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Clancy, Annette. "The organisation of disappointment." Thesis, University of Bath, 2012. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.558882.
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The aim of this study is to explore the emotion of disappointment in organisations and to develop a new line of theorising inspired by psychodynamic theory. The current literature casts disappointment as a negative emotion undermining morale, depressing expectations and justifying inaction and inertia. This only captures part of the complexity of disappointment and leaves unexplored both its impact on the organisation and its potential creativity. The study presents a theoretical framework derived from research that depicts disappointment as unfolding in three positions; I am disappointing, I am disappointed and I disappoint. It asserts the importance of disappointment as an integrative emotion. The study identifies a contradiction: that at the same time as being seen as ‘of little concern’ to individuals, there is fear within organisations that disappointment will undermine stability and destroy positive feelings. The study shows how disappointment is connected to, and may help to transform, the dynamics of blame in organisations. Such transformation can be based on an ability to integrate failure and on a development of the relationship between disappointment and learning. Disappointment represents the loss of the fantasy of stability. When reconceptualised in this way, disappointment results in a reimagining of possibility. Fantasy and reality are brought into conscious awareness and tolerated rather than extruded. The imaginary ideal organisation can be seen for what it is: a fantasy that can never be realised. The imaginary ideal is mourned and replaced by a more realistic entity. Organisation members’ previous efforts to organise disappointment through blame, shame and extrusion is now recognised as a disappointing strategy. Understood thus, disappointment is at the very heart of organising as it invites consideration of the relationship between fantasy and reality. This differentiates it from other types of social defences which, by their nature defend against thinking and learning.
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Xie, Yuxin. "Asset allocation under disappointment aversion." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2014. http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/2005780/.
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The present thesis examines one of the non–standard preferences, the theory of disappointment aversion (DA) from Gul (1991), within an asset allocation problem. Related to the area of decision–making under risk, it sheds light on: (i) at the global level, how the risk exposure reduces quantitatively in the presence of disappointment aversion; (ii) given the empirical data, what are the plausible levels of disappointment aversion around different financial markets; and (iii) how disappointment aversion interacts with both inherent risk attitudes (i.e., risk aversion, subjective probability weighting and cultural dimensions) and environmental stimuli (i.e., pleasant or unpleasant odours). In Chapter 2, drawing upon the seminal study of Ang et al. (2005), we incorporate disappointment aversion (that is, extra aversion to outcomes that are worse than prior expectations) within a simple theoretical portfolio choice model. Based on the results of this model, we then empirically address the portfolio allocation problem of an investor who chooses between a risky and a risk–free asset using international data from 19 countries. Our findings strongly support the view that disappointment aversion leads investors to reduce their exposure to the stock market (i.e., disappointment aversion significantly depresses the portfolio weights on equities in all cases considered). Overall, our study shows that, in addition to risk aversion, disappointment aversion plays an important role in explaining the equity premium puzzle around the world. In Chapter 3, we investigate investors’ asset allocation when their utility consists of wealth utility and disappointment aversion utility in which gains and losses are calculated with respect to the expected wealth. We show that optimal investment proportions increase when disappointment aversion on the assets decreases, and that disappointment aversion increases when expected excess returns increase. When decreasing absolute risk aversion holds, disappointment aversion increase with wealth, which is supported by our empirical results with asset allocations in pension funds of 35 OECD countries. We also find that individualism is positively related to disappointment aversion. These results indicate that the overconfidence represented by their individualism leads to more disappointment when losses occur. Chapter 4 aims to investigate the role of odours on DA in a monetary gamble task. We elicited the degree of DA based on an experimental procedure similar to Sokol-Hessner et al. (2009, 2013). Our study shows for the first time that unpleasant odours increase DA in a monetary gamble task. Such odour–related variations in individual DA were associated with hedonic evaluations of odours but not with odour intensity. Increased disappointment aversion while perceiving an unpleasant odour suggests a dynamic adjustment of aversion to losses. Given that odours are biological signals of hazards, such adjustment of disappointment aversion may have adaptive value in situations entailing threat or danger. Chapter 5 concludes this thesis and points out further directions.
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Carmer, Scott D. "An exploration of disappointment in ministry." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.
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Greaves, Mary. "Practitioner research : a journey in optimistic disappointment?" Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.533144.
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Fonseca, Julia Fernandes Araújo da. "Aggregate uncertainty, disappointment aversion and the business cycle." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/10940.
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We investigate the eff ect of aggregate uncertainty shocks on real variables. More speci fically, we introduce a shock in the volatility of productivity in an RBC model with long-run volatility risk and preferences that exhibit generalised disappointment aversion. We find that, when combined with a negative productivity shock, a volatility shock leads to further decline in real variables, such as output, consumption, hours worked and investment. For instance, out of the 2% decrease in output as a result of both shocks, we attribute 0.25% to the e ffect of an increase in volatility. We also fi nd that this e ffect is the same as the one obtained in a model with Epstein-Zin- Weil preferences, but higher than that of a model with expected utility. Moreover, GDA preferences yield superior asset pricing results, when compared to both Epstein-Zin-Weil preferences and expected utility.
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Mathes, Carmen Faye. "Romantic descent : poetry and the aesthetics of disappointment, 1790-1820." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/54410.
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Romantic Descent investigates disappointment as a minor, or non-cathartic, critical and aesthetic category in Romantic poetry and prose. Major aesthetic categories, long a focus of Romantic scholarship, have been understood to affirm individual self-cultivation and communal praxes of meaningful progress. However, recent work on affect has theorized alternative models for embodiment and relationality that have allowed new, radical and material, approaches to aesthetic phenomena. My dissertation critically intervenes in these developments by reconsidering Romanticism through its experimentation with disappointment as a negative aesthetic, and in so doing reveals a Romantic poetics of adjustment after the loss of an attachment to a self-affirming outcome or ideal future. Rather than start anew, such a poetics compels readers to persevere in encounters with difficulty, asking them to strive and struggle in ways both socially oriented and radically negative. Through close readings of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century philosophy, poetry, letters, and the occasional novel, this dissertation traces writers’ mobilizations and responses to aesthetic disappointment in myriad formal and conceptual ways: falling figures (allegory and metaphor); structural recursion (repetition and tautology); metrical irregularities (what Coleridge calls “downfalls”); and stilted or bathetic stylistic conventions. Such “descents” I situate in light of significant intellectual, social and political changes occurring in the period, including British and German responses to the revolutions in France and Haiti; changing cultures of reading; the tensions between philosophical skepticism and the Swabian educational system; and stylistic developments in Romantic theatre. As these contexts suggest, aesthetic activations of disappointment emerge on scales both national and coterie, and what is at stake in this dissertation are the diverse and unexplored affective relations captured but not quite contained by these writings. From Wordsworth’s sympathetic sinking alongside the suffering of slaves; to Coleridge’s projection of reading irregular meter as proprioceptive loss; Hölderlin’s calculated formal downturns; Keats’s affective reciprocity; and finally, Austen’s ironic censure of interrupted novel readers, this dissertation reveals how the critical and aesthetic category of disappointment responds to the dissonant sense between hope and fear, striving and failure, movement and suspension, that permeates Romantic literature.Arts, Faculty of
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Jonsson, Eulena M. Sanna Lawrence J. "Where disappointment and regret collide agency, emotion, and hindsight bias /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,1447.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007.Title from electronic title page (viewed Apr. 25, 2008). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Psychology Social." Discipline: Psychology; Department/School: Psychology.
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Kass, Joshua. "A royal disappointment the private scandals of George IV, 1785-1820 /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/1003.
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Mullins, Jane. "Achieving success and getting the blues : success, self-identity and disappointment." Thesis, University of Essex, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.504883.
