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MacLean, Brian J. "Self-consciousness, self-awareness and pain." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/4617.
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Ross, David Francis. "Self-awareness, self-consciousness and the self-control of drunken comportment." Thesis, McGill University, 1987. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=75338.
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The influence of a primarily Public form of self-awareness and of Private and Public Self-Consciousness on drunken physical aggression and complex reaction-time were examined. Two forms of the balanced-placebo design were employed. Results indicated that each form of self-focus played a significant role in the determination of various aspects of drunken comportment. Consumption of alcohol did not eliminate self-aware behavior on the measures employed. Public Self-Consciousness acted to increase drunken impairment. A modified form of the balanced-placebo design proved superior to the standard version for use with moderately high doses (1.32 ml/kg) of alcohol on a measure of subjective intoxication. The implications for the literature on self-focus and drunken comportment are discussed.
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Garcia, Joseph Julio Carandang. "How private self-awareness can influence the effectiveness self-reportusing the Big-five among Chinese adolescent." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B4516924X.
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Booth, Nancy Davis 1951. "The relationship between height and self-esteem, and the mediating effects of self-consciousness." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/276889.
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This study was designed to investigate the relationship between height and self-esteem, and to examine the mediating effects of self-consciousness. Four hundred and seventy-nine college students, 143 males and 336 females, 75% under the age of 21, were administered The Personal Opinion Survey which consisted of demographic information, the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, and Elkind and Bowen's Imaginary Audience Scale. Findings revealed a nonlinear relationship between height and self-esteem. Further, self-consciousness emerged as a significant mediator of the relationship between height and self-esteem, accounting for the difference in male and female self-esteem scores. Moreover, the influence of self-consciousness on the height and self-esteem relationship was revealed greatest for females.
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Hall, Mary Canty. "The effects of self-awareness, self-consciousness, and standards of propriety on interpersonal physical pleasuring /." The Ohio State University, 1985. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487260531954828.
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Halvorsen, Beth Marie. "Humility, boldness, surrender, and tenacity a model of centered flexibility that helps pastors increase self differentiation /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2008. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p075-0076.
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Nordlund, Matthew. "The effects of priming on personality self-reports challenges and opportunities /." Akron, OH : University of Akron, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=akron1240857337.
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Dissertation (Ph. D.)--University of Akron, Dept. of Psychology-Industrial/Organizational, 2009."May, 2009." Title from electronic dissertation title page (viewed 11/27/2009) Advisor, Andrea Snell; Committee members, Robert Lord, Aaron Schmidt, James Diefendorff, Matthew Lee; Department Chair, Paul Levy; Dean of the College, Chand Midha; Dean of the Graduate School, George R. Newkome. Includes bibliographical references.
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Friedenheim, Ann. "The effects of Hatha yoga on self-awareness and self-actualization." Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 1986. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Kutztown University, 1986.Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2775. Abstract follows appendices. Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 118-125).
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Lee, Charlotte Louise. "Self-consciousness in the works of the very late Goethe." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610832.
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Bell, Aaron M. "Reclaiming ethical responsibility : an urgent case for authentic, psychological work /." Connect to online version of this title in UO's Scholars' Bank, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1456288511&sid=3&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Zhou, Shuo. "Understanding vicarious experience : the role of self-referencing in a predictive model." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2012. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/1432.
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Lenk, Sonja. "By being human : an anthropological inquiry into the dimension and potential of consciousness in the context of spiritual practice." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/960.
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The research explores the concept of human consciousness and its being experienced in a particular social context, focusing on consciousness’s ‘highest potential’ as described in both ancient Buddhist Philosophy and more recent spiritual teachings. The main attention is on the individual’s emotional and mental experience of ‘conventional’ and ‘ultimate’ reality as taught by these traditions and the possible transformation of consciousness they might initiate. Two years of fieldwork was carried out at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, which is a spiritual educational institution, offering a four-year training to become a healer. The School emphasis is on the human individual and his or her inherent existential power to transform and transcend limitations or delusions, focusing on the process of self- transformation. Being human in the eyes of the School is seen as an endless potential for growth, creativity, the capacity to love, and about learning to become fully responsible for one’s own life and happiness. The thesis explores the effect that this particular understanding of human potential has in the quotidian existence of the trainee and her or his social relations. Methodologically the study is based in phenomenological anthropology. This approach here implies that life cannot be understood through the conceptual or systematic study of its outward forms. Therefore it places conscious experience at the centre of its investigation, rather than disengaged objectivity. By employing the first-person perspective and undertaking part of the training myself, I hope to do justice to the inherently subjective dimension of consciousness and to gain as deep an understanding as possible of the processes of its transformation. The thesis thus includes subjective personal experience as primary data, and understands being objective in the sense of being open and without bias to both internal and external experience, giving the ‘perennial wisdom’ of spiritual traditions the same status as approved scientific laws.
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El-Desouky, Ayman Ahmed. "The self-begetting modern : figuring the human in Whitman and Joyce /." Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3004257.
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Jennings, Bryan Colby. "Beneath the surface seeing through reflections /." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2010. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Spring2010/b_jennings_041910.pdf.
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Schuurman, Shelley D. "An exploration of the individual characteristics and abilities that contribute to competent professional performance in social work practitioners." Diss., Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users, 2008.
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Davies, C. G. "Conscience as consciousness : The idea of self-awareness in French philosophical writing and prose narrative from Descartes to Diderot." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.377988.
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Muñoz, Moldes Santiago. "Learning, self-awareness and the body: A cognitive neuroscience approach to learning from biofeedback." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2019. https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/295591/4/ToC.pdf.
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In this dissertation, we aimed at better understanding the role of learning in shaping the contents of consciousness. To capture variations in consciousness, we took subjective measures as a starting point, and we performed several studies measuring their relation to human behavior, peripheral physiology and brain physiology in about 160 participants. We first focused on the learning mechanisms implicated in learning with feedback from the body, and then investigated how autonomic responses related to several aspects of awareness in associative learning tasks. Our results provide evidence that people can improve in their sensitivity to discriminate between mental states, while their confidence in doing so is unaffected. Our results also indicate no evidence for the malleability of phasic heart rate response by implicit knowledge. Taken together, these results suggest that consciousness is not easily influenced by learning with external feedback from the body. At a more abstract conceptual level, we explored several methodological considerations when interpreting changes in subjective reports and separated the potential contributions of knowledge and direct perception. Finally, we presented a novel taxonomy for categorizing neurofeedback paradigms, which may be of help to disentangle the learning process that is implicated in neurofeedback.Doctorat en Sciences psychologiques et de l'éducation
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Finn, Elizabeth M. "Negatively Disinhibited Online Communication: The Role of Visual Anonymity and Public Self-Awareness." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1461142960.
