Online discourse: "You have to convince me to vote for Joe #Biden"
Why? I don't like Joe Biden. The idea that anyone has to convince you to fall in love with Joe Biden is as absurd of a #political assertion as the #MAGA cult and #Trump, that #politics is about #passion
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!
Take a Walk
Before I left for a walk, I turned around and saw our cat sitting at the window looking outside. I returned, let him out, and he did something he had never done before: he took me for a walk. It really touched my heart, and I had to laugh as he meowed whenever I waited for him while we did the whole 30-minute walk together.
New blog post! I wrote about making art as emotion regulation. I connect it to expressive suppression and cognitive reappraisal, from James Gross's work.
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?
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' !!!
Lost in the whirlwind of color! This abstract masterpiece completely mesmerized me.
The way the vibrant hues dance and intertwine, the bold strokes suggesting a hidden language, it's like stepping into a world of pure emotion and energy.
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!
#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...
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