Drawing on studies that have highlighted the adverse effect of neuroticism on marital satisfaction, the present study proposes a totality model of couple neuroticism: the greater the sum of spousal ...levels of neuroticism, the worse the marital satisfaction. Moreover, in testing the totality model of neuroticism, this study conducts a comparative analysis between the totality model and alternative models, including actor–partner, similarity, and synergistic models, to assess the efficacy of the totality model in capturing marital satisfaction within marital dyads. In two distinct studies, conducted with participants from South Korea (nstudy1 = 204 marital dyads, nstudy2 = 251 marital dyads), data were collected via online surveys that included assessments of neuroticism and marital satisfaction. The findings reveal a robust negative association between the cumulative neuroticism scores of both spouses and marital satisfaction. Importantly, the findings of the present study suggest that the totality model offers a more parsimonious yet equally effective method for predicting marital satisfaction compared with more complex models. In summary, this study underscores the significance of considering the combined neuroticism levels of both spouses as a pivotal indicator of marital dissatisfaction.
•The sum of wife and husband neuroticism scores is related to marital satisfaction.•The totality model captures marital satisfaction efficiently and simply.•The robustness of the totality model is confirmed across reports and techniques.•The study highlights neuroticism in couples, not individuals, as a unit.
This article surveys the transformations and permutations of “totality” throughout the cultural and political landscapes of the twentieth century. Specifically, it explores connections between “high’ ...modernism” and totality by focusing on the heritage of this pairing as figured by major thinkers from both the Frankfurt school and structuralist and poststructuralist debates in France. Ultimately, I argue that modernism is an unfinishable archive, one that resists, and will never become, a closed totality.
Resumo: Este artigo tem por objetivo analisar o problema da totalidade em Sartre, em sua relação com a finitude. Inicia-se pelo problema da solidão ontológica, pelo qual analisamos o Ser enquanto ...exterioridade de indiferença e o acontecimento do para-si ou ato ontológico. Postulando esse acontecimento como processo de singularização e a própria vida do indivíduo, mostra-se como a finitude afere à totalidade, enquanto totalização e singularização. Imagem condensada pelo universal singular, a finitude, então, não é tomada como uma totalidade isolada, mas passa a ser compreendida por sua abertura do humano, na singularização de uma vida.
In this study, we introduce visual totality of a crowdfunding pitch video which considers not only visual segments with human faces but also segments without human faces. Drawing from Emotions as ...Social Information (EASI) theory and expression theory, we analyze more than 4 million frames in 3184 Indiegogo rewards-based crowdfunding pitch videos using the ResNet 50 deep neural network. Results indicate that the impact of peak negative affective visual expression on funding performance is stronger than that of its positive counterpart for both segments with and without human faces. Additionally, the influence of peak negative affective visual expression from human faces is stronger in the first half (vs. the second half) of the pitch video. Further, we found a substitute moderating effect between the peak negative affective visual expression from segments with and without human faces on funding performance. We conducted an additional data collection to ascertain that pain points serve as the underlying mechanism through which negative affective visual expressions related to funding outcome. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of our study to the crowdfunding literature and the broader research on entrepreneurial resource acquisition.
•In pitch videos, entrepreneurs can use affective visual totality to influence funding decisions.•Peak negative affective visual expression has a stronger impact than its positive counterpart on funding performance.•The influence of peak negative affective visual expression from human faces is stronger in the first half of the video.•Peak negative affective visual expression from segments with and without human faces can substitute each other’s influence.•We introduce a machine learning approach to extract video expressions from both segments with and without human faces.
Abstract Grounding necessitarianism (GN) is the view that full grounds necessitate what they ground. Although GN has been rather popular among philosophers, it faces important counterexamples: For ...instance, A = Socrates died fully grounds C = Xanthippe became a widow. However, A fails to necessitate C: A could have obtained together with B = Socrates and Xanthippe were never married, without C obtaining. In many cases, the debate essentially reduces to whether A indeed fully grounds C–as the contingentist claims–or if instead C is fully grounded in A + , namely A plus some supplementary fact S (e.g. Xanthippe was married to Socrates)–as the necessitarian claims. Both sides typically agree that A + necessitates C, while A does not; they disagree on whether A or A + fully grounds C. This paper offers a novel defence of the claim that, in these typical cases, unlike A + , A fails to fully ground C–thereby bringing further support to GN. First and foremost, unlike A + , A fails to fully ground C because it fails to contain just what is relevant to do so, in two distinct senses– explanatory and generative relevance. Second, going for A, rather than A + , as a full ground undermines not just grounding necessitarianism , but modally weaker views which even contingentists may want to preserve.
