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Users in crisis response and recovery: catharsis and social learning among social media users during and after a natural disaster

Behavior and Information Technology, 2022
Prior research has shown the personal catharsis benefits of social media use as an outlet for emotional and cognitive problem solving, especially during a natural disaster.
Sigi Goode
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Artaud’s Plague Theatre: Catharsis as Performance

Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, 2022
In the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, I intend to reread “The Theatre and the Plague,” one of Antonin Artaud’s most famous essays on theatre included in The Theatre and Its Double.
Maxime Philippe
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Violent Video Games and Aggression: Stimulation or Catharsis or Both?

Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 2020
Effects of violent video games on aggression remain contentious despite decades of empirical investigations. Using eight-wave panel data collected from 662 South Korean adolescents (grades 4, 7, and 10) for a 4-year period (number of observations = 5,296)
Eun-Ju Lee, Hyun Suk Kim, Soonwook Choi
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Virtual Anti-racism: Pleasure, Catharsis, and Hope in Mafia III and Watch Dogs 2

Humanity and Society, 2020
This essay examines the representation and consumption of Mafia III and Watch Dogs 2 as a site of catharsis, pleasure, and empowerment. Through not only its representation of white supremacy but its rendering of intervention and transformation as ...
David J. Leonard
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The rights of national majorities: Toxic discourse or democratic catharsis?

Ethnicities, 2020
This paper traces the hazards of a majority rights discourse. It argues that this discourse can become a platform for dominant groups to recognize in policies that disadvantage and exclude minorities a legitimate defense of majority rights.
Avigail Eisenberg
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Catharsis Reconsidered

Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 1990
Mainstream psychiatry and psychotherapy have held for many years that cathartic psychotherapies involving powerful emotional expression have limited value. The conventional wisdom is that they are either dangerous, or ineffective, or that their effectiveness is short-lived.
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“A Catharsis for Anxieties”: Insights from Goffman on the Politics of Humour

, 2020
Sociologist Erving Goffman’s work has increasingly made an impact in International Relations. This paper consults Erving Goffman’s work and scholarly sensibility for insights into humour.
B. Steele
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Mythos and catharsis in Aristotle’s Poetics

Trends in Classics
The paper argues that catharsis in Aristotle’s Poetics is a two-pronged process, which applies both to the construction of the mythos by the poet and its reception by the audience.
P. Kyriakou
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Aristotle on Musical Catharsis and the Pleasure of a Good Story

Phronesis, 2019
The pleasure attending dramatic catharsis, according to Aristotle, is a pleasure the audience feels when the tension that has been developing throughout the action of the play is released.
G. Ferrari
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Writing the Self and Exigencies of Survival: Autobiography as Catharsis and Commemoration

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints, 2018
:This article discusses the autobiographies written by survivors of Ferdinand Marcos's martial law regime. Despite incarceration, torture, and the control of writing materials that sought to obliterate the self and the written word, political prisoners ...
M. Concepcion
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