Journal articles: 'Extraordinary experiences'

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Mossberg, Lena. "Extraordinary Experiences through Storytelling." Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism 8, no. 3 (October 2008): 195–210. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15022250802532443.

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Shushan, Gregory. "Extraordinary Experiences and Religious Beliefs." Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 26, no. 4-5 (November 28, 2014): 384–416. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700682-12341319.

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Many contemporary scholars believe that all experience is dependent upon language and culture, meaning that it is unintelligible to speak of some cross-cultural event which can be called “mystical” or “religious”; and that the notion of the origins of religious beliefs lying in such experiences is thus methodologically and theoretically unsound. Challenges to these perspectives leave one open to charges of naivety, or of having crossed a boundary from the (ostensibly) objective Study of Religions into a kind of universalist crypto-theology. In defense of the study of such experiences, this article attempts to demonstrate the weaknesses in these arguments by showing that they are based upon a number of mutually-reliant but unproven culturally-situated philosophical axioms. With particular reference to near-death and out-of-body experiences, a reflexive, theoretically eclectic approach to this area of study is suggested.

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Tumbat, Gülnur, and Russell W. Belk. "Marketplace Tensions in Extraordinary Experiences." Journal of Consumer Research 38, no. 1 (June 1, 2011): 42–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/658220.

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Goolaup, Sandhiya, Cecilia Solér, and Robin Nunkoo. "Developing a Theory of Surprise from Travelers’ Extraordinary Food Experiences." Journal of Travel Research 57, no. 2 (February 12, 2017): 218–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0047287517691154.

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The purpose of this research is to explore the extraordinary experiences of food tourists and to develop a theory of surprise in relation to a typology of food cultural capital. We draw on phenomenological interviews with 16 food tourists. We found that food tourists experienced surprise in different ways, depending on their food cultural capital. Food tourists who possessed a high level of cultural capital were surprised by the simplicity or complexity of the experience while those possessing a low level of cultural capital were surprised by the genuinity of the experience. Thus, we make an important theoretical contribution here as we learn that the resources food tourists possessed in the form of cultural capital conditioned the ways in which they conceived an extraordinary experience. More so, using the cultural capital perspective, we have also demonstrated the role of social context in contributing to creating an extraordinary experience.

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Bhattacharjee, Amit, and Cassie Mogilner. "Happiness from Ordinary and Extraordinary Experiences." Journal of Consumer Research 41, no. 1 (June 1, 2014): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/674724.

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Wahbeh, Helané, Garret Yount, Cassandra Vieten, Dean Radin, and Arnaud Delorme. "Measuring extraordinary experiences and beliefs: A validation and reliability study." F1000Research 8 (May 14, 2020): 1741. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.20409.3.

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Background: Belief in the paranormal is widespread worldwide. Recent surveys suggest that subjective experiences of the paranormal are common. A concise instrument that adequately evaluates beliefs as distinct from experiences does not currently exist. To address this gap, we created the Noetic Experiences and Beliefs Scale (NEBS) which evaluates belief and experience as separate constructs. Methods: The NEBS is a 20-item survey with 10 belief and 10 experience items rated on a visual analog scale from 0-100. In an observational study, the survey was administered to 361 general population adults in the United States and a subsample of 96 one month later. Validity, reliability and internal consistency were evaluated. A confirmatory factor analysis was conducted to confirm the latent variables of belief and experience. The survey was then administered to a sample of 646 IONS Discovery Lab participants to evaluate divergent validity and confirm belief and experience as latent variables of the model in a different population. Results: The NEBS demonstrated convergent validity, reliability and internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha Belief 0.90; Experience 0.93) and test-retest reliability (Belief: r = 0.83; Experience: r = 0.77). A confirmatory factor analysis model with belief and experience as latent variables demonstrated a good fit. The factor model was confirmed as having a good fit and divergent validity was established in the sample of 646 IONS Discovery Lab participants. Conclusions: The NEBS is a short, valid, and reliable instrument for evaluating paranormal belief and experience.

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Lindberg, Frank, and Dorthe Eide. "Challenges of extraordinary experiences in the Arctic." Journal of Consumer Behaviour 15, no. 1 (August 13, 2015): 15–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cb.1527.

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Min, Kate E., Peggy J. Liu, and Soo Kim. "Sharing Extraordinary Experiences Fosters Feelings of Closeness." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 44, no. 1 (September 27, 2017): 107–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167217733077.

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Trujillo Torres, Lez, and Benét DeBerry-Spence. "Consumer valorization strategies in traumatic extraordinary experiences." Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science 47, no. 3 (March 30, 2019): 516–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11747-019-00645-x.