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Usually we associate personal success with pleasure and happiness, rather than anything depressing or disappointing. When I received the results for my Psychology degree I questioned the meaning of my life. I wondered what I could do next after having fulfilled that goal; this is probably a common feeling for many individuals. I had put all my energies into my studies for the degree but things felt quite flat afterwards. It was not depression as such but it made me wonder why individuals felt depressed after having fulfilled their goals. I decided to undertake a Master's degree in Psychoanalytic Studies, and I focused on the issue of depression after success in adulthood for my thesis. I found that psychoanalytic theorists had researched the reasons for the occurrence of depression after success in adults. They argued that a successful event may sometimes trigger an unresolved internal conflict causing depression after the successful event. I was reluctant to accept a psychoanalytic argument as a definitive answer. I wanted to know if there were any particular social influences on the individual that could cause such depression. Around about that time, I watched an episode of the American comedy 'Fraser'. The particular episode seemed to highlight a social connection between success and depression. Fraser was portrayed as in his thirties, a psychoanalyst who gave advice on the radio for personal problems based on his psychoanalytic knowledge. In the episode he was presented with a lifetime's award for both roles; however, in the days following the presentation he suffered from depression. He was seen as reflecting on his award and repeatedly asking his father 'If I've had a lifetime's award, what do I do now?' As far as I know, the character hadn't suffered from depression before the award. His award was clearly intended as a public or social distinction for his work which might be expected to make him feel good. However, the events in the episode suggested Fraser had achieved his award ahd did not know what to do next and this seemed to cause his depression after success. The social event had led to Fraser's negative feelings about his success. I decided to study this issue from a sociological perspective for my PhD. I undertook a study of 24 women and 6 men; who were or had been depressed. The study revealed that only eight of the individuals had depression after what they perceived to be a successful event, such as after giving birth, or after losing a partner and becoming a successful single parent. However I could not conclude that the success had caused the depression because most of the individuals had suffered from depression intermittently for several years prior to the success. The individual's depression may have led them to believe that it was their success that had caused their depression. Only one individual with postnatal depression, which was presumably physically caused, said that she had suffered no previous depression before giving birth to each of her three children; however I did find feelings of disappointment after success in some of the individuals. This was an interesting finding as I had recently read Ian Craib's (1994) book The importance of disappointment. He argued that disappointment is an inevitable feature of 'all individuals' lives,' and his work suggested individuals feel disappointed whether they do, or do not, obtain success. I discarded the interview data from the depressed individuals and started a new study. I decided to interview successful individuals focusing on the role of disappointment or negative feelings after success rather than depression. To explain how, and why, individuals respond to success in the way they do, I analyse their success, failure and disappointment. Consequently the areas to be explored in the thesis are the linkages between success, failure, and disappointment. I now discuss each of these concepts in turn. Key concepts: Success is often thought of as an achievement or fulfilment of a goal. Achievement is defmed as a successful accomplishment of, or performance in, a socially defined goal (Marshall, 1994: 3), such as obtaining a highly paid professional job, or passing an exam at college. Success and achievement seem to refer to the same sequence of events, success is the achievement of a goal and achievement is successfully fulfilling a goal. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) defined success as 'the prosperous achievement of something attempted; the attainment of an object according to one's desire: now often with particular reference to the attainment of wealth or position' (1989: 93). Success can therefore be defined as an achievement of a desired aim or goal that is usually linked to wealth, position or skill. Individuals are likely to feel successful when they save money and accumulate wealth or when they take on a business venture and accumulate profit. Success may be the obtaining of a high position within an organisation or structure, or it may be connected to work produced by an author, or artist who receives some form of reward for their work. An actor may feel successful when he or she gets a good review or becomes famous. Alternatively an athlete may feel successful and euphoric when they win a gold medal at the Olympics.
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Groenewald, Fiona M. "'Slugs and snails and puppy dogs' tails' : exploring the 'gender disappointment' experiences of mothers of boys who wanted a daughter : an interpretative phenomenological analysis." Thesis, University of Roehampton, 2016. https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/slugs-and-snails-and-puppy-dogs-tails-exploring-the-gender-disappointment-experiences-of-mothers-of-boys-who-wanted-a-daughter-an-interpretative-phenomenological-analysis(3f6aa4ef-eeab-4476-a18e-4f2564a34987).html.
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Research shows that very little is known about the experience of ‘gender disappointment’ amongst parents in Western cultures, where there is not an explicit cultural bias that favours one sex of child over another as occurs in parts of Africa and Asia. This study explores the lived experience of nine White British women, residing in the UK, who profess to having struggled with ‘gender disappointment’; feelings of sadness about the sex of their children. The participants were mothers of sons only, who would have liked daughters. The transcripts from semi-structured interviews were analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Four superordinate themes emerged: Alienation, Loss, Control and Commodification. The results indicate that ‘gender disappointment’ is a pervasive and multi-faceted phenomenon which left the participants feeling isolated from their families and society, grieving for something they could not have, and feeling out of control of their bodies, thoughts and emotions. These experiences were underpinned by a wider socially constructed phenomenon of the commodification and objectification of children, and the ethics of reproductive autonomy. Results are discussed in light of the cultural context, drawing on previous discourse on maternal ambivalence and gender stereotyping. It is proposed that the research will be of significance in improving the therapeutic services offered to mothers, and recommendations for future research are made.
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Link, Kellie. "The rise and demise of damages for disappointment and distress in contract." Thesis, Link, Kellie (2012) The rise and demise of damages for disappointment and distress in contract. Honours thesis, Murdoch University, 2012. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/41658/.
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This thesis traces the common law development of the general rule prohibiting the recovery of contractual damages for disappointment and distress. This thesis begins by outlining and discussing the origins of the rule dating back to the 1800’s in England. It then discusses the development of the rule through English case law, and the subsequent implementation of that approach in Australia. Whilst there has always been a few exceptions to the general rule against damages for disappointment and distress, historically, in both England and Australia, there has been judicial hesitancy to expand the range of exceptions, or discard the rule altogether. This thesis argues that this hesitancy was primarily because it was feared that to allow recovery for disappointment and distress would open the floodgates to the attachment of a disappointment and distress claim to every contractual dispute. The development of the common law rule is therefore marked by a slow evolution of principled exceptions allowing for recovery in some limited circumstances whilst still ensuring that the floodgates were kept firmly closed. However, over time, the number of principled exceptions steadily increased to a list so extensive that it almost served to invalidate the general rule. By the late 1990’s and the Australian case of Baltic Shipping Co v Dillon, judicial reluctance had transformed into an expressed willingness to consider the very validity of the rule itself. From that point it seemed that the much feared floodgates were well and truly ajar, if not swinging wide open.
English and Australian responses to the gradual erosion of the rule limiting disappointment and distress damages have been quite different. This thesis demonstrates that in England the courts have continued to allow for a greater erosion of the general rule, whilst in Australia the response has been to enact legislation severely restricting the range of situations where recovery for disappointment and distress is possible. A discussion of the Australian legislative response forms the remainder of this thesis. It argues that through a combination of recently enacted civil liability and employment legislation a return has been made to the early days of Hamlin v Great Northern Railway Co when the general prohibitive rule prevailed and claims for disappointment and distress were very limited. Despite having limited conceptual and empirical justification, the legislation has effectively confiscated from disappointed and distressed plaintiffs the right to recover compensation for their loss.
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Taylor, Elspeth Anne. "Disruption and disappointment: relationships of children and nostalgia in British interwar fiction." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2011. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1090.
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Children in modernist literature have been largely ignored in critical study; an odd oversight, since children in Victorian and contemporary literature have been sources of rich material for literary critics. In novels published from 1930 until 1934, Wyndham Lewis, Virginia Woolf, and Evelyn Waugh address the relationships between children/childhood and nostalgia in The Apes of God (Lewis), The Waves (Woolf), and A Handful of Dust (Waugh). Their complicated and often conflicting depictions of childhood and desire for the past reveal children's overlooked importance in British modernism, as well as a lack of singularity in the manifestations of children and nostalgia that is crucial to contemporary understandings of both terms.
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Michaelis, Loralea. "Modernity and the problem of disappointment, the political theory of Friedrich Hoelderlin's Hyperion." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ28016.pdf.
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Hatton, Lucy. "Democratic legitimacy and the European Citizens' Initiative : a recipe for disappointment and disaffection?" Thesis, University of Warwick, 2016. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/86232/.
