Low-volume, high-intensity interval training has been garnering attention in the exercise physiology literature recently due to its proposed time-efficiency. Also, recent work comparing continuous exercise to high-intensity interval training demonstrated superior ratings of perceived enjoyment following interval training. However, the dual-mode model suggests that exercise above ventilatory threshold (VT) done continuously will result in an almost homogenous decline in affect, which may reduce adherence. Numerous studies confirm the dual-mode model's prediction of reduced affect when exercising above VT, but no research to date has applied the model's predictions to interval training. The purpose of this study was to examine the dual-mode model using interval training. Based on the model, interval exercise above VT should produce a homogenous and significant decline in affect during exercise. Ten participants (mean age = 21.6 ± 2.4 yrs) completed the study. Participants were screened by a physician's assistant on their first visit to ensure they were low-risk and had no symptoms (cardiovascular, pulmonary, metabolic, or orthopedic) that would preclude safe participation in an exercise training program. Participants performed a maximal exercise test during their second visit to the lab. The final four visits were exercise trials 20 minutes in duration: 1) continuous at 20% below VT [Continuous-Moderate], 2) continuous at VT [Continuous-Heavy, 3) 10 x 60-second intervals at VT [Interval-Heavy], 4) 10 x 60-second intervals at 20% above VT [Interval-Severe]. Results indicated that enjoyment and affect was significantly greater during Continuous-Moderate and Interval-Heavy compared with Continuous-Heavy. Interval-Severe approached inducing significantly greater enjoyment and affect compared with Continuous-Heavy, however the study was likely underpowered to achieve significance. The findings of this study suggest that utilizing interval training may help preserve affect, even when performing exercise above VT.

This study compared the effects of a non-traditional and a traditional strength training program for adolescents on measures of health-related fitness and physical activity enjoyment (PACES). Male (n = 7) and female (n = 12) adolescents between the ages of 15 and 18 years registered for a community based program and volunteered to participate in the study component. Participants were assigned to a non-traditional training group (n = 10) utilizing kettlebells or a traditional training group (n = 9) utilizing dumbbells. Health-related fitness and PACES were measured at baseline and post-training, with an additional PACES measure at mid-training. Both training groups significantly improved several health-related fitness measures, with the only significant difference between groups being seen in KB swing squats. PACES significantly decreased from baseline to mid-training, and stayed constant from mid- to post-training, for both training groups. There was no significant difference between training groups on physical activity enjoyment.

This study compared the effects of a non-traditional and a traditional strength training program for adolescents on measures of health-related fitness and physical activity enjoyment (PACES). Male (n = 7) and female (n = 12) adolescents between the ages of 15 and 18 years registered for a community based program and volunteered to participate in the study component. Participants were assigned to a non-traditional training group (n = 10) utilizing kettlebells or a traditional training group (n = 9) utilizing dumbbells. Health-related fitness and PACES were measured at baseline and post-training, with an additional PACES measure at mid-training. Both training groups significantly improved several health-related fitness measures, with the only significant difference between groups being seen in KB swing squats. PACES significantly decreased from baseline to mid-training, and stayed constant from mid- to post-training, for both training groups. There was no significant difference between training groups on physical activity enjoyment.

O trabalho discute a prática psicanalítica com adolescentes na instituição judiciária, partindo da psicologia para depois situar o campo psicanalítico. Percorre as contribuições iniciais da Psicanálise na interface com o Direito e levanta como a Psicanálise pensou a delinquencia. Investiga o trabalho de Aichhorn a partir de uma discussão dos conceitos de Ideal do eu e Supereu em Freud. Acompanhando o livro Wayward Youth de Aichhorn observa que o uso que ele faz do conceito de Ideal do eu, remete a sua face apaziguadora das identificações secundárias, sendo a delinquencia o resultado de uma falha nesse processo. Desse modo o caráter sádico e paradoxal do Supereu que está referido à identificação primária, fica fora da elaboração de Aichhorn. Por fim, ressitua a delinquencia no campo da pulsão de morte, relacionando-a ao conceito de gozo de Lacan. Desde este ponto a delinquencia é pensada como o resultado de um excesso pulsional que nunca é simbolizado e não de uma falha na simbolização. O trabalho traz também a diferenciação entre crimes do Eu, do Isso e do Supereu, relacionando-os ao problema da responsabilidade. Por fim discute a passagem ao ato e o acting-out, tanto teoricamente quanto na discussão de dois casos que são apresentados. No primeiro quando ocorre uma dimensão de apelo ao Outro, e no segundo onde o que se dá é um avesso do apelo, um excesso pulsional absolutamente desligado que leva a um agir trágico.