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Nardini, Gia, and Richard J. Lutz. "How mental simulation evokes negative affective misforecasting of hedonic experiences." Journal of Consumer Marketing 35, no. 6 (September 10, 2018): 633–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jcm-07-2017-2291.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between mental simulation and affective misforecasting of hedonic consumption experiences. Design/methodology/approach The authors present a series of lab and field studies that manipulate mental simulation and experience type (ordinary versus extraordinary) and measure affective misforecasting and mindfulness. Data were analyzed using a combination of ANOVA and PROCESS. Findings Mental simulation before an experience causes negative affective misforecasting to occur for extraordinary experiences but not ordinary experiences. The authors further show that mindfulness mediates the effect of mental simulation on affective misforecasting. Practical implications The findings provide insight into how thinking about experiences before consumption affects consumers’ actual engagement with the experience. This paper suggests that, by encouraging consumers to mentally simulate their experiences before consumption, marketers may cause consumers to miss out on enjoying their experiences to the fullest. Instead, marketers may want to maintain some mystique by encouraging consumers to “come see for themselves”. Originality/value The authors demonstrate a novel cause of affective misforecasting: mental simulation before the experience and provide initial evidence in support of a novel psychological process explanation (i.e. mindfulness) for the effect of mental simulation on affective misforecasting.

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von Lucadou, Walter, and Franziska Wald. "Extraordinary experiences in its cultural and theoretical context." International Review of Psychiatry 26, no. 3 (June 2014): 324–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/09540261.2014.885411.

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Corona, Victor P. "Exiting the Extraordinary: Returning to the Ordinary World after War, Prison, and Other Extraordinary Experiences." Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews 46, no. 2 (March 2017): 202–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0094306117692573bb.

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Smilek, Daniel, Mike J. Dixon, Cera Cudahy, and Philip M. Merikle. "Synesthetic Color Experiences Influence Memory." Psychological Science 13, no. 6 (November 2002): 548–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9280.00496.

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We describe the extraordinary memory of C, a 21-year-old student who experiences synesthetic colors (i.e., photisms) when she sees, hears, or thinks of digits. Using three matrices of 50 digits, we tested C and 7 nonsynesthetes to evaluate whether C's synesthetic photisms influence her memory for digits. One matrix consisted of black digits, whereas the other two matrices consisted of digits that were either incongruent or congruent with the colors of C's photisms. C's recall of the incongruently colored digits was considerably poorer than her recall of either the black or the congruently colored digits. The 7 nonsynesthetes did not show such differences in their recall of the matrices. In addition, when immediate recall of the black digits was compared with delayed recall of those digits (48 hr), C showed no decrease in performance, whereas each of the nonsynesthetes showed a significant decrease. These findings both demonstrate C's extraordinary memory and show that her synesthetic photisms can influence her memory for digits.

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Watson, Pamela, Michael Morgan, and Nigel Hemmington. "Online communities and the sharing of extraordinary restaurant experiences." Journal of Foodservice 19, no. 6 (December 2008): 289–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-0159.2008.00110.x.

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Lindberg, Frank, and Per Østergaard. "Extraordinary consumer experiences: Why immersion and transformation cause trouble." Journal of Consumer Behaviour 14, no. 4 (March 12, 2015): 248–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cb.1516.

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Jackson, Caroline, Michael Morgan, and Nigel Hemmington. "Extraordinary experiences in tourism: introduction to the special edition." International Journal of Tourism Research 11, no. 2 (March 2009): 107–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jtr.722.

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Toran, Mehmet, Ramazan Sak, Yuwei Xu, İkbal Tuba Şahin-Sak, and Yun Yu. "Parents and children during the COVID-19 quarantine process: Experiences from Turkey and China." Journal of Early Childhood Research 19, no. 1 (January 21, 2021): 21–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1476718x20977583.

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This paper reports Turkish and Chinese parents’ experiences with their 3–6 year-old children during the COVID-19 quarantine process. Thirteen Turkish and 11 Chinese parents participated in a study that employed semi-structured interviews to examine participant self-perceived experiences. Findings show that the study revealed many commonalities in the experiences of Turkish and Chinese parents with their children during the COVID-19 quarantine process. Cultural differences between parents did not appear to significantly reflect the responses of parents during this extraordinary period. Parents mostly described difficulties with home quarantine. Most parents stated that their daily schedule and routines had changed as a result of home quarantine. Parents also said that they were unaware of their children’s developmental progress and the extent to which their children had grown up before the quarantine. Parents shared both positive and negative experiences during the process. Since the quarantine process is an extraordinary experience for all family members, parents should be encouraged to put those positive experiences and acquisitions into their future life.