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The European Union has long been argued to suffer from a deficit of democratic legitimacy. One recent innovation introduced with the intention of addressing this deficit is the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI), a means by which 1 million EU citizens can ask the European Commission to propose new legislation. In 2015, three years following its introduction, opinions on the performance of the ECI amongst EU politicians, journalists and campaigners are tinged with disappointment and disaffection. This thesis asks to what extent the sceptics are warranted in their frustrations towards the ECI or whether it is able to live up to the high expectations of the EU institutions at the time of its introduction. By drawing analytic criteria directly from the theory of democratic legitimacy and applying them in a systemic manner, I address how the ECI can, in principle, and has thus far, in practice, affected the EU in terms of inclusion in policy making, impacts on policy outcomes, and the pursuit of normatively justifiable and salient issues. Using case studies of the first four ECI campaigns registered by the Commission, I argue that the ECI has the potential to contribute to the inclusion of EU policy making through the activation and formation of multiple, issue-specific demoi in the EU, which can form the basis of democratic legitimacy. I also find the ECI capable of producing tangible impacts on EU, national and local policy, though mostly in ways unintended by the Regulation underpinning the instrument. Effects on inclusion and impacts are, furthermore, affected by the salience of the issues the ECI is used to pursue, and the normative justifiability of the issue in terms of how it upholds the political equality of the people can directly enhance the EU’s democratic legitimacy. Given these findings, it is concluded that the ECI, despite the current disappointment of many commentators, has scope for unanticipated positive, though limited, impact on the EU’s democratic legitimacy.
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Bikhazi, Sacha Leah. "Understanding Psychological Control Through Differences Between Shame and Disappointment: Implications for Childhood Agression." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2006. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/822.
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The purpose of this study was to examine the potentially unique roles that parental use of two psychological control dimensions, shame and disappointment, play in predicting children's relational and physical aggression. It was additionally of interest to investigate whether warm/involved parenting would moderate the effects of these forms of psychological control on both types of childhood aggression. Based on a review of literature, it was hypothesized that parental use of shame would positively predict aggression in children, whereas parental use of disappointment would not be significantly associated with childhood aggression. Additionally, it was hypothesized that warm, involved parenting would have varied interactions with shaming and disappointment. Specifically, it was expected that warmth and involvement would exacerbate the aversive affects of shaming (leading to more child relational aggression), but that warmth and involvement would enhance the effect of disappointment to curtail relationally aggressive behavior. The participants were 217 fourth grade children (100 boys, 117 girls) and their parents (184 fathers, 216 mothers) from two school districts in an urban, moderate-sized community in the Western United States. Separate regression models were conducted for pairs of psychologically controlling and positive parenting dimensions in order to test for the main effects of the variables and also potential interaction effects. Additionally, this study explored the interactions between warm/involved parenting and shame and disappointment as they affected childhood aggression. To a large extent, the hypotheses were confirmed. In line with expectations, parental use of shame was significantly and positively associated with both physical and relational aggression, whereas disappointment was not. Interestingly, mothers' use of shaming significantly predicted relational aggression in all models for both boys and girls, whereas physical aggression was predicted only twice, once in the mother-son dyad and once in the father-daughter dyad. Two forms of warmth and involvement emerged in exploratory factor analysis: expressive warmth and supportive involvement. These positive parenting dimensions demonstrated very few main effects and only one significant moderating effect, which was on the relationship between shame and physical aggression. Specifically, post hoc analysis showed that fathers' use of shaming significantly and positively predicted boys' physical aggression only when supportive involvement was low. Implications and directions for future research are discussed.
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Rabino, Rebecca. "The Expectations, Experience, and Consequences of Curiosity Resolution." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77529.
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This dissertation contributes to a better understanding of curiosity resolution. I investigate the premise that the experience of curiosity resolution is influenced both by the fact that curiosity is resolved, as well as how it is resolved. While the outcome associated with curiosity resolution can be positive or negative in nature, the experience of curiosity resolution itself is predicted to be pleasant in nature. Therefore, I propose that the degree to which each of these two resolution facets is salient will influence curiosity-related evaluations. In this dissertation, I investigate pre-resolution expectations as well as post-resolution downstream consequences. Prior to curiosity resolution, I propose that individuals are likely to be focused on the outcome they will obtain. However, when faced with uncertain outcomes, individuals strategically heighten anticipated feelings of disappointment in order to protect against actual disappointment when the outcome is revealed; thus, I predict and demonstrate in four studies that curious consumers will display heightened levels of pre-resolution feelings of anticipated disappointment. After curiosity resolution, I propose that individuals experience not only positive or negative feelings associated with the outcome obtained, but also positive feelings of resolution itself. In four studies, I investigate the power of curiosity resolution to buffer negative responses to relatively undesirable outcomes. Importantly, I also demonstrate that consumers' focus on either the outcome obtained or on the experience of resolution itself can be experimentally shifted, thereby mitigating the previously described effects.Ph. D.
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Helton, Crystal Denise. "Discourses of disappointment the betrayal of women's emancipation following the French and Russian revolutions /." Huntington, WV : [Marshall University Libraries], 2003. http://www.marshall.edu/etd/descript.asp?ref=226.
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Strohmeier, Marco. "Hope-Hype-Disappointment Zyklen bei Cleantech Venture Capital Investitionen Eine Diagnose für die Photovoltaik Industrie /." St. Gallen, 2007. http://www.biblio.unisg.ch/org/biblio/edoc.nsf/wwwDisplayIdentifier/01654599002/$FILE/01654599002.pdf.
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McLachlan, Katherine Jane, and katherine mclachlan@flinders edu au. "Grounds for Hope and Disappointment: Victims/Survivors Perceptions of South Australia Police Responses to Rape." Flinders University. School of Law, 2007. http://catalogue.flinders.edu.au./local/adt/public/adt-SFU20070824.131843.
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Internationally, there have been few studies examining the attitudes of people who have been raped towards police (Jordan, 2001a; Lievore, 2005; Temkin, 1997, 1999). Little research in Australia (particularly South Australia) has examined the experiences of victims/survivors of rape with police. Existing data do show that women who have been raped rarely report assaults to police. This has been attributed by researchers to a range of reasons, both personal and systemic, including the influence of stereotypes and myths about rape on victims/survivors decision-making. Rape myths often reflect community attitudes, social norms and police responses. For example, victims/survivors may blame themselves and also expect police will blame or disbelieve them. Such expectations (or subsequent experiences) of negative police responses undermine victims/survivors faith in police. However, this is not the whole story. In reality, police responses to rape are complex and inconsistent, influenced by both individual and organisational factors.
I initiated this study to explore victims/survivors expectations of, and experiences with, police in a transparent and accessible forum. Based on semi-structured, in-depth interviews with 11 women who had been raped in South Australia, my findings illustrated the diversity of South Australia Police responses to victims/survivors of rape and suggested that South Australia Police practices were similar to those of other Australian and English-speaking jurisdictions. Overall, interactions with South Australia Police simultaneously provide grounds for hope and are disappointing (Lievore, 2005: 59; emphasis added). In many cases police responses were disappointing, through service provision that was partly or wholly negative. Specific individual and organisational factors were associated with satisfactory or unsatisfactory police practices. Poor service provision was evident in individual police officers apathy and dismissive or disbelieving responses, and through low prioritisation and limited resourcing of sexual violence at an organisation level. However, my findings indicated that there was also much to be hopeful about when considering South Australia Police responses to rape. The participants in my study often reported exemplary service from individual officers. At the reporting and investigation stages, good practices were based on procedural justice rather than outcome justice: characterised by strong communication, empathy and professionalism at an individual level and consistency at an organisational level.
