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Publicación Disorientation as an Emotional Experience: An Introduction from an Interactionist Perspective(Springer, 2024-07-24) Cabanas Díaz, EdgarDisorientation is a versatile, multidisciplinary concept. Whether associated with its spatial meaning or its non-spatial, more metaphorical sense, various disciplines have used disorientation to describe a broad range of philosophical, cultural, and social phenomena in the last decades. However, the focus on the concept from an emotional perspective remains scarce. To expand the current investigation on the topic, the present paper attempts a first approach to conceptualize disorientation as an emotional experience from an interactionist perspective. The paper reviews the previous literature, provides theoretical background and a working definition for the concept, and examines prototypical situations that are potentially disorienting for individuals, emphasizing the social and situated nature of the disorienting experience. The paper also comments on the relationships between disorientation and culture and points out some implications of the concept in mental health and psychological distress. Altogether, the paper argues about the value of disorientation as a powerful construct to gain insight into what, why, and how traumatic and everyday situations as well as current cultural and social challenges impact people emotionally.Publicación Becoming Positive Souls. Spirituality and Happiness from New Thought to Positive Psychology(Routledge, 2020) Cabanas Díaz, Edgar; Sánchez-González, José CarlosContemporary therapeutic ethos is tightly associated with the culture and industry of happiness. Positive psychology, presented as a revolutionary, scientific, and universal―and therefore ultimate―understanding of what human happiness is and how it can be achieved, has played an essential role in this in the last two decades. Nevertheless, despite its popular and academic influence on a global scale, the field seems to have neither fulfilled its scientific ambitions nor offered something substantially new from its cultural and popular predecessors. On the contrary, the field should be seen as the latest and most influential manifestation of a North American spiritual tradition long convinced that happiness and misery, health and illness, are individual mind productions. In this regard, the purpose of this chapter is twofold. First, to raise epistemological concerns related to positive psychology’s presentation of old, spiritualistic, and ethnocentric ideas as new, scientific, and universal truths about human happiness. Second, to show the strong continuity of positive psychology’s assumptions and therapeutic techniques with New Thought metaphysics, a popular and religious movement that since the years of Phineas P. Quimby has been consecrated to bringing science and spirituality together in the understanding of human health and happiness.Publicación Hijacking the language of functionality? In praise of negative emotions against happiness(Routledge, 2020) Cabanas Díaz, Edgar; lllouz, Eva; Hill, Nicholas; Brinkmann, Svend; Petersen, AndersPublicación Varieties of Happiness: Mapping Lay Conceptualizations of Happiness in a Spanish Sample(SAGE Publications, 2022-10-08) Cabanas Díaz, Edgar; González Lamas, JaraResearch on lay conceptions of happiness is essential to determine what is investigated in happiness studies. Whereas psychological investigation has traditionally emphasized the importance of studying people’s everyday conceptions and their relation to cultural and social factors to advance psychological theory, this line of research is still largely overlooked in the field. The Spanish context has also received very limited attention in the area. To fill these gaps, this paper examined 547 lay definitions of happiness in a sample of Spanish participants. The aims of the study were threefold. First, to map and classify the definitions elicited through an open-ended question using a bottom-up approach. Second, to analyze the relationship of happiness definitions with different sociodemographic factors. Third, to explore the relationship between happiness conceptualizations and two different happiness measures. The final classification yielded 39 codes, 15 categories, and 3 overarching types of definitions. Three main findings resulted from the study. First, happiness emerged as a highly heterogeneous concept characterized by diverse social, psychological, and theoretical descriptions. Social types of definitions stood out in the sample. Second, most definitions varied significantly with sociodemographic factors. Third, happiness scores tended to show no significant association with happiness definitions. Implications derived from these results were discussed. Altogether, the paper highlights the value of exploring lay conceptions of happiness to advance toward a more comprehensive and fine-grained understanding of what happiness means for —and, to a certain extent, of how it is experienced by— people of different cultural backgrounds and social settings.Publicación Felicidad(Editorial Trotta, 2024-01) Cabanas Díaz, Edgar; Velasco Arias, Gonzalo; Gómez Ramos, AntonioPublicación De vuelta al individualismo: la construcción de psiudadanos en la era de la felicidad(Ediciones Trea, 2023) Cabanas Díaz, Edgar; García Gómez, Teresa; Martín-González, SarayEn las sociedades actuales, la felicidad individual se ha convertido no sólo en uno de los principales objetos de consumo; también se ha erigido en un nuevo régimen moral para definir qué es deseable y qué indeseable, qué es bueno y qué es malo, qué es saludable y qué no. Aún más importante, la felicidad ya no sólo se presenta como una meta vital, aparentemente universal y la más crucial a conseguir en la vida de cualquier persona, sino como una peculiar forma de ser y de estar en el mundo, es decir, como un particular estilo de vida. La felicidad como estilo de vida, al tiempo que se alinea con la ideología individualista, sirve para legitimar y reavivar esta misma ideología en términos aparentemente no ideológicos, movimiento en el cual el discurso de la ciencia (o cientificismo, en este caso) cumple un papel esencial. El presente capítulo sugiere que la felicidad como estilo de vida convierte a los ciudadanos de las sociedades actuales en psiudadanos, esto es, en clientes psicológicos cuya plena funcionalidad como individuos está estrechamente vinculada a la incesante búsqueda y aumento de su propia felicidad. El capítulo analiza este concepto