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Austad, Anne, Marianne Rodriguez Nygaard, and Tormod Kleiven. "Reinscribing the Lived Body: A Qualitative Study of Extraordinary Religious Healing Experiences in Norwegian Contexts." Religions 11, no. 11 (October 30, 2020): 563. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel11110563.

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Poor health often motivates people to engage in religious and spiritual approaches to healing. However, there is limited research on such experiences from a northern European perspective. This article investigates healing experiences related to Christian faith and practices in Norway by thematic analysis of 25 semi-structured interviews with individuals who have experienced healing of different ailments. In so doing, healing events across diverse contexts are characterised, and the results show that such experiences not only feature practices in which other people are present in prayer, preaching, and the laying on of hands, but also spontaneous extraordinary encounters with a divine being through visions and voices. The healing events are further described as experiences of transformational, powerful touch. In light of the lived body theory, these transformational experiences can be understood as re-inscriptions of health that are manifested in the intertwined bio–psycho–social–spiritual aspects of the body.

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Terkelsen, Toril, Astrid Blystad, and Ida Hydle. "Transforming Extraordinary Experiences Into the Concept of Schizophrenia: A Case Study of a Norwegian Psychiatric Unit." Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry 7, no. 3 (September 2005): 229–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/1559-4343.7.3.229.

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The dominating paradigm in Western psychiatry is grounded in biomedical thinking, and biological explanations appear to increasingly take the lead. There has been a shift from a psychological approach to the treatment of such experiences to a biomedical framework, with medication and medicine compliance at its core. Patients diagnosed with schizophrenia often tell about extraordinary experiences, such as encounters with UFOs and angels. Drawing upon data collected during 8 months of fieldwork in a Norwegian psychiatric rehabilitation clinic, we explore the translation, transformation and transition of such experiences into psychiatric terminology based upon biomedical knowledge and understanding. We approach these issues with extended reference to a particular patient’s experiences, which appeared to represent a fairly typical scenario at this Norwegian and other treatment units. We take a close view into how a patient in a psychiatric rehabilitation unit explains and interprets his extraordinary experiences, how he perceives the manner in which his experiences are confronted by professionals within the psychiatric field of knowledge, and how these phenomena are explained and handled by professionals. The article closes with some indications of potential consequences of employing a different approach to extraordinary experiences.

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Mayer, Gerhard A. "Spirituality and Extraordinary Experiences: Methodological Remarks and Some Empirical Findings." Journal of Empirical Theology 26, no. 2 (2013): 188–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15709256-12341272.

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Abstract This article is based on empirical data gathered in two qualitative field studies of contemporary Western shamans and practising magicians (occultists) in German speaking countries. It emphasizes the importance of extraordinary experiences in the adoption of heterodox worldviews. The findings indicate that such experiences play a decisive role in the adoption of religious and/or spiritual beliefs as well as in individual conceptualization of spirituality. Some methodological considerations in the investigation of extraordinary experiences and their relation to assumed paranormal phenomena are mentioned. A particular problem is that these experiences often seem to contradict the orthodox, commonly accepted scientific worldview. Thus researchers who want to collect information about religious beliefs and spiritual experiences have to allow for participants’ possible fear of stigmatization. An empirical phenomenological approach, following the principle of openness (Hoffmann-Riehm) and the method of grounded theory (Glaser & Strauss), seems apposite. In addition to the aforementioned methodological issues the article presents data on aspects of the lived spirituality of contemporary shamans and practising magicians as an example of secondary analysis of interview data.

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van Holten, Wilko. "A Chaplain’s View on Religious Delusions (and Other Extraordinary Experiences): Towards a Theological Framework of Understanding." Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling: Advancing theory and professional practice through scholarly and reflective publications 75, no. 1 (March 2021): 4–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1542305020967327.

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In this article, the author discusses the question of how to evaluate delusions with religious or spiritual content from a theological perspective. How does a spiritual care practitioner listen to such delusions? The author proposes a theory of meaning that can account for both ordinary and extraordinary experiences and discusses a list of theological criteria in terms of which spiritual care practitioners can understand delusional and other extraordinary experiences and beliefs with spiritual content.

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Parker, Julie S. "Extraordinary Experiences of the Bereaved and Adaptive Outcomes of Grief." OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying 51, no. 4 (December 2005): 257–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/fm7m-314b-u3rt-e2cb.

