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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
Should Emotions Have a Stake in Decision-Making? An Empirical Evaluation of Intuition.
(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04)
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 ...
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 ...
Effects of Music on Gait Presented Emotion Perception
(Vanderbilt University, 2016)
Research on embodied emotions suggests that our ability to simulate bodily emotions enables us to better understand others’ emotions. Music has been shown to influence emotion processing, and music therapy is effective in ...
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 ...