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Sonified Hudson Valley Landscapes And The Influence Of Industry, Jess Belardi
Sonified Hudson Valley Landscapes And The Influence Of Industry, Jess Belardi
Senior Projects Fall 2021
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.
Writing At The Horizon: How Producing Imagined Narratives Affects Mood, David Yu-Zhong Liang
Writing At The Horizon: How Producing Imagined Narratives Affects Mood, David Yu-Zhong Liang
Senior Projects Fall 2021
The present study explores the effect of three different writing activities and their subsequent effects on participant mood. Writing has been of particular interest for psychologists due to its use in interventions aimed at working through traumatic or stressful periods, and recent research has begun to explore the use of narrative in placing traumatic events and experiences in greater context. However, purely therapeutic, intervention-based writing exercises exclude a large amount of more expressive, imagined creations and narratives, which may have the capacity to reorient, contextualize, and otherwise positively affect a person’s mood. This study investigates whether employing the imagination may …