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A multiple case questionnaire/interview study was used to investigate Extraordinary Experiences (EEs) reported by bereaved individuals. Its purpose was to describe the grief processes of 12 bereaved individuals who had reported EEs. Content analysis consisted of a series of individual case data displays and causal networks from which an overall causal network that described participants' grief processes was derived. Despite some ongoing grief work and complicated grief patterns, 11 participants had reached an adaptive grief outcome. For these individuals, EEs played specific roles and fulfilled specific needs within and outside of the context of bereavement. EEs also facilitated the assimilation/accommodation of death by reinforcing participants' “personal mythologies” regarding death and an after-life. The findings of this study support the emerging model of grief that posits that maintaining continuing bonds with the deceased can be adaptive. They also support the assertion that spiritual and/or religious belief systems are associated with adaptive outcomes of grief.

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Matošević Radić, Mijana, Ante Zubčić, and Ivana Tomić. "STORYTELLING – THE TOOL OF DESTINATION MANAGEMENT COMPANIES FOR CREATING AN EXTRAORDINARY EXPERIENCE IN FILM TOURISM." DIEM: Dubrovnik International Economic Meeting 6, no. 1 (September 2021): 176–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.17818/diem/2021/1.18.

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Experience-based industries, such as tourism, gain a competitive advantage when they create an extraordinary experience for their customers. Contemporary tourists prefer authentic experiences, acquisition of new knowledge and skills as well as participation in community activities. Therefore, they don’t want to consume only the products and services in the destination, but they are really interested in the story behind the tourist products. In film tourism, the story has a special role since it is a type of product that arises from the individual experience of the location, which is displayed in some form of media presentation. Consequently, it is particularly important for the destination management companies to use tools and techniques that can influence the customer experience. In this context, the aim of this paper is to analyse possibility of destination management companies to use storytelling in creating film tourism products. Although storytelling is often used by destination management organization as a destination marketing tool, destination management companies can use it to create high value-added products. This paper analyzes an example of good practice how a destination management company can use storytelling in creating and developing its products. However, as the example of good practice emphasizes, the application of storytelling in creating extraordinary experience requires an interdisciplinary approach and great creativity of experts from different fields, where additional value can be achieved through the use of modern information and communication technology. Applying this approach, storytelling is a tool that destination management companies can use very successfully to transform the film tourism product into an extraordinary experience for their customers. Keywords: storytelling, destination management company, film tourism

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Mei, Xiang Y., Ann-Margret S. Hågensen, and Heidi S. Kristiansen. "Storytelling through experiencescape: Creating unique stories and extraordinary experiences in farm tourism." Tourism and Hospitality Research 20, no. 1 (November 24, 2018): 93–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1467358418813410.

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Creating unique stories through storytelling as a way to stage extraordinary experiences has become increasingly important in the tourism industry, particularly in experience-based activities such as farm tourism. However, limited resources and the lack of knowledge of the experiencescape suggest that many farm tourism operators struggle to integrate the experiencescape as part of storytelling. The research method chosen was an explorative study with the use of semi-structured in-depth interviews with key farm tourism operators in the Inland region in Norway. How stories and concepts are created is dependent on the resources available, the perception of authenticity, the history of the farm as well as the environment. Storytelling can be facilitated through tangible elements in the experiencescape such as the physical environment as well as intangible elements including the interaction and dynamics between the host and guest. The farmer or the person telling the story also need to possess certain skills, engagement, and interest in order to be committed to deliver the story or the concept. Essentially, the farmer becomes a part of the product and the experience.

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Rousi, Rebekah. "Unremarkable experiences - Designing the user experience of elevators." Swedish Design Research Journal 11 (June 28, 2016): 47–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/svid.2000-964x.14147.

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Elevators enable people and goods to be transported to great heights at substantial speeds.The feats required technologically for suspension, movement, controls and safety are no less than remarkable. This is increasingly so when considering the competing new heights of skyscrapers. Although technological accomplishments are becoming ever more extraordinary, for the sake of those using the technologies, there is also the need to counter this remarkableness and consider the unremarkable as an experiential design goal. Discourse in user experience (UX) has mainly focused on designing for positive, affective and memorable experiences. However, in the case of utilitarian technologies such as elevators often good or positive experiences go unnoticed. The current study’s findings show just this. This article describes a study of UX with elevators using field observations and short interviews. Positive experiences were reflected in quantitative opinion scales related to the elevators under study. Negative experiences regarding previous elevator experiences were qualitatively recollected without prompting. The age and the detail of the recollected experiences suggest the significance negative (remarkable) events have on memory, influencing current and future impressions of elevator design. This calls for UX attention to be placed on designing for the unremarkable.

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Michel, Dirk. "Lifelong Political Socialization, Consciousness and Political Agency in Israel Today." Policy Futures in Education 5, no. 3 (September 2007): 357–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.2304/pfie.2007.5.3.357.

