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Arts and mindfulness education for human flourishing
- 2022
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- This edited volume explores the role of arts and meditation within educational settings, and looks in particular at the preventive and developmental function of the arts in educational contexts through different theoretical perspectives. Encompassing research from an array of disciplines including theatre, psychology, neuroscience, music, psychiatry, and mindfulness, the book draws insights relevant to a broad spectrum of interdisciplinary fields. Chapters are divided into thematic sections, each outlining praxes and emphasising how educating within and through the arts can provide tools for critical thinking, creativity and a sense of agency, consequently fulfilling the need of well-being and contributing towards human flourishing. Ultimately, the book focuses on the role the arts have played in our understanding of physical and mental health, and demonstrates the new-found significance of the discipline in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. With its interdisciplinary and timely nature, this book will be essential reading for scholars, academics, and post-graduate researchers in the field of arts education, creative therapies, neuroscience, psychology, and mindfulness.
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- Bojner Horwitz, Eva, et al.
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The Interplay Between Chamber Musicians During Two Public Performances of the Same Piece : A Novel Methodology Using the Concept of "Flow"
- 2021
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Ingår i: Frontiers in Psychology. - : Frontiers Media S.A.. - 1664-1078. ; 11, s. 1-12
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of the study is to explore a new research methodology that will improve our understanding of "flow" through indicators of physiological and qualitative state. We examine indicators of "flow" experienced by musicians of a youth string quartet, two women (25, 29) and two men (23, 24). Electrocardiogram (ECG) equipment was used to record heart rate variability (HRV) data throughout the four movements in one and the same quartet performed during two concerts. Individual physiological indicators of flow were supplemented by assessments of group "state flow" (means from standardized questionnaires) and a group interview in which the musicians provided qualitative data. A matrix was constructed for the characterization of different kinds of demands in the written music in each one of the four movements for each one of the musicians. HRV derived from ECG data showed non-significant trends for group state flow across the eight musical episodes. Individual-level analysis showed that compared to the other players the first violin player had the highest mean heart rate and the lowest increase in high frequency (HF) power in HRV during this particular movement, particularly during the second concert. The qualitative data illustrated how an interplay of synchronized social interactions between this player and their colleagues during the musical performance was associated with a feeling of group state flow and served to support the first violinist. The case illustrates that the proposed mixed methodology drawing on physiological and qualitative data, has the potential to provide meaningful information about experiences of a flow state, both at individual and group levels. Applications in future research are possible.
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- Chemi, Tatiana, et al.
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Conclusion : A beam of light to conclude with
- 2022
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Ingår i: Arts and Mindfulness Education for Human Flourishing. - : Routledge. - 9781003158790 - 9780367746278 ; , s. 285-287
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- Chemi, Tatiana, et al.
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Introduction : A gaze into a complex jigsaw
- 2022
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Ingår i: Arts and Mindfulness Education for Human Flourishing. - London : Routledge. - 9781003158790 - 9780367746278 ; , s. 1-8
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Eriksson, Helene, et al.
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Similar but different : interviewing monozygotic twins discordant for musical practice
- 2016
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Ingår i: Musicae scientiae. - : Sage Publications. - 1029-8649 .- 2045-4147. ; 21:3, s. 250-266
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Musical engagement is influenced by both environmental and genetic factors. Here, we explored nongeneticinfluences on musical engagement by performing semi-structured interviews of 10 Swedishmonozygotic twin pairs that were highly discordant for piano practicing. The interviews were organizedinto five sections – (i) perceived reasons for the discordance; (ii) childhood differences in specific musicrelated variables; (iii) strong memories of music; (iv) the perceived meaning of music in life and forhealth; and (v) language interests – and analyzed using response categorization. The playing twins froman early age found music more interesting and enjoyable than their co-twins and also gave richer andmore elaborate descriptions of the meaning of music in life, in several cases emphasizing that music wasimportant for their personal identity. In line with this, an analysis of previously collected web questionnairedata showed that the playing twins had a significantly higher openness to experience and pronenessto experience flow during musical activities. In contrast, the twins reported essentially no within-pairdifferences in the musical engagement of their peers, parental support, music teacher, ensemble playing,public performances, and their interest and aptitude for languages. The interviews gave no indication thatthe differences in musical engagement were caused by systematic environmental influences that wereconsistent across twin pairs. Rather, the respondents presented a wide range of different explanations fortheir discordance in musical activity, suggesting that the remaining influences on musical engagement,when genetics and family environment are controlled for, may be highly individual and idiosyncratic.
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Flow Experience : Empirical Research and Applications
- 2016
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- This volume provides updates and informs the reader about the development of the current empirical research on the flow experience. It opens up some new research questions at the frontiers of the field. The book offers an overview on the latest findings in flow research in several fields such as social psychology, neuropsychology, performing arts and sport, education, work and everyday experiences. It integrates the latest knowledge on experimental studies of optimal experience with the theoretical foundation of psychological flow that was laid down in the last decades.