de psiudadano a través de su tres rasgos principales y examina el papel que la denominada ciencia de la felicidad desempeña en la formación de esta noción emergente de ciudadanía.Publicación The Routledge International Handbook of Global Therapeutic Cultures(Routledge, 2020) Nehring, Daniel; Madsen, Ole Jacob; Cabanas Díaz, Edgar; Mills, China; Kerrigan, DylanThe Routledge International Handbook of Global Therapeutic Cultures explores central lines of enquiry and seminal scholarship on therapeutic cultures, popular psychology, and the happiness industry. Bringing together studies of therapeutic cultures from sociology, anthropology, psychology, education, politics, law, history, social work, cultural studies, development studies, and American Indian studies, it adopts a consciously global focus, combining studies of the psychologisation of social life from across the world. Thematically organised, it offers historical accounts of the growing prominence of therapeutic discourses and practices in everyday life, before moving to consider the construction of self-identity in the context of the diffusion of therapeutic discourses in connection with the global spread of capitalism. With attention to the ways in which emotional language has brought new problematisations of the dichotomy between the normal and the pathological, as well as significant transformations of key institutions, such as work, family, education and religion, it examines emergent trends in therapeutic culture and explores the manner in which the advent of new therapeutic technologies, the political interest in happiness, and the radical privatisation and financialisation of social life converge to remake self-identities and modes of everyday experience. Finally, the book features the work of scholars who have foregrounded the historical and contemporary implication of psychotherapeutic practices in processes of globalisation and colonial and postcolonial modes of social organisation. Presenting agenda-setting research to encourage interdisciplinary and international dialogue and foster the development of a distinctive new field of social research, The Routledge International Handbook of Global Therapeutic Cultures will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in the advance of therapeutic discourses and practices in an increasingly psychologised society.Publicación Felicidad y educación: déficits científicos y sesgos ideológicos de la 'educación positiva'(Ediciones Universidad Salamanca, 2021-07) Cabanas Díaz, Edgar; González Lamas, JaraEl interés generado por la «educación positiva» ha crecido de forma exponencial en las últimas dos décadas. Presentado como un nuevo movimiento científico llamado a sustituir enfoques tradicionales o remediales en materia de intervención educativa, el argumento principal del movimiento es que la felicidad y la enseñanza de habilidades positivas son factores fundamentales para prevenir problemas de salud mental, mejorar el aprendizaje o promover el rendimiento escolar. En paralelo a este crecimiento, las críticas dirigidas a la educación positiva han sido también crecientes y numerosas, destacando no solo aquellas procedentes de terceros, sino las procedentes desde el propio movimiento. Todas estas críticas ponen en duda la solidez y la utilidad de la educación positiva. El objetivo de este trabajo es ofrecer una mirada panorámica e integradora de estas críticas con el fin de facilitar una mayor comprensión de los principales problemas y limitaciones del movimiento. Estos problemas se organizan en torno a dos bloques temáticos principales: científicos e ideológicos. Dentro de los déficits científicos, el trabajo destaca la ausencia de un marco teórico general y la falta de evidencia acumulada, las notables limitaciones conceptuales y metodológicas en torno a constructos principales y la moderada eficacia, así como la baja generalizabilidad de sus intervenciones clave. Dentro del bloque ideológico, se abordan los principales sesgos y asunciones que subyacen el movimiento, tales como el marcado carácter individualista, descontextualizado y universalista del mismo. Para terminar, el artículo concluye con una breve reflexión en torno a la educación positiva y sus implicaciones en el ámbito de la educación.Publicación A critical review of positive education: challenges and limitations(Springer Nature, 2022-09-08) Cabanas Díaz, Edgar; González Lamas, JaraPositive education has gained increased interest and attention in the last decade. Born as an applied movement within positive psychology, positive education aims to introduce a positive approach to education to aid schools in promoting happiness, improving learning and performance, and reducing mental health problems among children and adolescents. Whereas relatively new, positive education has made notable progress and bears enormous potential. However, the movement still presents vulnerabilities and limitations that need addressing. With a focus on critical and supporting literature, this integrative review explores and brings together some of the most pressing challenges that positive education faces today. Tackling these vulnerabilities would positively contribute to the ongoing advancement of the movement.Publicación Experiencing designs and designing experiences: Emotions and theme parks from a symbolic interactionist perspective(Elsevier, 2020-06) Cabanas Díaz, EdgarThis paper aims to open a theoretical debate on the relationships between spatial design and emotional experiences in theme parks from a symbolic interactionist perspective. Whereas the interplay between emotions and space is fundamental to understanding the production and consumption of experiences at theme parks, this relationship has been insufficiently explored in theme park literature. The paper applies symbolic interactionism to comment on relevant topics in theme park literature such as atmosphere design, experience control, and visitors’ engagement. Against reductionist and determinist accounts of emotions, the paper emphasizes the indirect influence of atmospheres in visitors’ emotional responses, underscores the active role that guests play in the co-production of their own experiences, and stresses the significance of role-playing to understanding visitors’ engagement and immersion in the fantasies that theme parks manufacture for them. The paper also highlights the theoretical and empirical value of emotional narratives to better capture the mixed, complex, and situated experiences that visitors undergo vis à vis spatial designs at theme parks