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This article deals with the nexus between biographical experiences in political extraordinary times of crisis, disaster and terror and their influence on political orientations. At the centre of interest is the reconstruction of political orientations related to two different historical-political groups of Jewish Germans who had immigrated or escaped either to Palestine before May 1948 or to the State of Israel after the Second World War. The first group of German Zionists emigrated to Israel at the time of the British Mandate and the second group were German Jews who survived the German concentration camps. The extraordinary background of the life courses, i.e. the ‘Zionist period’ in Palestine or the German concentration camps, were the historical-political experiences that both groups had to face in their childhood and youth. These extraordinary life experiences are analysed in connection with their political attitudes regarding contemporary Israeli internal politics as well as political questions dealing with the Middle East conflict.

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Knobloch, Uli, Kirsten Robertson, and Rob Aitken. "Experience, Emotion, and Eudaimonia: A Consideration of Tourist Experiences and Well-being." Journal of Travel Research 56, no. 5 (June 9, 2016): 651–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0047287516650937.

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Experiential marketing and the quest to create memorable and extraordinary customer experiences have become central to tourism. However, implementing the concept of experiential marketing has been problematic due to a lack of knowledge regarding what makes experiences memorable, as well as inattention to the subjective and personal nature of experiences. This study explores the nature of individual experiences, particularly with regard to personal outcomes, emotions and meanings, by investigating tourists’ experiences of the same activity in three different consumption contexts. The influence of consumption context as well as significant differences in personal outcomes were evident, and more profound and meaningful than previous research suggests. Findings point to a need to understand tourist consumption experiences beyond hedonic enjoyment of the moment, and consider their broader implications on well-being and quality of life. Implications for tourism providers and experiential marketing are discussed.

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Morgan, Michael, Nigel Hemmington, and John S. A. Edwards. "From foodservice to food experience? Introduction to the topical focus papers: extraordinary experiences in foodservice." Journal of Foodservice 19, no. 3 (April 24, 2008): 151–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-4506.2008.00095.x.

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Stone, Matthew J., Joelle Soulard, Steven Migacz, and Erik Wolf. "Elements of Memorable Food, Drink, and Culinary Tourism Experiences." Journal of Travel Research 57, no. 8 (October 18, 2017): 1121–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0047287517729758.

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This study identified elements leading to memorable food, drink, or culinary experiences while traveling. More than 1,000 respondents in four countries described their most memorable food or drink travel experience. Qualitative analysis found five general elements leading to memorable food travel experiences: food or drink consumed, location/setting, companions, the occasion, and touristic elements (e.g., novelty, authenticity). While these elements were frequently mentioned together, a single element (e.g., extraordinary view or entrée) was sufficient to create a memorable experience. The broad array of memorable experiences ranged from gourmet to simple, intentional to serendipitous. While local or authentic foods were often mentioned, many experiences included foods that were not local. In general, elements leading to memorable culinary tourism experiences were more specific than those for memorable tourism experiences, and a memorable destination was not required for a memorable food/drink experience. Tourism providers can use these elements to better create their destination’s culinary story.

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Husemann, Katharina C., Giana M. Eckhardt, Reinhard Grohs, and Raluca E. Saceanu. "The dynamic interplay between structure, anastructure and antistructure in extraordinary experiences." Journal of Business Research 69, no. 9 (September 2016): 3361–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2016.02.008.

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Kahn, Joel S. "Encountering Extraordinary Worlds: The Rules of Ethnographic Engagement and the Limits of Anthropological Knowing." NUMEN 61, no. 2-3 (March 18, 2014): 237–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685276-12341318.

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AbstractThis article explores the ways anthropology might both draw on and contribute to current debates on religion by asking how the ethnographic encounter provides a perspective from which to address “bigger” questions about the place of religion in modern lifeworlds. In particular, the article addresses situations in which the gap between anthropological “construals” of the world and those of its research subjects becomes impossible to ignore. I begin by the phenomenological strategy of “suspending disbelief.” This turns out to be problematic in the light of the postmodern/poststructuralist critique of phenomenology, which suggests that “experience,” being so tightly bound up in context, cannot be shared across cultural, linguistic, and ontological boundaries. However, to refuse to take our respondents’ claims about extraordinary experience seriously is hardly the democratizing move that anthropologists and others claim it to be. How, then, is the experiential dimension to be incorporated into ethnographic practice? Acknowledging the multiple ways in which anthropologists are bound up in an already constituted world of encounters challenges many of the received understandings of ethnography. It allows us to bring experience back into the anthropological frame by allowing us to see that experiences deemed extraordinary — “ours” as well as “theirs” — are a valid and crucial component of human existence. If “we” are part of “their” world and they are part of ours, can we really not share experiences across the ontological divide?

