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Does laughing have a stress-buffering effect in daily life? An intensive longitudinal study.

PLoS ONE, 2020
Positive affect is associated with alleviating mental and physiological stress responses. As laughter is a common physiological operationalization of positive affect, we investigated whether the effects of experiencing a stressful event on stress ...
Thea Zander-Schellenberg, Isabella Mutschler Collins, Marcel Miché, Camille Guttmann, Roselind Lieb, Karina Wahl   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Parental choice of private tuition: Valuing attention, judging quality and navigating access in England's underregulated supplementary education market

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Private supplementary education is burgeoning worldwide, and over 25% of English children have received private tutoring. The neoliberalisation of education and parents' responsibilisation for children's attainment have driven market growth, but not all can afford to participate.
Sarah L. Holloway, Sam Whewall, Helena Pimlott‐Wilson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Literal torture’: Vulnerability, resilience and young people's experiences of pressure in physical education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper combines vulnerability and resilience theory to explore the pressure young people experience in Physical Education (PE) and sport at secondary school. The theoretical framework was used to understand both how young people experience PE in school and how vulnerability and resilience function interdependently in social contexts like ...
David Littlefair, Michael Jopling
wiley   +1 more source

HILDA HILST’S LAUGHTER AND LITERATURE: "THE SPIRAL HAS NO BEGINNING OR END"

Gragoatá, 2015
This article aims at discussing the category laughter as an attribute of Hilda Hilst’s literature. Process-effect, glimpse of a writing that places no beginning or end, because of the (dis)order of laughter in continuous and incessant scales, cyclical ...
Jo A-mi
doaj  

Laughing ‘With’ vs. ‘At’: Exploring Emotional Bonds in Media Strategies

Journalism and Media
This study examines the role of laughter in media strategies. The aim is to distinguish between laughter shared ‘with’ the audience and laughter directed ‘at’ the audience. The research briefly traces the historical evolution of laughter from a repressed
Abílio Almeida
doaj   +1 more source

Civilising pedagogies: An ethnography of instructional and regulative discourses in government schools in Delhi, India

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Over the years, surveys and data on learning outcomes have consistently shown inadequate levels of learning in schools in India, witnessing a further decline in recent years. Studies within the sociology of education have consistently highlighted the overarching role of class and caste on learning outcomes in schools. Neoliberal policy reforms
Akshita Rawat
wiley   +1 more source

‘When joy comes your way, you have to grab it!’ Troubling how queer joy features in the lives of LGBT+ school‐attending youth in South Africa

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Recently, the concept ‘queer joy’ has gained interest in LGBT+ scholarship in the West. I use this scholarship as an entry point to explore how school‐attending LGBT+ youth express joy and how joy serves as a form of resistance against gender and sexuality norms in educational settings.
Dennis Francis
wiley   +1 more source

A stance-taking study of wkwk as laughter in WhatsApp-based Indonesian-speaking youth conversation

Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics
Laughter, often overlooked as a mere emotional outlet, is a complex phenomenon with its unique charm. Online laughter, in particular, seems to differ significantly in terms of its paralanguage features from face-to-face laughter.
Edelleit Rose Widyatmoko, Bernadette Kushartanti   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The “Double Bind” of Gender‐Based Violence: Secondary Victimization in Courtroom Cross‐Examinations

Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how secondary victimization is interactionally produced during courtroom cross‐examinations of women who have experienced sexual violence. Drawing on Ethnomethodology, Conversation Analysis and Membership Categorization Analysis, the study investigates how defense attorneys invoke rape myths and gendered stereotypes to ...
Selena Mariano
wiley   +1 more source

Mathematical modeling predicts novel mechanisms of stream confinement from Trail/Colec12/Dan in the collective migration of cranial neural crest cells

Developmental Dynamics, EarlyView.
Abstract Background In vertebrate embryogenesis, cranial neural crest cells (CNCCs) migrate along discrete pathways. Analyses in the chick have identified key molecular candidates for the confinement of CNCC migration to stereotypical pathways as Colec12, Trail, and Dan.
Samuel W. S. Johnson, Paul M. Kulesa, Ruth E. Baker, Philip K. Maini   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source