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Stoytchev, Alexander. "Robot Tool Behavior: A Developmental Approach to Autonomous Tool Use." Diss., Available online, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007, 2007. http://etd.gatech.edu/theses/available/etd-06112007-013056/.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008.Isbell, Charles, Committee Member ; Lipkin, Harvey, Committee Member ; Balch, Tucker, Committee Member ; Bobick, Aaron, Committee Member ; Arkin, Ronald, Committee Chair.
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Tatone, Jenny. "Integrating Contemplative Learning into New Media Literacy: Heightening Self-Awareness and Critical Consciousness for Enriched Relationships with and within New Media Ecologies." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/20518.
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This thesis explores the relationships and experiences that young adults have with and within complicated and always changing new media environments, such as those afforded by social media platforms and mobile media applications. By analyzing the ways in which digital realms are both open and interconnected and also marketized and restricted, this thesis explores how a contemplative approach to new media literacy pedagogy could help young adults to perceive new media from multiple, contradictory viewpoints at once, thereby supporting them in creating healthy, productive, creative, and imaginative relationships with the digital and public technologies mediating their lives, at the same time mitigating the challenges associated with commercialized, habituated new media experience. This thesis takes an auto-ethnographic approach, merging personal narratives with qualitative interpretations of where philosophies of technology, theories of media literacies, and the results of focus group studies intersect.
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Lodato, Thomas James. "A treatise on the loop as a desired form: visual feedback and relational new media." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/33880.
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The visual feedback loop has long-been ignored as a form and an aesthetic within new media. Media theories have largely assumed a medium is defined by the material technology, relegating visual feedback to a circumstance of media rather than a unique and well-defined concept. This thesis sets forth a criteria for characterizing the visual feedback loop as a desired form, that is, a distinct set of formal and phenomenological qualities that are independent of a medium. Grounding the criteria are the cinema theories of Gilles Deleuze and Sean Cubitt; these theories propose that the cinematic image relates visual forms to generate information in decoding rather represents information directly. The thesis elaborates the theoretical concepts in examples of visual feedback loops from video (Nam June Paikâ s TV Buddha, Bruce Naumanâ s Live Taped Video Corridor), new media art (Daniel Rozinâ s physical mirrors), and digital technologies (GPS navigation systems). To reconcile the visual feedback loop within media theories, the thesis calls for a radical change in how theorists define a medium. Moving away from notions of inscription and materiality, media now rely on a collapsed distinction between sender and receiver. Hence, visual feedback loops exist as remediations of a conceptual framework rather than a technological one, and so require a logic within media theory that allow for the rise of other desired forms like the visual feedback loop.
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Mascarello, Chiara. "Self-awareness in tibetan buddhism. A study of the philosophical relevance of rang rig and its contribution to the contemporary debates on the nature of consciousness." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3423274.
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This research examines the concept of self-awareness (svasamvedana: rang rig) as it was developed in the Indo-Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Self-cognition, that is, the mind’s knowing of itself, is a highly technical concept in Buddhist philosophy and, since it targets fundamental issues relating to the nature of consciousness, represents a crucial subject of debate among various scholars of the tradition. However, modern scholarship has not yet fully examined this field despite the most recent reflections upon self-awareness in the ongoing philosophical debates on subjective experience calling for a deeper study of the insights the Buddhist contemplative tradition might offer in helping to unravel the conundrum that the nature of consciousness presents. Dwelling upon the different understandings of the Buddhist notion of svasamvedana/rang rig, this dissertation mainly examines its Tibetan developments, in light of the Indian philosophical legacy, and the contribution they may offer to a universal discourse on self-awareness, mainly through dialogue with the potentials and tendencies of contemporary philosophy of mind.
After a few introductory remarks, the first part of the research examines the Indian origins and main developments related to the concept of svasamvedana. I start by exploring the initial emergence of the idea of self-awareness in some pre-Dignaga Buddhist sources before taking a closer look at Dignaga’s epistemological formulation of the concept and, finally, considering the main post-Dignaga Indian developments. As such, the first part of the research is intended as an overview of the Indian Buddhist history of the idea of self-awareness that precedes its Tibetan assimilation, an important background that must be considered for a proper understanding of the Tibetan debates.
The second part of the research focuses on the multidimensional relevance that the idea of rang rig acquires in the Tibetan arena. Selecting a few representative Tibetan accounts, I analyze their most relevant philosophical implications. To begin with, I discuss some aspects of the main categories that have been adopted in modern scholarship for the classification of the various understandings of self-awareness. Then, I investigate how the two main features of the intentionality and luminosity of consciousness are questioned and problematized by Tibetan scholars, analyzing the epistemological issues self-awareness entails, such as memory and the validity of cognition, and examining the role of ontology in interpreting self-awareness, especially in relation to the two truths. Moreover, I investigate the soteriological implications of rang rig in relation to spiritual breakthrough, with special reference to the rDzogs-chen view.
The final section of the thesis attempts to create a dialogue between the Tibetan tradition and contemporary studies on self-awareness. These days, self-awareness is still a hot topic tightly linked to the problem of the nature of subjective experience as well as other issues such as the hard problem of consciousness, the differences between same-order and higher-order theories, the relationship between intentionality and phenomenality, and the controversial role of subjectivity. I proceed by identifying aspects and dimensions of the discourse on self-cognition where the Tibetan understandings of this concept can fruitfully meet with the problems and strands of the ongoing debates in philosophy of mind. By putting them in dialogue I analyze the resonances and differences between the legacy of the Indo-Tibetan tradition and the modern controversies that arise.
