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Glass half empty or full? Collective narcissism and ingroup satisfaction as mechanisms regulating opposite intergroup perceptions and behaviors
No full textCollective narcissism and ingroup satisfaction are distinct aspect of positive ingroup evaluation. Collective narcissism - the belief that the ingroup is exceptional but not sufficiently recognized by others - is linked to behaviors that escalate intergroup conflicts, reinforce social injustice and inequality, undermine rationality and challenge democratic principles. In contrast, ingroup satisfaction—the belief that the ingroup is of a high value—may be a remedy against them. Clarifying the distinction and relationships between collective narcissism and ingroup satisfaction may be essential for constraining the negative outcomes of collective narcissism. This chapter builds on recent developments in self-evaluation research to propose a theoretical framework that integrates existing findings in collective narcissism research and outlines future directions for empirical inquiry
Towards a Typology of Gendered Rage
No full textIn dialogue with the six contributions to this special issue, here we offer a preliminary typography of the diverse forms of gendered rage which are helping to define our current moment. We suggest that contemporary manifestations of women's rage, and gendered rage more generally, can be broadly divided into three prevailing forms: voluble and visible; sublimated; and threshold. Rage as visible and voluble is most easily identifiable and arguably more likely to propel mass political mobilization and public demands for change. Sublimated rage, by contrast, avows negative effect only to transmute it into some other affective modality. Threshold rage simmers but does not necessarily erupt in spectacular or even as clearly discernible rageful form; it is less voluble, serving rather as a constant propulsive force that can propel individual and even collective action but can also lead to other more destructive or self-destructive affects. In short, and as all six articles underscore in different ways, neither women's rage nor gendered rage more generally is emancipatory or constructive in and of itself. Therefore, if we want to mobilize rage for emancipatory purposes, we need first to recognize that rage is always engendered in specific material, social, political and cultural conditions, where its iteration and reception is always inflected by one's subject position, and that rage's affective force is also always dependent on its relationship to and enmeshment with other affective states and modalities, which themselves are generated and circulate contextually
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Undergraduate Economics Curriculum: A Patch for the Leaky Pipeline of Women in Economics?
No full textIn recent years, equality and/or equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI/DEI) have become both a buzzword and a banned word when it comes to discourses and measures introduced by universities. While a normative EDI framework has emerged within the regulatory environment in the United Kingdom, as of January 2025, DEI measures violate government policy in the United States. When EDI/DEI activities have been introduced in universities, their success has commonly been evaluated based on, often superficial, quantitative metrics. The underlying systemic issues contributing to the creation of an unequal system, however, are rarely questioned. We show how more a gender-aware curriculum and pedagogical tools can be key in advancing an inclusive university environment. This would address the main criticism concerning current EDI initiatives, which often focus on staff and/or students and employ non-performative discourses instead of adopting a holistic approach where all staff and students have a voice and become co-creators of their educational and research environment
Spontaneous emergence of slow ramping prior to decision states in a brain-constrained model of fronto-temporal cortical areas
Full text linkINTRODUCTION --
Currently an ongoing debate exists over two prevailing interpretations of the pre-movement ramping neural signal known as the readiness potential (RP): the “early-” and “late-decision” accounts [1]. The former holds that the RP reflects planning and preparation for movement – a decision outcome. The latter holds that it is pre-decisional, emerging because a commitment is made only after activity reaches a threshold. We used a fully brain-constrained neural-network model of six human frontotemporal areas to investigate this issue and the cortical mechanisms underlying the emergence of the RP and spontaneous decisions to act, extending the previous study that developed this neural architecture [2].
METHODS --
The network was trained via neurobiologically realistic learning mechanisms to induce formation of distributed perception-action cell assembly (CA) circuits. To replicate the experimental settings used to trigger the spontaneous emergence of volitional actions, we repeatedly reset its activity (trial start) and collected the resulting “WTs” (“wait time”: time steps elapsed between trial start and first spontaneous CA ignition) in absence of external stimulation, with neural activity driven only by uniform white noise. We then compared model and human data at both “behavioural” (WT distribution) and “neural activity” (RP index) level, where the simulated RP was defined simply as the total firing activity within the network’s model neurons.