Abstract This essay considers the question of how to frame social complexity from the point of view of critical realism as it was developed in the direction of dialectics by Roy Bhaskar. One of the ...main objectives of dialectical critical realism (DCR) was to see dialectics as offering a more open and flexible way of handling social reality. I begin by outlining the main aims of DCR and its general orientation, before outlining some key concepts which afford it greater flexibility in handling complexity. In particular I look at ideas of totality, holistic causality, four planar social being and dispositional identity. I then use these ideas to explore in more detail two particular issues which relate to my own interests in thinking about the place of moral psychology in a dialectical critical realist setting. Here I focus on the complexity in understanding what it means to be responsible for an act in the light of the four planar social being/dispositional identity argument, and on how psychological phenomena animate social and political relations in light of ideas of totality and holistic causation.
In the context of hotly contested debates within critical urban theory, many scholars have recently attempted (both implicitly and explicitly) to move beyond the relational-dialectical concept of ...‘totality’, taking up the notion of ‘the constitutive outside’ in its place. With this in view, this article seeks to (1) develop a critique of the ways in which the concept of the constitutive outside is deployed in these debates; and (2) to sketch another path forward – one that understands capitalist urbanisation as a distinctive moment in the evolution of a world-encompassing and internally related socio-spatial totality, while also attending to well-founded concerns among theorists of the constitutive outside regarding the question of difference and ascriptive hierarchisation. More precisely, this article will pursue a close reading of work on the constitutive outside in critical urban theory, suggesting that it effectively re-articulates longstanding and entrenched tenets of capitalist ideology, positing the image of a ‘space-time of the other’. And it will conclude with a revised conceptualisation of totality for critical urban theory, building on Nancy Fraser’s recent work on capitalism’s racialised, gendered, and ecological ‘hidden abodes’.
The concept of affordances has become central in information systems literature. However, existing perspectives fall short in providing details on the relational aspect of affordances, which can ...influence actors' perception of them. To increase granularity and specificity in this regard, researchers have suggested that it be supplemented with other concepts or theories. In this article, we argue that the Heideggerian concepts of ‘familiarity’ and ‘referential totality’ are well suited for increasing our understanding of the relational aspects of affordances in information systems research. To explore this idea, we conducted a case study of a project concerning the development of a digital twin (i.e., digital representation of a physical asset) in the Norwegian grid sector. We found that users' familiarity with the digital twin totality enabled them to perceive digital twin affordances, and that without this familiarity, affordances remained latent for the users. Through our study, we offer a nuanced perspective on the relational aspect of affordance perception, contributing to affordance theory in that regard. Further, we contribute to practice and information systems research by providing valuable insights into how digital twins are understood and applied in practice.
Through the analysis of Mariano Campo’s (1892-1976) published works and thanks to further insights offered by some unpublished manuscripts, the profile of a philosopher is outlined, whose main ...interest, throughout his academic and research activity, has been aesthetics. More specifically, Campo has focused on the centrality of feelings to human aesthetic experience: it is through feeling that we experience a transfiguration of reality, which happens paradigmatically when, in front of an artwork, we appreciate it as an integral whole, a totality.
Planetary urbanization and totality Goonewardena, Kanishka
Environment and planning. D, Society & space,
06/2018, Letnik:
36, Številka:
3
Journal Article
Recenzirano
This paper begins with the accusation of “totalization” that has been directed at Neil Brenner and Christian Schmid’s concept of “planetary urbanization.” In so doing, it first critiques the meanings ...typically attributed to “totality” and “totalization” by Brenner and Schmid as well as their critics, and then explicates the concepts of totality and totalization developed in the tradition of Hegelian Marxism, especially in the works of Georg Lukács, Jean-Paul Sartre, Henri Lefebvre, and Fredric Jameson. Following a review of some influential invocations of Hegelian or Marxist conceptions of totality in anti-colonial and socialist–feminist politics, the paper concludes by arguing that participants in the contentious planetary urbanization debate can best address their substantive concerns by working through instead of disavowing the concept of totality—especially the version of it proposed by Lefebvre, involving state and capital, “the urban” and the everyday.
