Internet search and page view behavior scores: Validity and usefulness as indicators of psychological states.

Tom Murphy's Bailegangaire, premiered by Druid Theatre, Galway, in 1985 has its origins in a three-part TV drama which Murphy started planning in 1981. Of the three scripts only one, Brigit, was screened by RTÉ in 1988, The Contest became A Thief of a Christmas which was staged by the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 1988, and Mommo, the last of the projected trilogy, became Bailegangaire. In 2014, nearly 30 years after its premiere, Druid staged Bailegangaire in tandem with Brigit which Murphy had reworked for the theatre, a pairing which, in bringing the fraught relationship of Mommo and her husband, Seamus, to the fore, helped clarify the grounds of the trauma informing her endless, but never completed narrative. This essay uses Murphy's notebooks and drafts, along with a comparison of Brigit in both its TV and theatre forms, to show how Murphy progressively refined Bailegangaire into a drama whose causal chain stretches back to psychological states forged under the stresses of the Irish Famine.

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Can we use Daily Internet Search Query Data to Improve Predicting Power of EGARCH Models for Financial Time Series Volatility?

International conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (ICSIS’2014) Oct 17-18, 2014 Dubai (UAE) ◽

10.15242/iie.e1014066 ◽

2014 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Keyword(s):

Time Series ◽

Financial Time Series ◽

Internet Search ◽

Search Query ◽

Financial Time

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Modality and folk psychology

Studies in history and philosophy of science and technology ◽

10.15421/271903 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 28 (1) ◽

pp. 19-27

Author(s):

Ja. O. Petik

Keyword(s):

Modal Logic ◽

Brain Activity ◽

Formal System ◽

Philosophy Of Logic ◽

Psychological States ◽

Formal Systems ◽

Modern Psychology ◽

Philosophical Interpretation ◽

Important Direction

The connection of the modern psychology and formal systems remains an important direction of research. This paper is centered on philosophical problems surrounding relations between mental and logic. Main attention is given to philosophy of logic but certain ideas are introduced that can be incorporated into the practical philosophical logic. The definition and properties of basic modal logic and descending ones which are used in study of mental activity are in view. The defining role of philosophical interpretation of modality for the particular formal system used for research in the field of psychological states of agents is postulated. Different semantics of modal logic are studied. The hypothesis about the connection of research in cognitive psychology (semantics of brain activity) and formal systems connected to research of psychological states is stated.

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The Impact of Internet Search Volume on the Consumers Purchases of Agricultural Food Products

Korean Agricultural Economics Association ◽

10.24997/kjae.2019.60.2.23 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 60 (2) ◽

pp. 23-42

Author(s):

Ho Young Rho ◽

Sung Yong Kim ◽

Tae Young Kim

Keyword(s):

Food Products ◽

Internet Search ◽

Search Volume ◽

The Impact ◽

Agricultural Food

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Dissociable hormonal responses to symptoms and stress in anorexia and bulimia nervosa

10.31234/osf.io/d3k4t ◽

2019 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Margaret L Westwater ◽

Flavia Mancini ◽

Jane Shapleske ◽

Jaco Serfontein ◽

Monique Ernst ◽

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Keyword(s):

Bulimia Nervosa ◽

Acute Stress ◽

Gut Hormones ◽

Metabolic Dysfunction ◽

Cortisol Reactivity ◽

Psychological States ◽

Study Session ◽

Gut Hormone ◽

Ad Libitum ◽

Acyl Ghrelin

Background: Anorexia nervosa (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN) are complex psychiatric conditions, in which both psychological and metabolic factors have been implicated. Critically, the experience of stress can precipitate loss-of-control eating in both conditions, suggesting an interplay between mental state and metabolic signaling. However, associations between psychological states, symptoms and metabolic processes in AN and BN have not been examined. Methods: Eighty-five women (n=22 AN binge/purge subtype, n=33 BN, n=30 controls) underwent remote salivary cortisol sampling and a two-day, inpatient study session to examine the effect of stress on cortisol, gut hormones (acyl-ghrelin, PYY, GLP-1) and food consumption. Participants were randomized to either an acute stress induction or control task on each day, and plasma hormones were serially measured before a naturalistic, ad libitum meal.Results: Cortisol awakening response (CAR) was augmented in AN but not BN relative to controls, with body mass index explaining the most variance in CAR (36%). Acute stress increased acyl-ghrelin and PYY in AN compared to controls; however, stress did not alter gut hormone profiles in BN. Instead, a group-by-stress interaction showed nominally reduced cortisol reactivity in BN, but not AN, compared to controls. Ad libitum consumption was lower in both patient groups and unaffected by stress.Conclusions: Findings extend previous reports of metabolic dysfunction in binge-eating disorders, identifying unique associations across disorders and under stress. Moreover, we observed disrupted homeostatic signaling in AN following psychological stress, which may explain, in part, the maintenance of dysregulated eating in this serious illness.

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