Honoring the Whole Person: Indigenous Wisdom and University Honors Programs

As part of the National Collegiate Honors Council’s (2022) collection of essays about the value of honors to its graduates (1967–2019), the author reflects on the personal and professional impacts of the honors experience. Growing up in “Garbage City” on the outskirts of Cairo left little hope for a better life. Members of indigenous communities of Upper Egypt had been forcibly relocated to this landfill by the Egyptian government decades before my birth. These tribal communities were known in Egyptian culture as “the black savages” and “the trashy ones.” My parents were compassionate people of little means, and although rummaging through mountains of trash for food and shelter was often life-threatening, I was happy. Later I would come to learn that my “parents” were really my grandparents and that my real parents had left me shortly after my birth. Since then, my life has been a series of rejections, with rare life-altering exceptions. As a child from Garbage City, I suffered the double stigma of being a “savage” and living in abject poverty. People either avoided us because they considered us ignorant or they abused us because they considered us diseased. Indeed, life itself seems to have objected to my existence, having nearly died from malnutrition three times prior to turning five

'I Once Stared at Myself in the Mirror for Eleven Hours.' Exploring mirror gazing in participants with body dysmorphic disorder

This study provides insight into the lived experience of mirror gazing using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis and Photo Elicitation. A total of 10 participants who identified themselves as suffering from body dysmorphic disorder took photographs that related to their body dysmorphic disorder experience. Photographs were discussed in interviews. It was found that mirror gazing in body dysmorphic disorder is an embodied phenomenon. Motivations for mirror gazing were confusing, complex and masochistic. Overall, participants described mirrors as being controlling, imprisoning and disempowering forces that had a crippling and paralysing effect on life. It is argued that health psychologists must ask clients about their embodied experiences when looking in the mirror

Variation in male gaze patterns : do gaze patterns generalize between sexually relevant and non-relevant stimuli?

Preliminary eye-tracking studies have identified two distinct gazing strategies which males employ when assessing the attractiveness of female images (Melnyk, McCord, & Vaske, 2014). It has been hypothesized that differences in male gazing strategy reflect differences in their mating strategy. Conversely it is possible that differences in gazing strategy simply reflect a difference in cognitive processing style. To explore these possibilities the current study examined the degree to which gaze patterns did or did not generalize between assessing the attractiveness of sexually relevant images, (females) and sexually irrelevant images (pre-pubescent or post menarche females, males, chimps, and neutral images). The model was partially supported as latent class analyses revealed a two class solution existed for one of the sexually relevant females, but for all other images gazing behaviors were best represented by single class solutions. For the female with two distinct groups of gazers a MANOVA was used to determine differences on gazing variables. Results revealed significant differences in the amount of time spent on the face F (1,75) = 7.191, p = .009; n2 = .087, and hair (1, 75) = 157.328, p = .000; n2 = .677. Priming effects and the implications for future studies are explored

Crystal Gazing : I\u27m Crystal Gazing For Love

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Court-Gazing

A Review of Turning Right: The Making of the Rehnquist Supreme Court by David G. Savage and Deciding To Decide: Agenda Setting in the United States Supreme Court by H.W. Perry, Jr

The Effect of Self-Focused Attention and Mood on Appearance Dissatisfaction after Mirror-Gazing: An Experimental Study

Background and objectives: Self-focused attention is hypothesized to be a maintenance factor in body dysmorphic disorder (BDD). The aim of this study was to use an experimental paradigm to test this hypothesis by studying the effect of self-focused attention during mirror-gazing on appearance dissatisfaction. Methods: An experimental group design was used, in which 173 women were randomly allocated to one of three conditions before mirror-gazing for 2 min: (a) external focus of attention, (b) self-focus of attention, and (c) self-focus of attention with a negative mood induction. Results: After mirror-gazing, participants across all groups rated themselves as being more dissatisfied with their appearance. In both the self-focus conditions, there was an increase in sadness from pre to post mirror gazing, and there was a significant difference in focus of attention for participants in the self-focused, mood-induced group from pre to post manipulation, suggesting mood induction had more of an effect than focus of attention. Limitations: (1) there was no condition involving an external focus with a negative mood induction, and (2) due to the level of information provided to patients on the nature of the task, we cannot rule out demand characteristics as an influencing factor on our results. Conclusions: Self-focused attention during mirror-gazing may act indirectly to increase appearance dissatisfaction via the effect of negative mood. Further studies are required to establish the relative contribution of self-focused attention and negative mood to increases in appearance dissatisfaction as a function of mirror-gazing

“Can You See Me?” Eye-Gazing: A Meditation Practice for Understanding

Through an autobiographical recount, this essay explores the meditation practice of eye-gazing as a way to create understanding about the self and the Other. Eye-gazing is described as a contemplative practice that individuals can use not only to be self-reflective but to sit with discomfort as a way to begin cultivating compassion and understanding for individuals. Within this essay, a definition of eye-gazing is provided alongside theoretical understandings of its implications for the PK-12 classroom space and broader sociopolitical context

Africa 2000: "Africa and the world economy: prospects for real economic growth"

Draft of paper, which was eventually published in the journal "Issue".Crystal ball gazing is hardly the province of social scientists. The best one can do, in attempting to assess the prospects for real economic growth by the year 2000, is to examine the contradictory trends and struggles shaping the political economy of Africa, and the world today, and suggest possible alternative outcomes. Even the probabilities are obscure

Gestalt Gazing

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