Spartan Daily, November 6, 1987

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Spartan Daily, March 20, 1968

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E-Motion: being moved by fiction and media? : Notes on fictional worlds, virtual contacts and the reality of emotions

Our response to fictional cues is often as emotional as to occurrences in real life. Such emotional responses do not mean that each time we mistake fiction for reality; rather they are affected by our innate social behaviors and by complex neural structures. Some responses, as for instance fright or pity, take place spontaneously, comparably to a reflex act. Furthermore, emotions can be evoked by means of thoughts: some specific sorts of texts rouse the reader´s ability to share in the emotional experiences of a fictional character. Other emotions can refer to a work of art as a whole or to some implicit components of meaning or allusions to facts of the case external to the text. Further ways of emotional engagement are pleasure and suspense, the affective basic processes of each reception of art or any media.Menschen reagieren auf fiktionale Ereignisse ebenso emotional wie auf das wirkliche Leben. Solche Gefühlsreaktionen bedeuten jedoch keine Verwechslung von Realität und Fiktion, sondern sind ein Produkt angeborener sozialer Verhaltensweisen und komplexer neuronaler Vorgänge. Reaktionen wie Schrecken und Mitleid zum Beispiel geschehen spontan, fast reflexartig. Aber auch über Gedanken lassen sich Emotionen hervorrufen: Bestimmte literarische Textsorten appellieren an das Einfühlungsvermögen des Lesers und lassen ihn an der Gefühlswelt fiktionaler Personen teilhaben. Andere Emotionen können sich auf ein künstlerisches Werk als ganzes oder auf werkexterne Bedeutungskomponenten beziehen. Weitere Formen emotionaler Beteiligung sind Lust und Spannung, die affektiven Basisprozesse jeder Kunst- und Medienrezeption

The Crescent Student Newspaper, October 10, 2002

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Giving and receiving in club leadership experience by social group workers, social case workers and untrained workers

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston Universit

Choosing your object of benevolence: a field experiment on donation options

In a large natural field experiment, we explore the effect of providing donors with the opportunity to choose the target country for their donations. We find that only a small fraction of donors use the option, which might reflect a reluctance to consider tradeoffs when those concern important, 'protected', values. However, those donors who choose their object of benevolence give significantly more, even when controlling for their donation history. In view of the latest research on identifable-victim effects, our findings underline that less inclusive targets can evoke more intense feelings than more inclusive ones stressing that altruistic motivation seems to be mediated by aroused empathetic emotions. --charitable giving,identifiable victim,field experiment,altruism,contingent valuation

Santa Clara Magazine, Volume 35 Number 1, Fall 1992

11 - SENIOR SEMINAR Elderhostel brings a different kind of student to Santa Clara. By Christine Spielberger \u2769 14 - DAYS RICH WITH EMPTINESS A noted Catholic writer reflects on his annual retreat to a Trappist abbey, a respite from the daily stress of getting and spending. In a related article, he discusses The Inner Experience, an unpublished book by Thomas Merton that examines the modern contemplative lifestyle. By Mitch Finley \u2773 22 - WHAT\u27S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? The image of an all -male Senate committee weighing the merits of Anita Hill \u27s charges against Clarence Thomas spurred a group of Bay Area women to create 20%+ by 2020, a group dedicated to increasing female representation in government and top corporate management. By Sallie Lycette \u2786 24 - DUNGEON OF THE MIND A young woman tells of her battle with clinical depression, a disease that afflicts an estimated 20 million Americans. By Kathy Dalle-Molle \u2785 28 - UP CLOSE: SAM HERNANDEZ Organic materials and multicultural influences evolve into bold, earthy images at the hands of SCU\u27s resident sculptor. By Maureen Mclnaney \u2785https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/sc_mag/1051/thumbnail.jp