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Politics and Pleasure: The Philosophy of Physical Education Revisited
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Booth, Douglas – Quest, 2009
Humans unquestionably derive pleasurable physical sensations from different types of movement. Yet, remarkably, there is a deafening silence around the subject in the literature on human movement. This article comprises three parts. First, I outline prevailing conceptualizations of pleasure as they relate to physical activity in the social…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Activities, Social Sciences, Biology
Physiological Measures of Emotion from a Developmental Perspective: State of the Science
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Dennis, Tracy A.; Buss, Kristin A.; Hastings, Paul D.; Bell, Martha Ann; Diaz, Anjolii; Adam, Emma K.; Miskovic, Vladimir; Schmidt, Louis A.; Feldman, Ruth; Katz, Lynn Fainsilber; Rigterink, Tami; Strang, Nicole M.; Hanson, Jamie L.; Pollak, Seth D.; Dahl, Ronald E.; Silk, Jennifer S.; Siegle, Greg J.; Beauchaine, Theodore P.; Cicchetti, Dante; Rogosch, Fred A.; Fox, Nathan A.; Kirwan, Michael; Reeb-Sutherland, Bethany; Gunnar, Megan R.; Obradovic, Jelena; Boyce, W. Thomas; Molenaar, Peter C. M.; Gates, Kathleen M. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 2012
In the past decade, there has been a dramatic growth in research examining the development of emotion from a physiological perspective. However, this widespread use of physiological measures to study emotional development coexists with relatively few guiding principles, thus reducing opportunities to move the field forward in innovative ways. The…
Descriptors: Physiology, Psychological Patterns, Emotional Development, Measurement
The Physical Basis of Emotion.
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James, William – Psychological Review, 1994
Reviews the theories of C. Lange and William James on emotional consciousness, affirming it to be the effect of organic changes which express emotion. The name emotion might be considered to connote organic excitement as the distinctive feature of the state. (SLD)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Arousal Patterns, Emotional Experience, Emotional Response
Death with a Story: How Story Impacts Emotional, Motivational, and Physiological Responses to First-Person Shooter Video Games
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Schneider, Edward F.; Lang, Annie; Shin, Mija; Bradley, Samuel D. – Human Communication Research, 2004
This study investigates how game playing experience changes when a story is added to a first-person shooter game. Dependent variables include identification, presence, emotional experiences and motivations. When story was present, game players felt greater identification, sense of presence, and physiological arousal. The presence of story did not…
Descriptors: Identification (Psychology), Violence, Video Games, Psychological Patterns
William James and Emotion: Is a Century of Fame Worth a Century of Misunderstanding?
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Ellsworth, Phoebe C. – Psychological Review, 1994
The complex ideas of William James on emotion were oversimplified during his lifetime, with his emphasis on the interpretation of the stimulus largely overlooked. Damaging scientific consequences of this mischaracterization are described. (SLD)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Arousal Patterns, Emotional Experience, Emotional Response
The Psychobiology of Children Exposed to Marital Violence
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Saltzman, Kasey M.; Holden, George W.; Holahan, Charles J. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2005
We examined the psychological and physiological functioning of a community sample of children exposed to marital violence, comparing them to a clinical comparison group without marital violence exposure. Results replicated past findings of elevated levels of trauma symptomatology in this population. Further, children exposed to marital violence…
Descriptors: Metabolism, Anatomy, Family Violence, Marital Instability
The Varieties of Emotional Experience: A Meditation on James-Lange Theory.
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Lang, Peter J. – Psychological Review, 1994
This article traces the origin of the James-Lange theory of emotion, considers differences in their thinking, and assesses early criticisms and debate. Research on physiological patterns in emotion is reviewed. New paths for emotion research are outlined and homage is paid to the inspiration of William James. (SLD)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Arousal Patterns, Attribution Theory, Cognitive Processes
Researching Trauma, the Body and Transformation: A Situated Account of Creating Safety in Unsafe Places
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Etherington, Kim – British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 2005
This paper is based on a study of how childhood trauma can be experienced in the body and the resources individuals have chosen to deal with that. Ten individuals (including myself) wrote stories showing how they had made sense of those experiences and found ways to heal. In this paper, I tell the story of that research, contextualising myself as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Abuse, Psychosomatic Disorders, Psychophysiology