Really interesting paper looking at descriptions of #emotion from the perspective of #Hadzabe#huntergatherers (and compared w Euro Americans)
'Hadza descriptions foregrounded action and bodily sensations, the physical environment, immediate needs, and the experiences of social others. These observations suggest that subjective feelings and internal mental states may not be the organizing principle of emotion the world around.'
An inclusive science of emotion needs 'narratives from outside of a U.S. (and western) cultural context' !!!
#WordWeavers 2404.29 — Who's feeling shame in your story? Is it justified?
/It's'a [#brainfog#fibromyalgia day, but I'm gonna write this to get something out. Hoping it's coherent. —RS/]
This question made me think hard for quite awhile until I—like an artist or a photographer deciphering how shadow defines volume and dimension—saw /negative space/ in a story... where something wasn't. Emptiness.
Wintereyes /doesn't/ feel #shame, and I'm realizing this is an #emotion with which I can make a #feminist point in my story. Whilst shame is IMHO used more often to control women than it is men, it is both incidious and /learned./ Shame is a combination of built-in emotions programmed into a person to make a person self-punish for "wrong" behavior even if it's secret; it's related to, but not the same as guilt.
Wintereyes was raised by wolves, but not until she was 7 when her "gift" caused her to seek a second set of parents. Her early childhood will require investigation in another story, but I'm pretty sure her human parents didn't teach her the emotion; it's not that she forgot. Forced to live again amongst humans over a decade later, to become more human, people's behavior baffles her. Late in the story, when she's asked to disrobe by stylist at a modeling shoot, and does without a thought, the stylist observes, "You don't feel shame, do you?" This is where Wintereyes will go off like a firecracker, and it should be very interesting.
The stylist may actually feel ashamed...
The author is [#actuallyautistic and retains copyright (c)2024 R..S.]
I gave the child a desktop computer for her birthday. She opened the box, went silent for several moments, and then started to smile and cry. It's not even all that great of a computer!
Darned child, almost made me emotional in front of other people!
Are you curious about the future of the #email from a consumer POV? Think about #energy consumption, #encryption by default, embedded #verifiable credentials, #emotion detection, and more. Some of those ideas might be extraordinary, but the majority of the #opensource code exists. Why don't we make it happen?
While Goffman often made it appear as though the self was nothing w/o the situation, we show that in places Goffman wasnt interested in the positive attributes of self, but rather where things he took for granted as "normal" attributes of the self were stripped from them, forcibly or through cultural beliefs, we can see the outlines of an affectually motivated self.
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New psychology research sheds light on the mystery of music enjoyment
A recent study published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B reveals that both sensory perceptions and cognitive factors independently influence our enjoyment of music.
New blog post! I review a dynamic systems model of pursuing happiness. Zerwas and Ford find that the system of happiness and goal pursuit can potentially lead to paradoxical effects. Pursuing happiness too intensely can make you less happy!
HERITAGE, THE POWER OF THE PAST, AND THE POLITICS OF (MIS)RECOGNITION by Laurajane Smith (2022).
"Heritage is a political resource; no matter how this concept is defined, “heritage” is charged with representing individual and group identity, sense of place and belonging".
"This paper will illustrate how heritage and museum visiting, as a leisure activity, facilitates or impedes recognition and redistribution in direct and indirect ways. Drawing on extensive qualitative interviews with visitors to 45 heritage sites and museums in the USA, Australia, and England, the paper demonstrates the importance of emotions in mundane struggles over recognition and misrecognition. How emotions uphold or challenge investments in heritage narratives are examined."
I beg your pardon, but my websearch-fu was no use in finding the origin of the words in your caption: "... as if summer storm had rainbowed the world, yet passed over your home as you dwelt in twilight and sorrow".
I thought it a particularly beautiful way to describe that peculiar sadness that is lifted from those around an individual by a global change in circumstance, but not from the individual, by whom a far more disabling insult had been received at or following the time of sadness.
It was a bit hot in Boston today (even the 🐢thought it was better to be inside), but I was still able to go for a shorter run and listen to talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist! (1/11)