Provincialised Cosmopolitanisms: Jehangir P. Patel and Marjorie Sykes

Haggis, Jane; Midgley, Clare; Allen, Margaret; Paisley, Fiona

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-52748-2_4

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“…At preassessment the analyzed film segment (2:29 min) was taken from the film Crash (Haggis & Reimer, 2004). The clip consisted of scenes of a man threatening a father with a gun, the father witnessing what he thinks is the shooting of his young daughter in his arms, and the initial remorse of the gunman who also believes the child had been shot.…”

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Intensive meditation training influences emotional responses to suffering.

Rosenberg¹,

Zanesco²,

King³

et al. 2015

Emotion

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Meditation practices purportedly help people develop focused and sustained attention, cultivate feelings of compassionate concern for self and others, and strengthen motivation to help others who are in need. We examined the impact of 3 months of intensive meditative training on emotional responses to scenes of human suffering. Sixty participants were assigned randomly to either a 3-month intensive meditation retreat or a wait-list control group. Training consisted of daily practice in techniques designed to improve attention and enhance compassionate regard for others. Participants viewed film scenes depicting human suffering at pre- and posttraining laboratory assessments, during which both facial and subjective measures of emotion were collected. At post-assessment, training group participants were more likely than controls to show facial displays of sadness. Trainees also showed fewer facial displays of rejection emotions (anger, contempt, disgust). The groups did not differ on the likelihood or frequency of showing these emotions prior to training. Self-reported sympathy--but not sadness or distress--predicted sad behavior and inversely predicted displays of rejection emotions in trainees only. These results suggest that intensive meditation training encourages emotional responses to suffering characterized by enhanced sympathetic concern for, and reduced aversion to, the suffering of others.

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Intensive meditation training influences emotional responses to suffering.

Rosenberg¹,

Zanesco²,

King³

et al. 2015

Emotion

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“…To induce an angry mood state, two film clips were selected from the movie Crash (Haggis, 2004) and Enough (Cowan & Apted, 2002). The scene in Crash featured a White police officer pulling over an African American couple and inappropriately frisking the wife in search of potential weapons.…”

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The use of painting for short-term mood and arousal improvement.

Diliberto-Macaluso¹,

Stubblefield²

2015

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

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The present study examined the use of painting for short-term mood and arousal improvement following an angry mood. Participants’ changes in mood and arousal were measured after viewing 2 short film clips and again after participating in 1 of 4 conditions: painting their current mood (venting), painting something that makes them feel happy (positive distraction), painting a still life (neutral distraction), or completing a word search puzzle (nonart-making control). Results revealed a significant improvement in mood in the positive and neutral distraction conditions as compared with the venting and nonart control conditions, which did not differ from 1 another. There was also a reduction in arousal across conditions. As predicted by broaden-and-build theory (Fredrickson, 2001), participants in the positive distraction condition used a greater number of colors and more positive mood-tone colors than those in the venting condition. These results are the first to experimentally investigate strategies for short-term mood improvement using painting following an angry mood.

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Provincialised Cosmopolitanisms: Jehangir P. Patel and Marjorie Sykes

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Intensive meditation training influences emotional responses to suffering.

Intensive meditation training influences emotional responses to suffering.

The use of painting for short-term mood and arousal improvement.

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