The Subjective Activational Baseline

[turboswami]

Emotional Regulation strategies act along a fluid baseline, personalized and dynamic, which governs the degree of overall emotional activation to a situation . Each regulatory strategy modulates the degree of reaction to an activating situation, and its overall effectiveness is depend upon the positive or negative degree of this baseline level. Yet

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[peauty]

Layman's terms please. Sounds very interesting but also a jumble of nonsense. I see the overall concept but I would like to hear an explanation that doesn't require me to do research in approx. 15 different areas

Sardonny.

[confliction]

Yay! Earthquake!

[igferatu]

As much as I'm inclined to enjoy and be fascinated with deja vu experiences, I have to admit that they are probably best explained as a mini-seizure. Not that that has to be all they are but since they are "firmly associated with temporal-lobe epilepsy", it makes sense that memory recognition can misfire just like a twitch

[turboswami]

What is interesting are those unique instances of deja vu when the specifics of time and location in the first instance of seeing something can be recalled during the second...

For instance, I can remember the day I woke up and thought "Why the hell would I dream of seeing the back of my friend Brian's green jeep, and him hitting the brakes as he approached a bridge? What a fucking retarded dream!"

It wasn't until nearly a year later, on our return trip from MSU for Christmas break, that that particular dream took place, the overwhelming deja vu experience being felt by me, driving alone in the car behind him.

"Sounds very interesting but also a jumble of nonsense."

[rawmr]

It's called psychobabble. What little plain language used merely states the obvious. No specific modality for modifying habitual behavior given of course, just vague references to something termed "meditation." Yes, Psychobable.

I far as deja vu goes, I'm more into vu-jade. That's when you arrive somewhere in mind or space and say to yourself, "I know I've never been the f... here before." ;-)~

Re: "Sounds very interesting but also a jumble of nonsense."

[turboswami]

If I was working/writing withing an applied psychological context, I would work/write about modifying habitual behavior. I am a RESEARCH scientist, friend. You may be looking for clinical psychologist... I could refer you. ;)

Re: "Sounds very interesting but also a jumble of nonsense."

[turboswami]

It is interesting that what you see as "psychobabble," I see as the accepted terms of academic discourse.

I admit, while it is something I have a continual love/hate relationship with, I accept that in order to be part of the peer-reviewed discourse on a topic like Emotional Regulation (Gross, 1998), for instance, I must use the accepted terminology OF that discourse.

Your idea that I should use certain words to describe a concept in order to please you while using the accepted words for the same concept for my academic peers is totally out of the question. If the concept has a name, it should be expected we know that name if we are to discuss that concept with any degree of competence. Like I said, it's a love/hate relationship.

Gross, James J. "The emerging field of emotion regulation: An integrative review." Review of General Psychology. Vol 2(3), Sep 1998, 271-299.

Re: "Sounds very interesting but also a jumble of nonsense."

[rawmr]

Oh goodness. For starters, pasting bits from the peer review lit is a fools game. If you know anything of your subject it should appear here in your own words, spoken clearly and in layman's terms. Secondly, this article you quote is obviously of a pulp nature, hence the use of the esoteric terminology to give the appearance of substance. Even in peer review lit the use of esoteric terminology is frowned on, plain common language being preferred. Low viscosity??? Oh come now, the author could just as easily have used "adaptable" instead. And the line, "and whose usual calm state of attention is manifestation," this is just nonesense.

To rate this post with the your one on recording ghosts, the ghost post would have to win.

Re: "Sounds very interesting but also a jumble of nonsense."

[turboswami]

The article is of a "pulp" nature? Because it provides a meta-analysis of the phenomenon of emotional regulation, across dozens of studies and their replications

big words?

[rawmr]

Well you can pretend it has special meaning all you want. I obviously understood the little that was said in the article as I interpreted the use of the term "viscous", but it is obvious few others did. So my argument stands. You pasted a snipet from a pulp journal article that presents nothing really unique and uses metaphors of little significance and for which you gave no definition. A fools game indeed.