scholarly journals Fear Thy Neighbour: Socialisation and Isolation in Animal Crossing

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2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (22) ◽  
pp. 89-108
Author(s):  
Miguel Cesar
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Affective Design ◽  
Social Disconnection

In the last three decades Japan has experienced a steady process of social disconnection, the vanishing of interpersonal links, and the decline of the making of new bonds. As an increasingly popular saying, Japan has been labelled as a “muen shakai”, a relationless society. Then, while some neoliberal discourses have praised the disappearance of social relationships lionising individualism and self-responsibility, other voices have advocated for the active participation in the making of new communities. This article argues that,Animal Crossing has engaged this debate, exploring the complexities of the process of socialisation, interpersonal relationships, and the making of communitarian bonds. The article further argues that Animal Crossing: New Leaf proposes a socialisation simulation that presents such process as an uncontrollable, unpredictable, and demanding endeavour. To support this argument, the article examines Animal Crossing: New Leaf’s main mechanics focusing on its affective design, and how it modulates players’ attention through manipulating their agency over the game.

The Dialogical concept of consciousness in L.S. Vygotsky and G.H. Mead and its relevance for contemporary discussions on consciousness

2011 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leszek Koczanowicz
Keyword(s):  
Activity Theory ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
Cultural Activity ◽  
Contemporary Philosophy ◽  
Biological Phenomena ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
The World

The Dialogical concept of consciousness in L.S. Vygotsky and G.H. Mead and its relevance for contemporary discussions on consciousness In my paper I show the relevance of cultural-activity theory for solving the puzzles of the concept of consciousness which encounter contemporary philosophy. I reconstruct the main categories of cultural-activity theory as developed by M.M. Bakhtin, L.S. Vygotsky, G.H. Mead, and J. Dewey. For the concept of consciousness the most important thing is that the phenomenon of human consciousness is consider to be an effect of intersection of language, social relations, and activity. Therefore consciousness cannot be reduced to merely sensual experience but it has to be treated as a complex process in which experience is converted into language expressions which in turn are used for establishing interpersonal relationships. Consciousness thus can be accounted for by its reference to objectivity of social relationships rather than to the world of physical or biological phenomena.

Cultivating Innovation through Social Relationships

2011 ◽  
pp. 104-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Bridgstock ◽  
Shane Dawson ◽  
Greg Hearn
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Relationship Patterns ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
The Social ◽  
Innovation Capacity ◽  
Depth Interviews

In this chapter, social relationship patterns associated with outstanding innovation are described and explored. In doing so, the chapter draws upon the findings of 16 in-depth interviews with award-winning Australian innovators from science & technology and the creative industries. The interviews covered topics relating to various influences on individual innovation capacity and career development. For all of the participants, innovation was a highly social process. Although each had been recognised individually for their innovative success, none worked in isolation. The ability to generate innovative outcomes was grounded in certain types of interaction and collaboration. The chapter outlines the distinctive features of the social relationships which seem to be important to innovation, and ask which ‘social network capabilities’ might underlie the ability to create an optimal pattern of interpersonal relationships. The implications of these findings for universities play a key role in the development of nascent innovators.

Research at the Intersection of Media and Medicine, 1957–1962

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Siff
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Market News ◽  
Black Market ◽  
New Drugs ◽  
Controlled Trials ◽  
Medical Innovation ◽  
Scientific Consensus ◽  
Cross Fertilization

This chapter explores cross-fertilization between researchers and media figures in the late 1950s, as LSD spread from controlled trials to the black market. News reporters gravitated toward research documenting astonishing results with LSD, even as those studies were becoming further removed from the scientific consensus about the drug. Scholars James Coleman, Elihu Katz, and Herbert Menzel launched the study of the diffusion of tetracycline that resulted in the landmark Medical Innovation, cementing the idea that innovations spread through interpersonal relationships. Allowing for a role for media in informing physicians of the existence of new drugs, the scholars emphasized the apparent importance of social relationships in spreading the determination to actually use them.

scholarly journals The missing intangibles: nature’s contributions to human wellbeing through place attachment and social capital

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuki Yoshida ◽  
Hirotaka Matsuda ◽  
Kensuke Fukushi ◽  
Kazuhiko Takeuchi ◽  
Ryugo Watanabe
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Place Attachment ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Local Residents

