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- 2023-09
Brand New Oldies: Recent English Narrative Verse
A substantial amount of narrative verse has been written and published in England in the first two decades of the 21st century. Several writers, including Bernardine Evaristo, Ros Barber, Patience Agbabi, and Moniza Alvi, have written successful and well-received longer narrative poems. These poems fall into various categories: novel in poems, verse novel, and narrative collection. Five features of these texts are distinguished: the reworking of traditional and popular story materials; the predominant deployment of traditional narrative and narrational technique; accessible verse technique; an interest in past subjects and an attempt to render them available to a contemporary readership; and an adoption of non-narrative and lyric modes.Otwarty dostępArtykułyJournal article - 2025-12
Age-based stereotype threat and intention to work beyond retirement age: testing the indirect effect through stress
Objectives: Stereotype threat arises when an individual worries about the possibility of confirming or being perceived through the lens of a negative stereotype about one’s group. Previous research has shown that stereotype threat at work is related to higher stress appraisal and an increased intention to quit among older employees. The present study extends these investigations by examining the links between stereotype threat and post-retirement work intention, as well as indirect effects through stress. Material and Methods: The level of age-related stereotype threat, stress, and intention to continue working beyond the retirement age were assessed using self-reported measures in a cross-sectional study among working adults aged ≥50 years (N = 1007). The average age of participants was 56.3 years (standard deviation 4.2 years). The sample included both men and women, with diverse education levels and job types (mental, physical, and mixed work), and was drawn from various sectors, including public and private organizations. Results: The authors’ findings indicated that a higher level of stereotype threat was linked to higher level of stress and willingness to resign from work after reaching retirement age in aging workers. Stress level partly transmitted the relationship between stereotype threat and intention to resign from work after reaching the retirement age. Conclusions: It can be concluded that stress is a significant variable constituting the indirect effect of age-based stereotype threat at work on post-retirement work intention, when physical health is statistically controlled. These results are discussed in the context of recent studies on age-related stereotype threat in occupational settings.Otwarty dostępArtykułyJournal article - 2025-06
Facing emotional vocalizations and instrumental sounds: Sighted and blind individuals spontaneously and selectively activate facial muscles in response to emotional stimuli.
Facial mimicry of visually observed emotional facial actions is a robust phenomenon. Here, we examined whether such facial mimicry extends to auditory emotional stimuli. We also examined if participants' facial responses differ to sounds that are more strongly associated with congruent facial movements, such as vocal emotional expressions (e.g., laughter, screams), or less associated with movements, such as nonvocal emotional sounds (e.g., happy, scary instrumental sounds). Furthermore, to assess whether facial mimicry of sounds reflects visual-motor or auditory-motor associations, we compared individuals that vary on lifetime visual experience (sighted vs. blind). To measure spontaneous facial responding, we used facial electromyography to record the activity of the corrugator supercilii (frowning) and the zygomaticus major (smiling) muscles. During measurement, participants freely listened to the two types of emotional sounds. Both types of sounds were rated similarly on valence and arousal. Notably, only vocal, but not instrumental, sounds elicited robust congruent and selective facial responses. The facial responses were observed in both sighted and blind participants. However, the muscles' responses of blind participants showed less differentiation between emotion categories of human vocalizations. Furthermore, the groups differed in the shape of the time courses of the zygomatic activity to human vocalizations. Overall, the study shows that emotion-congruent facial responses occur to nonvisual stimuli and are more robust to human vocalizations than instrumental sounds. Furthermore, the amount of lifetime visual experience matters little for the occurrence of cross-channel facial mimicry, but it shapes response differentiation. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).Otwarty dostępArtykułyJournal article - 2025-11-23
Effects of transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation on subthreshold affective symptoms and perceived stress: Findings from a single-blinded randomized trial in community-dwelling adults
Transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (tVNS) lowers depression and anxiety in clinical populations, but its preventive utility in alleviating subthreshold depression and anxiety symptoms or perceived stress in the general population is uncertain. In this single-blinded randomized controlled trial 70 participants (28 men; Mage 49,33 years, 18-75 age range) were allocated to four groups: early active or sham tVNS and late active or sham tVNS to explore outcome changes between the preintervention and postintervention in active and sham groups, changes after active and sham stimulation ended in the early groups, or outcomes during waiting time in the late groups. Early intervention and sham groups received daily 4 h tVNS between Day 0 and 13, while late intervention and sham groups received tVNS between day 14 and 28. Active tVNS was delivered via transcutaneous electrical stimulation on the left tragus and sham tVNS was applied on the left earlobe. Affective symptoms and stress were measured with questionnaires. Effects of active tVNS stimulation were superior to sham stimulation in early phase groups, but not in late phase groups, for anxiety symptoms and perceived stress, with no superior effects of tVNS against sham detected for depressive symptoms. Our study tentatively indicates that tVNS application could be scaled-up to a population level to potentially mitigate stress vulnerability and higher anxiety, which are often prevalent in older adults and increased in the ageing process.Otwarty dostępArtykułyJournal article