Curated Research Papers

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Develops the concept of "Heartful Autoethnography," seeking to include researchers' vulnerable selves, emotions, and bodies to produce evocative, detailed stories. The goal is to fuse social science with literature, encouraging compassion and empathy.

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A dissertation that presents an existential-phenomenological investigation into the experience of unrequited "love-at-first-sight." The study was submitted to the California Institute of Integral Studies in 2013.

A thesis titled "SILENT GRIEF: NARRATIVES OF BEREAVED ADULT SIBLINGS," submitted for a Doctor of Philosophy degree. The work focuses on the experiences of adult siblings coping with bereavement.

Proposes a new method based on a latent diffusion model (Stable Diffusion) to reconstruct realistic, high-semantic fidelity images from human brain activity obtained via fMRI. This work helps interpret the connection between computer vision models and the visual system.

A Master of Science thesis from MIT exploring a writer's approach to the videotape documentary, titled "EVENT AND IDEA: A WRITER'S APPROACH TO THE VIDEOTAPE DOCUMENTARY."

Examines how constructing stories is a mode for making sense of one's experiences, noting that conversations often feature narrations of specific behaviors rather than abstract traits. The paper focuses on the motives that shape autobiographical narratives and meaning-making.

Argues that autoethnography is a qualitative, transformative research method due to its ability to change time, require vulnerability, foster empathy, and provide therapeutic benefits. Discusses these aspects using passages from an unpublished manuscript.

Explores how temporally disjointed aesthetics, such as (re)photographs, impact secondary students' constructions of historical knowledge and thinking. Uses posthuman concepts (assemblage, rhizome, hauntology) and visual methodologies like photo-elicitation.

A PhD thesis that considers what a "queering of photography" entails, proposing a new concept of the photographic image that addresses its materiality and generative principle. It aims to overturn the binary-rooted logic (e.g., truth/falsehood, copy/original) that underpins dominant photography discourse.

Focuses on the photographic autopathographies produced by artists Hannah Wilke and Jo Spence, examining their use of self-representation to document and explore illness and the body.

Illustrates how autoethnography can research complex emotional experiences but is subject to cultural feeling/display rules that interfere with emotional engagement. Critically revisits myths about autoethnography (narcissistic, therapeutic, authentic) and suggests it is complicated and non-linear.

A table of contents for a work on "Dream Death and the Self," detailing chapters on philosophical puzzles, the meaning of the dream hypothesis, and its relation to identity and the first person.

Investigates the relationships between goals and specific flirting behaviors in a college population using Dillard's Goals-Plans-Action (GPA) model of interpersonal influence. Results confirm that goals, planning, and importance relate to flirting behaviors, with sex differences observed in behaviors and motivations.

Offers a re-reading of Olive Schreiner’s letters to Karl Pearson, arguing that the dominant interpretation of them as "unrequited love letters" needs rethinking. It suggests a more complex interpretation when considering the intertwining of their public and private aspects.

A dissertation that examines the "Reciprocity of Attraction Effect," aiming to test whether the truism that people are attracted to those who like them is true.

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A book review of *Evocative Autoethnography: Writing Lives and Telling Stories* by Art Bochner and Carolyn Ellis. It praises the text for introducing the methodology as a "way of life" and as a terrific guide.

A comprehensive text that introduces evocative autoethnography as a methodology and a way of life in the human sciences. It describes the history, development, and purposes of evocative storytelling and is structured as a fictional workshop.

Explores the relationship between photography and memory, specifically focusing on "The Representation of the Unrepresentable in Gustavo Germano’s Absences."

Reviews the literature on autoethnography, describing it as a research method that uses evocative narratives. It explores the advantages, limitations, and criticisms this research method has endured since its emergence.

Eminines the association between attachment styles and the willingness to compromise when choosing a mate among single male students. Results showed that anxious-ambivalent participants exhibited less willingness to compromise than secure and avoidant individuals.

A Master of Arts dissertation titled "Autoethnographic Reflections on Dance-Based Contemporary Art Practice-as-Research." The keywords highlight its focus on dance, movement, embodiment, tango, and autoethnography.

Title page for a volume in the Advances in Media, Entertainment, and the Arts Book Series. Focuses on the relationship between autobiographical memory and photography.

Presents an EEG-based emotion recognition approach using a novel time-frequency feature extraction technique: a quadratic time-frequency distribution (QTFD). The method aims to construct a high-resolution time-frequency representation of EEG signals for accurate emotion recognition.

Examines psychotherapists' stories of their work with suicidal clients, focusing on the meaning of life and death in this therapeutic context.

A PhD research project subtitled "A reinvention of ‘hysteria’ using photography, performance, and autofiction."

Discusses love and irrationality, arguing it is rational to pursue happiness and delight from love, even if it may lead to future unhappiness. Notes that love's peculiarities, such as the difficulty in calculating its actuarial value, led Max Weber to classify it as charismatic rather than rational.

An editorial that discusses locating the human subject's experience not just within the body but as dispersed across social and symbolic networks of power, and often confined to a "temporal now." The piece introduces the concepts of ghosts, haunting, and "Hauntology" to address these limitations.

Examines individuals' behavior toward a new dating partner following romantic rejection. Results showed that individuals expressed significant prosocial behavior after rejection, particularly toward a new partner with a high possibility of acceptance.

Explores unreciprocated romantic attraction by comparing narrative accounts, concluding that unrequited love is a bilaterally distressing experience marked by mutual incomprehension. Would-be lovers reported more positive and intensely negative emotions than rejectors and felt they were led on.

