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Should Emotions Have a Stake in Decision-Making? An Empirical Evaluation of Intuition.
(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04)
Exploring the Positive Emotions of Gratitude, Pride, and Happiness
(Vanderbilt University, 2007-04-06)
This study looked at the positive emotions of gratitude, pride, and happiness. Sixty-three Vanderbilt University undergraduate participants were randomly assigned to one of three conditions assessing their appraisals, ...
Gender Differences in Dispositional Attributes, Psychological Adjustments, and Appraisals
(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-12)
There is currently a significant amount of research being conducted to pinpoint differences between men and women and they way they think, emote, and experience life. While the current literature has uncovered significant ...
Differences in the Motivational Urges and Enacted Behaviors of Guilt and Shame: A Study on Individualism and Collectivism
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-24)
There has been limited research regarding the differences in motivational urges, action tendencies and enacted behaviors on a cross-cultural basis. To study this, we administered an online questionnaire, composed of two ...
Blinking our Attention Backwards: The Dual-Direction Emotional Blink of Attention
(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04)
The Emotional Blink of Attention paradigm reveals a significant relationship between emotion and attention. In the current study, we tested the effects of a forward and backward Emotional Blink of Attention (EBA) on ...
Laughter and Amusement’s Buffering Effect on Stress: An Experimental Design
(Vanderbilt University, 2015-04-14)
There is currently a significant amount of hype surrounding laughter and its effects, but there is a lot less excitement concerning the positive emotion that tends to compel laughter: amusement. The purpose of the current ...
Facial Emotion Recognition and Processing in Fearless Dominance and Impulsive Antisociality
(Vanderbilt University, 2011)
Psychopathy has been shown to be associated with deficits in recognizing and processing emotion. We used a face recognition task in which 86 participants screened in the Vanderbilt emergency room viewed faces of men and ...
Appraisal in Positive Emotion: Differentiation Between Hope and Challenge/Determination
(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-08)
The object of this study was to test individual differentiation between the emotions Hope and Challenge/Determination in terms of motivational, cognitive, and behavioral components. The former emotion requires a more ...
The acoustics of children's laughter
(Vanderbilt University, 2009-04-12)
Laughter is a unique sound--one that most of us produce many times each day. Despite laughter's seeming ubiquity, though, we really do not know much about this vocalization's psychological function(s) or details about its ...
Perception of Affective Musical Elements and the Relation to Delusions in Schizophrenia
(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-22)
Using prosodic, facial, and musical stimuli, this study probed the extent of emotion recognition deficits in schizophrenic patients. Difficulties in the perception of emotional material have been well documented in the ...