abstract: This dissertation uncovers the negative aspects of aesthetics by examining when and how enhanced product and payment aesthetics can backfire and lead to unfavorable consumer responses. The first essay examines the downstream effects of nondurable product aesthetics on usage behavior and consumption enjoyment. Across a series of field and lab experiments, I document an inhibiting effect of aesthetics on consumption. I find that highly aesthetic products elicit greater inferences of effort in their creation, and that people have an intrinsic appreciation for such effort. Because the consumption process indirectly destroys the effort originally invested to make the product beautiful, people reduce consumption of such products because usage would involve destroying something they naturally appreciate. Further, I show that in cases where individuals do consume a beautiful product, they exhibit lower consumption enjoyment. These negative post-consumption outcomes are driven in parallel by concerns over having actually destroyed the effort that made the product beautiful as well as the decrements in beauty that become visible when aesthetic products are made less attractive through consumption. The second essay investigates how the aesthetics and design of a payment (e.g., beautiful gift card packaging) can influence the purchase experience. Three field and lab experiments reveal the negative impact of beautified payments on spending and purchase satisfaction, particularly in situations where usage involves compromising its aesthetic appeal. Specifically, when consumers must damage a payment’s appearance before using it (e.g., ripping gift card packaging), they are less likely to use that payment, and experience lower purchase satisfaction when they do, an effect driven by the pain of payment. In doing so, I identify aesthetics as a novel antecedent to the pain of payment that carries important consequences for spending behavior, purchase satisfaction, and the overall customer experience. Implications for theory and practice are discussed. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Business Administration 2018

Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-14T12:39:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Arquivototal.pdf: 361794 bytes, checksum: 54739aab496e8ffa1fd32de7a542b415 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-08-31 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This research has as its theme the link between the violence and the decline of the symbolic order, represented in the Lacanian psychoanalysis by the fall of the significant the Name-of-father and which represents sign of contemporary society. Although the violence is in the history mankind, we believe that its spread justifies a field of investigation. In this paper the violence will not be cataloged (domestic violence, urban violence, etc.) because we understand that by the cataloging of the phenomenon we would difficult the problem of its location, in view of it would be necessary enter in the matter of the existence of a victim, the subject who suffers the act. Thereby, we will discuss the violence as a contemporary symptom, as a signing of the current discontent, result of the prevalence of the drive satisfaction, where the value of sense of the symptom is subdued to its value of enjoyment. According to Lacanian psychoanalysis, in the contemporaneity does not exist more a limit offered by the exception, but what exists is a worldwide which register itself as a opened set, without a limit, beside the female sexuation which leads to the question of the enjoyment treatment when this escapes to the law. We believe that the psychoanalysis can contribute to turn the violence, as a symptom which formalizes the enjoyment, into an analytical symptom to provide to the subjects the possibility of invention of a sinthoma that can reshape the enjoyment and relieve the current discontent of the subjects, even considering that by the outlook of psychoanalysis only the subject can say from what does not go well with them (although it does not exist a knowledge previously constituted about this saying) and turn their symptom into an analysis symptom. / A presente pesquisa tem como tema a articulação entre a violência e o declínio da ordem simbólica, representado na psicanálise lacaniana pela queda do significante do Nome-do- Pai e que constitui signo da sociedade contemporânea. Muito embora a violência esteja presente na história da humanidade, acreditamos que sua proliferação justifique um campo de investigação. Aqui a violência não será catalogada (violência doméstica, violência urbana etc.), porque entendemos que a partir da catalogação do fenômeno dificultaríamos o problema da sua localização, tendo em vista que seria necessário adentrarmos na questão da existência de uma vítima, o sujeito que sofre o ato. Abordamos a violência como um sintoma contemporâneo, como sinalização do mal estar atual fruto do predomínio da satisfação pulsional, onde o valor de sentido do sintoma se encontra subjulgado ao seu valor de gozo. De acordo com a psicanálise lacaniana, na contemporaneidade não se conta mais com um limite oferecido pela exceção, mas sim com um universal que se inscreve como um conjunto aberto, sem um limite, do lado da sexuação feminina, o que conduz à questão do tratamento do gozo quando este escapa à lei. Acreditamos que a psicanálise possa contribuir para transformar a violência, como sintoma que formaliza o gozo, em sintoma analítico a fim de proporcionar aos sujeitos a possibilidade de invenção de um sinthoma que possa dar outra forma ao gozo e aliviar o mal estar atual desses sujeitos, mesmo considerando que da perspectiva da psicanálise somente o sujeito pode dizer do que não vai bem com ele (embora não exista um saber constituído previamente sobre esse dizer) e transformar o seu sintoma em sintoma de análise.