Presents the findings of a heuristic investigation into factors that may hinder the process of working with clients who have been sexually abused in a therapeutic setting.

A study to provide an understanding of the experiences of UK-based person-centred counsellors working with suicidal clients online through text.

A review article on the assessment and classification of human emotions through the analysis of physiological signals, focusing on electroencephalography (EEG) signals. It highlights emotion classification as a key means of detecting emotion for e-health care and human-machine interfaces.

Discusses "PHOTOGRAPHY AS ANTI-MEMORY," exploring concepts like Romanticism, the invisible, alterity, the void, and the symbolic mirror in relation to memory and photography.

Examines the impact of a non-traditional "retrospective" consent process compared to the usual prospective consent process on recruitment rates and outcomes in a clinical trial (HIPSTER).

Investigates "Using Imagined Interactions to Predict Covert Narcissism," exploring the link between one's internal dialogue and covert narcissistic traits.

Addresses the need to make human sciences more human by writing in more poignant, touching, and heartfelt ways. It argues that autoethnography, which is concerned with evocation over information, helps researchers address what it feels like to be alive in a chaotic world.

Compares rejecter (target) and pursuer (actor) perspectives of unrequited attraction, finding targets reported being on the receiving end of more unwanted courtship tactics. Actors tended to overreport reciprocity signals and underreport rejections, a difference with implications for understanding stalking.

Responds to a proposal for using "love drugs" to enhance romantic relationships, arguing that the medicalization of broken hearts is therapy, not enhancement. Notes that psychotherapy and counseling already analyze and medicalize romantic love without objection.

Raises concerns with the analysis of love enhancement through neurochemical modulation as a key issue in contemporary neuroethics. It suggests strengthening the argument against medicalization concerns and developing stronger analysis of social/political concerns, emphasizing the relevance of philosophy and the humanities.

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This study tested a moderated mediation model that commitment prior to an unrequited love episode will be related to higher levels of friendship maintenance behaviors after the episode. This relationship is mediated by the individual's motivations to remain friends with the rejecter.

Measures the longitudinal impact of sexual debut on adolescents, hypothesizing that healthy sexual experiences can be developmentally appropriate and rewarding. Findings show sexual debut was related to increases in romantic appeal and sexual satisfaction, and a decline in internalizing symptoms.

Examines the photographic series *House and Space2* by Francesca Woodman, focusing on her spectral, semi-absent presence in unhomely locations. It uses Bracha L. Ettinger's matrixial theory to challenge the non-affirmative understanding of her self-portraits as works of disappearing subjectivity.

Defines and discusses the concept of "Hauntology," noting its resurgence prompted by musical artists whose work sounded "ghostly." It identifies hauntology's key feature as its confrontation with a cultural impasse.

A piece on "Obsessive Love" from The Poetry Pharmacy, stating that although love can cause anguish, "’Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all." It argues that relationships are how humans evolve and that the regret of chances untaken is worse than the agony of heartbreak.

A chapter titled "Prelude to a Kiss" from the *Handbook Of Relationship Initiation*. The snippet provides no further content, only publication information.

A reflective piece of writing, likely autoethnographic, that details a person's experience of sadness, loss, and "queer love" while struggling with a disrupted sleeping schedule during the pandemic. The author reflects on the disconnect between their vibrant self and their depressive state.

Examines college students' reflections on the timing of their sexual debut, shifting research focus from just chronological age to the degree to which the event is viewed as "on-time."

Argues that in the digital era, self-portraiture is a powerful tool for self-therapy, enabling anyone to produce a work of art instinctively. It suggests that facing the camera lens immediately engages the essential process of defining the self.

Advocates for the body-centered, creative practice of performative writing as a useful method for training in the performing arts. This method serves as an "extended stage" for students to revisit and reassess their work on the page as fully as on stage.

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Highlights the "imperative" as a strategy to enhance writing practices, understanding writing as a performative material practice based on posthuman theories. Employs a critical collaborative autoethnographic methodology to explore writing as a method of inquiry.

A review of commercial EEG devices and machine learning techniques for EEG-based emotion recognition. It aims to evaluate popular consumer-grade EEG devices' status and provide insights for future investigations.

Examined the roles of romantic beliefs and imagined interactions in unrequited love among Chinese college students. Found that more idealized romantic beliefs and having imagined interactions were associated with stronger unrequited love, with the frequency of imagined interactions mediating the relationship.

An editorial discussing love, sex, and psychotherapy in a "post-romantic era" where there are greater sexual freedoms but a longing to "marry sex and intimacy."

Explores the "friendzone" phenomenon through the perspectives of initiators (those who communicate attraction) and respondents (those who react). It conceptualizes the friendzone, highlights obstacles in non-normative relationship scripts, and identifies risks with relationship change.

An article on families who have suffered the death of a child and their efforts to try to have children again. Reports that some experts believe the best way for parents to get over a death is to have another child, even with the risk of genetic disorders.

The article evaluates the thesis that romantic love is an evolved 'commitment device' for motivating human pair-bonding, which in turn facilitated the idiosyncratic life history of hominins. It integrates evidence from various scientific disciplines, including the universality of romantic love, its neurobiological signatures, and challenges like infidelity.

Introduces the notion of "imagined interaction" as part of the social cognition process. Imagined interactions serve functions like rehearsal for anticipated encounters, are dominated by the self, and are equally pleasant and unpleasant.

An editorial debating the role of research as the cornerstone of psychotherapeutic theory, practice, and training. It questions what is meant by 'research' in this context, contrasting evidence-based practice (EBP) with the view that psychotherapy itself is the research.