Summary: The article investigates specific affective reactions to social comparison outcomes within the framework of the contrast-empathy model (Brandstätter, 1998, 2000). One hundred and one participants received vignettes that described social income ...
In emotion research, affective pictures are limited in their ability to elicit discrete emotions. The current study attempted to elicit anger using pictures and a person by image-content interactional strategy. In two studies, undergraduates who varied ...
Within the framework of Affective Events Theory (AET), this study examines emotional experiences as a potential mediator between exposure to bullying and job satisfaction and intention to leave, respectively. We also investigate to what extent trait ...
Aspects of emotional competence in socially anxious childrenAbstract.Background: There is some evidence that a disregulation of emotional development may be part of the etiology of anxiety disorders. Objective: The aim of our study was to investigate ...
The Family Life Scale (FLS), which includes the dimensions of Cohesion, Adaptability, Communication and Satisfaction, and two measures of emotion were applied to a German-speaking sample of adolescents and their parents in Switzerland. The main goal of ...
Emotionale Kompetenz gilt als wichtige Fähigkeit im Hinblick auf eine erfolgreiche Alltags- und Lebensbewältigung. Verschiedene Studien belegen, dass sowohl soziale als auch schulische Erfolge durch emotionale Kompetenz positiv bedingt werden. Ebenso ...
Zusammenfassung: Für manche Fragebogen sind Items formulierbar, die logischerweise den Kern jenes Konzepts erfassen, das mit dem Test erfaßt werden soll. Meistens können nicht alle Items einer Testrohform einen gleich hohen Grad an logischer oder ...
Body Checking in Women with High and Low Shape and Weight Concerns. Arousal and Negative Emotional Valence in the Course of a Checking-Behavior EpisodeAbstract.Background: According to theories of eating disorders, the maintenance of body checking (BC) ...
Abstract. Although the detrimental effect of emotion on reasoning has been evidenced many times, the cognitive mechanism underlying this effect remains unclear. In the present paper, we explore the cognitive load hypothesis as a potential ...
Abstract. This work arose from an interest in seeking the origins, in the field of psychological assessment, of knowledge on the relationship between color and affect. This relationship in psychological assessment has existed since Herman ...
Biographical information regarding Wilhelm Wundt and William James is briefly described, and the contributions of these founders of psychology in Europe and the US to the understanding of emotions and personality are reviewed. Important theoretical ...
Damasio’s theory of emotions and feelings has recently become influential in psychology and related disciplines. The theory states that feeling an emotion consists of having mental images that arise from neural patterns that represent changes in body and ...
Several lines of evidence attest robust relationships between personality dimensions and emotions, including cognitive aspect of emotion. More particularly, many studies reported strong relationships between extraversion, the behavioral activation system (...
Abstract. While previous research has examined the consequences of emotional regulation, less research has focused on genuine emotional expressions in the workplace. Two theoretically grounded, yet opposing, hypotheses were tested in a diverse sample of ...
Several studies showed that personality modulates emotional responsiveness, though most of them used subjective ratings as the measure of emotion. The present study extends personality-emotion relationship findings to psychophysiological methods, more ...
Abstract. Not all group memberships are self-chosen. The current research examines whether assignments to non-preferred groups influence our relationship with the group and our preference for information about the ingroup. It was expected ...
Abstract. The dynamic creativity framework (DCF) represents a new theoretical perspective for studying the creativity construct. This framework is based on the dynamic definition of creativity, and it has both theoretical and empirical ...
The Effect of a Mindfulness-Based Program on Athletes’ Emotion RegulationAbstract. This study examines the influence of mindfulness practice on emotion regulation in competitive sports. The correlation between mindfulness ...
Abstract. This study measured the effect of emotional states on lexical decision task performance and investigated which underlying components (physiological, attentional orienting, executive, lexical, and/or strategic) are affected. We did this by ...