Browsing Emotion by Issue Date
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(Vanderbilt University, 2007-04)Peabody College of Education & Human Development
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(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, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008-04)This study looks at the influence of social factors on the elicitation of emotion. Specifically, the study focuses on variations of anger experience as a result of different gender-dyad interactions. Participants imagined ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009)Controversy exists concerning whether emotionally valenced information facilitates or inhibits orientation of spatial attention when presented without observers' awareness. Following prior work by Jiang et al., (2006) ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-18)Through a 30 question survey, I aim to examine flow experiences as a positive emotion-inducing activity and how individuals respond to these events. The survey targets the relationship between momentary happiness and life ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2014)Narrowing in on coping and stress management aspects of trait emotional intelligence, this study aims to explore how emotional intelligence may be related to buffering, which is one’s ability to subjectively shield off ...
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(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 ...
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Understanding the Stress and Emotional Triggers of Disordered Eating Behaviors in College Students (Vanderbilt University, 2014-04-17)Research has shown a relationship between stress and emotion in those with, or who are at-risk for, eating disorders. However, more research needs to be done on how levels of stress and emotion affect eating behaviors that ...