Abstract. What makes people show emotional responses toward victims of social injustice in news stories? What are the behavioral consequences of these emotions? Using an online experiment, this study examined the effects of abnormality ...
The present study investigates whether dementia patients can make accurate social and affective judgments of face stimuli. We used verbal material as a control condition to see whether dementia patients are capable of using the rating scales the same way ...
Adolescence Alcohol Use Behaviours During the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Role of MindfulnessAbstract.Objective: Cognitive and psychosocial factors contribute to individual differences in alcohol (mis)use and ...
Negative affect caused by depression is known to produce cognitive failures during everyday activities. However, traditional neurobehavioral laboratory paradigms that assess affect-memory interactions are critical with respect to their ecological ...
This study was conducted to test the hypothesis that two films that induce a sad feeling would elicit different physiological responses depending on an additional context of the film contents related to either avoidance (disgust) or attachment (tenderness)...
The affective evaluation of imagined odors by means of the semantic differential techniqueAbstract. The connotative meaning of words can be quantified statistically by the semantic differential technique where words are located on the dimensions “...
Zusammenfassung. Fast alle derzeit diskutierten Modelle zur Erklärung von Gesundheitsverhalten gründen auf einem rational choice-Ansatz und betonen die Bedeutung kognitiver Determinanten im Prozess der Veränderung oder Aufrechterhaltung von Verhalten. In ...
Affect-regulating function of binge episodes in bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorderAbstract.Background: Concerning affect regulation mechanisms in binge and purge behavior there is a lack of studies comparing bulimic patients and patients meeting ...
Alexithymia: Emotional skill deficit or inhibition of emotional experiencing?Abstract.Background:Alexithymia refers to a reduced ability to identify and describe emotions. It is still unclear whether alexithymia ...
Abstract. The effect of anger on acceptance of false details was examined using a three-phase misinformation paradigm. Participants viewed an event, were presented with schema-consistent and schema-irrelevant ...
Prior research has shown that discrete emotions, notably anger and fear, can explain effects of news articles on health and alcohol-control policy support. This study advances prior work by coding expressed emotional responses to messages (as opposed to ...
Recent evidence suggests that anticipation of negatively valenced pictures strongly increases interference exerted by the actual presentation of these pictures, while anticipation of positively valenced pictures leaves the impact of the actual ...
Abstract: We investigated effects of emotions on arithmetic problem-solving and age-related differences in these effects. Young and older adults verified addition problems displayed superimposed on emotionally negative, positive, or neutral pictures. ...
Anger regulation in boys with Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)Summary:Objectives: We explored the reaction of boys with ADHD when they are angry at a friend. Due to their impulsivity and difficulty in focussing their attention, it may be ...
Abstract. Across studies, memory for emotional events has shown a positivity bias, a negativity bias, and/or an arousal bias, and different types of memory biases have been reported in patients diagnosed with anxiety and mood disorders. ...
Abstract Two experiments were conducted to assess simultaneously the effects of attentional and emotional processes on startle eyeblink modulation. In each experiment, participants were presented with a pleasant and an unpleasant picture. Half the ...
Abstract. We investigated whether people are able to detect in a relatively automatic manner the dominant or submissive status of persons engaged in social interactions. We used a nonaffective variant of the affective Simon paradigm of De Houwer and Eelen ...
The aim of the present paper was to study heart rate changes during a video stimulation depicting two actors (male and female) producing dynamic facial expressions of happiness, sadness, and a neutral expression. We measured ballistocardiographic emotion-...
Evaluation and behavior: The role of motor activity in attitudes and emotionsAbstract. Behavioral approach and avoidance orientations play a central role in an environment that provides us with both the possibility to fulfill our needs and risks. In ...
Abstract. We evaluated the interaction of emotion, interoceptive awareness (IA), and attention using an attentional blink (AB) task. Healthy undergraduates completed a cardiac awareness task and, based on previously ...