Betrayal and friendship

Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews

Purpose of the Study: The article presents research on social representations of the phenomenon of Betrayal. The main use of our study is to highlight the concept of Betrayal and study the social representations of the social situation. The study traced the main differences in the concept and social representation of the phenomenon of betrayal in two age samples. Methodology: To obtain information on the actual attitude to the phenomenon we conduct the survey. The texts processed content analysis method. The data collection process in SPSS, 21: descriptive statistics, method of averages calculation, comparative analysis. Principal Findings: Selected differences in social perceptions in the studied groups of different ages reflect the boundaries of the concept. The analysis of structural components shows the dynamics of social representations. Emotional and rational styles of behavior in a social situation, typical for a middle-age group, have been singled out. Behavioral styles diff...

Advances in Developing Human Resources, 2000

More than ever, there is a need for trust in the workplace. After all, business is conducted via relationships, and trust is the foundation to effective relationships. Yet, trust means different things to different people and this is a big part of the problem.

Culture and Organization, 2007

Contemporary western organizations appear to be caught in neophily, i.e., a cult of newness and novelty. As traditional means of organizational transformation -and profit maximization in particular -have broadly proven insufficient or to have completely failed, contemporary capitalism has turned the Old into an antiquated object of hatred. As the Old, and thus the past, is split off, the New -because it is new -is guaranteed to be better. Organizational structures and processes that previously served as more or less reliable containers for both labour and capital are now regarded as old wineskins that have served their purpose and belong on the 'scrapheap of history'. This paper emanates from the working hypothesis that betrayal and cynicism, in the context of organizational transformation, cannot sufficiently be understood from a perspective limited to individual psychopathology but has to take the organization as a whole into account.

2017

Tagungsbericht: Playing False : representations of Betrayal 16. bis 17. September 2011, Lincoln College, Oxford University From antiquity through the present, from the political sphere to the most personal relationships, betrayal is a ubiquitous and multifaceted phenomenon. Because of its many forms, however, betrayal demands an intensive examination within an interdisciplinary forum that transcends the narrower, political or literary spheres of betrayal, and that strives to address the multiplicity of its representations, rather than reducing it to a single definition. It is precisely such a forum that the conference, "Playing False: Representations of Betrayal" created, which Dr. Betiel Wasihun and Kristina Mendicino organized

2001

Global education systems, 2020

The chapter emanates from the Chancellor's address that I presented on the fifth of March 2019 at the University of South Africa. Betrayal Trauma Theory (BTT) was used as a lens in understanding toxic leadership in work spaces. BTT focuses on the ways in which toxic behavior of leaders may violate or negatively affect trust and well-being of employees. Toxic leadership can bring negative consequences to employees' attitudes toward their leaders and organizations' wellbeing, and work behaviors. Employees are the less powerful individuals in the leader-employee relationship. They are characterized by a power differential and constrained in what they can do in response to unfavorable treatments they receive from their bosses.

The Open Psychology Journal, 2015

This article investigates the impact of different emotions on trust decisions taking into account the experience of betrayal. Thus, an experiment was created that included one betrayal group and one control group. Participants in the betrayal group experienced more intense feelings governed by negative emotions than participants in the control group did. Moreover, participants in the betrayal group significantly lowered their trust of another stranger. On the other hand, we found some evidence that neuroticism exaggerated the relationship between experienced betrayal and subsequent trust.

2011

This study investigates the emotional responses to betrayal in two domains -social norms and personal acquaintances. The study relies on a newly developed Betrayal-Domain Questionnaire and the Portrait Value Questionnaire . Study 1 confirmed the existence of two distinct betrayal-domains differing in the pattern of emotional response evoked, in the actions that relieve negative emotions and the influence of values on the emotional response. In the social norms domain, betrayal evokes predominantly anger-related emotions that can be alleviated effectively, whereas in the personal domain more profound negative emotions are elicited by betrayal and fewer actions can relieve them. Study 2 replicates the findings with a modified questionnaire designed to comply with more stringent methodological restrictions.

Psychoanalytic Dialogues, (2015), Issue 5. (abstract) Betrayal by a trusted other sends shockwaves reverberating not only forward into one's future but backward into one's past. One's personal history is retroactively reconfigured: What has been becomes undone. This essay looks at the loss of the analyst, formerly experienced as a good object, when a felt sense of betrayal intrudes on the analytic relationship and dismantles what has gone before. Such unraveling of goodness is extremely painful in both the loss of the trusted relationship and in the assault on one's confidence in one's own mind, one's ability to detect deceit and/or bad faith. How does a patient cope with such an assault on her sense of reality, on her ability to discern falseness in others? How does healing occur, and what is the role of a next analyst in helping a betrayed patient to regain a sense of trust, not only in the object world and the analytic community, but in her own mind? When the patient is herself a clinician, what is the impact on her professional identity and how can a new analytic dyad repair such a multi-layered rupture?