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We found that, for select values of the parameters, the simulated WT distribution was statistically indistinguishable from the experimentally measured one. This result was replicated in eight out of ten repeated experiments, the variability being attributed to the noise inherently present in the network. We also found that the simulated RP, displaying the characteristic non-linear buildup, could be fitted to the experimental RP, with a mean square error that was minimal for the parameter set that produced the best-fitting simulated WT distribution. Finally, but importantly, individual trials also revealed sub-threshold fluctuations in CA activity insufficient by themselves for full ignition.
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We used a 6-area deep, brain-constrained model of frontotemporal cortical areas to simulate neural and behavioural indexes of the spontaneous emergence of simple, spontaneous decisions to act. The noise-driven spontaneous reverberation of activity within CA circuits and their subsequent ignition were taken as model correlates of the emergence of “free” volitional action intentions and conscious decisions to move, respectively. Replicating both behavioural and brain indexes of spontaneous voluntary movements, the present computational architecture and simulation results offer a neuro-mechanistic explanation for the emergence of endogenous decisions to act in the human brain, providing further support for a late, stochastic account of the RP
Decentering Technology in the Datafied Workplace: Data (In)Justice and Workers’ Experiences of Algorithmic Management in Call Centers in the United Kingdom and Greece
Full text linkThis article makes a key contribution to debates on algorithmic management by bringing together insights from labor process analysis and critical data studies to examine how workers experience and understand injustices related to the introduction of data-driven technologies. Based on 34 interviews with telecommunications call center workers in the United Kingdom and Greece, we find that while there are prominent concerns about uses of new technologies, workers tend to “see through” the technology to situate such concerns within wider power dynamics, most notably organizational culture, business models, and relationships with managers. Informed by debates on data justice, we, therefore, make a case for the need to decenter technology in engagements with algorithmic management to better account for workers’ experiences in discussions on the future of work
Disasters and the need for Glocal Social Work
Full text linkAs climate change intensifies the risks of extreme weather conditions, the likelihood of disasters also increases. Under those circumstances, societies need to explore the degree to which they are prepared to respond to them and mitigate the potential risks from such events. Approximately 60,000 deaths are recorded during disasters annually, while millions of people are displaced, and the economic impact on infrastructures and community services is tremendous. This paper draws on these facts and argues that as the prevalence of disasters and their impact increase, social work skills and knowledge must advance to adequately and effectively respond to the needs of individuals and communities. The paper argues the need for Glocal Social Work, which considers global phenomena and circumstances regarding disasters but finds suitable methods to apply this knowledge to local communities and respond directly to the populations affected.
随着气候变化加剧极端天气条件的风险，灾害发生的可能性也随之增加。在这种情况下，社会亟需评估自身应对灾害及降低潜在风险方面的准备。全球每年约有六万人在灾害中丧生，数百万人流离失所，基础设施与社区服务遭受的经济冲击更是难以评估。本研究基于上述事实，提出随着灾害频发及其影响的增强，社会工作者的技能与知识必须不断提升，以充分且有效地回应个人与社区的需求。本论文提出了“全球在地化社会工作”的必要性，即在考虑灾害相关的全球现象和情况的同时，寻找合适的方法将相关知识应用到本地社区，并直接回应受影响人群的需
Evaluation of Forensic Interviews and Interrogations: A Thematic Analysis of Law-Enforcement Views
Full text linkPurpose. Effective forensic interviewing is crucial, particularly if the interview is the only source of evidence. Whilst there are a number of non-coercive interview models that advocate for reflective practice, the evaluation of interviews rarely gets the time or attention it deserves. This is concerning given that interviewer skills drop significantly after six months, and there are limited opportunities for refresher training. The aims of the current study were to explore how law enforcement officers reflect upon and evaluate their interviews and seek their insight into what they believe an effective evaluation tool would constitute.
