#Kristin Laurin

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Call me Ornament - Direktorenhaus: München vom 08.09. bis 14.10.2023

Das Ausstellungsprojekt des Direktorenhauses Berlin schlägt die Brücke zwischen Angewandter Kunst und Kunst und widmet sich der Transformation von Innenräumen. “Call me Ornament” verbindet Erkenntnisse der Neuro-Architektur mit künstlerischen und kunsthandwerklichen Positionen. In Anlehnung an Henry van der Velde begreifen die Künstler von »Call me Ornament« die »Arbeit an der Schönheit« als…

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Kita Berubah

Sekarang, kau 180° berbeda Rautmu, caramu bertutur Mata hangatmu, bahkan harummu tak lagi sama Kasih dan memori kita tetap sama bagiku Sekarang, kau dan aku telah berubah 180°

이젠 180도 달라진 너의 표정 그 말투 너무 따뜻했던 눈빛 네 향기까지도 정말 너무나도 달라진 우리 사랑 또 추억 아직 그대로인데 난 이젠 180도 변해버린 지금 너와 나

 180° oleh Ben 

Kita sadari atau tidak, banyak hal berubah dengan cepat atau lambat. Termasuk kita dan orang-orang di sekitar kita, baik secara fisik maupun mental. Beberapa perubahan ini terasa menyenangkan. Namun, sepertinya lebih banyak yang tidak menyukai perubahan yang terjadi, mengingat tampaknya lebih banyak kalimat "Kenapa kamu berubah?" yang terlontar daripada "Aku senang kamu berubah".

Perubahan terjadi. Selalu. Kita mungkin tidak bisa menahan perubahan fisik, tapi kenapa perubahan kepribadian bisa (dan selalu) terjadi?

Demi Hidup yang Lebih Baik(?), Kita Mengubah Pikiran

Sebelum kita bahas perihal perubahan kepribadian yang semipermanen/permanen, mungkin ada baiknya kita paham bahwa pikiran dan pemahaman kita pun berubah lebih cepat dari yang kita duga. Ada sebuah studi menarik yang dilakukan oleh Kristin Laurin terhadap pandangan warga terhadap larangan penggunaan botol plastik air mineral di San Francisco pada tahun 2014. Jelas, pada hari pertama survei dilakukan, tidak semua orang sepakat dan menerima larangan ini. Beberapa merasa larangan ini merugikan. Kemudian, sehari sesudahnya Laurin dan timnya kembali melakukan survei yang sama. Hasilnya berubah. Masyarakat sudah tidak begitu menentang larangan ini jika dibandingkan hasil survei pertama. Satu hari bukan waktu yang cukup untuk mengubah kebiasaan untuk menyesuaikan diri terhadap larangan tersebut. Jadi, perubahan ini jelas terjadi pada pola pikir mereka.

Kemudian, Laurin melakukan kajian sejenis terhadap larangan merokok di taman-taman dan teras restoran-restoran Kota Ontario pada 2015. Studi ini menghasilkan kesimpulan yang jauh lebih menarik: masyarakat tidak hanya mengubah pendapat terhadap larangan tersebut (mereka jadi jauh lebih menerima hadirnya larangan), tapi juga mengubah apa yang mereka ingat mengenai perilaku mereka sendiri.

Awalnya, para perokok menyampaikan bahwa mereka menggunakan hanya sekitar 15% kegiatan merokok mereka di fasilitas publik ini. Sesudahnya, mereka memperkirakan bahwa hanya sekitar 8% kegiatan merokok mereka yang dilakukan di area ini. Penyesuaian terhadap pertimbangan mereka mengenai larangan ini turut memunculkan penyesuaian pada memori mereka.

Alih-alih menjadi terbiasa pada kondisi dan situasi yang baru, mereka mengubah cara berpikir mereka.

Bagi Laurin, transformasi ini bukan kesengajaan, melainkan upaya bawah sadar orang-orang untuk meyakinkan pada diri mereka: semua akan baik-baik saja.  Terkadang, larangan akan tetap ada meskipun berbagai penolakan sudah dilakukan (kasus-kasus yang dibahas jauh lebih mudah karena larangan yang dihadirkan memang punya dampak positif yang besar). Kognisi mereka terlalu berharga untuk digunakan terus menerus pada satu objek yang bisa jadi tidak bisa kita kontrol sama sekali. Hidup harus terus berjalan.

Kepribadian Kita Berubah, pun Orang-Orang di sekitar Kita  

Kepribadian adalah perbedaan yang menghasilkan perbedaan.

