that a potential criminal might leverage to gain control over others significantly overlap filmmaking techniques designed to shape audience perception, such as framing and editing. This essay proposes to “de-edit” or “re-spatialize” some moments from Woody Allen’s Annie Hall (1977) to bring attention to the modes of gaze, address, and manipulation exerted by the director throughout the film. This method resituates the film from its popular image as the scattered chronicle of an underdog neurotic to a more critical portrait of a narcissist deploying the reflective apparatuses of memory and cinema for a project of distortion and, ultimately, self-deception
Trauma of Iranian Modernity and Desire for Machine in Naderi’s The Runner
No full textAmir Naderi’s The Runner (1984) marks an enigmatic inception of a golden age in Iranian cinema. The film portrays the extensive historical rupture the violent force of an imported modernity introduced to the Iranian traditional society. It also shows how desiring bodies in a developing country are beached in their competition with the western machinery. A unique product of Iranian cinema, the film surveys a nation’s optimistic quest for synchronization of parallax ways of being; the Iranian’s strive to emerge out of its traditional fabric and welcome the imported Frankenstein. And, while showcasing the first Iranian modern city, the film comments on the historical turmoil bloody wars produced for the native population generating an ambivalent yet precise image of a war-torn society in transition to modernity
Literature Review on the Recent Elimination of the Bereavement Exclusion of Major Depressive Disorder in DSM-5
Get PDFBereavement is a universal phenomenon which a depressive episode is expected to follow. Due to this expectancy and the normality of depressive episodes, bereavement has been excluded from the list of stressful life events that act as a precursor for major depressive disorder since the DSM-3. However, this tradition was removed in the recent edition of the DSM which generated fiery arguments between the mental health professionals. Reasons for eliminating the bereavement exclusion criteria were the lack of supporting evidence to differentiate bereavement from other life stressors and the risk of overlooking major depressive disorders in bereft individuals (Pies, 2014). However, it is argued against that the elimination of bereavement exclusion criteria prompts pathologizing normal grief, overdiagnosis, and use of inadequate treatments (Jones & Fox, 2013). Despite the arguments, one conviction is agreed upon; DSM-5 does not provide a valid measure to distinguish normal grief from pathological grief which puts ethical burden on the mental health professionals (Jones & Fox, 2013). This paper establishes that while both sides of the dispute are grounded on empirical evidence, argument that supports the elimination of the bereavement exclusion criteria is more conclusive which justifies the decision made in the DSM-5
Perceptions of Attraction: Implicit Biases in Attraction Towards Transgender Individuals
Get PDFResearch regarding biases against the transgender community is growing in the field of psychology, with one of the focal points being attraction. This study was conducted to determine if individuals are perceived as less attractive when identified as transgender, rather than cisgender. A between-subjects experimental design was used in which a sample of university students who identified as cisgender women rated the attractiveness of the same 10 photos (5 of men and 5 of women), labelled as either “cisgender” (n = 21) or as “transgender” (n = 19). Our hypothesis was that photos labelled as transgender would receive lower ratings than the photos labelled as cisgender for both the men’s and women’s faces. The independent samples t-test indicated no statistically significant differences between the cisgender and transgender photos. This suggests that awareness of an individual’s transgender status does not negatively influence perceptions of attractiveness, and that younger university students may be less prejudiced towards the transgender community
The Phoenix Society: A Prosocial Donation Campaign
Get PDFThis paper discusses a hypothetical donation campaign supporting the Phoenix Society, a treatment and rehabilitation organization. For this donation campaign a brochure was created to persuade people into donating to the Phoenix Society. This paper explains the different persuasion techniques used in the brochure: the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM), guilt appeals, the social norm approach, attitude functions, and the reasoned action approach. Each of these techniques are examined to demonstrate why they would be effective at persuading people to donate
Pedophilia and Sexual Orientation
Get PDFThe purpose of this paper is to examine the implications of viewing pedophilia as a sexual orientation. While there is a clear distinction between gender preferences in sexual orientations, the discussion around other factors of sexual orientation do not often include age orientation. Using the multi-dimensional framework proposed by Seto (2016), this paper seeks to add to the discussion of expanding the definition of sexual orientation to include age orientation. Pedophilia describes a paraphilia where people are romantically or sexually attracted to children. According to the DSM-5, people can be diagnosed with Pedophilic Disorder if their romantic and sexual attraction to children is persistent, pervasive, and if these feelings cause significant distress, or if they have acted on their feelings. Expanding the definition of sexual orientation to include age orientation would help reduce the stigma experienced by the minor-attracted population by allowing safer access to therapeutic interventions. Differentiating between sexual attraction and criminal behaviour would increase access to therapeutic interventions targeted towards reducing sexual offences against children
The Effects of Music Genre on Scores in Different Exam Types: A Pilot Study
Get PDFThe Mozart Effect is a theory that suggests Mozart’s music results in an improvement in spatial performance and a change in brain activity. Lo-Fi (or “Low-Fidelity”) music is a new musical genre that incorporates elements from different existing musical genres (Casumbal et al., 2019; Jaušovec & Habe, 2005). While substantial research has been conducted on the Mozart Effect, little research has examined the impact of Lo-Fi music on cognitive performance. Using an experimental design with a sample of 86 participants, this study examined whether there were performance differences on both spatial ability and reading comprehension test under conditions of Classical music (n = 22), Lo-Fi music (n = 32), or no music (n = 32). It was hypothesized that participants in both the Classical and Lo-Fi music conditions would have higher scores on both the spatial ability and reading comprehension tests compared to the no music condition. The results found no differences between musical genre groups for either exam type. This suggests that both conditions were neither better nor worse than the silent control. This also seems to imply that neither musical condition was too much of a distraction