Methodology. A total of 32 officers from three police forces in England and Wales and six international security organisations completed a qualitative questionnaire that explored their views on how interview evaluation is conducted and the impact on the interview, and how technology could assist in this important stage in terms of usability, efficacy and capability of a new evaluation tool.
Findings. Thematic Analysis was utilised resulting in three overall themes emerging from the data. These focused on current evaluation methods, barriers to conducting evaluations and technological solutions.
Originality. The findings are discussed in relation to interviewing and the Forensic Interview Trace©. Implications for practice include the need for much more effort to be put into (re) introducing the evaluation stage into training to ensure that officers are allowed to reflect upon and evaluate their interview performance
Perceptions of sexualized deepfake abuse across three nations: An exploration of how victim gender and race shape attitudes towards deepfake abuse in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia
No full textDespite a growing body of literature on various forms of image-based sexual abuse, little is known about public perceptions of sexualized deepfake abuse. In this three-nation, pre-registered experimental study with a sample of 1,925 adults from the United States (US), the United Kingdom (UK), and Australia, we manipulated the race and gender of victims of sexualized deepfake abuse to examine perceptions of blame and harm. Specifically, we exposed participants to pre-tested, ethically digitally-generated, full-frontal nude images of Black, East Asian, and White women and men in a between participants design, and assessed the extent to which the victim and perpetrator were blamed for the creation and sharing of the image, and the extent to which the victim was seen as harmed by the creation and sharing of the image. The analyses revealed that: (1) female victims were perceived to experience more harm than male victims from both the creation and sharing of sexualized deepfakes; (2) male participants attributed less responsibility to perpetrators and less harm to victims for the creation and sharing of deepfakes; and (3) US participants were higher in attributions of victim blame and lower in perpetrator responsibility and victim harm than UK and Australian participants, for both the creation and sharing of sexualized deepfakes. Finally, (4) US participants demonstrated gendered racism in attributions of harm, perceiving less harm to the Black female victim than the white and Asian female victims for image creation. One implication of these findings is that intersectional training and education on IBSA may be useful for bystanders and service providers
How to Turn Around Trouble: Merleau-Pontean Institution, Aesthetics and the Metaphor of ‘Woman’-as-Hinge
No full textFrom Clairaudience to Auraldiversity: A Critical and Reflective Examination of Acoustic Ecology from a British Perspective
No full textThis chapter critically and reflectively reconsiders R. Murray Schafer’s foundational acoustic ecology as presented in The Tuning of the World (1976), primarily through Drever’s engagement with the field since the mid-1990s, situating it within the evolving socio-cultural, pedagogic and regulatory context of the UK. Schafer’s methods of soundwalking and sound mapping reshaped how our relationship with acoustic environments are understood, fostering environmental awareness and attentive listening. Yet, these approaches warrant re-examination considering contemporary notions of auraldiversity and lived experience.
Two contrasting projects illustrate this shift. Sounding Dartmoor (1999–2001) started out with a didactic attitude in promoting listening but revealed that residents’ sound practices were already deeply entwined with place, identity, and environment. Conducted amid rapid social and environmental change in the English countryside, the project also exposed the limits of standard noise assessment in addressing a specific acoustic environment. A subsequent study into high-speed hand dryers (2013–2019) showed that everyday sound sources, often considered benign, disproportionately affect children, older people, and neurodivergent listeners, as well as those with tinnitus, hyperacusis, or PTSD. These findings highlighted the inadequacy of regulatory frameworks based on narrow auditory norms, prompting the need for a new paradigm: auraldiversity (Drever 2015).
Schafer’s mission to cultivate clairaudience glosses over the wide variability of hearing experiences present in everyday life, thereby constraining the conceptual scope of acoustic ecology. This chapter argues for an adaptive and ethical acoustic ecology. It acknowledges Schafer’s enduring influence while pressing for frameworks that evolve in response to contemporary sensory, social, and environmental challenges. In doing so, it advocates for more inclusive acoustic design and regulation that engage fully with the plurality of listening experiences, ensuring that sound-based practices remain relevant, socially responsible, and responsive to British and global soundscapes