Dan McAdams, Psikolog Northwestern University dan Ketua Association for Research in Personality

Sifat (trait) sebagai bahan dasar pembentukan kepribadian ternyata lahir atas kombinasi faktor internal (gen dan hormon) dan eksternal (lingkungan). Sifat dan kepribadian bisa dan memang mengalami perubahan. Melakukan klasifikasi individu berdasarkan sifat dan kepribadian memang menyenangkan, tapi mungkin sebenarnya tidak perlu. Pseudoscience (sains semu) mungkin sebutan yang kejam, tapi pada beberapa poin, kepribadian MBTI setara dengan astrologi. Saya Akuarius-ENFJ, kamu?

Setidaknya ada tiga komponen utama dalam kepribadian (yang terbentuk dari kombinasi sifat) yang saling berkaitan secara bertahap:

Biogenik: Sesuatu yang kamu miliki secara genetik.

Sosiogenik: Sesuatu yang membuatmu menjadi lebih baik/buruk dari biogenikmu: keluarga, teman, budaya, dan lain-lain.

Idiogenik: Sesuatu yang kamu pilih dan putuskan untuk ditampilkan sebagai "kamu".

Dalam konteks rekayasa teknik, kepribadianmu adalah proyek yang kamu kerjakan dalam kerangka yang dibuat dari tiga komponen di atas. Tidak banyak yang bisa diubah dari biogenik, kecuali kamu bermutasi, baik secara sengaja maupun tidak sengaja (kontak saya kalau kamu sedang atau pernah berurusan dengan gene knock off). Sosiogenik menghadirkan objek-objek yang bisa dan tidak bisa kamu kontrol. Kamu tidak bisa memilih siapa keluargamu, tapi kamu (mungkin) bisa memilih teman dan lingkunganmu. Idiogenik punya konsep yang lebih rumit. Proses memilih dan memutuskan tidak selalu terjadi secara sadar. Bahkan dalam keadaan sadar sekalipun, kadang waktu yang kita punya tidak cukup untuk memilih kepribadian yang "tepat" untuk ditampilkan. Selayaknya proyek pada umumnya, kerangka yang kita miliki mengarahkan kepribadian "akhir" kita. Namun, ada terlalu banyak faktor eksternal yang bisa jadi mempermudah atau mempersulit keberlangsungan proyek. Meskipun demikian, proyek akan terus berlangsung menuju akhir. Selesai atau tidak selesai, berhasil atau gagal.

Konteks kesusasteraan menghadirkan kompleksitas yang tidak kalah menarik. Kepribadian kita adalah "narasi" yang kita buat. Balita (apalagi bayi) tidak memulai hari mereka dengan narasi ini. Namun, saat kita mulai sekolah, kuliah, bahkan saat memasuki usia dewasa, kita punya sebuah "narasi" tentang siapa kita dan bagaimana kita berkepribadian serta bersikap. Seiring bertambahnya usia, narasi ini makin lengkap dan kompleks

Membuat narasi, apalagi dalam bentuk fiksi, adalah sesuatu yang adiktif. Narasi tanpa konflik sangat menjemukan. Kita secara sadar (atau tidak) membentuk antagonis pada narasi kita. Kepribadian kita secara umum akan berkembang baik, tapi kecanduan kita pada narasi yang kompleks, bisa jadi membuat kita jadi pribadi yang bermasalah.

Saat kita mulai tidak puas dengan narasi yang kita buat pada diri kita, kita beranjak membuat narasi mengenai orang-orang di sekitar kita.

Pada awal tulisan ini, Ben merasa bahwa sosok yang ia cintai telah jauh berubah. Sedihnya, bisa jadi sosok itu tidak pernah berubah, tapi Ben-lah yang mengubah narasinya tentang sosok itu.

Catatan: Jika kamu ingin mencoba genre baru dalam musik Korea, Ben mungkin bisa jadi pilihan yang sangat saya rekomendasikan.

Referensi

Baer, Drake.  28 Nov 2017. “The Science Of Personality Change Is Surprisingly Hopeful.” Thrive Global. Diakses pada 25 Maret 2019.

Ben. 180°. Diakses pada 19 Maret 2019.  

Laurin,  Kristin. 2018. “Inaugurating Rationalization: Three Field Studies Find  Increased Rationalization When Anticipated Realities Become Current.” Psychological Science, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 483–495.

Little, Brian.  2016. “Who Are You, Really? The Puzzle of Personality.” TED. Diakses pada 26 Maret 2019.

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Happy 3rd Birthday, My Kid Is Gay!!

Today, April 10, marks 3 WHOLE YEARS since we started My Kid Is Gay! So, we decided to look back on everything we did in the last year because—spoiler alert!—it’s a lot. In the past year alone, we:

Changed our name to be more searchable for parents who need us the most.

Created The Defining Series to unpack LGBTQIA identities and terms for parents and allies alike!

Made the coolest stickers in all the land.

Had a Google Hangout with the brilliant Laurin Mayeno on National Coming Out Day to talk about gender diversity in young kids.

