"You're more engaged when you're listening to somebody tell their story": A qualitative exploration into the mechanisms of the podcast 'menopause: unmuted' for communicating health information.

While health podcasts can be effective in reducing stigma and increasing knowledge, we know little about their mechanisms of action. This qualitative study explored the mechanisms of how women connected with the podcast 'menopause: unmuted', which presented menopause information in a storytelling format. A diverse sample of 30 women aged 40-60 years were interviewed after listening to the podcast. Interviews covered participant's views and perceptions of the stories presented. Transcripts were analyzed thematically. Two overarching themes were identified. 'Openness and authenticity' describes the value of personal stories told in an authentic way by real experts-by-experience. 'Relatability and representation' explores participants' emotional reaction to the podcast, influenced by the extent to which they identified with the stories and storytellers on the podcast. Authenticity and relatability were identified as key mechanisms through which participants connected with audio stories, consistent with Fisher's narrative theory. These findings have important implications for the application of storytelling in podcasts designed to influence health behaviors. Diverse stories representing a range of demographic characteristics and experiences are needed when creating podcasts about health information to increase listener's relatability and connection. [Abstract copyright: Copyright © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Loyalty Meets Philanthropic Psychology: A New Approach to Supporter Retention

In this new report, we discuss a large scale survey we undertook with donors of two large national non-profits, measuring satisfaction, commitment and trust together with a range of variables drawn from philanthropic psychology and future giving intentions.Recording data a year later, we found that what predicts giving intentions is broadly NOT what predicts actual behaviour. Rather, what appears to drive subsequent behaviour is how giving leaves people feeling

Why Do People Give? Similarity Based Persuasion on Charitable Appeals and Self-Presentation on Social Media

Despite the sizable donations and the variety of views to research an individual\u27s charitable motivations, the individual\u27s charitable giving has remained somewhat stagnant. Ever since the economic crisis of 2008, contributions to charities have decreased. Therefore, garnering donations is a significant challenge for charitable organizations. Moreover, for individuals who have decided to make voluntary contributions, determining which of the over 800,000 nonprofit organizations to contribute to can be a challenging task, as well. The question of how nonprofit organizations should foster awareness and receive donations is of critical importance, yet the answer is not quite clear. In the current fierce competition with other charities, a charity must rely on an effective promotional strategy to present itself and its services to prospective donors. Unfortunately, marketing literature, which is rich in research and theories about promoting for-profit products and services, provides little guidance to nonprofit organizations on how to promote helping. Therefore, the purpose of this dissertation is to investigate when and how charitable appeals could be effective in the context of a nonprofit organization\u27s website and social media based on similarity based persuasion (Essay 1) and self-presentation theory (Essay 2)

University teachers’ perceptions of appropriate emotion display and high-quality teacher-student relationship: Similarities and differences across cultural-educational contexts

 Research on teachers’ emotion display and the quality of the teacher-student relationship in higher education is increasingly significant in the context of rapidly developing internationalization in higher education, with scholars (and students) moving across countries for research and teaching. However, there is little theoretically grounded empirical research in this area, and the different research strands remain relatively unconnected. The present study aimed to address this gap. Psychological, educational and cross-cultural theories were brought together to investigate the interplay of emotion display and the quality of the teacher-student relationship from a teachers’ perspective and across “cultural-educational” context. Given that social interaction, and the mores and norms associated with emotions display are often culturally underpinned, this study explored how university teachers in two so-called “individualistic” countries with different educational systems displayed positive and negative emotions in their teaching and what they perceived as an ideal teacher-student relationship. Australian (N = 15) and German (N = 9) university teachers in teacher education were interviewed. The study revealed that while both groups viewed the open expression of positive emotions as integral to teaching, and negative emotions to be controlled based on their understanding of professionalism, significant group differences also emerged. While the Australian teacher educators reported higher and more intense expression of positive emotions their German counterparts reported more open anger display. Subtle yet noteworthy difference in the TSR quality between the two groups of teachers also emerged. The findings of this study have implications for research and practice in international higher education.

