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The Psychology of Transprejudice
Get PDFIn this thesis, I explored multiple predictors of transprejudice with the aim of understanding the relation between these varied psychological mechanisms and trans-related attitudes. In the first chapter of this thesis, I start with an overview of the literature on prejudice in general, and prejudice against transgender people specifically. I also provide a brief overview of the theories on gender. In the next chapter, I go on to summarise and reflect on the methodology used throughout this thesis. This is followed by four empirical chapters wherein I present 10 studies exploring the multiple predictors of transprejudice. Specifically, in Chapter 3 (3 studies, N = 146; N = 200; N = 245), I show that gender identity consciousness is an indirect predictor of transprejudice, mediated by greater gender identification and gender distinctiveness threat. In Chapter 4 (3 studies, N = 146; N = 199; N = 171), I illustrate that prior knowledge about and contact with transgender people predicts lower levels of transprejudice. In Chapter 5 (2 studies, N = 200; N = 205), I explore whether transgender essentialism moderates transprejudice depending on (1) age of trans selfidentification and (2) current age of the transgender person in question. Finally, in Chapter 6 (2 studies, N = 341; N = 391) I develop and validate a new scale to measure transprejudice. The thesis ends with a general discussion of the key findings of these 10 studies, the applied contributions that this research offers, and suggestions for future research avenues. <br/
Accountability in Vulnerability: The Role of Emotionality in Downward Accountability in a Chinese Educational NGO
Get PDFThe Process of Change in Multisystemic Therapy – Family Integrated Transitions: Young People’s Perspectives
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Audio-Visual Emotion Classification Using Reinforcement Learning-Enhanced Particle Swarm Optimisation
Get PDFThe extraction of fine-grained spatial-temporal characteristics for emotion classification is a challenging task owing to the subtlety and ambiguity of emotional expressions through video and audio channels. In this research, we propose an audio-visual ensemble model, comprising a two-stream 3D Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architecture with RGB and optical flow as inputs for video emotion classification, as well as a variant of Wav2Vec2 for audio emotion recognition. The Wav2Vec2 variant integrates additional recurrent and attention layers with each transformer block to extract long- and short-term dependencies. A new Particle Swarm Optimisation (PSO) algorithm is proposed to fine-tune hyper-parameters of 3D CNNs and the enhanced Wav2Vec2, and formulate audio-visual ensemble models with the smallest sizes. It integrates a reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm, i.e. Asynchronous Advantage Actor-Critic (A3C), for search parameter and hybrid leader construction, and another RL algorithm, Proximal Policy Optimisation (PPO), for search action selection, as well as hypotrochoid and super formula-based search operations. Evaluated using audio-visual emotion datasets, our evolving ensemble model outperforms those devised by other search methods and existing state-of-the-art deep networks, significantly
Trapped in Time and Place:Cognitive Immobility Among Diaspora Communities
Get PDFThis article adopts the interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) approach to explore the phenomenon of cognitive immobility, where individuals remain cognitively trapped in experiences or locations despite elapsed time and physical distance from those events and places. It explores how (im)mobility and life transitions hold people in the past. The study focuses on the cognitive experiences of Mrs Eve, an African-American woman who on her first visit to Dakar, Senegal, felt a deep, unexplained connection to the place. The article triangulates Mrs Eve’s experiences against those shared by other individuals in previously published peer-reviewed narratives to reveal how (im)mobility and life transitions can lead to cognitive immobility. It underscores that traumatic or memorable life experiences can result in cognitive immobility under certain circumstances and thus enriches the discourse on people who are cognitively trapped in their past
Finanzieller Missbrauch älterer Menschen:Strategien der Befähigung
Get PDF(translated abstract)In October 2018, a UK Member of Parliament, Giles Watling, used his maiden speech to highlight the issue of elder abuse in the UK. Although imperfectly and inconsistently defined, elder abuse is commonly referred to as “a single or repeated act, or lack of appropriate action, occurring within any relationship where there is an expectation of trust” which results in “harm or distress” to an older person. It is, Watling noted, a widespread yet “poorly understood” crime which deserves to dominate political discourse but which is too often overlooked, the result being Parliament’s “marginalising [of] a forgotten generation.” Elder abuse is also a human rights violation, with the Equality and Human Rights Commission and All Parliamentary Group on Aging and Older People respectively identifying “serious” and “systemic” threats to the human rights of older people as a result. The UK House of Commons Health Committee reported on elder abuse in 2004, expressing concern at the “refusal of professional bodies and society overall to acknowledge the extent of the problem”. Importantly, in Europe and worldwide, states have been slow to respond to elder financial abuse, which is perceived as an increasingly pressing issue
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