Released our e-care package, Coming Out with Care, for parents of newly-out LGBTQIA young people. If you haven’t gotten your own care package yet, sign up here!

Gave our site a fancy makeover, making it mobile-ready and creating better categories so you can find the advice you need more easily.

And, of course, we published so many amazing stories, advice, interviews, and essays to our site written by the very best team of contributors.

So many of these amazing resources and projects would not have been possible without some very generous donations. If you’d like to donate to keep us going, click here!

We are so, so excited for the year ahead, and can’t wait to share some exciting new projects with you all! Keep asking us your questions, and thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for all of your love and support <3

xoxo, Kristin, Grace, and everyone at My Kid Is Gay

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Andrew DeCaen in Bradley International

Andrew DeCaen, (Mis)Place and Objec(ting), lithograph, screenprint

37th Bradley International Print Exhibition March 7- April 12, 2019

Bradley University Galleries 1401 W Bradley Ave, Peoria, IL

Reception: Saturday, March 9, 2019 at 4 PM – 8:30 PM The Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition is the second-longest running juried print and drawing competition in the country. Every two years it features the best contemporary graphic artwork from around the globe. Traditional and non-traditional graphic media, including printmaking, drawing, book arts, and experimental techniques are represented in the show. This year’s BI features 134 works of art by 108 artists from across the globe and will be held at seven prominent Peoria Illinois Galleries, The Contemporary Art Center of Peoria, Prairie Center of the Arts, Studios on Sheridan, Illinois Central College, Peoria Art Guild, and on campus at Bradley University at Heuser Art Gallery and Hartmann Center Gallery. 

The 37th Bradley International Artists: Saul Acevedo, Stephanie Alaniz, Nicole Arnold, Maggy Aston, Andrew Au, David Avery, Cynthia Back, Jared Barbick, Michael Barnes, Therese Bauer, Victoria Bein, Grace Bentley-Scheck, Tanmaya Bingham, Sasha Bitzer, Mary Brodbeck, Holly Brown, Amanda Bulger, Peter Bushell, Kristine Campbell, Jacob Crook, Susan Czechowski, McKenzie Dankert, Seth Daulton, Andrew DeCaen, Agata, Derda, Justin Diggle, Mariah Doren and Johanna Paas, Beth Dorsey, Barbara Duval, Michael Ehlbeck, DebiLynn Fendley, Lya Finston, Craig Fisher, Christopher Flynn, Leslie Friedman, Jessica Gondek, John Graham, M. Alexander Gray, Emily Gui, Kevin Haran, Rie Hasegawa, John heintzman, Marco Hernandez, Yuji Hiratsuka, Heidi Hogden, Ming Ying Hong, William Howard, Robert Hunter, Heather Huston, Regin Igloria, Gui Jiang, Robert Jinkins, David Johnson, Neah Kelly, Morteza Khakshoor, Dale Klein, Kristen Kovak, Mark laurin, Beth Lee, Emily Legleitner, Katherine Liontas-Warren, Beauvais Lyons, Jon Mahnke, Matina Marki Tillman, Andrew Martin, Michelle Martin, Kathy McGhee, John McKaig, Kimiko Miyoshi, Zach Mory, Andrew Mullally, David Newman, Soon Ngoh, Meghan O’Connor, Elvia Perrin, Colleen Pike Blair, Endi Poskovic, Dana Potter, Robert Pugh, Anna Redwine, Stephanie Russ, Nicholas Ruth, Blake Sanders, Hannah Sanders, Carmen Schaefer, Anita Seltzer, Meredith Setser, Sarah Smelser, Liz Smith, Kelsey Stephenson, Hester Stinnett, Emily Stokes, Margery Thomas-Mueller, Olivia Timmons, Tonja Torgerson, Dorothea Van Camp, Victoria Varner, Sajeev Visweswaran, George Walker, Michael Weigman, Maria Welch, Art Werger, Linda Whitney, Cleo Wilkinson, Eric Wilson, Josh Winkler, Connie Wolfe

The 37th Bradley International was juried by Janet Ballweg.

