Collective emotions
The common parlance is convinced that you experience the world in the way, in the mood you’re. It is also convinced that you look at the world in your very personal way and you react to it the same.
Meanwhile scientific research confirms this. I will pick out two main branches of science to illustrate this. The one is the concept of affect-logic based on the research and thoughts of Luc Ciompi. The other one is the concept of functional identity based on …………………….
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When the words “I love you” are so shocking
Well we in in the western world have heard so much about the difficulty of showing up emotions in China or in East Asian countries. And it seems even worse to talk about emotions. Especially being said by parents to their children or children to their parents.
Candice Chung from the “daily life” writes about this difficulty and the difference to look on this difficulty from the Chinese perspective. She states this difficulty, she also talks about the challenge she had experienced in her own family trying to confront her parents with ……………….
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Kissing father: it`s the attachment which is important
Some weeks ago there was a video on the Chinese internet accusing a father’s “internet behaviour” to his daughter on the bus. Someone hast taking a video of a father who kissed his little girl on the bus, in public. It’s said that he kissed her over and over until they got off the bus.
A big discussion started after this video was presented. Some just asked “is this the girl’s father?” others disagreed “there’s absolutly …………….
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More about selfie and self trust
A lot is said about selfies, about making selfies and the function of selfies. Here is another aspect. A selfie serves to more deeply entrench the sexual objectification of women and girls and that one looses the control of the self-image once it’s shared online.
Others criticize the apparent narcissism aspect.
One could also say and here we have new sociological research being done that making a selfie also is some kind of democratic nature because it holds liberatory potential. Those, who are not well presented in media obviously like to make selfies because it has a value for them. The value of being represented in media.
Because those who feel more self trust are more easily present in media.
http://sociology.about.com/od/Current-Events-in-Sociological-Context/fl/The-Selfie-Debates-Part-II.htm
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One´s own body as private, emotional currency
Do you know what a temporary boy-friend is? Have a look at the link at the end of this post. I came across this information some weeks ago: A young woman, looking for a boy-friend, to accompany her on her journey through China. To be the travel-partner was meant to accompany her and to pay for her. The young woman said that she did not have any income and she did not want to “suffer” during her tours. So, she offered herself “all day and to spent the night with him”.
This weird story and weird offer was a fake.
Why do I post this fake? Even if this did not happen in reality, the fantasy ……….
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Gesture and words
Spontaneous gestures can help children to learn whether they use spoken language or sign-language. This is an important result of a new report.
It’s really interesting and important that the reported findings make clear that children have an understanding of the notions before they are able to express themselves in speech. Notion means here a gesture plus word-combination.
Children learn this from their parents. This of course, and this is another result, has been found with children who learn sign-language from their parents. Even deaf children who were not able to learn a spoken language learn a sign-language, so to say a homemade gesture-system in order to communicate.
Please read more about it via this link:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140819094005.htm
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Faces of soldiers: you cannot NOT be touched
It seems that war rules the world at many places. War is done by people. People have faces, faces which mirror the state of feeling before the war, during the war and after the war.
The photographer Lalage Snow has shared powerful series of photos showing the transformative faces of service men who had been in Afghanistan. The photos show significant differences in the three states of being. They show personal and psychological differences. Interesting is that the face by itself just look. At one face you don’t realise important differences. But when you put the three faces together you’re overwhelmed and even deeply touched by the relevance of these differences.
Lalage Snow does not have a special message as he said, but he said maybe the photos and the faces speak for themselves.
Look at those attractive and mysterious faces. They will make you want to keep looking.
http://www.upworthy.com/mesmerizing-photographs-of-soldiers-faces-before-and-after-a-war?g=2
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/lalage-snow-we-are-the-not-dead-interview
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Sex is gender and “not” sex
From a very early age on we can decipher sex, sexuality and the differences in detail. Some days ago I came across a little investigation on this competence. I was astonished about one result:
If you look at the picture above you maybe ask if you know the difference between the individuals pictured are male or female. Most of the people are able to decipher by ……..
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Anger in the face enhances cues of strength
New research has been done on facial expression and human behaviour. This research (Evolution and human behaviour magazine) proves that humans assess others` fighting ability by monitoring cues of strength. Cues can be found and clearly identified by facial expression. Biologically and socially this is a hidden important competence of humans. So to say ………
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Emotional expression judged by Software
Facial expression shows how somebody feels. There might be joy, sadness, anger, shame, but also a sad-anger, a joyful surprise or frightening discussed. Even those complex feelings can be expressed by facial expression. We have a so to say born and learned competence to understand this unconsciously, consciously and can adjust or react to this.
Scientist of the OhioStateUniversity in Columbus recently …….
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