What ensues from this research is an overall examination of the main accounts of the Buddhist notion of svasamvedana/rang rig, with a specific focus on the Tibetan assimilation and developments of the topic in light of the previous Indian thought upon it. These philosophical positions are unpacked, intertwined, interpreted and considered against a wider reflection upon the universal problems of self-awareness by assuming a methodological approach that allows the categorization and analysis of the challenges and nuances of the cross-cultural praxis itself. With this work I intend to follow the suggestion, recently made by a few recent scholars, to deepen and broaden our understanding of svasamvedana by putting it in relation to the contemporary sensitivity to the topic and in dialogue with comparable ongoing reflections upon the nature of consciousness. Even just scratching the surface of such a delicate, vast and complicated philosophical project, I hope to be able to tap into the mutually transformative potentials of such a cross-cultural philosophical enterprise, whose challenges now more than ever are becoming urgent, demanding but also promising.Questa ricerca esamina il concetto di autocoscienza (svasamvedana: rang rig) come è stato sviluppato nella tradizione buddista indo-tibetana. L'autocoscienza, cioè la conoscenza che la mente ha di se stessa, è un concetto che presenta un alto livello di complessità e tecnicità all’interno della filosofia buddista e, poiché interseca questioni fondamentali relative alla natura della coscienza, rappresenta un argomento cruciale di dibattito tra i vari studiosi della tradizione. D’altra parte l'esegesi moderna non ha ancora esaminato completamente questo campo, nonostante la riflessione contemporanea sull'autoconsapevolezza e sulla natura dell’esperienza soggettiva potrebbe senza dubbio giovarsi delle intuizioni che la tradizione contemplativa buddhista offre. Approfondendo le diverse concezioni della nozione buddhista di autocoscienza, questa dissertazione esamina principalmente i suoi sviluppi nella filosofia tibetana, sia alla luce del retaggio filosofico indiano, sia considerando il contributo che essi possono offrire a un discorso universale sull'autocoscienza e sulla natura dell’esperienza, attraverso il dialogo con la filosofia della mente contemporanea.
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Davis, Rachel Kathless. "F.R.E.E.D.O.M. finding release to explore and experience dimensions of me : development of a family life education program /." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1146160314.
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Bodiba, Prudence Mafowane Wilheminah. "The relationship between body mass and self concept among adolescent female university students." Thesis, University of Limpopo (Turfloop Campus), 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/1138.
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Thesis (M.A. (Clinical Psychology)) --University of Limpopo, 2006The purpose of the research study is to investigate the relationship between body mass and self-concept among adolescent female university students. First year female students from three different Schools and Faculties at the University of Limpopo, Turfloop Campus participated in the study. They were 75 in number. The study has both a quantitative and qualitative aspects. The qualitative was used to complement the quantitative aspect. The Rosenberg Self-esteem Measure was used to measure self-esteem. For the qualitative aspect, a topic guide was used for the focus group discussion prepared and used for the focus group discussion. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and the Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation were used to analyse the quantitative data. Results show that there is a relationship between body mass and self-concept and that overweight participants tend to have a low self-esteem. This low self-esteem was perceived to be aggravated by a number of factors like the attitude of the media and the society. Participants who are overweight also indicated that they are limited in certain areas of their lives (e.g., sports) as a result of their body mass. They expressed mixed feelings and frustration when it comes to such areas of like. Support groups, life-skills programmes and psychotherapy should be made available and attainable for overweight female adolescents.
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Tollemache, Catherine Elizabeth Ann. "How do new media technologies reconfigure the experience of watching and being watched?" Thesis, Bucks New University, 2012. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.714454.
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Routledge, Andrew James. "The internal structure of consciousness." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2015. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-internal-structure-of-consciousness(4e91f257-fa9f-4a53-81be-e30cdb0002a5).html.
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Our understanding of the physical world has evolved drastically over the last century and the microstructure described by subatomic physics has been found to be far stranger than we could previously have envisaged. However, our corresponding model of experience and its structure has remained largely untouched. The orthodox view conceives of our experience as made up of a number of different simpler experiences that are largely independent of one another. This traditional atomistic picture is deeply entrenched. But I argue that it is wrong. Our experience is extraordinarily rich and complex. In just a few seconds we may see, hear and smell a variety of things, feel the position and movement of our body, experience a blend of emotions, and undergo a series of conscious thoughts. This very familiar fact generates three puzzling questions. The first question concerns the way in which all these different things are experienced together. What we see, for example, is experienced alongside what we hear. Our visual experience does not occur in isolation from our auditory experience, sealed off and separate. It is fused together in some sense. It is co-conscious. We may then ask the Unity Question: What does the unity of consciousness consist in? The second question is the Counting Question: How many experiences does a unified region of consciousness involve? Should we think of our experience at a time as consisting in just one very rich experience, in a handful of sense-specific experiences, or in many very simple experiences? How should we go about counting experiences? Is there any principled way to do so?The third and final question, the Dependency Question, concerns the degree of autonomy of the various different aspects of our unified experience. For example, would one's visual experience be the same if one's emotional experience differed? Is the apparent colour of a sunset affected by the emotional state that we are in at the time? I offer a new answer to the Unity Question and argue that it has striking implications for the way that we address the Counting Question and the Dependency Question. In particular, it supports the view that our experience at a time consists in just one very rich experience in which all of the different aspects are heavily interdependent.
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Li, Brian. "The Theories of Deindividuation." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2010. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/12.
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Has it ever occurred to you to wonder why a soldier would sacrifice his life by jumping on a bomb to save the rest of his brigade? Or why an individual in a gang might display respectable behavior when alone but swear and vandalize when in the group? The phenomenon of people getting pulled into crowds and adopting the group’s mentalities and behaviors has been recognized but not fully researched. However, it has been recorded in early literature and research that it is human nature to want to fit into a group, for example in Abraham Maslow’s (1943) paper, A Theory of Human Motivation, in which he proposed that the hierarchy of human needs includes a stage that emphasized an individual’s need to feel a sense of belonging.
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McRobert, Neil. "The new labyrinth : reading, writing and textuality in contemporary Gothic fiction." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.605851.
