"What is it with all this | |
... what I want is for those with the power, to keep the planet cool." |
. . . and looking ahead to WHR 2026 . . .
Prof Lord Richard Layard
Editor, World Happiness Report
In World Happiness Report 2024, we presented evidence of a concerning decline in the wellbeing of young people in Western industrialised countries.
Obviously, a child’s wellbeing matters for the same reason that any individual’s wellbeing matters. But wellbeing among children and adolescents is also critical since it is the best predictor of how happy said child will be in their subsequent life – with a higher predictive power than the qualifications which they might obtain.
There has been much debate about the reasons for such a downward trend, with many competing theories and policy recommendations. However, one explanation has captured public and political attention more than any other: social media.
Also in 2024, Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist at New York University’s Stern School of Business, published The Anxious Generation, arguing that the decline in youth wellbeing is driven by a transition from a play-based childhood to a phone-based childhood. The book has been a best-seller and sparked heated debate, both in academia and the wider world.
As editors of the World Happiness Report, we have followed this debate closely, concerned that rigorous science was being overshadowed by shallow media narratives.
In World Happiness Report 2026, we see an opportunity to bring all sides of the debate together to establish the facts, clarify disagreements, and provide decision-makers with a balanced assessment of what we know, what we don’t know, and what should be done.
We’re encouraging researchers from across the world to submit chapter proposals focusing on the relationship between social media and subjective wellbeing before the deadline of Sunday 15 June. Full details are available on the World Happiness Report website.
'The emotions that we want to infer are the seven basic emotion categories. Concretely this set is E = {Anger, Contempt, Disgust, Fear, Happy, Sadness, Surprise}.' p.111.* | Sets - Venn diagrams Physical obs = { Temperature, Pulse, Respiration, Blood Pressure, Gait ... } |
| Social = { Friends, Family, Work colleagues, Neighbours ... } | Politics { [Freedom], - Elections, Law, Policy, Government, MPs, Ministers, PM-President ... } |
"I am on a lonely road and I am ...
| blue traveling, | traveling, |
traveling, |
traveling |
.. Looking for something, what can it be? ..."
Joni Mitchell
BLUE cover image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_(Joni_Mitchell_album)
@jonimitchell
Source: Blue CD track 1 "All I Want" – 3:34 in the car travelling from Hay-on-Wye back to the NW England.
Still looking - listening: 'Both Sides' ...
| "Rolling resistance is a compound of two factors: hysteric and dampening losses. Hysteric loss is the energy surrendered when a soft tyre deforms; as pressure rises, deformation decreases, therefore diminishing hysteric loss." p.17. | ||
Sources:
Book - various.
Bates, D. How time lords win race against clock. Sport, Cycling, The Times, 17 September 2022, p.17.
Cycling image: c/o @DavidSBates
‘PHENOMENOLOGY AND SHAME EXPERIENCES’
SPECIAL PANEL BSP ANNUAL UK CONFERENCE 2022
Call For Papers for special panel for the 2022 British Society for Phenomenology Annual Conference
Location: University of Exeter, UK, in-person and virtual (hybrid)
Date: Tuesday 30 August – Thursday 1 September 2022
CFP deadline: Thursday 31 March 2022 (midnight UK).
The “Phenomenology and Shame Experiences” Call for Papers invites abstracts to be considered for a special panel for the 2022 British Society for Phenomenology Annual Conference on the theme of Engaged Phenomenology II.
This panel is sponsored by the Shame and Medicine Project and the aim of the panel is to encourage an engaged phenomenological approach to considering shame in its various forms, and how it relates to and effects features of lived experience such as embodiment, affective life, consciousness, sociality, intersubjectivity, intercorporeality, health, among others.