The Effect of Negative Emotion Appeals on Charitable Giving Behaviour

individual donations contribute more than 70% of charitable giving each year, and up until now, the most dominant advertising appeal has been targeting negative feeling such as sadness and guilt even though the exact effect of such appeals is under researched. This review examines the potential disadvantages of negative appeals and according to the studies that being reviewed, negative appeals are not better at promoting prosocial behaviour than a mix of negative and positive appeals; also, when negative appeals are repeated to a certain degree, the targeted sympathy may be reduced. Studies have also found evidence that negative appeals may create distance between the beneficiaries and the potential donors. the predominant guilt-based appeals are also examined and showed different effect in groups and gender. One very interesting aspect to the negative appeals is the activation of persuasion knowledge such appeals cause due to their perceived manipulation intent. The results of this review support the unfavorable effect of negative appeals in charitable advertising.individual donations contribute more than 70% of charitable giving each year, and up until now, the most dominant advertising appeal has been targeting negative feeling such as sadness and guilt even though the exact effect of such appeals is under researched. This review examines the potential disadvantages of negative appeals and according to the studies that being reviewed, negative appeals are not better at promoting prosocial behaviour than a mix of negative and positive appeals; also, when negative appeals are repeated to a certain degree, the targeted sympathy may be reduced. Studies have also found evidence that negative appeals may create distance between the beneficiaries and the potential donors. the predominant guilt-based appeals are also examined and showed different effect in groups and gender. One very interesting aspect to the negative appeals is the activation of persuasion knowledge such appeals cause due to their perceived manipulation intent. The results of this review support the unfavorable effect of negative appeals in charitable advertising

The Internet of Things Will Thrive by 2025

This report is the latest research report in a sustained effort throughout 2014 by the Pew Research Center Internet Project to mark the 25th anniversary of the creation of the World Wide Web by Sir Tim Berners-LeeThis current report is an analysis of opinions about the likely expansion of the Internet of Things (sometimes called the Cloud of Things), a catchall phrase for the array of devices, appliances, vehicles, wearable material, and sensor-laden parts of the environment that connect to each other and feed data back and forth. It covers the over 1,600 responses that were offered specifically about our question about where the Internet of Things would stand by the year 2025. The report is the next in a series of eight Pew Research and Elon University analyses to be issued this year in which experts will share their expectations about the future of such things as privacy, cybersecurity, and net neutrality. It includes some of the best and most provocative of the predictions survey respondents made when specifically asked to share their views about the evolution of embedded and wearable computing and the Internet of Things

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Stakeholders’ Use of Microblogging to Engage in Emotion Strategies During a Crisis

The rise of microblogging has drastically transformed the ways in which people become aware of, talk about, experience, and respond to crises. Microblogging allows for multiple stakeholders to express and manage emotions that a crisis may trigger. This research examines how multiple stakeholders engage in emotion strategies through microblogging over the course of a crisis. Relying upon and extending emerging literatures on crisis management and the psycho-sociology of emotions, we propose the concept of emotion strategies to explore and elaborate upon the different uses of emotions and their crucial importance in a crisis context. We examine how microblogging features and affordances might enable and shape the emotion strategies of various stakeholders involved in a crisis. We outline the details of an ongoing investigation in the context of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill and provide illustrative insights. We conclude by highlighting future steps in this research and expected contributions

Design and semantics of form and movement (DeSForM 2006)

Design and Semantics of Form and Movement (DeSForM) grew from applied research exploring emerging design methods and practices to support new generation product and interface design. The products and interfaces are concerned with: the context of ubiquitous computing and ambient technologies and the need for greater empathy in the pre-programmed behaviour of the ‘machines’ that populate our lives. Such explorative research in the CfDR has been led by Young, supported by Kyffin, Visiting Professor from Philips Design and sponsored by Philips Design over a period of four years (research funding £87k). DeSForM1 was the first of a series of three conferences that enable the presentation and debate of international work within this field: • 1st European conference on Design and Semantics of Form and Movement (DeSForM1), Baltic, Gateshead, 2005, Feijs L., Kyffin S. & Young R.A. eds. • 2nd European conference on Design and Semantics of Form and Movement (DeSForM2), Evoluon, Eindhoven, 2006, Feijs L., Kyffin S. & Young R.A. eds. • 3rd European conference on Design and Semantics of Form and Movement (DeSForM3), New Design School Building, Newcastle, 2007, Feijs L., Kyffin S. & Young R.A. eds. Philips sponsorship of practice-based enquiry led to research by three teams of research students over three years and on-going sponsorship of research through the Northumbria University Design and Innovation Laboratory (nuDIL). Young has been invited on the steering panel of the UK Thinking Digital Conference concerning the latest developments in digital and media technologies. Informed by this research is the work of PhD student Yukie Nakano who examines new technologies in relation to eco-design textiles