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Beauclair, Roxanne. "Development and disappointment : an ethnographic study of Kosovo informal settlement's water and sanitation system upgrade." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10086.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 70-73).In the context of rapid urbanisation and growing numbers of informal settlements in peri-urban areas of Cape Town, South Africa, a development project was undertaken by the municipality, to provide Kosovo Informal Settlement with a new communal water and sanitation system that uses vacuum sewerage technology. This ethnographic study sought to establish the level of social acceptability of the new infrastructure postupgrade; to monitor how residents used the new and old water and sanitation systems; and to identify any other social or institutional barriers to providing water and sanitation services in similar contexts. It was found that the development project was a complete failure. This dissertation describes the ways in which the municipality engaged with residents and other stakeholders and shows how they contributed to the project's failure.
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Machado, Costa Kauê [Verfasser], Manfred [Gutachter] Kössl, and Jochen [Gutachter] Roeper. "KChIP4a: a biophysical modulator of learning from disappointment / Kauê Machado Costa ; Gutachter: Manfred Kössl, Jochen Roeper." Frankfurt am Main : Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1161565426/34.
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Bouwer, K. A. "Building disappointment : the limits and potential of tort liability for energy efficiency problems in domestic buildings." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2016. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1517971/.
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This interdisciplinary thesis examines the potential for liability in tort in relation to two problems, which recur frequently in energy efficient buildings: energy efficiency failings – the ‘performance gap’ – and summer overheating. It works at the interface between tort theory, climate change litigation and energy efficiency, a key requirement for the mitigation of climate change. It is grounded in two key theoretical perspectives. The conception of private law is pluralist: a structural model of tort based on Cane’s ‘anatomy’: variably protected interests of parties in a correlative relationship. It relies on instrumental approaches to private law, informed by regulatory theory, strongly to emphasise the potential for liability outcomes to frustrate an already weak and poorly enforced policy area. The second theoretical perspective is a conception of climate change as a multiscalar phenomenon, a workable solution to which will require coherent treatment on all levels and across all scales. It highlights the need for ‘climate consciousness’: greater attention on small and more mundane issues that interface with aspects of domestic climate policy. The first half of the thesis explores the research context and encompasses most of the interdisciplinary work. It explains how building energy efficiency might technically be achieved and how problems arise. It explores the governing regulation, including the shortcomings of regulatory enforcement. The second half of the thesis examines doctrinal and theoretical mismatches that could arise in adjudicating the problem areas. The core conclusions include concerns that disputes in this poorly regulated area might undermine decarbonisation and hence, climate change mitigation policy; in addition, ‘climate blind’ litigation can lead to perverse outcomes which reinforce a lack of awareness of both climate adaptation and mitigation policy goals.
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Sonmez, Goktug. "The interplay between international and domestic factors in Turkey's grand strategy-making : activism, disappointment, and readjustment." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2017. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/24333/.
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With the end of the Cold War, Turkey's grand strategic behaviour gradually shifted from isolationism and reluctance to activism. This thesis primarily focuses on the peak period of this activism under the Justice and Development Party governments, covering a period from 2002 (the JDP's first election victory) up to late 2016. This thesis explores the motivations behind Turkey's grand strategic activism and why the JDP era witnessed its zenith. I argue that fluctuations in Turkey's relative power position in response to the changes at the international level stand out as key factors in making sense of this shift, while domestic transformations enabled the country to pursue an activist grand strategy more effectively. The thesis positions itself against primordialist accounts - which attribute this shift to ideological and ethno-religious motivations in the form of 'Islamism' or 'Neo-Ottomanism'. At the same time, it also rejects strict 'third image' theoretical approaches such as Waltzian realism and incorporates the domestic level into its realist analysis. Taking a neoclassical realist approach, international and domestic levels are investigated in terms of their effects on the configuration and implementation of Turkey's new grand strategy. In order to explore and evaluate the primary catalysts behind the behaviour reflecting Turkey's grand strategic shift, three case studies will be analysed in this thesis: the Turkish-Iranian, Turkish-Israeli and Turkish-EU relationships. These particular cases, which are more usually analysed through primordialist lenses, act as useful battlefields on which to compare the explanatory powers of primordialism and neoclassical realism (NCR). This thesis is expected to open up a significant area for future research on the concept of grand strategy, theoretical approaches to it and the explanatory power of NCR within the context of rising powers and Turkish foreign policy. In theoretical terms, the thesis not only offers a comprehensive approach to NCR itself (which is currently an amalgam of several different approaches) but also extends NCR's empirical reach and offers a middle ground between realist analysis and culturalist readings of Turkey and its grand strategy.
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Sanderson, Nicholas Andrew. "An integrative study of differing relational patterns produced around the experience of disappointment : theoretical and clinical implications of the distinctive significance and nature of the role of disappointment in the schizoid and depressive processes during childhood development." Thesis, University of East London, 2010. http://roar.uel.ac.uk/3670/.
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The subject of this thesis is the child's experience of the disappointment of its wishes during the early, most formative years of its psychological development. This is a common area of study in psychoanalytic developmental theories and a range of these established understandings will be discussed. My research on the child's experience of disappointment, which is presented in the context of these previous theories, endeavours to be original, however, by attempting to establish whether or not the experience is, in the context of the Kleinian object relational understanding of childhood development, significant in a way that has yet to be fully considered. In order to research whether my particular arguments, as to the importance of a child's disappointment, might be valid or not, I firstly explore the experience from the perspective of the relevant psychoanalytical literature on child developmental theory. From this position, I am then able to present my own series of theoretical arguments, and it is from these that a set of hypotheses, about the meaning of disappointment in childhood development, are then able to be proposed. Following this, the thesis describes my examination of these hypotheses by some preliminary clinical research. The overall findings of this research are then presented and applied in support of my theoretical arguments.
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Cleland, Cassidy Meredith. "Raising Expectations and Failing to Deliver:The Effects of Collective Disappointment and Distrust within the African American Community." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1524502315783214.
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Zhou, Yining. "Disappointment as an effect of curiosity and political apathy: modernation of self-efficacy and mediation of media selection." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2015. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/172.
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The study adopts Uses and Gratifications (U&G) theory as the framework to test antecedents and consequences in using fanqiang (bypassing Internet censorship) as an alternative medium along with accessible Internet, TV, newspaper and radio as mainstream media in a Chinese context. By online between-group experimentation (N = 132 in the experimental group, N = 127 in the control group), the study shows that curiosity about forbidden political content and political apathy predict fanqiang and most accessible media use tendencies. Moderation effects exist between curiosity and self-efficacy in predicting fanqiang tendencies. Disappointment as an emotional effect is directly related to curiosity and political apathy, where the mediation effects of media use tendencies are not salient. Explicit Internet censorship increases curiosity about forbidden political content and decreases the dimension of lack of interest in political apathy. However, it does not change accessible media use tendencies and disappointment levels. Still, participants show fewer of fanqiang tendencies than with accessible media, except radio. The results highlight the cognitive roots of motivations and emotional constructs as a part of gratification in U&G research, that self-efficacy as a necessary requirement for curiosity to drive media use, and that information attributes can change motivations. We urge future scholars to build broader explications of political apathy when applied to different societies, to try diverse methods like experimentation in U&G research, and to adopt a sociopsychological approach when studying the influences and effectiveness of Internet censorship.
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Milton, Sharon. "Damages for Disappointment & Distress: Damages for Breach of Contract or Personal Injury Damages – The Impact of the CLA." Thesis, Milton, Sharon (2013) Damages for Disappointment & Distress: Damages for Breach of Contract or Personal Injury Damages – The Impact of the CLA. Honours thesis, Murdoch University, 2013. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/21765/.
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Damages for distress and disappointment is an award of damages under the common law to compensate a party on breach of a contractual obligation to provide pleasure, enjoyment or relaxation. In Insight Vacations, the New South Wales Court of Appeal determined that the type of damage was synonymous with a claim for damages for a personal injury. Therefore, the Civil Liability Act 2002 (NSW) (‘CLA’) applied to limit the claimant’s award of damages. This thesis provides a critical analysis of the theoretical principles of compensatory damages, with particular focus on the contractual claim for damages for disappointment and distress for a spoiled holiday. The central focus is on the analysis of two significant cases, Insight Vacations and Flight Centre v Louw, where the New South Wales judiciary determined that the claim for damages for disappointment and distress ought to incur the limitations of the CLA. This thesis argues that while both cases claimed damages for disappointment and distress, there is a distinction to be drawn between the two cases. It is submitted that the interpretation and application of the CLA to limit a claimant’s contractual right to recover damages for a breach of an expectation in a contract was not the intention or purpose of the Act. The CLA was introduced to govern the awards of damages for personal injuries caused by negligence, not to deny a remedy to a party for a breach of a contractual obligation.
