Browsing by Subject "Emotions"

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    Emotional Outcomes of Social Media Multitasking during Academic Tasks
    (2019-12) Liu, Yunxin
    Focusing on the population of college students, the current study investigated the effects of synchronicity in social media multitasking on emotional outcomes (valence and arousal) in a laboratory experiment. Additionally, sensation seeking was proposed as a moderator between synchronicity and emotional outcomes. The results demonstrated that the synchronicity in social media multitasking impacts valence but not arousal levels. Additionally, no moderating effects of sensation seeking between synchronicity and emotional outcomes were found. Results of this study contribute to the understanding of media multitasking, a complex phenomenon with a great variety of tasks that can be involved. Future research should continue to advance the definition of synchronicity in media multitasking scenarios and understand its potential influences on emotional outcomes.
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    The Influence Of Nostalgia In The Domains Of Money And Health
    (2013-07) Lasaleta, Jannine
    While nostalgia is a prominent theme in marketing, very little is known about how feeling nostalgic influences consumers' attitudes, motivations, and behaviors. Much research on nostalgia in the consumer domain has been somewhat limited to conceptualizing nostalgia as a characteristic of products (e.g., Holbrook and Schindler 1989, 1994; Schindler and Holbrook 2003), and has studied why consumers favor nostalgic, relative to neutral, products. Recent research on nostalgia revolves around nostalgia-evoked aspects of well-being, namely social support and meaning in life (e.g. Juhl et al. 2010; Wildschult et al. 2006; Zhou et al. 2008). Much of this recent research has shown the restorative and buffering functions of nostalgia. The purpose of this dissertation was to examine if and how nostalgia influences consumer attitudes, behaviors, and motivations in the realms of money and health. To do so, I made links among nostalgia, well-being, and lay perceptions of what constitutes a good life. I extended prior findings by demonstrating the influence of nostalgia across the domains of money and health, two areas that are not directly linked to the aspects of well-being elicited by nostalgia. Furthermore, my research was not concerned with the restorative or buffering function of nostalgia, rather, I primarily focused on how nostalgia influences attitudes, behaviors, and cognitions across two domains that are of utmost importance to people's lives (Bowling 1995). Past research and preliminary findings from this dissertation have shown that when people are reminded of what constitutes a good life, they find money relatively less desirable (King and Napa 1989), and health relatively more desirable (chapter 1 pretest). Following this logic, I formulated two hypotheses, which I tested separately in two different essays. In essay #1, "Nostalgia Weakens the Desire for Money," I tested the hypothesis that those in a nostalgic, relative to neutral, state would find money less desirable. Findings supported my prediction; across five experiments I found that nostalgia participants indicated less desire for money. In essay #2, "Nostalgia Increases Receptiveness to Self-Threatening Health Information," I tested the hypothesis that those in a nostalgic, relative to neutral, state would be more receptive to self-threatening health information. Findings were inconclusive; in two studies nostalgia increased receptiveness to self-threatening health information, in one study nostalgia decreased receptiveness to self-threatening health information.
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    More Than a Feeling: Using Portraiture to Explore Undergraduate Students’ Emotional Responses to Feedback
    (2023-11) Lundquist, Hannah B; Weisen, Shelby; Steadman, Christopher; Van Boekel, Martin
    The purpose of this study was to examine students’ emotional responses to feedback as it is being processed. We used the think-aloud method, allowing students to express what they are thinking and feeling as they read through their feedback provided by the instructor on an authentic classroom assignment. Feedback type, feedback valence, and emotional responses were coded. Six students verbalized emotional responses to their feedback. The emotional responses for these students were examined using the portraiture method -a critical, narrative story-telling analysis. The results suggest that the type of feedback (process-focused) was more often met with future-focused thinking compared to task-focused feedback. This was despite the study finding positive task-focused feedback was more likely to elicit positive reactions. The think-aloud method, combined with portraiture analysis allowed for a holistic view of the feedback process. A thorough write-up of the student portraitures are described, and the implications of this are discussed.
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    Teacher Educator Identity: Emotional enactment and engagement in preparing teachers for diverse students
    (2016-05) Tobin, Jessica
    Being an educator in the moments that are the most challenging and the most defining involves a deep understanding of human relationships, self-awareness, and ultimately, human interconnection. There is significant literature regarding understandings and related practices for teachers to meet the needs of diverse student learners in schools. However, specific knowledge regarding how teacher educators teach, facilitate, and coach such content is much less developed. This qualitative case study embeds elements of autoethnography to better understand how multiple teacher educators (acting as PLC leaders) developed elements of their own identity to teach and support equity-minded teacher candidates. Throughout the study it also became necessary to understand and theorize the influential dimensions of affective reflexivity and emotional labor within teacher educator enactments and engagements.
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    Visualizing Transportation Happiness in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Region
    (Center for Transportation Studies, University of Minnesota, 2020-03) Fan, Yingling; Ormsby, Travis; Wiringa, Peter; Liao, Chen-Fu; Wolfson, Julian
    This report describes the data and methods used to generate the interactive Minneapolis-St. Paul Transportation Happiness Map at https://maps.umn.edu/transportation-happiness. The map illustrates spatiotemporal differences in travelers' happiness ratings on the streets and roads in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan region. Map users can interactively explore street and road segments that are associated with positive and/or negative emotional experiences based upon their interested travel modes and travel time periods. For policy makers who are interested in improving people's transportation happiness, the map provides important insights on road and street segments that are in need of closer investigations for future improvements.
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    When is physical attractiveness not beneficial? Perceptions of warmth and competence, emotions, and job behaviors.
    (2015-07) Mehng, Si Ahn
    Diverging from the dominant positive view of physical attractiveness, I propose that attractive individuals at times experience negative outcomes at work. Research substantiates that judgments of competence and warmth combine to affect perceivers' emotional and behavioral reactions to target individuals. Attractive individuals are perceived as highly competent, but not necessarily highly warm. Perceived warmth moderates the effects of competence on emotional and behavioral responses to targets. Thus, although attractive individuals may elicit positive responses (e.g., admiration, altruistic helping) if perceived as highly warm, they may elicit negative responses (e.g., envy, workplace aggression) if perceived as lacking warmth. I used a laboratory experiment and a field study to test the theoretical model. Given some aspects of the study design and data, it is hard to be conclusive regarding the study findings. However, the laboratory study found support for the positive relationship between physical attractiveness and perceived competence, and some support for a negative relationship between physical attractiveness and job behaviors when the perceived warmth was low.