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5 factors that fuel income inequality

A Dardem professor set out on a mission to find the factors that influence income inequality What do people believe they have to do to get power? Why do they feel that way? How is that contributing to inequality? These are questions Darden Professor Peter Belmi is on a mission to answer. Belmi’s research examines the insidious structural and psychological factors that contribute to social and income inequality, often despite people’s best intentions. He hopes that, by understanding how conscious and unconscious biases fuel the problem, we can correct for those tendencies and create more equal opportunities. Here are five of his most interesting findings so far. Advancement dynamics in organizations place a higher premium on independence than interdependence. Belmi laid out this theory in his dissertation at Stanford. In it, he argued that individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds tend to believe that to be a good employee, they must connect and adjust to others in social contexts. They must show deference to authority, rely on others and be good team players. “However, some workplaces do not reward such behaviors, instead promoting employees who are independent, expressive, confident and self-promoting,” Belmi said. “As a result, low-class individuals feel that they are unlikely to succeed in the workplace — that they do not belong in such settings and do not have the appropriate skills to succeed.” Belmi and co-author Kristin Laurin used several surveys and experiments to show that when organizations emphasize Machiavellian-style politics to get ahead, they demotivate individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds from seeking power. “Political maneuvering goes against that community-focused identity and causes many from disadvantaged backgrounds to opt out of the pursuit of power,” Belmi said. Middle- and upper-class workers, on the other hand, are more likely to accept workplace politics as part of the deal, even if they find it distasteful. Companies can correct for this tendency by repeatedly demonstrating a commitment to fostering a strong community and providing clear, merit-based structures for promotions that cuts down on internal politics. To the extent that politics is an unavoidable reality, one way that managers can help low-status individuals overcome their aversion to it is by reframing what power-seeking means. “If employees see a connection between attaining power and helping the community they came from, they are more motivated to play the game,” Belmi said. Institutions that are not inclusive can elicit deviant behavior. In a 2015 paper with his Stanford adviser, Margaret Neale, and co-authors Rodolfo Cortes Barragan and Geoffrey Cohen, called “Threats to Social Identity Can Trigger Social Deviance,” Belmi conducted an experiment with two groups. The first group was asked to imagine that they worked for a manager who made a somewhat off-putting and possibly racist comment about the intelligence of black Americans; the second was asked to imagine that they worked for a manager who had a more inclusive stance. Black workers in the first group proved 55 percent more likely to endorse counterproductive behavior — like slacking off or misrepresenting hours worked — than their counterparts in the second group. “People have a universal desire for respect, and there are substantial costs when they feel they are not respected,” Belmi said. He said managers should also remember seemingly small slights can add up and stoke feelings of hopelessness. “When people encounter bias in mainstream institutions because of their social identity — class, race, gender, sexuality or something else — it reinforces in their mind the narrative that society is stacked against them and their group,” Belmi said. “It’s particularly painful, because negative stereotypes are ubiquitous and people just can’t disassociate from their social identity.” ‘I’ll help you, you help me’? Not necessarily. Reciprocity — the idea that you are morally obligated help people who help you — is a pretty widely accepted social norm. However, a 2015 study by Belmi and Stanford Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer found that it does not necessarily apply in the workplace. In fact, Belmi said, many workplaces do just the opposite: Instead of encouraging people to reciprocate based on moral obligation, they encourage people to make decisions based on calculation and instrumentality. In four separate studies, Belmi and Pfeffer found that people who would reciprocate favors in a social context – such as dinners or rides to the airport – were less likely to reciprocate those same favors in a business or professional setting, unless they believed that the person could be of value to them later. “Many norms and activities that occur at work weaken our tendency to reciprocate based on moral obligation and increase our tendency to make decisions based on strategic calculation,” he said. According to Belmi, organizational contexts that reward and reinforce such instrumental thinking can create fundamental dilemmas for members of under-represented groups, who tend to value loyalty, community, reciprocity and repaying past obligations. “It’s difficult to thrive in an environment where the prevailing norms of how people should behave clash with their moral standards and personal values,” he said. Making it to the top changes people’s worldview. When people are in privileged positions, they start to believe that the system will work for everyone as it did for them. Belmi and Neale studied about 1,900 individuals, providing scenarios that put some in a more privileged position and others in a less privileged position. Those who believed they were more privileged were much more likely to be comfortable with the idea of an unequal society. “People say they like equality, but they become less committed to that idea as they move up the hierarchy”, Belmi said. Existential fear, especially fear of death, spurs our quest for power. In addition to pursuing power for extrinsic reasons, like status and money, Belmi proposed that people also pursue power for existential reasons. “The dominant narrative about power is that people want the money, influence and other perks that come with it,” Belmi said. “But we also find that people seek power because it helps them manage their existential concerns.” He explored this theory in a paper with Pfeffer called “Power and Death: Mortality Salience Increases Power-Seeking While Feeling Powerful Reduces Death Anxiety.” They conducted several experiments leading working adults to contemplate their mortality and then asking them how much they want to pursue power. Those who were confronted most harshly with their mortality reported wanting power more, particularly men. Having power, Belmi suggested, helps people with their existential concerns by making them feel that they have some sense of worth or value in the world. “We cling to institutions and worldviews larger than ourselves,” whether civic, religious, corporate or otherwise, Belmi said. “Humans fundamentally want to feel their lives matter and their legacy will continue when they are gone.”

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