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Ó, Briain Tomás. "Learning and loss aversion : evidence from a financial betting market." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25967.
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This research is motivated by a number of open questions in the behavioural finance literature. Firstly, if investors do not learn in a rational Bayesian manner but rather suffer from biases set out in the naïve reinforcement hypothesis, rationality assumptions in individual preference models may not hold. I use a unique longitudinal dataset comprising in excess of 1.5 million fixed-odds financial bets, where bettors perform identical, consecutive decisions which mimic financial choices made in a laboratory, but the use of their own funds departs from the artificiality of an experiment. I present evidence of unwarranted overconfidence generated by reinforcement learning in both real and simulated markets. Secondly, Kahneman and Tversky (1979) state that losses loom larger than gains. I examine whether the disposition to avoid losses is driving behaviour in the losing domain in the dataset and conclude that there is little evidence of loss aversion. I differentiate between betting on Financial Markets, in which agents may perceive an internal locus of control, and betting on the simulated market, where results are uncorrelated and in which the emotions of regret and disappointment may not loom as large. Finally, Odean (1998) provides evidence that investors readily realise paper gains by selling their winning stocks, yet hold on to their losing stocks too long. This loss aversion is consistent with Kahneman and Tversky (1979) prospect theory, however, how long would the investor hold on to a stock that is losing value on a day-to-day basis? Conversely, would an investor rush to sell a stock that has yielded positive returns in each month during the past year? I test the interaction between learning and loss aversion in a financial betting experiment in which two treatment groups are subjected to consecutive gains or losses.
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Vasconcelos, Rosana Eteia. "A Heideggerian hermeneutic study of the meaning of living with prostate cancer." AUT University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10292/909.
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Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in New Zealand men and the second highest cause of male deaths. This Heideggerian study explores the experience of six men, with prostate cancer: five of whom were approximately five months post a robotic prostatectomy and one man post brachytherapy. The purpose of the study is to understand and describe the meaning men attach to the disease using a hermeneutic existential phenomenological approach to research. Four themes emerged from the interviews: 1) Disappointment, 2) Being-a-man, 3) Sense of Control, and 4) Life-Threatening Disease. The findings of the study suggest men's identities changed due to the side effects of treatments, the need of a sense of control to deal with the disease, and the importance of understanding prostate cancer as a potentially life-threatening disease within the Heideggerian concept of "being-towards-death". Using this concept future research was also identified. The outcomes of the study suggest implications for health professionals in promoting existential care to the men by listening and taking into account their concerns.
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Roesch, Lynn Marie. "The Master and the Machine: Applying the Perception of Mind and Body to Rochester's “The Imperfect Enjoyment” and Aphra Behn's “The Disappointment” and Oroonoko." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1493044405051968.
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Guidry, Julie Anna. "The experience of . . . suspense: understanding the construct, its antecedents, and its consequences in consumption and acquisition contexts." Texas A&M University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/1529.
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Will my flight be cancelled? Will I win the eBay auction? These consumption and product acquisition situations would trigger the experience of . . . suspense. Suspense is defined as the overall anticipatory arousal associated with the hope and/or fear felt by a consumer assessing the likelihood of occurrence of an important and imminent consumption or acquisition event. If one views a potential outcome as causing pleasure (an approach appraisal), hope will be felt, while if one views a potential outcome as causing pain (an avoidance appraisal), fear will be felt. Other variables expected to indirectly impact suspense are frequency of probability change, degree of probability change and anticipation time.
The conceptual model in this dissertation also proposes that people have an attitude toward the anticipation period and identifies four resolution emotions, satisfaction, disappointment, relief, and anguish, which may occur once the outcome is known. Further, attitude toward anticipation period and the resolution emotions are expected to affect attitude toward overall experience.
Three studies were conducted. The objective of Studies 1 and 2 was to develop scales yielding reliable scores of hope, fear, and suspense. Fifty words related to hope, fear, and suspense were generated. In Study 1, 553 participants rated the words on the evaluative and activity dimensions using 18 semantic differential scale items. O-technique factor analysis was used to analyze the data in Study 1. In Study 2, 354 participants read one of three suspenseful stories, then indicated their hope, fear, and suspense. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were used in Study 2.
Study 3 consisted of an experiment in which 241 participants read a suspenseful house-buying scenario, then indicated their hope, fear, and suspense. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the data in Study 3. Results supported the conceptualization of suspense: both hope and fear had a positive effect on suspense. Additionally, approach appraisal had a positive effect on hope, and avoidance appraisal had a positive effect on fear. The moderating effect of frequency of probability change was not supported. However, frequency of probability change did have a positive effect on both hope and fear.
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Beretta, Andrea. "Impact of counterfactual emotions on the experience of algorithm aversion." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trento, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11572/252452.
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Today more and more algorithms and their applications are entering into the everyday life of each of us. Algorithms can help people to make more effective choices through historical data analysis, generating predictions to present to the user in the form of advice and suggestions. Given the increasing popularity of these suggestions, a greater understanding of how people could increase their judgment through the suggestions presented is needed, in order to improve the interface design of these applications.
Since the envision of Artificial Intelligence (AI), technical progress has the intent of surpassing human performance and abilities (Crandall et al., 2018). Less consideration has been given to improve cooperative relationships between human agents and computer agents during decision tasks.
No study up to date has investigated the negative emotions that could arise from a bad outcome after following the suggestion given by an intelligent system, and how to cope with the potential distrust that could affect the long-term use of the system.
According to Zeelenberg et al. (Martinez & Zeelenberg, 2015; Martinez, Zeelenberg, & Rijsman, 2011a; Zeelenberg & Pieters, 1999), there are two emotions strongly related to wrong decisions, regret, and disappointment. The objective of this research is to understand the different effects of disappointment and regret on participants’ behavioral responses to failed suggestions given by algorithm-based systems.
The research investigates how people deal with a computer suggestion that brings to a not satisfying result, compared to a human suggestion. To achieve this purpose, three different scenarios were tested in three different experiments.
In the first experiment, the comparison was amongst two wrong suggestions in a between-subjects design through the presentation of a flight ticket scenario with two tasks. The first study analyzed exploratory models that explain the involvement of the source of suggestion and the trust in the systems in the experience of counterfactual emotions and responsibility attribution.
The second experiment takes advantage of a typical purchase scenario, already used in the psychological literature, which had the aim to solve the issues found in the first study and test the algorithm aversion paradigm through the lenses of a classic study of regret literature. Results showed that, contrary to early predictions, people blame more the source of the suggestion when it comes from a human as compared with an intelligent computer suggestion.
The third study had the aim to understand the role of counterfactuals through a paradigmatic experiment from algorithm aversion literature. In this study, the main finding is about the reliance people have on the algorithmic suggestion, which is higher compared to the reliance they have with a human suggestion. Nevertheless, people felt more guilt when they had a wrong outcome with a computer compared with a suggestion given by a person.
Results are relevant in order to better understand how people decide and trust algorithm-based systems after a wrong outcome. This thesis is the first attempt to understand this algorithm aversion from the experienced counterfactual emotions and their different behavioral consequences. However, some of these findings showed contradictory results in the three experiments; this could be due to the different scenarios and participants’ thoughts and perceptions of artificial intelligence-based systems. From this work, three suggestions can be inferred to help designers of intelligent systems. The first regards the effective involvement of counterfactuals during the user interaction with a wrong outcome and the potential behavioral consequences that could affect the future use of the intelligent system. The second suggestion is the contribution to the importance of the context in which decisions are made, and the third guideline suggests the designer rethink about anthropomorphism as the best practice to present suggestions in the occurrence of potential wrong outcomes.