AbstractCommunities in socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes are aging and depopulating. While longstanding interdependence of humans and nature in such areas holds crucial hints for sustainable development, they continue to be undervalued by existing economic frameworks. We suspect omission of non-material nature’s contributions to people (NCPs) as a possible reason for this undervaluation and focus on the intangible aspects of human–nature relationships: people’s direct and emotional attachment to their land and interrelationships between close-knit human communities and a thriving natural environment. Field observations on Sado Island, Japan, and literature reviews informed our hypothesis that perceived nature, conceptual human–nature relationships, place attachment, and social relationships contribute to subjective wellbeing. Structural equation modeling of island-wide questionnaire responses confirmed our hypothesis. Nature contributes to wellbeing by enhancing place attachment and social relationships; ecocentrism contributes to greater values of perceived nature. Free-response comments elucidated how local foods and close interpersonal relationships enhance residents’ happiness and good quality of life, as well as how aging and depopulation impact their sense of loneliness. These results lend empirical support to the understanding of human–nature interdependency in socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes. In assessing their value to local residents and society at large, greater consideration should be given to intangible aspects of human–nature relationships and quality of life.

scholarly journals Decoding and Reasoning Mental States in Major Depression and Social Anxiety Disorder

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gheysar Maleki ◽  
Abbas Zabihzadeh ◽  
Mara J. Richman ◽  
Zsolt Demetrovics ◽  
Fatemeh Mohammadnejad
Keyword(s):  
Major Depression ◽  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Mental Health Disorders ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Psychiatric Conditions ◽  
Health Disorders ◽  
The Mind

Abstract Background: Major depression (MDD) and social anxiety (SAD) disorders are debilitating psychiatric conditions characterized by disturbed interpersonal relationships. Despite these impairments in social relationships, research has been limited in simultaneously evaluated the dysfunction in MDD or SAD within two aspects of theory of mind (ToM): decoding mental states (i.e., Affective ToM) and reasoning mental states (i.e., cognitive ToM). Taking this into consideration, the current study assesses both decoding and reasoning mental states abilities in MDD, SAD, and healthy controls (HC). Methods: Subjects included 37 patients with MDD, 35 patients with SAD, and 35 HCs. ToM was measured with the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET) and the Faux Pas Task, which assess decoding and reasoning mental states, respectively. Results: Results revealed that in decoding of mental states, both the SAD and MDD groups had lower scores than the HC group; there was no significant difference between the SAD and MDD groups in decoding mental states. Conversely, in reasoning mental states, the SAD and HC groups had higher scores than the MDD group; no differences were found between the SAD and HC groups. Conclusions: Clinicians and researchers should further consider parsing generalized impairment in ToM into two aspects: decoding and reasoning of mental states by using the aforementioned measurements. By further understanding the two aspects, we can create a potentially new clinical profile for mental health disorders, such as in this context with both decoding and reasoning mental state impairment in MDD and a reasoning dysfunction in SAD.

“Mom, dad, look at me”: The development of the Parental Phubbing Scale

2020 ◽  
pp. 026540752096486
Author(s):  
Luca Pancani ◽  
Tiziano Gerosa ◽  
Marco Gui ◽  
Paolo Riva
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Psychological Consequences ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Stratified Sample ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Social Disconnection

The widespread diffusion of smartphones has opened new challenges regarding the psychological consequences of their usage on social relationships. The term phubbing (a combination of phone and snubbing) indicates the act of ignoring someone in a social context by paying attention to the smartphone. The few existing studies show that phubbing is widespread, mutually reinforced, and socially accepted, with possible negative consequences for social and individual well-being. Phubbing can occur in every social context, including romantic relationships, workplaces, and family. However, to date, minimal attention has been given to the possible impact that phubbing carried out by parents can have on their children. To start filling this gap, in this paper, we introduced a new scale that measures the perception of being subject to parental phubbing and showed the prevalence of perceived phubbing on a stratified sample of 3,289 adolescents. Firstly, the dimensionality, validity, and invariance of the construct were proven. Moreover, our results showed a positive relationship between children’s perceived levels of parental phubbing and their feelings of social disconnection with parents, thus suggesting that the more children felt that one or both of their parents were phubbing them, the less the children felt connected with their parents.

Women's Early Recovery: Managing the Dilemma of Substance Abuse and Intimate Partner Relationships

2008 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 957-979 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie L. Rivaux ◽  
Sunju Sohn ◽  
Marilyn Peterson Armour ◽  
Holly Bell
Keyword(s):  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Early Recovery ◽  
Hermeneutic Phenomenological ◽  
Intimate Partner Relationships ◽  
Partner Relationships ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Depth Interviews