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Kalēja-Gasparoviča, Daiga. "Correlation Between Experiences of Artistic Creative Self-Expression and Life Experiences in Crisis Conditions." Journal of Pedagogy and Psychology "Signum Temporis" 4, no. 1 (December 1, 2011): 26–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10195-011-0042-5.

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ABSTRACT Contemporary conditions determine a relationship between the quality of individual’s life andindividually developed creative abilities: the ability to adapt to extraordinary situations andcircumstances of life, flexibility in thought and action. The studies of visual arts provide anopportunity of enriching one’s experience in creative activities, at the same time facilitating thedevelopment of creative abilities. Experiences acquired earlier in life (impressions, low selfesteemand negative experiences) affect artistic creative self-expression and enhanced creativeexperiences, accordingly, affect the quality of life. The aim of the article is to reveal and justify the correlations between the personal experiences of artistic creative self-expression and personal life experiences. Methods used in this study: review of scientific literature and empirical methods: observation and interviews. Individual’s creative personal experiences, acquired through artistic creative work in visual arts have a direct link with the quality of life and its improvement. While studying individual’s opportunities for creative development acquiring the study content of visual arts education through studies and the opportunities for improving the quality of life, strong correlative links between experience, quality of life, creative resources and self-expression have been established.

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Tobacyk, Jerome J., Donald H. Wells, and Mark M. Miller. "Out-of-Body Experience and Personality Functioning." Psychological Reports 82, no. 2 (April 1998): 481–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1998.82.2.481.

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Reporters of out-of-body experiences ( n = 21) and nonreporters ( n = 159) showed no significant differences on the Spheres of Control Scale, Self-efficacy Scale, and Purpose in Life Scale. However, reporters of out-of-body experiences showed significantly greater belief in Psi, Spiritualism, and Extraordinary Life Forms than nonreporters.

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Farber, Mary E., and Troy E. Hall. "Emotion and Environment: Visitors' Extraordinary Experiences along the Dalton Highway in Alaska." Journal of Leisure Research 39, no. 2 (June 2007): 248–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222216.2007.11950107.

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Collier, Joel E., Donald C. Barnes, Alexandra K. Abney, and Mark J. Pelletier. "Idiosyncratic service experiences: When customers desire the extraordinary in a service encounter." Journal of Business Research 84 (March 2018): 150–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2017.11.016.

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Becker, Andrea J. "Collegiate Basketball Players’ Experiences of being Coached During a Turnaround Season." Sport Psychologist 26, no. 1 (March 2012): 43–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/tsp.26.1.43.

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The primary purpose of this study was to examine basketball players’ experiences of being coached during a turnaround season. Participants included eight collegiate men’s basketball players (ages 18–23) and one staff member representing an NCAA Division I program at a large university in the United States. All participants were involved with the basketball program during back-to-back seasons in which the team experienced a losing record (14–17) followed by a coaching change, and then a winning record (22–8) and conference championship. Semistructured interviews (lasting between 30–90 min) were conducted and transcribed verbatim. Analyses of the transcripts revealed 631 meaning units that were further grouped into lower and higher order themes. This led to the development of five major dimensions which encompassed these basketball players’ experiences of being coached during this extraordinary turnaround season including their (a) Experiences of Coach’s Personality Characteristics; (b) Experiences of Coach’s Philosophy, System, and Style of play; (c) Experiences of His Coaching Style; (d) Experiences of the Practice Environment; and (e) Experiences of How Coach Influenced Us.

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Calleja, James, and Patrick Camilleri. "Teachers' learning in extraordinary times: shifting to a digitally facilitated approach to lesson study." International Journal for Lesson & Learning Studies 10, no. 2 (February 4, 2021): 118–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijlls-09-2020-0058.