Future works will investigate, in a more detailed way the perceptions of users and test different scenarios and decision domains.
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Beretta, Andrea. "Impact of counterfactual emotions on the experience of algorithm aversion." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trento, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11572/252452.
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Today more and more algorithms and their applications are entering into the everyday life of each of us. Algorithms can help people to make more effective choices through historical data analysis, generating predictions to present to the user in the form of advice and suggestions. Given the increasing popularity of these suggestions, a greater understanding of how people could increase their judgment through the suggestions presented is needed, in order to improve the interface design of these applications.
Since the envision of Artificial Intelligence (AI), technical progress has the intent of surpassing human performance and abilities (Crandall et al., 2018). Less consideration has been given to improve cooperative relationships between human agents and computer agents during decision tasks.
No study up to date has investigated the negative emotions that could arise from a bad outcome after following the suggestion given by an intelligent system, and how to cope with the potential distrust that could affect the long-term use of the system.
According to Zeelenberg et al. (Martinez & Zeelenberg, 2015; Martinez, Zeelenberg, & Rijsman, 2011a; Zeelenberg & Pieters, 1999), there are two emotions strongly related to wrong decisions, regret, and disappointment. The objective of this research is to understand the different effects of disappointment and regret on participants’ behavioral responses to failed suggestions given by algorithm-based systems.
The research investigates how people deal with a computer suggestion that brings to a not satisfying result, compared to a human suggestion. To achieve this purpose, three different scenarios were tested in three different experiments.
In the first experiment, the comparison was amongst two wrong suggestions in a between-subjects design through the presentation of a flight ticket scenario with two tasks. The first study analyzed exploratory models that explain the involvement of the source of suggestion and the trust in the systems in the experience of counterfactual emotions and responsibility attribution.
The second experiment takes advantage of a typical purchase scenario, already used in the psychological literature, which had the aim to solve the issues found in the first study and test the algorithm aversion paradigm through the lenses of a classic study of regret literature. Results showed that, contrary to early predictions, people blame more the source of the suggestion when it comes from a human as compared with an intelligent computer suggestion.
The third study had the aim to understand the role of counterfactuals through a paradigmatic experiment from algorithm aversion literature. In this study, the main finding is about the reliance people have on the algorithmic suggestion, which is higher compared to the reliance they have with a human suggestion. Nevertheless, people felt more guilt when they had a wrong outcome with a computer compared with a suggestion given by a person.
Results are relevant in order to better understand how people decide and trust algorithm-based systems after a wrong outcome. This thesis is the first attempt to understand this algorithm aversion from the experienced counterfactual emotions and their different behavioral consequences. However, some of these findings showed contradictory results in the three experiments; this could be due to the different scenarios and participants’ thoughts and perceptions of artificial intelligence-based systems. From this work, three suggestions can be inferred to help designers of intelligent systems. The first regards the effective involvement of counterfactuals during the user interaction with a wrong outcome and the potential behavioral consequences that could affect the future use of the intelligent system. The second suggestion is the contribution to the importance of the context in which decisions are made, and the third guideline suggests the designer rethink about anthropomorphism as the best practice to present suggestions in the occurrence of potential wrong outcomes.
Future works will investigate, in a more detailed way the perceptions of users and test different scenarios and decision domains.
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Silveira, Neto Harry Carvalho da. "Fogueira Santa de Israel e o consumismo religioso." Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 2014. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/4245.
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The proposal of this dissertation was to make a reflection on religious consumerism is a historical process and is even more present nowadays in one of the most showy scenario Brazilian neo-churches, the UCKG. We analyze the process of symbolic exchanges inside of an event that has the same as flagship of their deals donation campaigns in Exchange for blessings, the Holy Fire of Israel. Furthermore we seek to understand the content and operation of your speeches of prosperity theology, which lined the right the conquest of wealth and material possessions through the sacrifices financial donations made in the name of faith. Our overall objective was: analyzing the testimonies of the faithful participants of campaigns the fire Santa of Israel of the IURD, with lines about the expressions of hope and success in attendance, as well as, the symbolisms expressed in most recurrent reports of the frustrations and disappointments of the participants who have not obtained answers to the sacrifices made by them. For this harvest, through secondary data and the Internet, the speeches of hope while expectations of care of the requests made by the faithful, as well as the frustration and disappointment that the faithful feel when they are not met within in these campaigns. The main theorists that inspired this research were: Lipovetsky (2007 and 2007), Bauman (2008), Baudrillard (1995 and 2000), Eliade (1992), Debord (1997), Kehl (1995)
A proposta desta dissertação foi a de fazer uma reflexão sobre o consumismo religioso que é um processo histórico e que se faz ainda mais presente nos dias de hoje dentro de uma das mais chamativas igrejas do cenário neopentecostal brasileiro, a IURD. Analisamos o processo de trocas simbólicas dentro de um evento que a mesma tem como carro-chefe de suas campanhas de doação de ofertas em troca de bênçãos, a Fogueira Santa de Israel. Além disso, buscamos compreender o conteúdo e funcionamento dos seus discursos da Teologia da Prosperidade, os quais pautados no direito a conquista da riqueza e bens materiais através dos sacrifícios doações financeiras feitos em nome da fé. Nosso objetivo geral foi: Analisar os testemunhos dos fieis participantes das Campanhas da Fogueira Santa de Israel da IURD, com as falas sobre as expressões da esperança e sucesso no atendimento dos mesmos, bem como, os simbolismos expressos nos relatos mais recorrentes das frustrações e decepções dos participantes que não obtiveram respostas aos sacrifícios feitos por eles. Para isso colhemos, através de dados secundários e na Internet, os discursos de esperança enquanto expectativas do atendimento dos pedidos feitos pelos fiéis, bem como os de frustração e decepção que os fiéis sentem quando não são atendidos dentro nessas campanhas. Os principais teóricos que inspiraram esta pesquisa foram: Lipovetsky (2007 e 2007), Bauman (2008), Baudrillard (1995 e 2000), Eliade (1992), Debord (1997), Kehl (1995)
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Augustin, Patrick. "Essays on sovereign credit risk and credit default swap spreads." Doctoral thesis, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, Institutionen för Finansiell ekonomi, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hhs:diva-2131.
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This doctoral thesis consists of 4 self-contained chapters: Sovereign Credit Default Swap Premia. This comprehensive review of the literature on sovereign CDS spreads highlights current academic debates and contrasts them with contradictory statements from the popular press. Real Economic Shocks and Sovereign Credit Risk. New empirical evidence highlights that global macroeconomic risk unspanned by global financial risk bears some responsibility for the strong co-movement in sovereign spreads. A model with only two global macroeconomic state variables rationalizes the existence of time-varying risk premia as a compensation for exposure to common U.S. business cycle risk. The Term Structure of CDS Spreads and Sovereign Credit Risk. The term structure of CDS spreads is an informative signal about the relative importance of global and country-specific risk factors for the time variation of sovereign credit spreads. An empirically validated model illustrates how local risk matters relatively more when the slope is negative, while systematic risk bears more responsibility when the slope is positive. Squeezed Everywhere - Disentangling Types of Liquidity and Testing Limits-to-Arbitrage. The CDS-Bond basis is used as a laboratory to disentangle different types of liquidity and to test limits-of-arbitrage. While asset-specific liquidity is cross-correlated in both the cash and derivative market, funding and market liquidity matter only for the former. The tests find strong evidence in favor of margin-based asset pricing and flight-to-quality effects.Diss. Stockholm : Handelshögskolan, 2013. Sammanfattning jämte 4 uppsatser
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Janson, Jens. "This World or Another? : Mapping Modern Theologies." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-451207.
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In view of the complexity characterizing the contemporary discipline of academic theology, there is a need for functional models. Against the background of significant developments in twentieth-century theology, this thesis attempts to develop an analytical model which can make sense of some of the complexity characterizing this field. More specifically, the aim is to produce a model which can be used to distinguish between and relate different theological positions to each other at a meta-level. This is achieved through the elaboration of a two-dimensional typology composed of four quadrants representing distinct theological orientations. The proposed model and its analytical categories form the basis for a discussion of some key figures and themes in modern theology, with a particular emphasis on eschatologically oriented theologies. Finally, on the basis of preceding discussions, a case is made for theology’s ability to fulfill a vital cultural-critical role in a secular context.
