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 ...
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 ...
Summary: The object of this study that was motivated by a survey of Molander and Bäckman (1994) is to test a competition in tennis sports as a stress condition. Therefore it should be possible to test age related processes in a stressful situation. 72 ...
This paper presents a study of the relationship between emotions and autobiographical narratives by preschoolers (aged 3 to 5 years). The children (N = 39) actively participate in a short scenario (the Geneva Emotion-Eliciting Scenario, GEES), whose ...
Summary: The current longitudinal study (consisting of 78 fifth and sixth grade math classes; N = 1762 students) investigates the relationship between domain-specific achievement and emotional experiences. Using a mediation model (adapted from Pekrun, ...
“When academics take over, who is going to work in practice?” – In a field of tension: APN role development in psychiatryAbstract:Background: Increasing demands in healthcare require the development of new structures and ...
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 ...
Despite the fact that the facial expressions of emotions are naturally dynamic social signals, their communicative value has typically been studied using static photographs. In this paper, we focus on the perception of emotions from naturally occurring, ...
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 ...
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in children and adolescents – study design of a feasibility study concerning examination related emotionsNumerous research centres apply magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for research purposes in children. In view of this ...
Abstract:Introduction: The study focuses on the prevalent emotions and specific experiences of three particularly vulnerable groups in the Bulgarian pandemic context. The target groups include working parents with small children (0–12 years), people who ...
Perceiving the feelings of oneself and others: Construction and validation of scales assessing the attention to and the clarity of feelingsAbstract. Recognizing one’s own feelings and the feelings of others is an important aspect of emotional competence. ...
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 ...
Experience and coping of lovesicknessAbstract. Lovesickness is a widespread phenomenon which has only rarely been subject of psychological studies. In a questionnaire study (N = 163) four dimensions of experience of lovesickness were found: depression, ...
Development and validation of a self-report instrument for the assessment of emotion-specific regulation skills (ERSQ-ES)Numerous studies demonstrate the importance of emotion regulation skills for mental health. Unfortunately, many of these studies rely ...
Media-Based Empathy (MBE)–Development of an Instrument to Assess Empathic Reactions When Using MediaAbstract. Empathy is the ability to understand and feel for the emotions of others (Cohen & Strayer, 1996). In the context of media use research, the role ...
Psychometric Properties of the German Version of the Interpersonal Emotion Regulation QuestionnaireAbstract. Emotion regulation processes have gained increasing importance in psychological science. While a number of questionnaires have been ...
Translation and Validation of a German Version of the Sport Emotion Questionnaire (SEQ)Abstract. This study presents the translation and validation of the English Sport Emotion Questionnaire (SEQ; Jones et al., 2005), which measures pre-competition ...
Norms for Various Aspects of the Emotional Evaluation of Personality TraitsAbstract. The emotional evaluation of traits and personality attributes is important in many research areas and for many research purposes. This research provides a new ...
Emotion Regulation Flexibility: Theoretical Models and Empirical FindingsAbstract. Emotion regulation strategies are frequently classified into either adaptive or maladaptive, independent of the context in which they are used. Recent studies and ...
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 ...
Feedback, emotions, and action tendencies: Emotional consequences of feedback from oneʼs supervisorThe research reported here examines employeesʼ emotional reactions to performance feedback from their supervisors as well as subsequent effects on action ...
Is music the language of feelings?Abstract. Several groups of patients were asked as to what extent feelings of happiness, grief, anger, fear, curiosity, surprise, contempt, sympathy, disgust, guilt and shame ...
Zusammenfassung. Anhand einer ausführlichen Kasuistik wird die sich entwickelnde Differenzierung des emotionalen Erlebens bei einer zu Beginn 12-jährigen Patientin während einer 2-jährigen stationären kinderpsychiatrischen Therapie dargestellt. Die von ...
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 ...
Intention-behavior gap in physical exercise. The role of emotionsAbstract. Although psychological models for prediction of physical exercise (e.g., the Theory of Planned Behavior; TPB) show substantial power in predicting health-behavior-related ...
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 ...
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) ...
Media violence, social context, and personality - An analysis of juvenile problem groupsAbstract. A cross-sectional study analyzed central influences on aggression, disposition to violence, and peacefulness of students in grades 5-10 of the lowest track ...
Zusammenfassung. In einer Studie zur Modifikation der Differentiellen Affekt Skala (DAS) wurden die positiven Emotionen Zuneigung, Fröhlichkeit, Zufriedenheit, Faszination, Vergnügen und Freude dahingehend geprüft, ob sie sich in medienpsychologischen ...
Cognitive-emotional processes as stimuli for innovation - Empirical examination of the Lazarus-theory in the context of innovationAbstract. Against the backdrop of the neglect of cognitive-emotional processes as stimuli for innovation, this contribution ...
We examine the emotional impact caused to victims of bullying in its traditional form, both directly and indirectly, as well as bullying inflicted by use of new technologies such as mobile phones and the Internet. A sample of 1,671 adolescents and young ...
Abstract: The role of strong emotions in eliciting asthmatic exacerbations has been discussed in psychosomatic theory for decades. This relationship has mostly been studied in asthmatic individuals, while healthy control groups have received limited ...
The purpose of the study was to identify significant changes in heart rate variability (an emerging descriptor of emotional conditions; HRV) concomitant to complex auditory stimuli with emotional value (music). In healthy controls, traumatic brain injured ...
