Abstract: Alexithymia is a subclinical experience in which individuals struggle to identify, distinguish, and describe their own emotions. It is most commonly measured with the self-reported Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20 (TAS-20). However, ...
Summary: In a sample of 115 adults, five hypotheses about the structure of emotions and about the relations between emotions and personality traits were investigated. The extensive battery of tests included: 3 inventories for the measurement of the Big ...
Hope - Basic Characteristics and Foundations of a Neglected ConceptSummary: A critical overview is given about current theoretical concepts of hope and the pros and cons are considered. An appraisal model of hope is proposed interpreting hope as an ...
The Relevance of Subjective Emotional Components of Intelligence for Complex Problem SolvingAbstract: Traditional components of intelligence (e.g., processing capacity) predict behavior in conventional problem-solving tasks, whereas subjective, emotional ...
Summary: The influence of positive mood on psychic functions has not been examined yet for people with age-associated memory impairment (AAMI) and in those with only subjective memory complaints (SMC). Likewise it has not been shown if these groups differ ...
Emotion and Hemispheric DominanceEmpirical studies on the hemispheric dominance for the processing of emotions are reviewed and discussed with respect to three hypotheses postulating, first, an overall dominance of the right hemisphere for emotional ...
Summary: The traditional intelligence component “processing capacity” predicts complex problem-solving. We investigate whether a component of perceived emotional intelligence, namely, repair of negative emotions, can increase prediction. N = 92 students (...
Abstract. Emotion-related impulsivity, defined as the tendency to say or do things that one later regret during periods of heightened emotion, has been tied to a broad range of psychopathologies. Previous work has suggested that emotion-related ...
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 ...
Abstract: Many TBI patients suffer from cognitive impairments, affecting their abilities to function on a previous level. However, some patients exhibit personality changes, manifesting themselves in inadequate or inappropriate social behavior, which are ...
Emotion and Memory in Alzheimer's Disease: A ReviewAbstract: Aim of this review is to examine the interactions between emotion and memory in Alzheimer's disease and to discuss resources of these patients. On the basis of neuropathological findings in ...
Interoceptive sensitivity, feelings and behavorial controlThe processing of afferent bodily signals is not only of great importance for the control of homeostatic and adaptive processes within the body but, in combination with the perceptibility of ...
The aim of this study was to examine the effect of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) on (a) neuropsychological test performance and (b) self-reported emotional complaints within individuals suffering from postconcussional disorder (PCD) after a mild ...
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 ...
The occurrence and timing of emotion-antecedent appraisal checks are difficult to assess. We report an attempt to estimate the time window of the intrinsic pleasantness check using a dual-task probe paradigm. In three experiments, participants viewed ...
Previous research suggests that avoiding the expression of emotion may be associated with impaired mental health, although empirical evidence is inconsistent. In this investigation, ambivalence over the expression of emotion is understood as an approach-...
The present study examines the unconscious influence of emotional information on decision making in a simulated hiring situation. We used a subliminal masked priming paradigm with varying faces as primes, which were presented for a duration of 50 ms and ...
Abstract. Most research on the ability to interpret expressions from the eyes has utilized static information. This research investigates whether the dynamic sequence of facial actions in the eye region influences the judgments of perceivers. Dynamic fear ...
Abstract. Emotion perception studies typically explore how judgments of facial expressions are influenced by invariant characteristics such as sex or by variant characteristics such as gaze. However, few studies have considered the importance of factors ...
Abstract. The two hemispheres of the human brain are asymmetrically involved in representing a person’s motivational orientation: Approach motivation is reflected in greater activation of the left hemisphere, whereas avoidance motivation more strongly ...
Rating and Standardisation of Pictures from the International Affective Picture System Appropriated for children. Examination of children in a field sample aged six to twelve years.Summary:Objective: The aim of this study was to validate and standardise ...
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 ...
Emotional correlates of consent capacity: an exploratory studyThe present exploratory study follows the extensive critique of the cognitive focus of capacity research and examines possible emotional correlates of the capacity to consent to research ...
The role of emotion in psychosocial therapies for Alzheimer's diseaseWe provide an overview of studies on emotion processing capacities in Alzheimer's disease patients and discuss possibilities to use these resources for therapeutic intervention. On the ...
Clinical research on psychotherapeutic and psychosomatic careThis article provides the current state of knowledge of clinical research in psychotherapy and psychosomatic care. A standardized evidence-based approach in clinical practice seems to be ...