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This thesis examines the forms and functions of self-consciousness in contemporary Gothic fiction. Though self-consciousness is an often-mentioned characteristic of Gothic writing, it has yet to be explored in sufficient depth. In particular, critics have failed to recognise the manner in which the myriad forms of textual and generic self-reflexivity at work contribute to the fiction’s fearful agenda: how self-consciousness in the Gothic is itself Gothicised. This thesis argues that, rather than being an ancillary quirk of generic coherence or an indication of creative exhaustion, self-consciousness has become an integral part of the genre’s terroristic project, a new source and representational mode of terror. In the wake of postmodern and post-structural theory, the genre’s longstanding interest in reading, writing and textuality has been renewed, re-contextualised and redeployed as a key feature of the Gothic ‘effect’. My original contribution to knowledge is a charting of the intersections between the Gothic and this critical perspective on the text. In particular I explore how the Barthesian reorientation of the text is redeployed in Gothic fiction as a source of terror. Rather than pursuing an author-centric division of chapters I have organised the thesis around types of self-conscious commentary that occur throughout the contemporary Gothic. These are: a focus on the process of writing and textual composition; the internalisation and Gothicised representation of critical theory; an acute awareness and meta-commentary on the critical and commercial contexts of Gothic; and intertextuality. Key texts include Stephen King’s Misery (1987), Mark Danielewski’s House of Leaves (2000), Chuck Palahniuk’s Haunted (2005), A.N. Wilson’s A Jealous Ghost (2005), R. M. Berry’s Frank (2005) and Peter Ackroyd’s The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein (2008). This selection of texts is representative of a varied but coherent inward turn in the Gothic fiction of recent decades. It is, however, by no means exhaustive and supplementary evidence will be provided from additional texts. Equally, it is important to contextualise this contemporary turn in relation to an established vein of self-consciousness in the Gothic, present since its inception. As such, my approach is firstly to trace a lineage of reflexivity and to draw upon that tradition in demonstrating how contemporary Gothic writers have honed this technique to a uniquely terrifying purpose.
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Abramowitz, Rachel I. "Donald Barthelme and 'Not-Knowing', 1964-1987." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:c183d6a9-86f9-4337-b6c5-4efdc6dc0731.
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This thesis argues that Barthelme's major 1985 essay "Not-Knowing" contains within its title Barthelme's central artistic idea, and that not-knowing informs both the subject of his fiction and his philosophy of art. This study will be the first critical treatment of Barthelme that positions his work from beginning to end in terms of the dimensions of not-knowing that came out of his own reading in psychology, art theory, philosophy, religion, and education, offering coherent readings of content and suggesting the ways in which content relates to form. The Introduction explores the origins of Barthelme's ideas of not-knowing, paying special attention to the influence of Mallarmé, Joyce, and Beckett on Barthelme's first characterisations of not-knowing, creativity, and reception. The first chapter gives an in-depth reading of Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964), Barthelme's first collection of stories. Though Barthelme had not yet begun to formally theorise his ideas of not-knowing, they were already latent in Come Back, Dr. Caligari's characterisation of psychological experience, specifically in relation to anxiety, boredom, and interpretation. The second chapter looks at the ways in which Harold Rosenbergâs theories of the visual arts, and especially collage, which Barthelme encountered while co-editing Location magazine with Rosenberg in the early 1960s, address form and not-knowing, and how Barthelme treats these issues in Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968), City Life (1970), The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine (1971), Sadness (1972), Guilty Pleasures (1974), and Amateurs (1976). The third chapter shows how Barthelme's university studies in 19th century philosophy, especially Kierkegaard in The Concept of Irony (1841) and Kierkegaard's treatment of Schlegel in that treatise, inform his concern with irony, both in theory and practice, in City Life (1970), Great Days (1979), and Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983). Chapter Four argues that Kierkegaard's theories of education and religion in Either/Or (1843) and The Present Age (1846), as well as the contemporary incarnation of Dewey's ideas of progressive education, both had a profound influence on Barthelme's ideas about the way a society is educated into knowingness, the artist's aspiration toward not-knowing, and the validity of religion in the postmodern world. The conclusion to the thesis reexamines the Introduction's argument about literary influence through a brief reading of The Dead Father (1975). Barthelme is recognised as one of the most important American postmodernist writers, and yet there has been relatively little critical treatment of his oeuvre. The major books that address Barthelme's work, which include Jerome Klinkowitz's Literary Disruptions: The Making of a Post-Contemporary American Fiction (1975) and Donald Barthelme: An Exhibition (1991), as well as Alan Wilde's Horizons of Assent (1981) and Stanley Trachtenberg's Understanding Donald Barthelme (1990), belong to a two-decade span of classifying writers such as Barthelme, Thomas Pynchon, Robert Coover, and John Barth using a limited set of ideas about postmodernism that were interesting as theory at the time, but did little to explore the actual literary, philosophical, and aesthetic content and contexts of these writers' works (with the possible exception of Pynchon). This thesis aims to rescue Barthelme from now-hackneyed ways of talking about postmodernism, which include lumping various aesthetic techniques under the rubric of "metafiction," claiming that the era's sole interest is in surface at the expense of depth, and that the dependence upon clichés is a deliberate expression of artistic exhaustion.
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Gealfow, John. "Strategie snižování míry prokrastinace při používání metod zlepšujících vědomí a emoční autoregulaci." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta podnikatelská, 2021. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-449768.
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This diploma thesis is proposing and evaluating a strategy of human resource management in the field of productivity of intellectual workers and students while using insights from scientific research on procrastination and productivity. The suggested strategy implements especially two methods that were found effective for lowering the rate of procrastination in latest scientific studies – the method of awareness and mindfulness and the method of journaling. This diploma thesis includes design and creation of an educational program consisting of video lessons in the field of time-management, techniques of mindfulness and awareness and the method of journaling. Furthermore, it includes running research with a group of students during an exam period, while all participants record information on using the above mentioned methods for the period of 15 days, while the logged information has combined nature between objective information on performance (data on usage of personal computer, data on the amount of work done and time spent on it) and self-evaluation information (subjective evaluation of daily performance and subjective evaluation of perceived daily happiness). This thesis evaluates the suggested strategy on the research sample of 15 university students and is using the methods of input and output questionnaire, same as analysis of the continuous data logged while journaling from the research participants, to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed strategy. The goal is to be able to apply this strategy in the business practice in human resource management. Another possible application is also improvement of study productivity of students using self-management techniques.
