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The Significance of Gender, Context, and Contingent Self-Esteem on Feelings of Schadenfreude
(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-13)
Schadenfreude, which loosely translates to "taking pleasure in the misery of others," has been found in previous research to result from situations in which an individual of the same sex as the subject is to blame for ...
Eliciting Seven Discrete Positive Emotions Using Film Stimuli
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-03-29)
Successful, efficacious, and reliable mood induction procedures are an important part of emotion research. Film clips have already been shown to reliably induce discrete negative emotional states, as well as general positive ...
Sex Differences in Positive Emotions within Appraisal Theory
(Vanderbilt University, 2013-04-29)
The psychological study of positive emotions is a relatively new and underdeveloped area
of inquiry. This study examines sex differences in the understanding, experience, and expression of positive emotions. Our participants ...
Positive Emotions’ Effect on Buffering and Creativity: An Experimental Design
(Vanderbilt University, 2013-04-07)
Extending beyond the Undoing Hypothesis and the Broaden-and-Build theory, this experimental
design tested whether participants induced with a positive emotion would respond less, using
self-report measures, to a mild ...
A Multilevel Logistic Regression Analysis on the Likelihood of Overeating and Unplanned Eating
(Vanderbilt University, 2017-04)
This paper analyzed three models of emotional eating: the restraint disinhibition model, the affect-regulation model, and the externality model (Herman and Polivy, 1975; Haedt-Matt & Keel, 2011; Schachter, 1968). Emotional ...
Relations Among Positive Emotions, Appraisals, the Big Five, and Appraisal Style
(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-20)
The associations among positive emotions and different personality factors may hold a key to understanding individual differences in emotional experience. The present research sought to examine individual differences by ...
Emotion regulation of fear and disgust: Implications for anxiety disorders
(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04-04)
Although the emotion of fear has been central to traditional conceptualizations of the development and treatment of anxiety disorders, recent research suggests that the emotion of disgust may also play an important role ...
Social Anxiety as a Moderator in the Relationship between Social Emotional Fluency and Eye Gaze
(Vanderbilt University, 2015-04)
Emotional intelligence and interpersonal sensitivity have been identified as key individual-difference abilities that are important for optimal social functioning. Social emotional fluency (SEF) is proposed as a behavioral ...
The Buffering Effects of Positive Emotions Against Stress
(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-06)
Priming Emotion-Eliciting Appraisals through Music
(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04)
Appraisal theory claims that emotions are elicited as a result of a meaning analysis in which a person evaluates the implications of his or her circumstances for his or her personal well-being. This study tests the process ...