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- Harmat, László, 1972-, et al.
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Complexity Thinking as a Tool to Understand the Didactics of Psychology
- 2020
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Ingår i: Frontiers in Psychology. - : Frontiers Media S.A.. - 1664-1078. ; 11, s. 1-17
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The need to establish a research field within psychology didactics at secondary level has recently been voiced by several researchers internationally. An analysis of a Swedish case coming out of secondary level education in psychology presented here provides an illustration that complexity thinking-derived from complexity theory-is uniquely placed to consider and indicate possible solutions to challenges, described by researchers as central to the foundation of a new field. Subject matter didactics is defined for the purpose of this paper as a combination of general didactics and subject matter content, and considering the international nature of research traditions coming out of psychology, the implications of the results presented here cannot be regarded as limited solely to national concerns. An online survey was sent to secondary schools in Sweden. Discussions and lectures along with teaching to the book-alternatively used as inspiration-emerged as central from the thematic analysis of the results, providing the first mapping of teaching practices secondary level psychology in Sweden. An analysis, founded on complexity thinking-combined with a model enabling a delimitation of the scope of study-focused on time use and the importance placed on self-knowledge, along with the transformation of theory into practice. The former pointed to a teacher-centered nested subsystem (e.g., asymmetric relations between teachers and students), whereas the latter pointed to student-centered nested subsystems coming out of embodied knowledge (e.g., students as node) where psychological perspectives are learnt through self-reflection, case studies, and everyday life experiences (turning theory to practice), implying a holistic approach. The analysis applied to the Swedish case provides an illustration of how complexity theory has the potential to address challenges at the micro and the macro levels to the establishment of a new research field in psychology didactics and to indicate possible solutions (drawing among other things upon teaching experiences coming out of the Swedish case study). Psychology's high relevance to everyday life, multi-causality, perspective pluralism, dynamic systems character, and scientific character make complexity thinking a relevant approach in the consideration of challenges to the establishment of a research field in didactics of psychology.
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- Harmat, László, 1972-, et al.
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Flow experience, creativity and synchronized interactions during group-based problem solving task
- 2019
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Ingår i: Flow Symposium, June 4–5, 2019, ArtLab Foyer. - : Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics. ; , s. 10-10
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Aims: The main purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between participants’ state flow experience and the experience of the actual interactions with the other group members during a group based creative problem solving task (CPS-task) in relation to their creativity attitude and the produced results (i.e. the groups solution on CPS-task).Participants: Twelve groups of a total of sixty two participants (26 women, M=30.12; SD=10.22) took part in the experiment.Methods: This study was designed as an experiment, where the participants were requested to perform a problem solving task in groups, and to answer questionnaires regarding 1) subjects experience about their state flow in relation to the task performance (FSS-2, Jackson & Eklund, 2004), 2) participants experience of synchronized social interactions during the task assessed with the Flow Synchronization Scale, (FSyQ, Magyarófi & Oláh, 2015), and 3) subjects creativity attitude towards openness to novelty and flexible adaptation assessed with the Langer Mindfulness/Mindlessness Scale (MMS, Langer 1992; Haigh et al.2011).Results: We found that state flow positively associated with subjectively perceived synchronized interactions during the CPS-task. Higher state flow during the task associated with higher values on creativity attitude in the Mindfulness Scale but perceived synchronized interactions, such as effective cooperation and coordination with group members during the activity, associated with low creativity attitude (Mindlessness). In addition, the groups with more original solutions on the CPS-task had significantly higher values on the dimension of unambiguous feedback in FSS-2, compare to the groups who produced less original solutions rated by external experts.Conclusion: The presentation ends with a conceptual framework for studying group interactions, flow and creativity and suggestions for further research.
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- Harmat, László, 1972-, et al.
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Flow in music and arts
- 2021
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Ingår i: Advances in Flow Research. - Cham : Springer. - 9783030534684 - 9783030534677 ; , s. 377-391
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of this chapter is to discuss the literature on psychological flow experiences in relation to artistic creation and performance. In the first section, we review studies on state flow in music and dance. In the second section, we discuss collective flow experiences (’group flow’) in artistic performances. The third section elaborates on the neurobiological underpinnings of creative cognition in relation to flow, and the relationship between flow, creativity, and quality of performance. In the fourth section, we discuss the relationship between dispositional flow (’flow proneness’), expertise, and artistic creation. In summary, the literature on flow and artistic creativity is still relatively small, and more studies would be important to test key hypotheses and resolve inconsistencies in the literature, in particular concerning relations between state flow and creative output. We conclude by suggesting some possible future directions for work in the field.
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