O trabalho discute a prática psicanalítica com adolescentes na instituição judiciária, partindo da psicologia para depois situar o campo psicanalítico. Percorre as contribuições iniciais da Psicanálise na interface com o Direito e levanta como a Psicanálise pensou a delinquencia. Investiga o trabalho de Aichhorn a partir de uma discussão dos conceitos de Ideal do eu e Supereu em Freud. Acompanhando o livro Wayward Youth de Aichhorn observa que o uso que ele faz do conceito de Ideal do eu, remete a sua face apaziguadora das identificações secundárias, sendo a delinquencia o resultado de uma falha nesse processo. Desse modo o caráter sádico e paradoxal do Supereu que está referido à identificação primária, fica fora da elaboração de Aichhorn. Por fim, ressitua a delinquencia no campo da pulsão de morte, relacionando-a ao conceito de gozo de Lacan. Desde este ponto a delinquencia é pensada como o resultado de um excesso pulsional que nunca é simbolizado e não de uma falha na simbolização. O trabalho traz também a diferenciação entre crimes do Eu, do Isso e do Supereu, relacionando-os ao problema da responsabilidade. Por fim discute a passagem ao ato e o acting-out, tanto teoricamente quanto na discussão de dois casos que são apresentados. No primeiro quando ocorre uma dimensão de apelo ao Outro, e no segundo onde o que se dá é um avesso do apelo, um excesso pulsional absolutamente desligado que leva a um agir trágico.

abstract: Fibromyalgia (FM) is a chronic pain condition characterized by debilitating fatigue. This study examined the dynamic relation between interpersonal enjoyment and fatigue in 102 partnered and 74 unpartnered women with FM. Participants provided three daily ratings for 21 days. They rated their fatigue in late morning and at the end of the day. Both partnered and unpartnered participants reported their interpersonal enjoyment in the combined familial, friendship, and work domains (COMBINED domain) in the afternoon. Additionally, partnered participants reported their interpersonal enjoyment in the spousal domain. The study was guided by three hypotheses at the within-person level, based on daily diaries: (1) elevated late morning fatigue would predict diminished afternoon interpersonal enjoyment; (2) diminished interpersonal enjoyment would predict elevated end-of-day fatigue; (3) interpersonal enjoyment would mediate the late morning to end-of-day fatigue relationship. In cross-level models, the study explored whether individual differences (between-person) in late morning fatigue and afternoon interpersonal enjoyment would moderate within-person relations from late morning fatigue to afternoon interpersonal enjoyment, and from afternoon interpersonal enjoyment to end-of-day fatigue. Furthermore, it explored whether the hypothesized relationships at the within-person level would also emerge at the between-person level (between-person mediation models). Multilevel structural equation modeling and multilevel modeling were employed for model testing, separately for partnered and unpartnered participants. Within-person mediation models supported that on high fatigue mornings, afternoon interpersonal enjoyment was dampened in the spousal and combined domains in partnered and unpartnered samples. Moreover, low afternoon interpersonal enjoyment in both the spousal and combined domains predicted elevated end-of-day fatigue. Afternoon interpersonal enjoyment mediated the relationship of late morning to end-of-day fatigue in the combined domain but in not the spousal domain. Cross-level moderation analyses showed that individual differences in afternoon spousal enjoyment moderated the day-to-day relation between afternoon spousal enjoyment and end-of-day fatigue. Finally, the mediational chain was not observed at the between-person level. These findings suggest that preserving interpersonal enjoyment in non-spousal relations limits within-day increases in FM fatigue. They highlight the importance of examining domain-specificity in interpersonal enjoyment when studying fatigue, and suggest that targeting enjoyment in social relations may improve the efficacy of existing treatments. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Psychology 2013

abstract: This study explores the influence of framing and activity type on expectations of learning and enjoyment as well as performance in a paraphrase identification task. In the first experiment, 80 students played one of three activities framed as either a "play" or "learning" task. Students then completed one of three activities; learning only, an educational game, or a play only activity. Results showed that the play frame had an effect on learning expectations prior to completing the activity, but had no effect after completing the activity. Students who completed the educational game scored significantly higher on the posttest learning assessment than those in the play only activity. Pairwise comparisons also indicated that students who completed the educational game performed just as well as the learning only activity when given the posttest learning assessment. Performance in the paraphrase identification task was collected using data logged from student interactions, and it was established that although there was an interaction between performance and activity type, this interaction was due to a significant difference during the second round. These results suggest that framing can influence initial expectations, and educational games can teach a simple writing strategy without distracting from the educational task. A second experiment using 80 students was conducted to determine if a stronger frame would influence expectations and to replicate the effect of activity type on learning and enjoyment. The second study showed no effect of framing on expected or reported enjoyment and learning. The performance results showed a significant interaction between performance and activity type, with the interaction being driven by the first round that students completed. However, the effect of activity type was replicated, suggesting that game features can enhance student enjoyment and are not a detriment to learning simple strategy-based tasks. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.A. Psychology 2013