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Bae, Ji-hun, and 裴志憲. "Why do firms keep silent about upcoming earnings disappointments?" Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2013. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B5066217X.
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I investigate why the majority of firms do not issue earnings warnings in the face of upcoming earnings disappointments. SEC Rule 10b-5 imposes a duty on managers to correct or update when they discover that prior disclosures are misleading.
I posit that managers assess the 10b-5 duty to disclose based on private information about optimism and misstatements embedded in their prior disclosures. Specifically, I hypothesize that managers who did not issue forecasts or managers who previously issued non-optimistic forecasts are more likely to be silent about upcoming earnings disappointments than managers who previously issued optimistic forecasts. I also hypothesize that managers who perceive that prior disclosures include misstatements that are difficult to verify in the court are more likely to remain silent than are managers who perceive that prior disclosures include misstatements that are easy to verify in the court. My results support these hypotheses.
In additional tests, after controlling for the endogeneity between warnings and the likelihood of litigation, I find that earnings warnings issued by managers who perceive that they are not bound by a duty to disclose increase litigation risk. I also find that warnings by firms with misstatements containing less verifiable information do not reduce settlement costs when these firms are sued.
Overall, my evidence indicates that when managers perceive that they have no duty to disclose, their earnings warnings are likely to have an adverse impact on litigation risk and, thus, managers are likely to remain silent to avoid this outcome.published_or_final_version
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Karehnke, Paul. "Portfolio choice and asset pricing with endogenous beliefs and skewness preference." Thesis, Paris 9, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA090050.
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Cette thèse étudie le choix de portefeuille et l'évaluation d'actifs avec des préférences qui vont au-Delà des préférences d'espérance d'utilité et de moyenne-Variance standard. La première partie de cette thèse porte sur un modèle de décision dans lequel le décideur forme des croyances endogènes compte tenu de son utilité d'anticipation et de sa déception à posteriori. Les implications du modèle en termes de choix de portefeuille et d'évaluation d'actifs sont dérivées et comparées aux implications du modèle d'espérance d'utilité standard. La deuxième partie de cette thèse porte sur des investisseurs qui dérivent l'utilité des trois premiers moments du rendement de leur portefeuille. Nous dérivons et testons les conditions sous lesquelles des actifs supplémentaires peuvent améliorer l'univers d'investissement des investisseurs avec des préférences moyenne-variance-skewness. Les implications de ces préférences pour les rendements d'actifs à l'équilibre sont ensuite analysées et testées avec des rendements boursiersThis thesis studies portfolio choice and asset pricing with preferences which go beyond the standard expected utility and mean-Variance preferences. The first part of this thesis analyses a decision model in which the decision maker forms endogenous beliefs given his anticipation utility and his ex-Post disappointment. Portfolio choice and asset pricing implications of the model are derived and compared to the implications of the standard expected utility framework. The second part of this thesis analyses investors choice when preferences are derived from the first three moments of portfolio returns. We derive and test the conditions under which additional assets can improve the investment opportunity set of investors with mean-Variance-Skewness preferences. The implications of these preferences for the equilibrium cross-Section of asset returns are then analyzed and tested with stock returns
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Bane, Birgitta. "Metodfokus på Affekt; Hur känns det?" Thesis, Ersta Sköndal högskola, S:t Lukas utbildningsinstitut, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:esh:diva-4546.
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Evidence-based psychotherapeutic methods compete with each other, while meta-analysis have shown that variability due to different methods related to outcome is remarkably low. In this qualitative study six former patients were interviewed about experiences of method and technique in Affect-focused therapy, with a slight overweight towards unsatisfactory experiences. Responses were analysed and categorised in emergent themes. Methodological focus on affect showed to be a much appreciated, as well as insufficient, element. Alongside positive experiences or summaries of therapy, methodological frames were felt to be at times restrictive, even invalidating, as far as not allowing focus on what was felt to be the more predominant need. These needs were varied and individual; e.g. more/less of undetermined space free of preconceptions, more/less focus on affect, more direction forward, or more space for existentially oriented aspects. Results found good support in previous research except for a strong validation of therapists, even when aspects of therapy had been severely problematic. Experiences of applied method differed extremely among participants. The study highlighted lack of relation between method and outcome, and that positive regard of therapy and alliance were not synonymous with good outcome. Prominent themes were quality of methodological focus on affect and of therapeutic relationship, basic humanistic values, and individual factors of variance. Future research was suggested to focus on integration of methods, on therapists’ common factors, as well as on issues of power in the therapeutic relationship.
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Homolka, Steffany J. "Divine Struggles: Parents' Contributions and Attachment to God as a Mediator." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1386785400.
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Henell, Ulla. "Möte, reflektion och ansvar : i arbete som sjukgymnast i neurologisk rehabilitering." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kultur och lärande, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-35708.
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I denna vetenskapliga essä beskriver jag två möten med personer som drabbats av stroke. I reflektion kring dessa möten redogör jag för dilemman i min yrkesvardag. Jag försöker att beskriva vikten av att förståelse uppnås mellan mig som sjukgymnast i neurologisk rehabilitering och de personer jag möter. Detta för att rehabiliteringen ska bli bra. Mitt ansvar är att göra personen engagerad i rehabiliteringen och personens ansvar är att aktivt delta. Problem uppstår när personen på grund av sjukdom inte har autonomi och därmed inte kan ta ansvar för sig själv. Kring begreppen praktisk kunskap, möte, ansvar och reflektion redogör jag för filosofers och andra författares tankar och reflekterar vidare kring dessa begrepp kopplat till de möten jag beskriver. Min slutsats är att jag behöver både teoretisk kunskap och praktisk kunskap i mitt arbete. Den praktiska kunskapen är ofta tyst kunskap. Reflektion är viktig för att jag ska kunna utföra mitt arbete så bra som möjligt och samla erfarenhet och praktisk kunskap. Trots att jag försöker att göra etiska val i min yrkesutövning ingår att jag ibland misslyckas. I reflektion och besvikelse över dessa misslyckanden bygger jag mer erfarenhet.This scientific essay depicts two encounters with individuals who have suffered stroke. While reflecting about these encounters I describe dilemmas in my professional everyday work. I try to describe the importance of understanding between me as a physiotherapist working with neurological rehabilitation and the individuals I encounter. The purpose is achieving good rehabilitation. My responsibility is to make sure the individual feels invested in the rehabilitation and thus actively participate. Problems arise when the person as a result of disease do not have autonomy and consequently is unable to take responsibility. Philosophers’ and other authors’ thoughts and opinions about practical knowledge, encounters, responsibility and reflection as well as my own thoughts about the encounters I have had are described and analyzed. My conclusion is that both theoretical and practical knowledge are needed in my work. The practical knowledge is often tacit knowledge. Reflection is essential for me to be able to do my work as well as possible and to earn experience and practical knowledge. Even though I try to make ethical choices in my occupation I am not always successful. It is when reflecting and feeling disappointed about these failures that I emerge a more experienced professional in my field.
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Cormier, Arlene. "Disconnections and disappointments: daughters, mothers, and friends in the narrative of Carme Riera." Thesis, Boston College, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/1863.
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Thesis advisor: Irene MizrahiThis study, which is dedicated to the analysis of three novels by Carme Riera: Una primavera para Domenico Guarini, Cuestión de amor propio, and La mitad del alma, investigates the disappointments and disconnections that the protagonists suffer in their relationships with other characters and the influence of culture on those relationships. This study demonstrates that the breakdown of the relationships between daughters and mothers and between friends is the result of the patriarchal society of Francoist Spain that is hostile towards women. The repression that Riera’s narrators, who are all women writers telling their stories in a personal, intimate first-person narration, suffer under such a society not only causes them emotional problems, such as depression, frustration, lack of self-esteem, feelings of unworthiness and inferiority, but also prevents them from having meaningful relationships with other women as friends and daughters
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2009
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Romance Languages and Literatures
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Fontaine, Clarisse. "La trilogie de Rafael Chirbes ou l’histoire d’une génération." Thesis, Pau, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PAUU1038/document.