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Daveau, Doriane. "De l’activation au comportement : une contribution à l’étude des processus sous-jacents aux effets d’amorçage comportemental." Thesis, Bordeaux, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018BORD0213/document.
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Les effets d’amorçage comportemental ont fait l’objet de nombreuses recherches. Ces travaux ont révélé que l’activation incidente de concepts pouvait orienter le comportement des individus et que cette influence pouvait avoir lieu en dehors de la conscience. Toutefois, des critiques ont émergé à propos de ce champ de recherche, remettant en question la robustesse de certains types d’effets d’amorçage et la véracité de ces effets. L’identification des processus sous-jacents aux effets d’amorçage comportemental s’est alors imposée comme indispensable afin de mieux comprendre sous quelles conditions ils apparaissent et ainsi pourquoi ils font l’objet de difficultés de réplication. Ce travail de thèse a pour objectif d’apporter une contribution à l’identification des processus sous-jacents aux effets d’amorçage. A travers neuf expériences, nous avons testé d’une part, l’idée selon laquelle des caractéristiques méthodologiques (e.g., la durée d’exposition aux amorces) étaient propices à l’émergence de ces effets, d’autre part le rôle modérateur de certains facteurs (i.e., le concept de soi) dont une partie de la littérature suppose qu’ils sont impliqués dans ces effets. Les résultats montrent que le concept de soi pourrait être un déterminant de l’ampleur et de la direction des effets d’amorçage comportemental, selon l’implication de la conscience de soi ou de l’estime de soi. De plus, le niveau de perception des amorces semble être un candidat privilégié des modérateurs de l’amorçage comportemental. Dans l’ensemble, ces résultats fournissent des éléments afin de poursuivre l’investigation des mécanismes sous-jacents aux effets d’amorçage comportementalThe prime-to-behavior effects have been widely studied. Research revealed that incidental concept activation could guide subsequent behavior and that this influence could be unconscious. However, some critics have emerged about these effects, questioning the robustness and the veracity of the prime-to-behavior effects. Identifying the underlying processes is essential to better understand under which conditions these effects appear and why some researchers have failed to replicate them. This work aimed at contributing to the identification of underlying mechanisms of these effects. Through nine experiments, we tested at one hand some methodological characteristics supposed to promote the emergence of these effects and, on the other hand some supposed theoretical moderators of the prime-to-behavior effects. Results prove the self-concept could determine the magnitude and the direction of these effects, depending on the self-consciousness or the self-esteem to be involved. Moreover, the level of conscious perception of the primes seems to be a potential moderator of the prime-to-behavior effects. Together, these results provide elements to continue the investigation of the underlying mechanisms of the prime- to-behavior effects
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Becquet, Celine. "Conscience de soi et mémoire : étude des perturbations mnésiques associées au stress Self-awareness in transient global amnesia : distinguishing the effects oftransient memory disorder vs. pre-existing vulnerability factors Episodic autobiographical memory impairment and differences in pronoun use: study of self-awareness in functional amnesia and transient global amnesia Autobiographical memories in post-traumatic stress disorder L’identité : une représentation de soi qui accommode la réalité Évaluation neuropsychologique de la mémoire épisodique." Thesis, Normandie, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020NORMC026.
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La conscience de soi permet à un individu de se connaître et de réaliser son action sur le monde. Ces travaux concernent la compréhension des liens entre la conscience de soi et les formes de mémoire associées au self (mémoire épisodique et autobiographique) des patients et des patientes présentant des troubles de la mémoire associés au stress. Trois populations ont été étudiées : des patient∙e∙s présentant un ictus amnésique idiopathique, des patients∙e∙s avec une amnésie dissociative et des personnes exposées à un trauma (les attaques du 13/11/2015 à Paris) présentant ou non un trouble de stress post-traumatique (TSPT). Ces trois perturbations de la mémoire ont en commun leur origine fonctionnelle (atteinte de la fonction cognitive sans lésion « mécanique » des structures cérébrales qui sous-tendent cette fonction) et la présence récurrente d’un événement stressant, voire traumatique pour le TSPT, dans le déclenchement du trouble. Ce travail adopte une double perspective, à la fois fondamentale (contribuer aux modèles décrivant les relations entre mémoire et conscience de soi) et clinique (contribuer à la compréhension des symptômes mnésiques associés au stress dans une perspective neuropsychologique). Cette thèse commence par une introduction théorique visant à définir les différents concepts dissimulés sous les dénominations génériques de « conscience », de « self » et de « conscience de soi ». Ensuite, trois études originales sont présentées étudiant différentes dimensions de la conscience de soi en situation de perturbation mnésique liée au stress. La première étudie la focalisation de l’attention sur soi chez des patient∙e∙s présentant ou ayant présenté un ictus amnésique idiopathique. La seconde étude compare l’utilisation des pronoms personnels dans les récits autobiographiques de patient∙e∙s en phase aiguë d’ictus amnésique et dans ceux de personnes avec une amnésie dissociative. Enfin, la troisième étude explore les contenus de récits personnels associés ou non à un traumatisme selon les participant∙e∙s, chez des personnes ayant été exposées aux attaques du 13/11 à Paris. La discussion propose une ouverture sur les origines cérébrales des mécanismes observés dans le cadre de ces études et s’inscrit dans un large champ de recherche qui cherche à expliquer les conséquences neurocognitives du stress sur la mémoire des individusSelf-awareness allow individuals to know themselves and be aware of their action toward the world. The present work is focused on relationships between self-awareness and self related form of memory (episodic and autobiographical memory)
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Legrain, Laure. "Approche développementale de la théorie de l'esprit, de la conscience de soi et de leurs relations." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209988.
