Search for dissertations about: "Affect"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 6478 swedish dissertations containing the word Affect.
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1. Dream affect : Conceptual and Methodological Issues in the Study of Emotions and Moods Experienced in Dreams
Abstract : We experience affect—emotions and mood—not only when we are awake but alsoduring dreaming. Despite considerable research, existing theories and empiricalfindings disagree about the frequency, nature, and correlates of dream affect. In thisthesis, I discuss the conceptual and methodological issues that underlie thesediscrepancies. READ MORE
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2. On Aspects of Mathematical Reasoning : Affect and Gender
Abstract : This thesis explores two aspects of mathematical reasoning: affect and gender. I started by looking at the reasoning of upper secondary students when solving tasks. READ MORE
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3. The mediation of affect : security, fear and subversive hope in visual culture
Abstract : The overarching purpose of this study has been to problematise how visual practices and the mediation of affect is linked to the capacity to produce (new) perceptual realities, sensations and imaginaries, ultimately aiming to legitimate or counter-legitimate the hegemonic discourses and practices mobilised in the name of security. The first part of my thesis approaches this matter through an analysis of media cultures and discursive systems circulating within the court and the state military. READ MORE
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4. Suburbia Rewritten : Masculinity and Affect in Contemporary American Literature
Abstract : Suburbia has made a powerful return in American literature of the past two decades. This renaissance of suburban fictional narrative bears the signum of alienated, anxious, and resentful white middle-class men in gray flannel suits that has remained since the formative postwar period of the 1950s and 1960s. READ MORE
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5. Consciousness about own and others’ affects
Abstract : It is essential for individuals’ well-being and relationships that they have the ability to consciously experience, express and respond to their own and others’ affects. The validity of a new conception of affect consciousness (AC), incorporating consciousness of both own and others’ affects, was investigated in this thesis. READ MORE