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Destruction, Catharsis, and Emotional Release in Human-Robot Interaction [PDF]

open access: bronzeACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, 2020
The intersection between social, technical, and economic factors biases new product development to focus on utilitarian value. However, objects that serve alternative goals, behaviors and emotions have accompanied humankind for millennia.
Jodi Forlizzi
exaly   +3 more sources

Awaiting the “catharsis” [PDF]

open access: bronzeThe European Journal of Health Economics, 2020
Catharsis is a metaphor used in Aristotle’s Poetics. He compares the effects of a sudden tragedy to the effects of an anticipated catharsis in the mind and body of the sufferer. The notion of catharsis is closely related to “purification” or “purgation”.
John Yfantopoulos
semanticscholar   +5 more sources

Catharsis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This paper discusses the psychological concept of catharsis, how to provide it, and how to remedy the ills of the resentful.
Ooi Kee Beng
semanticscholar   +7 more sources

A Phenomenological Study of Mental Health Enhancement in Taekwondo Training: Application of Catharsis Theory

open access: yesInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021
In modern society, catharsis is often understood as the relieving of stress, and the psychological and medical effects of catharsis are well known even to ordinary people.
Won-Chul Bing
exaly   +2 more sources

Development of a Scale Measuring Emotional Catharsis through Illness Narratives

open access: yesInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021
Objective: This study intended to construct a scale measuring the catharsis effect on medical professionals or students through illness narratives (ECS-IN).
Huan-Cheng Chang, Ya-huei Wang
exaly   +2 more sources

Catharsis and Media Violence: A Conceptual Analysis

open access: yesSocieties, 2013
The concept that doing something to “vent” aggression as a method of reducing aggressive feelings and behaviors, such as watching media violence or playing violent video games, continues to enjoy widespread public support despite a lack of empirical ...
Douglas A Gentile
exaly   +3 more sources

Catharsis Through Cinema: An Italian Qualitative Study on Watching Tragedies to Mitigate the Fear of COVID-19

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2021
Background: Among different ways of coping with the unsettling situation of the COVID-19 pandemic, a very peculiar one has been identified: a more frequent request, by the general population, of movies or TV series related to the very theme of viruses ...
Ines Testoni   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Catharsis as a therapy: an overview on health and human development [PDF]

open access: goldJournal of Physical Health and Sports Medicine, 2019
The word catharsis is derived from the Greek word which is translated as cleansing or purification. Most of the definitions emphasize two essential components of catharsis: the emotional aspect (strong emotional expression and processing) and the ...
Aisha Bukar   +4 more
openalex   +2 more sources

Humor and National Catharsis in Roberto Cossa's El saludador [PDF]

open access: green, 2002
This article examines humor in Roberto Cossa’s El saludador and proposes that, through his unique blend of comic forms, the playwright manipulates audience reaction and provokes catharsis in his spectators.
Bulman, Gail A.
core   +4 more sources

The Psychotherapeutic Value of Tragic Catharsis

open access: yesКонсультативная психология и психотерапия, 2018
The article analyzes the phenomenon of catharsis that occurs from the perception of the tragic in art. Based on the eudemonistic understanding of catharsis we trace the cultural and historical aspects of the problem and show that catharsis as ...
M.V. Ermolaeva, D. Lubovsky
doaj   +2 more sources

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