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Les cinq études détaillées au cours de cette thèse interrogent divers aspects de la théorie de l’esprit, de la conscience de soi ainsi que du lien (multiple ou unique) qui unit ces deux capacités sociocognitives si particulières. Les deux premières études mettent en évidence différentes variables qui peuvent – ou non- influencer l’attribution d’intention et de fausse croyance à autrui. La troisième étude porte plus précisément sur les différents composants de la conscience de soi et sur leur trajectoire développementale. La quatrième étude interroge le lien développemental entre la théorie de l’esprit et la conscience de soi, alors que la dernière étude questionne la présence de ce lien chez les chimpanzés (Pan Troglodytes). Nous démontrerons, tout au long de cette thèse, que la théorie de l’esprit et la conscience de soi sont composées de différents éléments et que leur acquisition est graduelle.Doctorat en Sciences Psychologiques et de l'éducation
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Mastrokalou, Effrosyni Efrosini. "Exploring 'optimal' states of consciousness in Michael Chekhov's psychological gesture : towards a new phenomenological paradigm." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/29894.
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This thesis examines key concepts from philosophers Nishida Kitaro, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Fredriche Nietzsche and applies them to elements of Michael Chekhov’s practice of acting. The three philosophers, in different ways, suggest an ‘optimal’ state, beyond a dualistic separation of the fictive from the real and the visible from the invisible, that challenges seemingly unbridgeable dualisms between inner and outer, subject and object, being and becoming and experiencer and experienced. The purpose of this thesis is to analyze and understand these selected ‘optimal’ modes of consciousness in performance and, therefore, open up new ways of thinking about Michael Chekhov’s acting processes; in particular the ‘Psychological Gesture’. The thesis asks the following questions: 1. How can the application of selected philosophical paradigms to the Psychological Gesture through theory and practice further our understanding of Michael Chekhov’s work? 2. How do selected aspects of the fields of phenomenology, post-phenomenology, cognitive sciences, consciousness studies and philosophy of mind, aid in developing an articulation and understanding of an ‘optimal’ state of consciousness as a necessary aspect of the actor’s performance in Michael Chekhov’s work and theatre practice? 3. How can this project develop the way we are able to talk about Michael Chekhov’s work and wider acting processes?
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Sik, Wilhma. "The impact of group play therapy on the social skills of shy children in their middle childhood." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2003. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-08172004-072009.
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Pak, Inchan. "Historical Reconstruction and Self-Search: A Study of Thomas Pynchon's V.. John Barth's The Sot-Weed Factor. Norman Mailer's The Armies of the Nicrht. Robert Coover's The Public Burning, and E.L. Doctorow's The Book of Daniel." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1995. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277638/.
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A search for self through historical reconstruction constitutes a crucial concern of the American postmodern historical novels of Pynchon, Barth, Mailer, Coover, and Doctorow. This concern consists of a self-conscious dramatization, paralleled by contemporary theorists' arguments, of the constructedness of history and individual subject. A historian-character's process of historical inquiry and narrative-making foregrounded in these novels represents the efforts by the postmodern self to (re)construct identity (or identities) in a constructing context of discourse and ideology.
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Hart, M. J. Alexandra. "Action in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: an Enactive Psycho-phenomenological and Semiotic Analysis of Thirty New Zealand Women's Experiences of Suffering and Recovery." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Social and Political Sciences, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/5294.
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This research into Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) presents the results of 60 first-person psycho-phenomenological interviews with 30 New Zealand women. The participants were recruited from the Canterbury and Wellington regions, 10 had recovered. Taking a non-dual, non-reductive embodied approach, the phenomenological data was analysed semiotically, using a graph-theoretical cluster analysis to elucidate the large number of resulting categories, and interpreted through the enactive approach to cognitive science.
The initial result of the analysis is a comprehensive exploration of the experience of CFS which develops subject-specific categories of experience and explores the relation of the illness to universal categories of experience, including self, ‘energy’, action, and being-able-to-do.
Transformations of the self surrounding being-able-to-do and not-being-able-to-do were shown to elucidate the illness process.
It is proposed that the concept ‘energy’ in the participants’ discourse is equivalent to the Mahayana Buddhist concept of ‘contact’. This characterises CFS as a breakdown of contact. Narrative content from the recovered interviewees reflects a reestablishment of contact.
The hypothesis that CFS is a disorder of action is investigated in detail.
A general model for the phenomenology and functional architecture of action is proposed. This model is a recursive loop involving felt meaning, contact, action, and perception and appears to be phenomenologically supported.
It is proposed that the CFS illness process is a dynamical decompensation of the subject’s action loop caused by a breakdown in the process of contact.
On this basis, a new interpretation of neurological findings in relation to CFS becomes possible. A neurological phenomenon that correlates with the illness and involves a brain region that has a similar structure to the action model’s recursive loop is identified in previous research results and compared with the action model and the results of this research. This correspondence may identify the brain regions involved in the illness process, which may provide an objective diagnostic test for the condition and approaches to treatment.
The implications of this model for cognitive science and CFS should be investigated through neurophenomenological research since the model stands to shed considerable light on the nature of consciousness, contact and agency.
Phenomenologically based treatments are proposed, along with suggestions for future research on CFS. The research may clarify the diagnostic criteria for CFS and guide management and treatment programmes, particularly multidimensional and interdisciplinary approaches.
Category theory is proposed as a foundation for a mathematisation of phenomenology.
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Hattingh, Lizette. "Self-awareness as a condition for personal leadership." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/4344.