Die Borderline-Persönlichkeitsstörung (BPS) ist durch gestörte Affektregulation, veränderte Schmerzverarbeitung, Dissoziation, Impulsivität und interpersonelle Probleme gekennzeichnet. Diese psychopathologische Kernbereiche konnten mit Veränderungen auf ...
Does burnout evoke more anger than depression? Differences in emotional reactions to mental health problems in the General PopulationAbstract. Our aim is to determine whether emotional reactions to a case vignette depicting a person with depression ...
The investigation of emotional processes has been neglected for a long time. But with the appearance of new imaging methods, a growing interest in the neural representation of emotional processes emerged. According to recent findings, emotional ...
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 ...
Many studies have documented that we remember less negative information as we grow older. The present study examined the effects of view of life and selection bias on this positivity effect using an emotional picture memory task. Young adults were tested ...
Regret and regret regulation were studied using a weeklong web-based diary method. 108 participants aged 19 to 89 years reported regret for a decision made and a decision to be made. They also reported the extent to which they used strategies to prevent ...
Abstract. Little is known about how people perceive the affective well-being of older and younger adults. In four studies, we compare other- and self-reported trait affect from participants who varied in adult age and familiarity. Our prediction that ...
Development of a questionnaire for measuring perceived emotional intelligence: attention to, clarity, and repair of emotionsAbstract. Based on the Trait Meta-Mood Scale (Salovey, Mayer, Goldman, Turvey & Palfai, 1995) a German questionnaire was ...
Outlines of interdisciplinary research of memoryAbstract. Self-awareness and identity are important cornerstones of thinking in social psychology. On the basis of current knowledge and insights from the social, cultural, and biological sciences, it is ...
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 ...
Zusammenfassung. Um der Frage nach der Wirkung emotionaler Valenz auf die Wortverarbeitung nachzugehen wurde ein Instrument konstruiert, in dem auf positiv und negativ valente Wörter sowie auf neutrale Kontrollwörter reagiert werden muss. Die Konstruktion ...
A process study of self-regulated learning behavior in the context of motivational and emotional statesAbstract. In a fourteen-day process study on the learning behavior of 33 nursing students preparing for an exam, the use of learning strategies as well ...
Child sexual abuse: Appraisal, emotion, and coping in response to social stressAbstract. A study of women reported child sexual abuse and suffering from long-term effects (= index group, n = 124) and women reported child sexual abuse but no suffering (= ...
Olfactory and emotional stimulus evaluation in patients with major depressionAbstract. The present study aims to clarify whether a deviant stimulus evaluation in patients with major depression (MD) depends on the stimulus modality and/ or the stimulus ...
Emotions and office work with computers: A test of ‘affective events’ theoryAbstract. The affective events theory of Weiss and Cropanzano (1996) predicts that specific features of working conditions (e.g., autonomy, work load) have an impact on the ...
Zusammenfassung. Emotionszentrierte Kunsttherapie zielt auf eine Balance und Abstimmung zwischen der affektiven Verhaltensregulation und der reflexiven Handlungssteuerung. Ausgehend von den Beschreibungen des künstlerischen Prozesses bei van Gogh, Kirkeby ...
Emotion-centered art therapy - Psychological basis and perspectivesAbstract. Emotion-centered art therapy aims to balance and coordinate affective regulation and reflex planning of actions. Based on descriptions of ...
Situation models in text comprehension: Will emotionally relieving information be automatically activated?Abstract. It was tested whether the “situation model” framework can be applied to research on coping processes. Therefore, subjects (N = 80) were ...
Zusammenfassung. Der Beitrag unterscheidet Ansätze der Untersuchung der Unterhaltungsrezeption in explorative und theoriegeleitete. Der “Uses and Gratifications“-Ansatz sowie der Eskapismusansatz sind dem explorativen Vorgehen zuzuordnen. Theoriegeleitete ...
A study to survey mood in children: Development of a self-evaluation methodAbstract. The paper reports and discusses psychometric properties of a new multidimensional adjective check list (EWL-KJ) for measuring mood in children. The EWL40-KJ consists of ...
Animal models for anxiety and anxiety disorders - Selected models and approaches to study individual differencesAbstract. Animal models of anxiety play a critical role in our understanding of the neurobiopsychological mechanisms underlying anxiety and ...
Neurobiological basis of emotion regulationOne of the most central human skills is the ability to regulate emotions that are elicited by external or internal events depending on the situational demands and the organism’s short- or long-term goals. These ...