The emotions of powerlessness

TenHouten, Warren D.

doi:10.1080/2158379x.2016.1149308

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“…Future work should examine the feedback loop identified in this article. In this feedback loop, the more disadvantaged youths are marginalized and frozen out of the digital social interactions enjoyed by their more connected peers, the more these underconnected youths may resign themselves to digital social invisibility and adopt a much more fatalistic posture (TenHouten, 2016). This posture is structurally similar to the fatalism of working-class individuals who do not expect to climb higher in the class system and have accepted their place in it.…”

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The identity curation game: digital inequality, identity work, and emotion management

Robinson

2017

Information, Communication & Society

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The research examines an understudied facet of digital inequality: how digital inequality impacts identity work and emotion management. The analysis reveals how unequal access to digital resources shapes how well youths are able to play what I call the identity curation game. Digital resources determine youths' ability to succeed in this game that is governed by three implicit rules:(1) constantly update or be sidelined, (2) engage in constant reciprocated identity-affirming interactions, and (3) maintain a strategy of vigilance to remove traces of failed identity performances. This article draws on Symbolic Interactionism and pays particular attention to Hochschild's theory of emotion management. Drawing on these frameworks, the findings reveal how under-resourced youths experience connectivity gaps that disrupt their ability to play the identity curation game, as well as the resulting emotional consequences. Under-resourced youths manage distinctive negative emotions arising from connectivity gaps that hinder their digital identity work, as well as engaging in distinct kinds of suppressive work to police their own emotions including longing, envy, shame, frustration, and stigmatization. In making these linkages, the research reveals the cascading effects of digital inequality among youths where constant connectivity is the sine qua non of social inclusion. ARTICLE HISTORY OverviewBased on in-depth interviews with youths in an agricultural community in California, the research sheds light on an understudied facet of digital inequality: how digital inequality impacts identity work and emotion management. The analysis reveals how unequal access to digital resources impacts how well youths are able to play what may be called 'the identity curation game'. This article reveals how this game is played very differently by youths with high, moderate, and low connectivity. The identity curation game has three implicit rules. Rule 1: Players must constantly update many times per day or find themselves sidelined. Rule 2: Players must engage in constant reciprocation of identity-affirming interactions to validate their own identity presentations and prompt validation from others. Rule 3: Players must maintain a strategy of vigilance to remove the traces of any failed identity performances to avoid negative emotions.

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The identity curation game: digital inequality, identity work, and emotion management

Robinson

2017

Information, Communication & Society

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“…The dysregulation of neurotrophic hormones and growth factors plays a crucial part in the pathophysiology of depression [6]. Various neural hormones including brain derived neurotropic factor (BDNF), angiogenic cytokines, vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) as well as salivary cortisol are perceived as important influencing elements in depression [7].…”

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Relationship of Major Depression with Body Mass Index and Salivary Cortisol

Khan

Zaffar

Rehan

et al. 2020

Cureus

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“…Rim, Min, Uleman, Chartrand, and Carlston (2013), for example, found a positivity bias (in their baseline condition) with more spontaneous trait inferences for positive than for negative traits. Previous studies have also shown that people are more likely to falsely recognize positive than negative traits (Matlin & Stang, 1978; Todorov, 2002). One possible explanation for this discrepancy in results is the type of measures used (trait-ratings in Carlston & Skowronski’s studies and the false recognition paradigm in Rim & colleagues’ & Todorov’s studies) as well as the context of the task as suggested by Skowronski (2002).…”

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How Your Power Affects My Impression of You

Orghian

Almeida

Jacinto³

et al. 2018

Pers Soc Psychol Bull

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In the present article, we investigate how a person's power affects the way we infer traits from their behavior. In Experiment 1, our results suggest that, when faced with behavioral descriptions about others, participants infer both positive and negative traits about powerless actors, whereas for powerful and control (power irrelevant) actors, only positive but no negative traits are inferred, an effect we call the benevolence bias. In the second experiment, (a) we replicate this effect, (b) we show that it does not depend on the specific traits used in Experiment 1, and (c) we show that it is also detected when an implicit measure of inferences is used. Experiment 3 further shows that this effect generalizes to a more generic power manipulation. Theoretical explanations for these findings are discussed.

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The emotions of powerlessness

Cited by 21 publications

References 106 publications

The identity curation game: digital inequality, identity work, and emotion management

The identity curation game: digital inequality, identity work, and emotion management

Relationship of Major Depression with Body Mass Index and Salivary Cortisol

How Your Power Affects My Impression of You

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