Talking about transplants: Social representations and the dialectical, dilemmatic nature of organ donation and transplantation

Moloney, Gail; Walker, Iain

doi:10.1348/014466602760060264

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“…Both student and general population responses reflected discourse in media, so it is possible they felt they needed to wade through these questions first. Similar findings have been found for the topic of organ donation, where discussions between participants began at a point anchored in popular discourse, and elaboration led to greater depth (Moloney & Walker 2002). Further research could investigate this in the climate change context through focus groups or structured interviews.…”

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Emotions predict policy support: Why it matters how people feel about climate change

Wang

Leviston

Hurlstone

et al. 2018

Global Environmental Change

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Current research shows that emotions can motivate climate engagement and action, but precisely how has received scant attention. We propose that strong emotional responses to climate change result from perceiving one's "objects of care" as threatened by climate change, which motivates caring about climate change itself, and in turn predicts behaviour. In two studies, we find that climate scientists (N=44) experience greater emotional intensity about climate change than do students (N=94) and the general population (N=205), and that patterns of emotional responses explain differences in support for climate change policy.Scientists tied their emotional responses to concern about consequences of climate change to future generations and the planet, as well as personal identities associated with responsibility to act. Our findings suggest that "objects of care" that link people to climate change may be crucial to understanding why some people feel more strongly about the issue than others, and how emotions can prompt action. Keywords:Climate change, emotion, care, identity, field theory, psychological distance Highlights• This paper sheds light on why people feel specific, or any, emotions about climate change and links these emotions to support for climate action• We demonstrate a connection between objects of care, the emotions they evoke, and actions to address climate change

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Emotions predict policy support: Why it matters how people feel about climate change

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Leviston

Hurlstone

et al. 2018

Global Environmental Change

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“…Social representations theory stresses the dialogical and dynamic nature of these processes (Marková, 2000;Moloney and Walker, 2002), and their relationship to the social practices they support, permeate and/or threaten (Costalat-Founeau, 1999;Pereira de Sa, 1992). It highlights how we use social representations to "conventionalise the objects, persons and events we encounter" (Moscovici, 1984, p. 7).…”

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“…From a social representations perspective resistance is a central aspect of re-presentation. In the act of taking on a social representation there is always the possibility of re-interpretation, re-evaluation and argumentation (Moloney and Walker, 2002). As Moscovici (1984) has discussed, while representations "are shared by many, enter into and influence the mind of each -they are not thought by them; rather, to be more precise, they are re-thought, re-cited and re-presented" (p. 9).…”

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Re‐presentation and resistance in the context of school exclusion: reasons to be critical

Howarth

2004

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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In this paper I present an examination of how we, in the everyday, develop critical engagement with the shifting relations of power and oppression around us. The paper explores the role of representations in maintaining the racialised patterns of school exclusion in Britain. I use social representations theory to investigate how racialising re-presentations pervade and create institutionalised practices, how these re-presentations invade young people's sense of self and ultimately how young people collaborate ways to resist and reject oppressive relations. The material presented here, from interviews with young people excluded from school, parents, teachers and others involved in school exclusion, illustrates how young people problematise and critique racialising re-presentations while participating in the conditions of oppression and resistance that pervade their experiences of school. The analysis is divided into three sections. The first examines the institutionalisation of stigmatising representations, visible in social practices. The second section looks at the role of re-presentation and engaged critique in the social construction of 'black pupils'. The concluding section explores the possibilities of resistance and critical engagement in the everyday. As a whole this reveals how young people develop critical engagement with the re-presentations that filter into and so constitute their realities. This enables an analysis of the role of resistance and contestation in social representation, highlights the importance of participation and community and so invites a critical version of social representations theory.

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“…Although media coverage of OD issues is largely positive and has become even more positive in the past decade, the details of how the ODs are described may play a crucial role in people's support-or lack of support-for ODs (5). Specifically, viewers of personal stories that cast ODs in a favorable lightsuch as TV dramas that make viewers emotionally involved in the narrative-were likely to become organ donors if the drama explicitly encouraged donation (6).…”

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Effect of media presentations on willingness to commit to organ donation

Harel

Kogut

Pinchas

et al. 2017

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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We examine how presentations of organ donation cases in the media may affect people's willingness to sign organ donation commitment cards, donate the organs of a deceased relative, support the transition to an "opt-out" policy, or donate a kidney while alive. We found that providing identifying information about the prospective recipient (whose life was saved by the donation) increased the participants' willingness to commit to organ donation themselves, donate the organs of a deceased relative, or support a transition to an "opt-out" policy. Conversely, identifying the deceased donor tended to induce thoughts of death rather than about saving lives, resulting in fewer participants willing to donate organs or support measures that facilitated organ donation. A study of online news revealed that identification of the donor is significantly more common than identification of the recipient in the coverage of organ donation cases-with possibly adverse effects on the incidence of organ donations.organ donation | identifiable victim effect | organ donation policy decisions | prosocial decisions

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Talking about transplants: Social representations and the dialectical, dilemmatic nature of organ donation and transplantation

Cited by 105 publications

References 18 publications

Emotions predict policy support: Why it matters how people feel about climate change

Emotions predict policy support: Why it matters how people feel about climate change

Re‐presentation and resistance in the context of school exclusion: reasons to be critical

Effect of media presentations on willingness to commit to organ donation

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