Abstract: Solidarity in the classic sense pertains to a cohesion among humans that entails physical contact, shared emotions, and common goals or projects. Characteristic cases are to be found among families, close friends, or co-workers. The present ...
Ruch and Proyer (2008) provided preliminary evidence for the validity of gelotophobia (the fear of being laughed at) by showing that a group of individuals diagnosed as gelotophobic could be discriminated from groups of shame-based neurotics, non shame-...
Psychoeducation leads to a reduction in fear of spiders in 8- to 9-year-old children – a pilot studyObjective: In Western societies spiders are among the least liked of all arthropods, eliciting feelings of fear and disgust. The clinical manifestation of ...
The Importance of Prognostic Factors with Nonspecific, Low Back PainAbstract. Low back pain is frequent and in approximately 90 % of cases no specific underlying disease can be identified. A simplistic biomechanical explanatory approach leads to ...
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 ...
When fear and anxiety derail: The pathology of the human defense systemAbstract. From the perspective of Biological Psychology, fear and anxiety are emotional states that activate a defense system in the mammalian brain. This defense system regulates the ...
Psychoendocrinology of anxiety disordersAbstract. Existing literature on the etiology, symptomatology, and course of anxiety disorders shows a broad variety of concepts and empirical results. One major field of psychobiological research as fear and ...
Neural correlates of the processing of threat-relevant stimuli in phobics and healthy subjectsAbstract. The increasing use of neuroimaging techniques, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging, resulted in numerous new findings, which extended the ...
Emotion and volition in regular health behaviors: The role of anxiety and planning for dental flossingAbstract. The prediction of health behaviours can be improved by taking into account action planning as well as behavioral intentions. The degree of ...
Zusammenfassung. Obwohl Menschen das Gefühl der Angst im Alltag unangenehm ist, wenden sich viele Zuschauer/innen fiktionalen Medieninhalten zu, die gerade diese Emotion hervorrufen möchten. Probehandeln als evolvierter psychologischer Mechanismus (EPM) ...
Abstract The present study investigated the influence of contextual fear in comparison to relaxation on heart period variability (HPV), and analyzed differences in HPV between low and high anxious, nonclinical subjects. Fifty-three women participated in ...
Abnormal emotional responses to standardized emotional stimuli in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) implicate problems in emotional processing less obviously linked to traumatic experiences. However, the personal meaningfulness and association of ...
Abstract. Researchers are increasingly interested in how clinicians should screen for suicide ideation in care settings and the merits of doing so. A common finding is that screening does no harm,...
This investigation covered the disgust and fear reactivity of patients suffering from spider phobia. We analyzed event-related brain potentials and affective responses to pictures depicting spiders, as well as generally fear-inducing, disgust-inducing, ...
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 ...
Abstract. Emotional stimuli automatically capture attention in ways that are relevant to the survival value of the stimuli. We have previously shown that individual differences in resting heart rate variability (HRV) were related to attentional capture ...
The results are presented for the validation of a videotape as an analogous situation for a flight. The video includes the most significant elements of a flight by air: confirmation of the flight, packing, going to the airport, checking-in, going through ...
Abstract. Recent revisions to the reinforcement sensitivity theory (RST) of personality have highlighted the distinction between the emotions of fear and anxiety. These revisions have substantial implications for self-report measurement; in particular, ...
Predators and pathogens are powerful natural selection tools that influence the evolution of two domain-specific management systems: self-protection and disease avoidance. Both systems are activated by specific ecological conditions and protect humans ...