Richard W Bargdill
Biographic Data
| ID | 5454700 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard W Bargdill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard W |
| FAMILY NAME | Bargdill |
| SIGNATURE | BARGDILL R W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8705-4305 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Body Mapping Aesthetic Chills
This study employs a heuristic inquiry to explore aesthetic chills (i.e., piloerection) as profound psychophysiological responses to beauty, distinct from temperature-induced chills. Heuristic inquiry considers the researcher to be a central participant, engaging deeply with their own experiences. In this case, the researcher documented and analyzed instances of chills, noting body location, occurrence dates, triggering events, and categorizing l…
Gender-Based Violence in Eco-Martyr Assassinations
Climate change has resulted in a variety of worldwide humanitarian crises, but little attention has been given to the assassinations of environmental defenders. Eco-martyrs are people who have been murdered specifically due to their environmental conservation efforts. This study explores the different levels of gender-based violence used in the assassinations of eco-martyrs. A qualitative approach was used to analyze publicly reported narratives …
Eco-martyrdom
This theoretical article briefly explores the historical and modern concept of martyrdom and how it has taken on its current negative connotation due to suicide bombings after 9/11. The paper will review the literature on this more heavily studied form of martyrdom and then distinguish it from the less well-known area of “positive self-sacrifice.” The article asserts that this positive form is exemplified by the behavior of eco-martyrs: people wh…
One Way That Meaning Is Created
In this qualitative study, six college-age participants (three males and three females) provided written and narrative accounts about an event in their lives they found to be personally meaningful. The accounts were analyzed using an existential-phenomenological framework. The results suggest that a meaningful life event is often experienced as uncanny or completely unexpected. The participants believed that circumstances proceeding and following…
Habitual Boredom and Depression
This article will compare and contrast the author’s theory of Habitual Boredom with a phenomenological account of Unipolar Depression. The habitually bored show more external ambivalence, passive avoidance, and shame, as well as a tendency toward passive hope and identity confusion. The depressed show more internal ambivalence, willful (but futile) determination, and guilt as well as tendency toward hopelessness and identity objectification. The …
The youth movement in humanistic psychology
Eugene Taylor (1999) made some suggestions as to what Humanistic Psychology needed to do, in his opinion, to create an intellectual renaissance. He suggested that we, first, concentrate our researc
Excerpts from An artist's thought book
An Artist's Thought Book: Intriguing Thoughts About the Artistic Process is a series of aphorisms by Dr. Richard Bargdill, associate professor of psychology at St. Francis University. These original aphorisms are 1- or 2-sentence thoughts that are roughly categorized into 5 book chapters concerning: what it means to be an artist, a poet, a singer, and a painter, as well as thoughts on the nature of creativity. The purpose of an aphorism is to say…
A Phenomenological Investigation of Being Bored with Life
The majority of research on boredom concerns the situational aspects of boredom, such as monotonous stimuli and decreased arousal; however, clinical concerns such as addictive behaviors involve people who experience boredom habitually. This paper describes a phenomenological study focused on 6 persons (16 to 67 years old) who experienced habitual boredom, those who were bored with their lives
One Way That Meaning Is Created
In this qualitative study, six college-age participants (three males and three females) provided written and narrative accounts about an event in their lives they found to be personally meaningful. The accounts were analyzed using an existential-phenomenological framework. The results suggest that a meaningful life event is often experienced as uncanny or completely unexpected. The participants believed that circumstances proceeding and following…
A Phenomenological Investigation of Being Bored with Life
The majority of research on boredom concerns the situational aspects of boredom, such as monotonous stimuli and decreased arousal; however, clinical concerns such as addictive behaviors involve people who experience boredom habitually. This paper describes a phenomenological study focused on 6 persons (16 to 67 years old) who experienced habitual boredom, those who were bored with their lives
Excerpts from An artist's thought book
An Artist's Thought Book: Intriguing Thoughts About the Artistic Process is a series of aphorisms by Dr. Richard Bargdill, associate professor of psychology at St. Francis University. These original aphorisms are 1- or 2-sentence thoughts that are roughly categorized into 5 book chapters concerning: what it means to be an artist, a poet, a singer, and a painter, as well as thoughts on the nature of creativity. The purpose of an aphorism is to say…
The youth movement in humanistic psychology
Eugene Taylor (1999) made some suggestions as to what Humanistic Psychology needed to do, in his opinion, to create an intellectual renaissance. He suggested that we, first, concentrate our researc
Habitual Boredom and Depression
This article will compare and contrast the author’s theory of Habitual Boredom with a phenomenological account of Unipolar Depression. The habitually bored show more external ambivalence, passive avoidance, and shame, as well as a tendency toward passive hope and identity confusion. The depressed show more internal ambivalence, willful (but futile) determination, and guilt as well as tendency toward hopelessness and identity objectification. The …
One Way That Meaning Is Created
In this qualitative study, six college-age participants (three males and three females) provided written and narrative accounts about an event in their lives they found to be personally meaningful. The accounts were analyzed using an existential-phenomenological framework. The results suggest that a meaningful life event is often experienced as uncanny or completely unexpected. The participants believed that circumstances proceeding and following…
Eco-martyrdom
This theoretical article briefly explores the historical and modern concept of martyrdom and how it has taken on its current negative connotation due to suicide bombings after 9/11. The paper will review the literature on this more heavily studied form of martyrdom and then distinguish it from the less well-known area of “positive self-sacrifice.” The article asserts that this positive form is exemplified by the behavior of eco-martyrs: people wh…
Gender-Based Violence in Eco-Martyr Assassinations
Climate change has resulted in a variety of worldwide humanitarian crises, but little attention has been given to the assassinations of environmental defenders. Eco-martyrs are people who have been murdered specifically due to their environmental conservation efforts. This study explores the different levels of gender-based violence used in the assassinations of eco-martyrs. A qualitative approach was used to analyze publicly reported narratives …
Body Mapping Aesthetic Chills
This study employs a heuristic inquiry to explore aesthetic chills (i.e., piloerection) as profound psychophysiological responses to beauty, distinct from temperature-induced chills. Heuristic inquiry considers the researcher to be a central participant, engaging deeply with their own experiences. In this case, the researcher documented and analyzed instances of chills, noting body location, occurrence dates, triggering events, and categorizing l…
Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Psychoanalysis (4 works) · Psychotherapist (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (2 works)