‘Bodies (that) matter’: the role of habit formation for identity

Wehrle, Maren

doi:10.1007/s11097-020-09703-0

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“…These results build on previous findings that responding to CCRF is embodied [31] and partly an automatic, repetitive habitual behavior that requires minimal forethought [32]. The identified themes of responding to CCRF closely fit the three levels of habit formation that were reported by Wehrle, based on Husserl's later works [33,34]. These active and passive levels of habit formation represent both conscious and unconscious processes in relation to one's previous experiences [33].…”

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confidence: 85%

“…The identified themes of responding to CCRF closely fit the three levels of habit formation that were reported by Wehrle, based on Husserl's later works [33,34]. These active and passive levels of habit formation represent both conscious and unconscious processes in relation to one's previous experiences [33]. The first level of habit formation is defined as a style of experiencing based on a direct, unconscious reaction towards repeated individual experiences.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 70%

“…In the present study, we shed more light on what characterized the change of identity and how it plays a central role in responding to CCRF, by letting go of old habits and (social) activities and forming new ones. The changed habits of sleeping more, moving less, and changes in communication preferences make patients with CCRF sometimes unrecognizable for themselves and others, which has an impact on their identity [33]. This loss of self was reported by patients in several qualitative studies on CCRF [31,[35][36][37].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Forming new habits in the face of chronic cancer-related fatigue: An interpretative phenomenological study

Bootsma

Schellekens

Woezik

et al. 2021

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Purpose The growing group of patients who suffer from chronic cancer-related fatigue (CCRF) after cancer have helpful and less helpful ways of responding to this long-lasting and disruptive problem. This qualitative study aimed to gain insight in essential elements of how patients respond to CCRF, with a focus on helpful responses to facilitate adaptation. Methods We conducted semi-structured interviews with a purposive sample of 25 participants who experienced severe CCRF for at least 3 months. Participants were recruited via media, patient associations, meetings, and health professionals until data saturation was attained. We used a topic guide with open-ended questions about lived experiences. Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) was used for analysis of the transcripts. Results We identified five interrelated themes of how patients respond to CCRF: (1) discovering physical and emotional boundaries; (2) communicating support needs; (3) reorganizing and planning activities and rest; (4) letting go of one’s habitual identity; and (5) recognizing and accepting CCRF. Conclusion This study highlights the development of new habits and positive beliefs in the face of CCRF and the importance of (social) support in this process. This experiential knowledge on helpful responses can be used to inform patients and their significant others and improve self-efficacy. Health professionals could use these insights to improve recognition of CCRF and personalize treatment.

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confidence: 99%

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Forming new habits in the face of chronic cancer-related fatigue: An interpretative phenomenological study

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Schellekens

Woezik

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“…The internalization of sociocultural appearance standards is needed as a first step towards a stable personal identity. Identity can be understood as a stable, constant, and identifiable form of behavior which reflects a way of being in the world acquired by means of bodily practices and habitual performance [Wehrle, 2021]. Additionally, identity formation is achieved through cycles of social active inference to learn relevant sociocultural norms as self-priors -narratives-that function to guide active inference towards those goals congruent with the "self" [Tremblay et al, 2021].…”

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Social Media Platforms: Trading with Prediction Error Minimization for Your Attention

Ciria¹,

Albarracin²,

Miller³

et al. 2022

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Culture exploits the acquisition of meaningful content by crafting regimes of shared attention, determining what is relevant, valuable, and salient. Culture changes the field of relevant social affordances worthy of being acted upon in a context-sensitive manner. When relevant affordances are highly weighted, their attentional capture and their salience increase the probability of them being enacted due to the associated expectation for minimizing prediction error. This process is known as active inference. In the digital era, individuals need to infer the action-related attributes of digital cues, here characterized as digital affordances. The digital affordances of digital social platforms are of particular interest here. Digital social affordances are defined as online possibilities of social interactions. By their own nature, these are salient because they are related to social interactions and relevant social cues. However, the problem of digital social platforms is that they are not equivalent to situated social interactions because their structure is built, mediated, and defined by third-parties with diverse interests. The third-parties behind the digital social platforms are using the same mechanism exploited by culture to manipulate the shared patterns of attention. Moreover, digital social platforms are deliberately designed to be hyper-stimulating, making digital social affordances highly rewarding and increasingly salient. This appropriation, for economic purposes, is an issue of great importance, especially as the COVID-19 pandemic brought deep global changes, pushing societies to an online digital way of life. Here, we examined different types of digital social affordances under an active inference view, placing them into two categories, those for self-identity formation, and those for belief-updating. This paper aims to analyze digital social affordances in light of the prediction error dynamics they might elicit to their users. Although each of the analyzed digital social affordances allows different epistemic and instrumental digital actions, they all share the characteristic of having an "easy" and a fast expected rate of error reduction. Here, we aim to provide a new hypothesis about how the design behind digital social affordances is built on our natural attractiveness to minimize prediction error and the resulting positive embodied feelings when doing so. Finally, it is suggested that because digital social affordances are becoming highly weighted in the field of affordances, this might be putting at risk our context-sensitive grip on a rich, dynamic and varied field of relevant affordances.

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“…This has also intensified discussions and collaborations between scholars working with approaches from phenomenology, critical theory, and poststructuralism. Maren Wehrle (2021) and Scott Marratto (2021) each give an example of these discussions in our special issue, with a focus on personal identity. Wehrle interprets Butler's theory of performativity and materialization as a theory of identity and elaborates on the important contribution that phenomenology can make with the concept of "habit formation," where the relations between passive habitualization and active endorsement of personal (gendered) identities can be reexamined already on the level of the body.…”

Section: Sociality and Identitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Phenomenological approaches to personal identity

Čapek

Loidolt

2021

Phenom Cogn Sci

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This special issue addresses the debate on personal identity from a phenomenological viewpoint, especially contemporary phenomenological research on selfhood. In the introduction, we first offer a brief survey of the various classic questions related to personal identity according to Locke’s initial proposal and sketch out key concepts and distinctions of the debate that came after Locke. We then characterize the types of approach represented by post-Hegelian, German and French philosophies of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We argue that whereas the Anglophone debates on personal identity were initially formed by the persistence question and the characterization question, the “Continental” tradition included remarkably intense debates on the individual or the self as being unique or “concrete,” deeply temporal and—as claimed by some philosophers, like Sartre and Foucault—unable to have any identity, if not one externally imposed. We describe the Continental line of thinking about the “self” as a reply and an adjustment to the post-Lockean “personal identity” question (as suggested by thinkers such as MacIntyre, Ricœur and Taylor). These observations constitute the backdrop for our presentation of phenomenological approaches to personal identity. These approaches run along three lines: (a) debates on the layers of the self, starting from embodiment and the minimal self and running all the way to the full-fledged concept of person; (b) questions of temporal becoming, change and stability, as illustrated, for instance, by aging or transformative life-experiences; and (c) the constitution of identity in the social, institutional, and normative space. The introduction thus establishes a structure for locating and connecting the different contributions in our special issue, which, as an ensemble, represent a strong and differentiated contribution to the debate on personal identity from a phenomenological perspective.

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‘Bodies (that) matter’: the role of habit formation for identity

Cited by 23 publications

References 31 publications

Forming new habits in the face of chronic cancer-related fatigue: An interpretative phenomenological study

Forming new habits in the face of chronic cancer-related fatigue: An interpretative phenomenological study

Social Media Platforms: Trading with Prediction Error Minimization for Your Attention

Phenomenological approaches to personal identity

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