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M.Phil.In the changing world of today, individuals experience a lack of meaning and direction in their lives. Personal leadership is an approach that enables individuals to achieve a deeper self-insight and form a more distinct vision of their future. The objective of this study was to investigate the contribution of self-awareness to personal leadership. With a view to gain a better understanding of self-awareness, a word and concept analysis of self-awareness was conducted in Chapter two by means of dictionary explanations as well as consulting viewpoints of experts from different perspectives. The relevant information gleaned from psychology and sociology was categorized to describe the ontological (essential nature), teleological (purpose), sociological (social nature) and methodological (methods) dimensions of self-awareness. Based on this analysis, self-awareness can be described as a psychological state or condition of attending to one's physical, spiritual, emotional and/or mental qualities by means of reflection, introspection and/or inner speech. It is thus an on-going process of seeing things both as they are and as they could be, as well as to form a perception of what is real. Furthermore, it was determined that self-awareness provides the key to a person's being, as it enables one to achieve: • self-knowledge or a candid assessment of personal strengths, limitations, needs, abilities, values and beliefs; • a solid self-concept or an awareness of the dominant thoughts, perceptions and feelings one has about oneself and thus to alter any unrealistic beliefs; • self-acceptance or insight into and understanding of oneself, which culminates in accepting oneself and others; • self-regulation or an awareness of one's internal states and values enabling one to manage oneself and to be flexible in adapting to change; • self-actualization or an awareness of one's unique nature, abilities and purpose enabling one to fulfil one's needs, realize one's potential and achieve meaning in life. In addition, it was also discovered that self-awareness could be achieved and/or developed through various methods like self-analysis, personality instruments, meditation, mentoring, and/or facilitation courses. Chapter three focused on the contribution of self-awareness to personal leadership. It was indicated that personal leadership is a process in which a person takes control of his/her own life. By consulting views of various authors on the subject, it was also established that the underlying foundation of personal leadership is an 'inside-out' approach, which means to start first with one's own perceptions, character and motives. As this approach involves a proactive attitude that is character-based and centred on principles and values, it enables one to achieve personal mastery. The role of self-awareness in each phase in the process of personal leadership was investigated. It was found that self-awareness enables the individual to gain knowledge of his/her different qualities, potential and core values, which is vital for understanding "Who am I?" in the first phase of personal leadership. Furthermore, it was also established that an awareness of one's unique nature, abilities and core values culminates in creating a personal vision, which is crucial to the second phase of "Where am I going?" in the personal leadership process. The last phase in this process addresses the question of "How am I going to get there?" and, consequently, an awareness of one's values, purpose, roles and conscience plays a vital role in taking certain steps to ensure that one realizes one's dreams. Based on the contribution of self-awareness to various aspects of personal leadership, the conclusion of this study was that self-awareness is a condition for personal leadership.
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Scandell, Donald James. "Self-awareness, self-consciousness and performance on the NEO-five factor inventory /." Diss., 1997. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:9814988.
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McDonald, Michael J. "The voice and volume of leader self-awareness a quantitative study of the relationship between leader self-awareness and team engagement /." 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1932995551&sid=11&Fmt=2&clientId=14215&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2009.Title from title screen (site viewed February 25, 2010). PDF text: 225 p. ; 2 Mb. UMI publication number: AAT 3386555. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in microfilm and microfiche formats.
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"The Relationship between school performance and self esteem, self salience, and self consciousness." Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1992. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5887001.
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by Ho Sai Mun.Original questionnaire in Chinese.
Thesis (M.A.Ed.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1992.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 97-107).
Acknowledgements
Abstract
List of Tables
List of Figures
Chapter Page
Chapter I --- Background of Study --- p.1
Chapter II --- Statement of Problem --- p.9
Chapter III --- Review of Literature --- p.12
Chapter A. --- From Global to Multidimensional Self Concept --- p.12
Chapter B. --- From Nomothetic to Idiographic Self Concept --- p.16
Chapter C. --- From Self Knowledge to Self Consciousness --- p.21
Chapter IV --- Research Methodology --- p.26
Chapter A. --- Definition of Variables --- p.26
Chapter B. --- Conceptual Framework --- p.28
Chapter C. --- Hypotheses --- p.29
Chapter D. --- Instrumentation --- p.31
Chapter E. --- Sampling --- p.33
Chapter F. --- Procedure --- p.33
Chapter G. --- Statistical Analyses --- p.34
Chapter V --- Results --- p.38
Chapter A. --- Multidimensionality of Self Aspects --- p.38
Chapter B. --- Distinctiveness of Self Aspects --- p.42
Chapter C. --- Specificity of Self Aspects --- p.44
Chapter D. --- Moderator Effects of Self Salience and Self Consciousness --- p.47
Chapter E. --- Multiple Determination of School Performance --- p.57
Chapter F. --- Comparison of Academic Achievement Measures --- p.65
Chapter VI --- Discussion and Conclusion --- p.71
Chapter A. --- Complexity of Self Concept --- p.72
Chapter B. --- Evaluation of School Performance --- p.75
Chapter C. --- Prediction of School Performance by Self Concept --- p.80
Chapter D. --- Moderator Effects of Self Salience and Self Consciousness --- p.85
Chapter E. --- Limitations and Suggestions --- p.90
Chapter F. --- Conclusion --- p.94
References --- p.97
Appendices
Chapter A. --- Original Questionnaire in Chinese --- p.108
Chapter B. --- English Translation of the Questionnaire --- p.117
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Ashley, Gregory Charles. "Self-awareness what is it and what does it predict? /." 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1806550621&sid=5&Fmt=2&clientId=14215&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2009.Title from title screen (site viewed January 5, 2010). PDF text: iv, 80 p. : ill. ; 613 K. UMI publication number: AAT 3359349. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in microfilm and microfiche formats.
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MacKenzie, Matthew D. "Self-awareness issues in classical Indian and contermporary Western philosophy /." Thesis, 2004. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=765934181&SrchMode=1&sid=4&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1233714330&clientId=23440.
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Lee, Ming-Ni. "Relative awareness in dreams following loss and trauma." 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10048/1198.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Alberta, 2010."A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Psychology, University of Alberta." Title from pdf file main screen (viewed on July 23, 2010) Includes bibliographical references.
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Schuler, Lisa A. "Public self-consciousness, impression motivation, and social physique anxiety a comparison of correlations /." 2002. http://www.oregonpdf.org.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Northern Illinois University, 2002.Includes bibliographical references (leaves [82]-85). Also available online (PDF file) by a subscription to the set or by purchasing the individual file.
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Pihas, Gabriel. "Curiosity and the idle reader : self-consciousness in Renaissance epic /." 2003. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3088779.
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"Kant's transcendental method and its under-thematized problem." 1997. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5889316.
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Chong-Fuk Lau.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1997.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 123-127).
