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On the Consumption of Negative Feelings
How can the hedonistic assumption (i.e., people’s willingness to pursue pleasure and avoid pain) be reconciled with people choosing to expose themselves to experiences known to elicit negative feelings? We assess how (1) the intensity of the negative feelings, (2) positive feelings in the aftermath, and (3) the coactivation of positive and negative feelings contribute to our understanding of such behavior. In a series of four studies, consumers with either approach or avoidance tendencies (toward horror movies) were asked to report their positive and/or negative feelings either after (experiment 1) or while (experiments 2, 3A, and 3B) they were exposed to a horror movie. We demonstrate how a model incorporating coactivation principles and enriched with a protective frame moderator (via detachment) can provide a more parsimonious and viable description of the affective reactions that result from counterhedonic behavior.
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The friendly book
Everything is likable, from bugs to boats and from cars to stars, in this book of playful lists of wonderful things.
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Actual, Possible, Edible: Metabolic Description in Aminatta Forna's Happiness
This essay responds to critical skepticism about the politics of description and suggests that careful, empirical description does not necessarily endorse the status quo. Against theoretical approaches that see descriptions of everyday life as static \"filler\" (Moretti 72), this essay reads quotidian details—particularly details about food and eating—as dynamic narrative motors. Taking up Aminatta Forna's 2018 novel, Happiness, alongside debates in the energy humanities, it seeks to illustrate the way Forna's descriptive investment in metabolic cycles serves as a counterdiscourse to her novel's overt valorization of cosmopolitan resilience. In Happiness, what I call \"metabolic description\" both expands the novel's scale and troubles the ontological boundaries between the eaters and the eaten. It also offers a method of engaging with the energy humanities that moves beyond the thematic to examine the formal. The essay concludes that attention to food descriptions in realist fiction can reveal three things: a literary energy imaginary beyond oil, a dynamic continuity between organism and environment, and an attendant destabilization of the globalized liberal subject.
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My blue is happy
Invites readers to explore the infinite possibilities of emotional expression through color.
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Middle Age Blues: A Heuristic Response to Patricia Leavy’s Novel Film Blue
In this personal narrative, the author discusses how good art can be a heuristic for creative practice using Leavy’s novel, Film Blue, as an example. The author uses ekphrastic poetry and themes in Film Blue to examine negotiations of identity as someone who is solidly middle aged and winging their way through how they can be who they want and need to be outside of culturally stifling messages about middle aged womxn. The author concludes that we can turn melancholy into a state of creativity. And perhaps instead of middle age being a blue period, it can be orange and purple, a kaleidoscope of rage and joy, all about the possibilities we take a chance to see.
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