Check out the full CfP for ‘Phenomenology and Shame Experiences’.
https://shameandmedicine.org/call-for-papers-phenomenology-and-shame-experiences/
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COGNITION lived experience emotions mental health interpersonal skills self-conscious shame self-stigma subjectivity |
physical health dis-ability place - privacy medicine health care HEALTH STATUS objectivity |
STIGMA SHAME SOCIAL COGNITION communication meanings dignity and respect |
health status [REAL?] power health professionals (whose parity of esteem, autonomy, control?) 'Cost' to health systems? |
My source:
Philos-L "The Liverpool List" Department of Philosophy, University of Liverpool https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/philosophy/philos-l/
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As I'm sure I've already noted, the book reviews completed on W2tQ are not standard fare. They are applied reviews in that the reading informs my understanding of Hodges' model and demonstrates the scope, relevance and quality of the book for other readers.
I realised sometime ago that the 'interpersonal' domain also incorporates the intrapersonal. In the latest book for review which focuses upon the Person-centred Practice Framework and figure 10.1* supports this formulation. Unfortunately I cannot locate a graphic and will avoid resort to a photograph. Circular in form, there is a clockwise flow from intrapersonal emotions around to interpersonal emotions.
| intrapersonal emotions perceiving :: controlling using :: understanding (motivation) interpersonal emotions |
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More to follow with many thanks to the publisher for the review copy.
Previously on W2tQ:
My source:
Call for papers - Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio www.rifl.unical.it
Vol. 15, N. 1/2021 Rhetoric and health
Edited by Maria Grazia Rossi
Deadline: 20.01.2021
Words can act as a pharmakon, becoming a remedy or a poison. Considering both theoretical tenets and empirical findings, we have convincing evidence on the power of language and words in changing minds and fostering behavioural change.
In the context of health, it has been underlined how the quality of communication affect (clinical) outcomes, at the individual level (on patients) and the collective or societal level (on citizens). During the current COVID-19 pandemic, it has become even more clear that such communication effect is indirect and mediated by factors such as understanding, motivation, social assistance, trust in the system, etc. Words that are well-spoken but also, obviously, well understood can have a strong impact on the quality of our lives, concerning the clinical, emotional and social spheres. This is why the proper and effective use of words should be considered as a common ethical responsibility: it is an ethical responsibility for healthcare providers that directly take care of patients, but it is also a responsibility of public and private institutions working to promote behaviours favouring the adoption of a healthier life and the building of healthier societies, respectful of other people and more environmentally friendly. What happened from a communicative point of view to justify the need to activate a state of emergency and maintain lockdown restrictions is exemplary in this respect, also to discuss the conflict between values that is pervasive in our complex and interconnected societies. Even beyond the pandemic, many examples can be mentioned to discuss the importance of both the effectiveness and quality of communication. Take as examples social campaigns and/or advertisements on health issues related to cases such as the public debate on vaccination or antibiotic resistance, the social campaigns to combat pollution or against smoking in public spaces.
However, it is not obvious to find a consensual framework to define what counts as communication of quality, even if rhetoricians investigated heavily on this issue. Not necessarily a successful communication is also desirable from an ethical perspective. Obtaining persuasion – to be able to change attitudes and/or behaviours, it is not necessarily equivalent to do it in an ethically way. For example, implicit persuasion strategies often (but not always) can be described in terms of manipulation tools attempting to manipulate people and to change their habits. Again, this applies at the individual level within the interactions between patients and healthcare providers, with therapeutic recommendations described as genuine persuasive acts. At the collective level, it also applies to public communication, including the communication made on social networks, where fake news and misinformation spread even more quickly.
The links between rhetoric and health can be therefore analysed from two different points of view. From a linguistic point of view, the main problem is to figure out which communicative strategies are effective to persuade patients (and citizens) in changing a given behaviour and/or accepting the treatment more appropriate to a specific medical condition. From an ethical point of view, the main problem is to figure out which effective communicative strategies are legitimate, meaning they respect values defining both the patient (citizen) agenda and the doctor (political/health system) agenda. The discussions concerning the frameworks of value-based medicine and patient-centered medicine fit in this context, as well as fall in this debate the current attention given to the frameworks of narrative medicine and persuasive technology (applied to telemedicine, mobile apps, social networks, etc.).