Abstract --- p.3
Chapter 1. --- Introduction --- p.7
Chapter 1.1. --- The General Problem of Transcendental Philosophy --- p.10
Chapter 1.2. --- The Concept of Method --- p.14
Chapter 1.3. --- The Concept of Transcendental Method --- p.17
Chapter 1.4. --- The Under-Thematized Problem --- p.20
Chapter 2. --- Kant's Transcendental Method --- p.23
Chapter 2.1. --- Negative Elucidation --- p.23
Chapter 2.1.1. --- The Hypothetical Interpretation --- p.23
Chapter 2.1.2. --- The Analytic Interpretation --- p.26
Chapter 2.2. --- Positive Elucidation --- p.33
Chapter 2.2.1. --- Illumination from the Doctrine of Method --- p.38
Chapter 2.2.1.1. --- Mathematical and Philosophical Method --- p.39
Chapter 2.2.1.2. --- The Guide of Possible Experience --- p.42
Chapter 2.2.1.3. --- The Criteria of Transcendental Method --- p.48
Chapter 2.2.2. --- The Structure of Self-Referentiality --- p.53
Chapter 2.2.3. --- Kant's Program of Deduction --- p.63
Chapter 2.2.4. --- The Problem of Reflection --- p.69
Chapter 2.3. --- Transition to the Under-Thematized Problem --- p.71
Chapter 3. --- The Problem of Self-Consciousness --- p.76
Chapter 3.1. --- A Brief Review of the History of the Problem --- p.78
Chapter 3.2. --- Kant's Explicit Doctrine of Self-Consciousness --- p.81
Chapter 3.2.1. --- The Doctrine of Inner Sense --- p.84
Chapter 3.2.2. --- The Criticism of Rational Psychology --- p.90
Chapter 3.3. --- Approaching a Coherent Interpretation --- p.95
Chapter 3.3.1. --- The Apparent Conflict and the Clue to Its Solution --- p.95
Chapter 3.3.2. --- The Concept of Consciousness in Self-Consciousness --- p.99
Chapter 3.3.2.1. --- Consciousness versus Experience --- p.100
Chapter 3.3.2.2. --- Consciousness versus Cognition --- p.105
Chapter 3.3.3. --- The Concept of Self in Self-Consciousness --- p.108
Chapter 3.3.4. --- The Problem of Reflection Revisited --- p.112
Chapter 3.4. --- The Need of Further Exploration --- p.116
Chapter 4. --- Conclusion --- p.121
Chapter 5. --- Bibliography --- p.123
Chapter 5.1. --- Kant's Works in German Original --- p.123
Chapter 5.2. --- English Translations and Abbreviations of Kant's Works --- p.123
Chapter 5.3. --- English References --- p.124
Chapter 5.4. --- Chinese References --- p.127
Chapter 6. --- Indices --- p.128
Chapter 6.1. --- Index of Names --- p.128
Chapter 6.2. --- Index of Citations from Kant's Texts --- p.129
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Blackhurst, Lindsey Elizabeth. "Exploring the Whole Singing Self with Technique, Contemplative Education, and Mindfulness." Thesis, 2021. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-d6g7-b197.
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This dissertation is a study wrapped in a metaphor of voices, figurative and literal. It is a story of four singers over the course of 12 weeks and weaves through individuals in a group singing class. As a study, it used integral inquiry and emphasized action and narrative research. It explored one overarching research question, which naturally led to several sub-questions: In what ways might Mindfulness Awareness Practices (MAPS) and contemplative teaching and learning practices affect singers’ experiences of their own vocal and personal growth? (Sub-questions: What practices are reported as being successful?; How do participants experience growth?; How might singers and teachers shift to a mindset of process and progress throughout practicing and performing?; How do we create a space of mutuality and trust to foster self-reflection?; How do we balance instruction, offering feedback when needed and wanted while fostering self-trust and independence? While singing is a wholistic endeavor requiring an intricate balance of physical and mental processes, we rarely discuss how teaching singing could consciously incorporate the mental and emotional into a voice studio. Learning to sing in a way that incorporates intentional mindful and contemplative practices into a more traditional vocal pedagogy might foster growth for singers both personally and artistically.
Over the course of 12 weeks, four singers and I met weekly for a two-hour class over Zoom that integrated contemplative learning and teaching practices into a singing class. We followed a format based in contemplative education and social and emotional literature for each class: (a) Centering and Check-In, (b) Third Thing, (c) Singing using contemplative and mindful language and concepts, (d) Optimistic Closure. Additionally, there were a total of three unstructured interviews (two individual, before and after the classes, and one final group interview at the conclusion of the classes), and participants engaged in practice journals and mindfulness practice outside of class time. Data was examined using a framework of non-hierarchical rhizomatic learning, based on the work of Deleuze and Guattari.
Participants’ stories were ripe with explorations of themselves, life circumstances that contributed to their relationships with their voices and vocal technique and musing on society and professional pressures. Primary discoveries include participants’ self-attributed growth in self-awareness, including self-efficacy and an increased growth mentality. Incorporating deliberate vocal technique using non-judgmental noticing, kinder self-talk, open-ended feedback, and the use of third thing discussions similarly enhanced participants’ self-defined growth and emphasized the importance of self-reflection within a group setting. The discussion concludes with an exploration of additional factors affecting participants’ growth, such as gender and race, and potential considerations for implementing continued work with singers, contemplative education, and mindfulness.
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Levant, Alex. "The problem of self-emancipation : subjectivity, organization and the weight of history /." 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:NR29336.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2007. Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought.Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 355-361). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:NR29336
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Arends, Jillian. "Formative evaluation of the team effectiveness programme on individual and team level within a development finance institution." Diss., 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/20809.
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A comprehensive programme evaluation can provide rational, credible data to
support the decision to implement a new programme, to improve an existing one or to discontinue an ineffective one. The main aim of a formative evaluation is to offer suggestions for programme improvement.
A qualitative study was conducted to explore how the introduction of a team effectiveness programme provided a process that individuals in the organisation were exposed to that linked the
constructs of self-awareness and interpersonal sensitivity as a way to empower individuals with
tools for effective team communication and collaboration.
The main findings indicate that individuals who are more self-aware make an effort to understand and adapt their behaviour to accommodate others. By contrast, there are individuals who use this as a defence mechanism or as an excuse for not adapting their behaviour. The polar opposite results in a breakdown of trust, team cohesion and communication that counteracts the effectiveness of the programme. In the absence of effective leadership to drive and continually reinforce desired behaviour, the individual tends to revert back to old behavioural practices.Industrial and Organisational Psychology
M.A. (Industrial and Organisational Psychology)