Catharsis and Media Violence: A Conceptual Analysis
Societies, 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, Gentile Douglas A
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Analytical Robustness and Competing Interpretations in Violent Video Game Research: A Response to Teng and Bushman's (2026) Reanalysis of Lacko et al. (2024). [PDF]
Aggress BehavABSTRACT Recent debates on violent video game (VVG) effects highlight the importance of analytical robustness and transparency in longitudinal research. Teng and Bushman reanalyzed our prior study, identifying several methodological concerns and arguing that our conclusions were unwarranted.
Lacko D, Machackova H, Smahel D.
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CATHARSIS IN PHAEDO AND REPUBLIC OF PLATO [PDF]
Studia Humanistyczne AGH, 2019 The article takes up the topic of mystical motif of catharsis present in Plato’s dialogues Phaedo and Republic as well as their links with the mysticism of the Ancient Greek mysteries.
Kazimierz Pawłowski
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“Beat the Devil, Beat the Devil, Beat the Devil, Beat the…”: Kenneth Burke on the Cleansing of Tensions, Both Comic and Tragic [PDF]
Литература двух Америк, 2020 There is no question but that Kenneth Burke transformed twentieth century scholarship in rhetorical studies—although too often scholars’ emphasis on identification has led them to neglect other portions of the Burkean canon with important implications ...
Bryan Crable
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"Up Close and Intimate": Catharsis, the Dark Side of Sexuality, and The Dresden Dolls
Nota Bene, 2020 The Dresden Dolls are a punk-cabaret band that use their music to delve into diverse and taboo subject matter including sexual assault, abortion, and trauma.
Logan Imans
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Self-Purification and Social Dramatization; from Simone Weil to Martin Luther King Jr.
Religions, 2023 This article begins with an analysis of Simone Weil’s notion of “impersonality”, which implies disengagement from earthly attachments, deep introspection, and connection with an “anonymous” God, that is, with an imagined spiritual force of purity ...
Michail Theodosiadis
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Types of Catharsis in the Perception of Paintings
Культурно-историческая психология, 2019 The article analyzes the functions and structure of psychological catharsis as a cultural means of meaning-making. Basing on eudemonistic understanding of catharsis, the authors show its meaning-making action.
Yermolayeva M.V.,, Lubovsky D.V.,
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مجلة اداب ذي قار, 2023 Summary This research mainly discusses the concept of catharsis in Aristotle’s Poetics, and how this concept had a precedent in Plato’s philosophy, especially in the Laws dialogue, where we find the content of the concept of catharsis. The research also
م. حسين عباس الطائي
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The Preservation of the Terbang Papat Music at Ash-Shiddiqin Musalla in Kudus Regency
Catharsis, 2020 Terbang Papat is a typical traditional art from Kudus, the name of Terbang Papat was taken from the instruments of Terbang in the amount of four and used one Jidor.
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Richard Brome et la catharsis comique : théorie des semblables ou théorie des contraires ?
Etudes Epistémè, 2009 Richard Brome (1590 ?-1652) often nurtures the hope of curing his characters, such as Peregrine, Joyless, Oldrents and others. And since it is characters he hopes to cure, not people, it would be preferable to replace the term comic catharsis with an ...
Athéna Efstathiou-Lavabre
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