Numerous studies have shown that women's patterns of substance use are strongly impacted by social relationships. Using a hermeneutic phenomenological method, this study examined the interplay between intimate partner relationships and substance abuse recovery through in-depth interviews with 17 women in a treatment program. Six essential themes about the dilemmas posed by recovery and relationships emerged from analysis: (a) experiencing themselves as damaged goods; (b) paying the price for both recovery and relationship choices made; (c) trading parts of self for relationships and drugs; (d) waking from the nightmare and realizing the impact of abuse; (e) hoping, but not always quite believing, in the possibility of recovery; (f) asking themselves “who's in charge of my life?” This study expands on previous findings by examining critical similarities in the dynamics of interpersonal relationships and recovery for women and the meanings they assign to each.

scholarly journals An approach for a social robot to understand human relationships

2006 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-403 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takayuki Kanda ◽  
Hiroshi Ishiguro
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Field Experiment ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Humanoid Robot ◽  
Group Behavior ◽  
Social Robots ◽  
Social Robot ◽  
Human Relationships

This paper reports our research efforts on social robots that recognize interpersonal relationships. These investigations are carried out by observing group behaviors while the robot interacts with people. Our humanoid robot interacts with children by speaking and making various gestures. It identifies individual children by using a wireless tag system, which helps to promote interaction such as the robot calling a child by name. Accordingly, the robot is capable of interacting with many children, causing spontaneous group behavior from the children around it. Here, group behavior is associated with social relationships among the children themselves. For example, a child may be accompanied by his or her friends and then play together with them. We propose the hypothesis that our interactive robot prompts a child’s friends to accompany him or her; thus, we can estimate their friendship by simply observing their accompanying behaviors. We conducted a field experiment for two weeks in a Japanese elementary school to verify this hypothesis. In the experiment, two “Robovie” robots were placed where children could freely interact with them during recesses. As a result, we found that they mostly prompted friend-accompanying behavior. Moreover, we could estimate some of their friendly relationships, in particular among the children who often appeared around the robot. For example, we could estimate 5% of all friendships with 80% accuracy, and 15% of them with nearly 50% accuracy. Thus, this result basically supports our hypothesis on friendship estimation from an interactive humanoid robot. We believe that this ability to estimate human relationships is essential for robots to behave socially.

scholarly journals The Perceived Problems of People With Subclinical Personality Disorders: A Mental Health Literacy Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Furnham ◽  
Kelly Petropoulou
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorders ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Adjustment ◽  
Mental Health Literacy ◽  
Effect Sizes ◽  
Cluster A ◽  
Popular Audience ◽  
Social Adjustment Scale

This study looked at lay theories of how people with personality disorders (PDs) are perceived to cope with their interpersonal relationships. In all, 213 participants read 14 vignettes derived from Oldham's and Morris's (2000) book describing DSM III personality disorders for a popular audience. Participants were invited to do six ratings, including how happy each person in each vignette appeared to be and how successful at establishing long-term relationships. Effect sizes for each question across the 14 vignettes were small to medium. The six ratings factored into a single social adjustment scale, and there were many differences across the PDs on this measure. Those with dependent PD were judged as most successful in their social relationships while those who were schizoid PD were judged as least successful. A similar analysis using the three higher order clusters showed significant differences: Cluster C disordered people were judged as better adjusted than Cluster A people. Limitations of the methodology and implications are discussed.

scholarly journals The interplay among paranoia, social relationships and negative affectivity in a heterogeneous clinical sample: A network analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 204380872110676
Author(s):  
Jakub Januška ◽  
Alexandra Straková ◽  
Daniel Dančík ◽  
Ján Pečeňák ◽  
Anton Heretik ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Network Analysis ◽  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Graphical Model ◽  
Clinical Sample ◽  
Negative Affectivity ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Mean

Previous evidence suggests paranoia affects people’s functioning in interpersonal relationships. However, less is known about the interconnections among specific aspects of paranoia and domains of social relationships. The goal of the current study was to explore the interplay among different aspects of paranoia, social relationships and negative affectivity (depression, anxiety and social anxiety) in a diverse clinical sample using network analysis. A sample of 366 participants (84.4% female) with a history of mental illness was recruited online. The mean age was 35.31 years. Data were modelled using the Gaussian Graphical Model with regularization. The network included the following scales: R-GPTS, SAD-D, National Institute of Health Toolbox Adult Social Relationship scales, PHQ-9 and GAD-7. The results revealed substantial connections between aspects of paranoia (ideas of reference and ideas of persecution) and both perceived hostility and perceived rejection. Furthermore, significant associations of ideas of reference with social anxiety and loneliness with depression were observed. Perceived rejection and loneliness were the most central nodes in the estimated network. The current study provides robust evidence for the interconnections of paranoia, social relationships and negative affectivity, present across different diagnoses. This further supports the transdiagnostic approach to paranoia research and the related important role of social relationships.

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