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PurposeThe research reported in this paper brings forth the experiences of three teachers working in different schools. These teachers learned about lesson study through a course offered at the University of Malta while, at the same time, leading a lesson study with colleagues at their school. With the COVID-19 outbreak, these teachers had, out of necessity, to adopt and accommodate for their lesson study to an exclusive online approach. This paper, hence, focuses on teachers' learning as they shifted their lesson study online.Design/methodology/approachThis paper presents a case study that delves into the experiences and perceptual insights that these teachers manifested in shifting to an exclusive online lesson study situation. Data collection is derived from a focus group discussion, teacher reflective entries and detailed reports documenting the lesson study process and experiences. Employing technological frames as the theoretical lens, a description-analysis-interpretation approach was employed to analyse and interpret reflections and grounded experiential perceptions that the respondents disclosed during their lesson study journey.FindingsNotwithstanding their initial discerned sense of loss and unpreparedness of being constrained to migrate lesson study to exclusive online means, teachers eventually recognised that digitally mediated collaborative practices enhanced self-reflection about the lesson study process. Therefore, the extraordinary situation that the teachers in this study experienced not only disrupted their modus operandi but also allowed them to discern new opportunities for learning about digital technology use in lesson study.Practical implicationsDisruption, brought about by unforeseen circumstances, takes teachers and professional development facilitators out of their comfort zones, invariably helping them grow out of their limitations and rethink lesson study practices.Originality/valueIntentionally driven disruptions prompt teachers to resolve their dissatisfactory situations by thinking out of the box, eventually helping them to improve their professional practices.

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Houston, Serin D., and Charlotte Morse. "The Ordinary and Extraordinary: Producing Migrant Inclusion and Exclusion in US Sanctuary Movements." Studies in Social Justice 11, no. 1 (February 8, 2017): 27–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.26522/ssj.v11i1.1081.

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This article analyzes the Sanctuary Movement for Central Americans and the New Sanctuary Movement, two United States faith-based social movements, to think through the ways in which these pro-immigrant efforts paradoxically render migrants figuratively mute and often excluded from conceptualizations of the nation and its inhabitants even as they advocate for legal inclusion. We examine this tension of inclusion and exclusion through the frequent representation of migrants’ histories and Christianity as extraordinary in the Sanctuary Movement for Central Americans, and migrants’ lives as ordinary in the New Sanctuary Movement. We identify two key processes by which this framing of migrants as extraordinary or ordinary limits the enactment of full social, political, and economic inclusion: (a) public support is principally granted to certain stories, religions, identities, and experiences; and (b) migrants are consistently positioned, and often celebrated, by sanctuary activists as “others.” The discourses of migrants as extraordinary or ordinary effectively generate broad involvement of faith communities in sanctuary work. Yet, as we argue, this framing comes with the cost of limiting activist support only to particular groups of migrants, flattening the performances of migrant identities, and positioning migrants as perpetually exterior to the US. Reliance on discourses of the extraordinary and ordinary, therefore, can truncate opportunities for making legible a range of migration experiences and extending belonging to all migrants, outcomes that arise in contrast to the purported inclusionary goals of the faith-based sanctuary social movements.

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Rundio, Amy, Marlene A. Dixon, and Bob Heere. "“I’m a completely different person now”: Extraordinary experiences and personal transformations in sport." Sport Management Review 23, no. 4 (August 2020): 704–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.smr.2019.09.004.

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Buechler, Sandra. "Enfrentar el dolor." Clínica e Investigación Relacional 14, no. 2 (October 18, 2020): 330–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.21110/19882939.2020.140204.

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In this extraordinary reflection and life story, the author reviews her own experiences and questions about how to face human pain, how the human being may or may not be able, and to what extent, to share the suffering of the other.

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Cangelosi, Pamela R. "Teaching Experiences of Second Degree Accelerated Baccalaureate Nursing Faculty." International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship 10, no. 1 (November 19, 2013): 275–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ijnes-2013-0043.

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AbstractDespite the extraordinary growth of accelerated second degree baccalaureate nursing programs, little research has been conducted about the experiences of faculty teaching these students. Using a hermeneutic phenomenological approach, this study explored the experiences of 14 accelerated second degree baccalaureate faculty from the eastern region of the United States. The data revealed that many faculty teaching second degree students feel unprepared and want guidance on how to teach these students, which was identified in the theme, Figuring It Out On My Own. This article describes this study and the implications of this theme for faculty recruitment and retention in accelerated second degree baccalaureate nursing programs.

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Gerhard, Felipe, Juliana Melo Pedrosa, Márcio De Oliveira Mota, and Ana Augusta Ferreira de Freitas. "Experiências do processo de consumo e o experienciar da felicidade." Revista de Administração da UFSM 13, no. 1 (March 29, 2020): 182. http://dx.doi.org/10.5902/1983465928920.

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Some studies have already analyzed what makes individuals achieve happiness. In the consumer behavior perspective, experiential consumption, which refers to the interaction between the consumer and the product or service during the purchase or consumption, is more closely related to the welfare and happiness than material consumption – the later related to good’s possession. However, there have been few studies analyzing the relationship between shopping or consumption experiences and happiness. In this sense, the general objective of this paper is to analyze the happiness in the experiences of purchase and consumption. In order to achieve that, two quantitative studies were conducted based on a survey and an experimental design. Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and ANOVA were used to analyze data. Results indicate that the hedonic values drive the individual experience of purchasing and consuming towards happiness. In addition, they show that extraordinary experiences lead the individual to higher levels of happiness than ordinary ones.