The communication of chemosensory alarm signals is well explored in mammals. In humans the effects of anxiety substances might seem to be less important due to their high-developed visual system, and their sophisticated ability to communicate via speech ...
Measures of heart rate variability (HRV) are major indices of the sympathovagal balance in cardiovascular research. These measures are thought to reflect complex patterns of brain activation as well and HRV is now emerging as a descriptor thought to ...
Abstract. Sleep loss is known to severely disturb individuals’ mood and emotion processing. Here, we tested the hypothesis that quality of sleep is predictive of individuals’ performance on a task evaluating emotional empathy. We tested 34 ...
Abstract: In this study, the influence of chromatic and achromatic color on emotions in the Holtzman Inkblot Technique (HIT) was tested empirically. Samples of normals (n = 30), patients with neurotic disorders (n = 30), borderline patients (n = 30), and ...
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 ...
Almost from its inception, the emotional intelligence (EI) construct has been an elusive one. After nearly 2 decades of research, there still appears to be little consensus over how EI should be conceptualized or assessed and the efficacy of practical ...
The present studies investigated whether mimicry effects on empathizing depend on whether emotional expressions are seen as acted or real. In Study 1, participants saw a fragment from a reality “soap.” Half of them received an instruction to imitate ...
This paper focuses on explaining how individuals set goals on multiple performance episodes, in the context of performance feedback comparing their performance on each episode with their respective goal. The proposed model was tested through a ...
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 ...
This study compares the performance, when identifying negative emotions on facial expression, of male offenders (n = 62) with a high level of psychopathy (n = 25) with other criminals with a low level of psychopathy (n = 37), as well as other “successful ...
We live in contentious times. Why are people prepared to sacrifice wealth, a pleasant and carefree life, or sometimes even their lives for a common cause? This question brings us to the individual level of analysis, and therefore to political psychology. ...
Abstract. A number of authors consider that exploring the interconnections between social representations and emotions is essential. However, both empirical and theoretical contributions have focused on specific aspects of these concepts ...
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 ...
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 ...
Abstract. Neuropsychological evidence has given rise to alternative models on brain asymmetry in emotion, each with different implications concerning the biological basis of individual differences in affective responses. The present study tested these ...
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 ...
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 (...
In Study 1, individuals high in neuroticism (high N) felt more negative and experienced less decrease of their negative emotions than individuals low in Neuroticism (low N) when extremely unpleasant hypothetical scenarios improved. Study 2 also found that ...
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. 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. Converging neuroimaging and patient data suggest that the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) is involved in emotional processing. However, it is still not clear whether the DLPFC in the left and right hemisphere is ...
Abstract. In this experiment, we replicated the effect of muscle engagement on perception such that the recognition of another’s facial expressions was biased by the observer’s facial muscular activity (Blaesi ...
The authors examined the effects of suboptimally presented primes (facial expressions) embedded into video messages on self-reported positive activation (PA) and negative activation (NA). The results showed that joyful facial primes elicited increased PA ...
We reflect on the typical sequence of complex emotions associated with the process of scientific discovery. It is proposed that the same sequence is found to underlie many forms of media entertainment, albeit substantially scaled down. Hence, a distinct ...
Abstract. We examined emotional, motivational, and evaluative responses to positively and negatively valenced online news messages about companies with a good or bad corporate reputation; the valence of reader comments on the news messages ...
Abstract. In recent years, the viewing of reality television has become increasingly prevalent among television audiences. However, little is known about the psychological processes at work when viewing these programs. This study examined ...
Abstract. This study investigated the validity of the narrative engagement scale (Busselle & Bilandzic, 2009) by grounding the dimensions of the scale in relationships between self-reported narrative engagement and embodied mental ...
Abstract. In the current study we examined a psychological mechanism linking Facebook use to depression. A survey was conducted with 319 undergraduates about their passive Facebook use, their frequency of making upward social comparisons ...
Abstract. Boredom is a prevalent and relevant, yet understudied, negative emotion in the field of media psychology. This paper proposes novel theoretical foundations to study boredom as an emotion and its related regulation strategies in ...
By integrating an intergroup perspective on mergers with discrepancy theories, we argue that merger partners aim for merger patterns that best benefit their group’s standing. Importantly, we hypothesize and show that the discrepancy between what merger ...
Abstract. Optimistic performance estimates tend to diminish as performance and feedback draw near, yet it is unclear what contributes to subsequent performance estimates after feedback. At multiple time points, 166 undergraduates estimated ...
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: Emotions play a pervasive role in determining advertising effectiveness. However, it is still a controversial question as to whether pleasant or unpleasant advertisements are more effective in attracting ...
Norms for displaying emotions influence how individuals express their feelings and interpret the emotional expressions of others. Prior research found cross-cultural variation of emotion display norms, but primarily examined face-to-face communication and ...
Abstract. People believe women are more emotional than men but it remains unclear to what extent such emotion stereotypes affect leadership perceptions. Extending the think manager-think male paradigm (Schein, 1973), we examined the ...
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 ...
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 ...
This study aims to explore the negative experiences of employees following organizational change through adopting a contextual emotions perspective. Previous studies have tended to examine negative change experiences through the lens of general concepts ...
Abstract. An understanding of the relationship between emotions, cognition, and learning can provide insight into learning needs for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This article discusses current research and new theories on ...
Gender differences in Internet use may affect how women and men respond to online support (OS) provided by friends and strangers. The present study compared the psychological effects of brief OS provided by a same-...