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Le présent travail se consacre à l’étude de la trilogie de l’écrivain espagnol Rafael Chirbes (1949-2015), constitué de La larga marcha, La caída de Madrid et Los viejos amigos, et à travers laquelle l’auteur retrace l’histoire récente de l’Espagne, depuis la guerre civile jusqu’au retour d’un régime démocratique, en passant par le franquisme. L’étude narrative de chacun des trois romans couplée à une approche collective permettra d’observer comment l’histoire des personnages finit par retracer celle de l’Espagne et celle de la génération désenchantée de l’auteur lui-mêmeThis work is dedicated to the study of the trilogy of the Spanish writer Rafael Chirbes (1949-2015), made uo of the Larga marcha, La caída de Madrid and Los viejos amigos, and through which the author recounts the recent history of Spain, since the civil war until the return of a democratic regime, via the Francoism period. The narrative study of each novels coupled with a collective approach will allow us to observe how the story of the characters ends up recounting Spain’s History as well as the story of the author’s disillusioned generation
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Meneses, Fuertes Erick Fernando, and Tovar Gianfranco Manuel Navarro. "El impacto financiero y tributario de los desmedros en la fase de almacenamiento y comercialización en empresas transnacionales del sector farmacéutico durante el año 2017 en Lima." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/626332.
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La presente investigación fue elaborada para determinar los impactos financieros y tributarios de los desmedros en la fase de almacenamiento y comercialización en empresas transnacionales del sector farmacéutico durante el año 2017 en Lima. Para lograrlo, se basará la investigación en la NIC 2 “Inventarios” (en adelante NIC 2), emitida en enero 2005, cuya aplicación inició a partir del 01 de enero del 2006, la Norma Internacional de Contabilidad 12 “Impuesto a las ganancias” (en adelante NIC 12), emitida en enero de 1998, cuya aplicación inicial fue a partir del 01 de enero del 2003 y la Ley del Impuesto a la Renta del Perú y su respectivo Reglamento. Las dos normas contables mencionadas tienen relación y algunos elementos en común cuyas diversas interpretaciones, técnicas de valoración y modificaciones realizadas, impactarán directamente en la toma de decisiones.
Para validar nuestras hipótesis, hemos realizado trabajos de campo a las principales farmacéuticas en Lima, empresas a las que hemos encuestado. Para esto, hemos contactado con expertos en el tema de tratamiento financiero y tributario, a quienes hemos entrevistado y, finalmente, hemos realizado un (1) caso práctico para evaluar el impacto financiero de nuestro tema de tesis.
A partir de los datos analizados, concluimos que hay un impacto financiero y tributario dentro de las empresas, impacto que puede ser significativo si no se tiene un control de los desmedros.The present investigation was elaborated to determine the financial and tributary impacts of the demerits in the storage and marketing phase of the pharmaceutical sector during the year 2017 in Lima. To achieve this, the investigation will be based on IAS 2 "Inventories" (hereinafter IAS 2), issued in January 2005, whose application began as of January 1, 2006, the International Accounting Standard 12 "Income Tax" (hereinafter, IAS 12), issued in January 1998, whose initial application was effective January 1, 2003 and the Income Tax Law of Peru and its respective Regulations. The two accounting standards mentioned are related and some common elements whose various interpretations, valuation techniques and modifications made, will directly impact the decision making. To validate our hypotheses, we have carried out fieldwork to the main pharmaceutical companies in Lima, companies that we have surveyed. For this, we have contacted experts in the field of financial and tax treatment, whom we have interviewed and, finally, we have made one (1) practical case to evaluate the financial impact of our thesis topic. Based on the data analyzed, we conclude that there is a financial and tax impact within the companies, an impact that can be significant if there is no control over the losses.
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Pitre, Leighton J. "Organizational cynicism at the United States Naval Academy : an exploratory study /." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2004. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/04Jun%5FPitre.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S. in Leadership and Human Resource Development)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2004.Thesis advisor(s): Roderick Bacho, Susan Hocevar. Includes bibliographical references (p. 47-51). Also available online.
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Jiménez, Barreto Angie Dayan, and Capcha Elizabeth Rivera. "Mermas y Desmedros- Impacto financiero y tributario en las empresas del sector manufactura (actividades de impresión) en la Zona Este y Lima, 2017." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/625947.
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El presente Trabajo de Suficiencia Profesional fue realizado con la finalidad de evaluar el impacto financiero y tributario de las mermas y desmedros en las empresas del sector manufactura basadas en las actividades de impresión en la Zona Este y Lima, 2017.
La investigación se encuentra compuesta por cinco capítulos. En el primer capítulo, se encuentra el marco teórico, en el cual se definen los conceptos de las variables. En el segundo, se presenta el plan de la investigación, en el cual se identifica el problema, la hipótesis planteada y los objetivos trazados. En el tercer capítulo, se describe la metodología a emplear, la cual es un enfoque mixto que consta de los métodos de investigación cualitativa y cuantitativa. En el cuarto capítulo, se desarrolla los instrumentos de investigación utilizados y los casos prácticos. En el caso de los instrumentos son: Para la investigación cualitativa las entrevistas a profundidad y para la investigación cuantitativa la encuesta.
Finalmente, en el quinto capítulo, se analizan los resultados de los instrumentos y casos prácticos utilizados. Además, se encuentran las conclusiones y recomendaciones sobre el estudio realizado. La principal conclusión es que el resultado de la investigación cualitativa y cuantitativa afirma nuestra hipótesis planteada, lo cual significa que las mermas y desmedros impactan en lo que respecta a la situación financiera y tributaria en las empresas del sector manufactura (actividades de impresión) en la Zona Este y Lima, 2017.The present Work of Professional Sufficiency was carried out with the purpose of evaluating the financial and tributary impact of the mermas and demerits in the companies of the manufacturing sector based on the printing activities in the East Zone and Lima, 2017. The investigation is composed of five chapters. In the first chapter, we find the theoretical framework, in which the concepts of the variables are defined. In the second, the research plan is presented, in which the problem is identified, the hypothesis proposed and the objectives set. In the third chapter, the methodology to be used is described, which is a mixed approach consisting of qualitative and quantitative research methods. In the fourth chapter, the research instruments used and the practical cases are developed. In the case of instruments, they are for qualitative research, in-depth interviews and for quantitative research, the survey. Finally, in the fifth chapter, the results of the instruments and practical cases used are analyzed. In addition, there are the conclusions and recommendations on the study carried out. The main conclusion is that the result of qualitative and quantitative research affirms our hypothesis, which means that the losses and losses have a positive impact on the financial and tax situation in companies in the manufacturing sector (printing activities) in the East Zone and Lima, 2017.
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Lantz, Nick. "The great disappointment." 2005. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/61144507.html.
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Thesis (M.F.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 2005.Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaf 46)
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"Disappointment theory in risk management." 2014. http://repository.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/en/item/cuhk-1291621.
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Chong, Wing Fung.Thesis M.Phil. Chinese University of Hong Kong 2014.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 57-62).
Abstracts also in Chinese.
Title from PDF title page (viewed on 31, October, 2016).
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McDermott, James. "More Stores About Disappointment And TV." 2017. http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/english_theses/217.
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This MFA thesis, More Stories About Disappointment and TV, is a collection of short stories. I see them as being interconnected, if only in the loosest possible sense. I have certain ideas and themes that recur throughout my work, which I hope gives the stories a sense of cohesion without making the collection feel too monochromatic. The stories vary in narrative approach and point of view. My stories are character-driven literary fiction, to put it broadly, though they often incorporate characteristics of genre fiction. Some of them are more realistic than others, but they almost always have elements of the weird, the fabulist, and/or the absurd.
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Chen, Min. "Inevitable disappointment and decision making based on forecasts." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/2841.
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