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Introducing Psychosocial Studies of Emotion
No full textThis chapter provides an introduction to the papers that make up this book. The psychosocial contributors represented here all share an interest in affect, the emotions and emotional life. Some recent writers (e.g. Blackman and Cromby, 2007) make clear distinctions between "emotion" and "affect", with, for example, "emotion" being used to refer to conscious experience, and "affect" to a more basic drive - or bodily based phenomenon. We agree with Greco and Stenner's (2008) suggestion that such distinctions are not always fruitful partly because the terms are used highly inconsistently. Emotions exist partly in the body, but they are also in our minds, in our language and in the cultures that surround us. They can be understood as a crucial bridge between the individual and the social, and are quintessentially psychosocial phenomena. They have a mercurial status, not existing without an individual to experience the emotion, but often having little significance without a socio-cultural framework that imbues feelings with meaning
Conclusions: Psychosocial Studies – A Therapeutic Project?
No full textThe essays in this book show in different ways and in a wide range of contexts how emotion is implicated in every area of our personal and public lives, relationships and institutions. Various psychosocial theories and perspectives have been deployed by the contributors to examine the different ways in which emotion provides a psychosocial bridge between the inner and outer worlds, binding them together, through the shifting processes of history, discourse and unconscious phantasy. Clearly there are many "psychosocial" approaches. They vary in the kind of psychology being deployed, as illustrated by the various forms of psychoanalytic psychology, identity theory and biographic narrative appraches to be found here, and the wider range to be found elsewhere. Along with this diversity in their models of the "psycho", psychosocial approaches also vary in the ways that the "social" can be theoretically and /or empirically present, with sociological theory (Rustin, Chapter 2), politics (Evans, Chapter 6; Yates, Chapter 7) and history (Jones, Chapter 16), cultural forms and artefacts (Powell, Chapter 8), policy studies (Cooper, Chapter 13), criminology (Gelsthorpe, Chapter 14) and education policy (Price, Chapter 15) being among the ways in which the "social" has been presented to readers of this book
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Paranoid-Schizoid, Manic Defensive Society: Kleinian Psychodynamics in Contemporary Political Culture
No full textThere is a trend at present within political discourse whereby extreme
polarisation and post-truth attitudes are rife. One can see the rise of emotive far-right populist candidates and causes as exemplary of this. Specifically in the case of the support for Donald Trump, Brexit as well as the rise in COVID-19 conspiracy theories. The root cause of irrational, angry and conspiratorial reasoning within public perception of political affairs urgently needs identification and questioning.
Building on Bollas’ (1979) work on the internal mood, public mood can be defined as “mood of a certain age, the mood of an audience which jointly attends to a public performance, or the bonding which takes places between bodies which are in close physical proximity to each other” (Ringmar 2017). As such, it is exactly fitting to be examined via the psychodynamic work of Melanie Klein, specifically the concepts of
the paranoid-schizoid position, the depressive position and the manic defences. In order to identify this, news reports of Dominic Cummings’ journey to Durham from the 22nd May 2020 to the 27th May 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic shall be analysed. This analysis shall assess the psychosocial, cultural implications of this trip utilising a qualitative, critical discourse analysis, and will be analysed in order to
identify paranoid-schizoid and manic defensive language in both news media reports, as well as within the language of users on Twitter. After which, there will be a discussion of these findings and the means in which they can be applied in order for society to move on from the extreme polarisation and post-truth attitudes that currently exist
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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