Forgiveness as a socio-psychological phenomenon

Socio-psychological reconstruction as a qualitative method

1. The communication model Communication is not simply just information processing from a sender to a recipient. It is an interactive process that has its own specific dynamics by which the communicators themselves become entangled in the topic of the communication. The meaning of any message results from the context in which it is placed and can be understood on three different levels. Take a ...

Medical image quality as a socio-technical phenomenon.

OBJECTIVES The study aims to interpret image quality in laparoscopic surgery not only as a technical parameter but also as the result of the situation of use. METHODS Observational studies of laparoscopy in use, semi-structured and informal interviews with laparoscopists. RESULTS When medical images are digitized to exploit novel technical possibilities, image quality becomes a paramount is...

Forgiveness and psychological adjustment following interpersonal transgressions: A longitudinal analysis

Forgiveness is often assumed to be adaptive for psychological adjustment following interpersonal transgressions. Three hundred and forty seven individuals who had experienced a recent interpersonal transgression were surveyed on four occasions over the course of six weeks. Forgiveness was assessed with scales measuring interpersonal avoidance and revenge motivation and psychological adjustment ...

Socio-psychological simulation

The Title of a Literary Text as a Discursive Phenomenon

Modern text linguistics pays serious attention to the significant structural elements of the text, which carry special knowledge. Such structural elements include the title. In this article, the title is considered as a linguistic and cognitive characteristic and a spatially fixed structural element of the text – «frame», which is located around/before/behind the text, focusing on the importanc...