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Skandalis, Alexandros, John Byrom, and Emma Banister. "Experiential marketing and the changing nature of extraordinary experiences in post-postmodern consumer culture." Journal of Business Research 97 (April 2019): 43–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2018.12.056.

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Peri Bader, Aya. "Museums and urban life in the cinema: On the ordinary and extraordinary architectural experiences." Emotion, Space and Society 29 (November 2018): 22–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2018.07.011.

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Ulusoy, Emre. "Subcultural escapades via music consumption: Identity transformations and extraordinary experiences in Dionysian music subcultures." Journal of Business Research 69, no. 1 (January 2016): 244–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2015.07.037.

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Lv, Xingyang, and Ailing Wu. "The role of extraordinary sensory experiences in shaping destination brand love: an empirical study." Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing 38, no. 2 (February 12, 2021): 179–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10548408.2021.1889447.

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Gramit, David. "Everyday Extraordinary: Music in the Letters of a German Amateur, 1803––08." 19th-Century Music 34, no. 2 (2010): 109–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ncm.2010.34.2.109.

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Abstract The 178 letters, nearly all of them by the Halle University medical student and amateur violinist Adolph Müüller, published in 1874 as Briefe von der Universitäät in die Heimath, provide an opportunity to explore in detail one individual's uses of music as a means of social interaction, identity construction, and aesthetic cultivation and reflection during the first decade of the nineteenth century. The immediacy and self-representational nature of the medium of the letter result in a record that makes clear not only the variety of musical experiences at all levels woven into the daily life of a young German Büürger but also how his accounts of those experiences could help align Müüller with——and sometimes vividly over against——his family. Participating in and describing music in society as well as extraordinary works (especially Mozart's and Beethoven's) that he came to value explicitly over conventional and socially acceptable music, Müüller provides a colorful if often inconsistent account of living with and coming to terms with that music in a daily context of aesthetic values, class and gender ideologies (the latter particularly evident in his musical encounters with Friedrich Schleiermacher), and the institutions and relationships that structured his life.

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Thompson, Marc R., and Jonna K. Vuoskoski. "Guest Editors' Introduction: Music as Embodied Experience." Human Technology 16, no. 3 (November 30, 2020): 227–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.17011/ht/urn.202011256763.

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Technology has impacted music’s role in contemporary society in extraordinary ways. In addition to how people use music for professional and artistic pursuits, technology has opened a wide variety of new avenues for research and application, particularly as a reliable therapeutic and salutogenic tool. Recently, a useful framework for studying this shifting perspective surrounding musical experience has emerged: embodied music cognition, which conceptualizes the body as being at the center of music experiences. The papers in this thematic issue highlight how music technologies have matured to the point where they affect the way music is created, performed, enjoyed, and researched.

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Jayathilake, P. M. Bandula. "Economic Reforms and Growth Experiences: A Comparative Study of China and Sri Lanka." International Journal of Management Science and Business Administration 1, no. 5 (2015): 30–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.18775/ijmsba.1849-5664-5419.2014.15.1003.

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China has achieved extraordinary economic growth and development in last three decades since launch of open economic policy in 1978. Sri Lanka restructured its economy in 1977 as well, with aspiration of achieving sustainable economic growth and development. However, the growth performance of Sri Lanka since the initiation of the reforms has been relatively low and falling behind on many of fronts relative to the Chinese performance indicators, whereas the initial characteristics of the two countries and reforms are mostly comparable. This paper basically aimed to investigate the factors influencing the creation of the gap in growth performance between China and Sri Lanka over the past three decades after their economic reforms. The findings show that attraction of foreign direct investment, governance related factors and approaches used in the post reforms period are more vital in driving divergence in growth performance between the two countries.

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Hande, Miray, Fahriye Burcu, and Hazal Mertz. "Children with Special Needs in School Activities." Journal Educational Verkenning 1, no. 2 (December 24, 2020): 8–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.48173/jev.v1i2.53.

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Not every child born in this world always experiences normal development. Many of them experience obstacles, disturbances, delays, or have risk factors so that to achieve optimal development, special treatment or intervention is required. This group became known as children with special needs or extraordinary children. In understanding children with special needs or outside children, it is necessary to have an understanding of the types of disabilities (children with special needs) and the consequences that occur to sufferers. Children with special needs are referred to as children with disabilities because they include children whose growth and development experience deviations or abnormalities, both physically, mentally, emotionally, and socially when compared to normal children.

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