Investigamos os possíveis efeitos das experiências de atravessamento das identificações e representações do ser, implicados no conceito de gozo feminino de Jacques Lacan, e também no estudo da superação da metafísica no ser-o-aí (Dasein) de Martin Heidegger, ocasião de desvelamento em que o ser irrompe com uma singular estranheza (das Ereignis). Nosso objetivo foi o de esclarecer quais seriam possíveis finalidades clínicas e efeitos transformativos, face ao patológico, que o tratamento psicanalítico poderia conferir às experiências de transbordamento do ser para mais além das significações fálicas. Para tanto, a metodologia escolhida foi o estudo da obra de dois dos principais expoentes do século XX nos campos da filosofia e da psicanálise, legitimadores cada qual a seu modo da formalização e da escuta de um paradoxo: o ser é ao mesmo tempo íntimo e estrangeiro, radicalmente inacessível ao pensamento, e neste sentido se provaria êxtimo. Num primeiro momento, esclarecemos os sentidos da extimidade ou ek-sistência do ser nas obras de Heidegger, em textos de 1927 a 1966, e de Lacan, sobretudo no recorte de seu seminário 20 (1972-73), paradigmas com os quais pudemos trabalhar, em nosso último capítulo, certos desafios que a lacuna do ser traz à situação clínica. Como resultado, sustentamos a leitura de que o ser para a psicanálise lacaniana se apreende pelo conceito de gozo, em suas duas modalidades: ser da significância, correlata ao gozo fálico típico da fantasia neurótica, e Outra irrepresentável, denominada de gozo feminino. Como efeitos deste gozo desconhecido, desarticulador da representação objetal, dar-se-iam os temporários atravessamentos das identificações do sujeito, bem como das amarrações simbólicas do sintoma; experiências que podem transcorrer em efeitos de indeterminação produtiva. Concluímos que, sobretudo em virtude da vazão indizível do ser, podemos romper com uma leitura a nosso ver reducionista da psicanálise em que a perspectiva monoculturalista e falocêntrica perpetuasse, clinicamente, efeitos de sujeito em relação exclusivamente fálica-objetal com o ser. Defendemos finalmente a importância de uma 9 escuta psicanalítica capaz de diferenciar o ser do objeto, caso se atente também à insólita abertura de um ser para mais além do Falo / This research investigates the possible effects of certain experiences that cross over the identifications and representations of Being, implied on Jacques Lacans concept of feminine enjoyment and also regarding the overcoming of metaphysics in Martin Heideggers concept of Being-there (Dasein), which refers to an unconcealment experience in which Being bursts out with a singular strangeness (das Ereignis). We aim to clarify the clinical purposes and transformative effects on the pathological treatments which psychoanalysis may convey on the overflow experiences of Being beyond phallic signification. Therefore, the adopted methodology was to study the work of two of the twentieth centurys leading exponents in the fields of philosophy and psychoanalysis who legitimize, each in their own way, the formalization and the understanding of the following idea: that the inner being of man is out of his imaginary or representative reach, and by being inner and outer at the same time, Being is extimity. At first, we clarified how a strange possibility of enjoyment of extimacy or of the ek-sistence of Being is formulated in the works of Heidegger between 1927 and 1966, as well as in Lacans theory, especially within the clipping of his seminar 20 (1972-73). Thus, supported by those two paradigms, in our last chapter we could reflect about certain challenges that the unspeakable Being brings to the clinical situation. As the outcome of our research, we argue that the concept of Being in lacanian psychoanalysis is held by the concept of enjoyment in its two forms: firstly, as the Being of significance related to the phallic enjoyment of neurotic fantasy and, secondly, as the unrepresentable Other, related to the experience of extimacy within feminine enjoyment. As effects of this unknown enjoyment, devoid of object representation, the subjects identifications, as well as the symbolic symptoms bindings, would helplessly flow through; which characterizes them as experiences that could elapse productive indeterminacy effects. Finally, after studying the problems of Being and of the Unspeakable in clinical practice, we conclude that due to the unspeakable outflow of 11 Being through the perspective of certain experiences of indetermination, it is possible to break, as we understand it, the reductionist interpretation of psychoanalysis in which the monoculturalistic and phallocentric perspective could clinically perpetuate the effects of the subject in exclusively phallic-objectal relations with its Being. We finally stand for the importance of a psychoanalytical listening also capable of differentiating Being and object, as long as psychoanalysts look out for an opening of Being beyond the Phallus