Vol. 15, N. 1/2021 of RIFL expects to explore the links between rhetoric and health, accepting papers aim at considering the role of communication in the context of health, and papers considering persuasion from an ethical point of view – at the individual level (between patients and providers) and the collective/societal one (between institutions and citizens, between media and citizens).
Papers should be theoretical or empirical. All fields will be considered (Philosophy of Language, Classic studies, Literary studies, Linguistics, Psychology, etc.) if they are relevant to discuss the persuasive and/or the ethical dimension of communication in the context of health. Papers exploring the following areas are very welcome:
We call for articles in Italian, English and Portuguese. All manuscripts must be accompanied by an abstract (max 250 words), a title and 5 keywords in English.
The manuscript must be prepared using the journal template Download template. All submissions must be prepared by the author for anonymous evaluation. The name, affiliation to an institution and title of the contribution should be indicated in a file different from that which contains the text. The contribution must be sent in electronic format .doc or .rtf to segreteria.rifl AT gmail.com.
Instructions for authors:
Maximum contribution length:
40000 characters (including spaces) for articles (including bibliography and endnotes).
Deadline 20.01.2021
Publication: June 2021
CFP Full text: http://rifl.unical.it/index.php/rifl/announcement/view/23
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| individual well-being MENTAL HEALTH "HAPPINESS - | "EVIDENCE-BASED" "overarching criterion for measurement" processes
- SCIENCES"
PHYSICAL HEALTH |
COMMUNITY WELL-BEING
Society Social values Social cohesion | POLICIES on - "schools, mental health, family support, child support, addiction, social work, loneliness, methods of management and town planning." |
Inherited Fear "Scared - but not named." The ghost of a ghost or the memory of a | Biology Germ cells Neuro-epigenetics PAG or periaqueductal gray - the primary control centre for pain modulation Know your surroundings Facial recognition |
| shadow Transmission of trauma across generations Who is Who | All around the World War, Perpetual Conflict Ethnic cleansing Refugees Climate migrants ... The Past The Present The Future |
mental health problems affect
Self-employed, single
No previous history of MH problems
PURPOSE#Psychology - Counselling |
12.5 million adults - 1 in 4
PROCESSES (automated?)* 'Life cover' Insurer access to GP record - deemed high-risk 500,000 people affected by |
Untimely death of a parent Mother killed by drug-using driver Refused IVF treatment PRACTICE | insurance company POLICIES driver jailed Voided application for life cover (figures) suggest insurers reject up to 625,000 people a year By law ins. companies cannot discriminate |
Interpersonal Skills
| The Natural Sciences | ||
Local, Society & Socio-
| -Economics Law |
The resource-systems approach
"Reframing the conceptual and operational field of natural resources requires deep interdisciplinarity across fields encompassing legal and socio-economic studies, and life-sciences. And, it goes without saying, philosophy. The priorities at present are the aid to decision-making and a participative, pro-active civil society acting to (1) manage human activities while meeting the specific territorial potential and resource capacities and (2) ensure a fair re-allocation of such resources according to vital human needs and coherent public goods policies. Who are the members, what are the missions and the activities of the (...)."
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| Brian E. Hodges - c/o Brian's family. |
Born in Liverpool, UK.
Community Mental Health Nurse NHS, Part-time Lecturer,
Researcher Nursing & Technology Enhanced Learning
Registered Nurse - Mental Health & General
Community Psychiatric Nursing (Cert.) MMU
PG Cert. Ed.
BA(Joint Hons.) Computing and Philosophy - BIHE - Bolton
PG(Dip.) Collaboration on Psychosocial Education [COPE] Univ. Man.
MRES. e-Research and Technology Enhanced Learning, Lancaster Univ.
Live and work in NW England - seeking a global perspective.
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