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Personal Cognition and the Affect Regulation Process: Affect Reactivity, Affect Regulation Ability, and Responses to Cognitive Errors.
… tendencies and a number of personality and affective: i.e. emotional) traits. While several mechanisms have been suggested to explain these links, the exact reasons for the observed effects remain unclear in a number of circumstances. The current research examines the potential underlying …
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Affect and Critique: Negative Dialectics and Massumi's Politics of Affect
<p>Brian Massumi's concept of affect offers a model of change that relies on sensory-affective modes of resistance to neoliberal power relations. Influenced by Bergson's concepts of time and space, Massumi develops an account of perception as the capacity to entrain with ontological, affective …
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Enriching Word Representation Learning for Affect Detection and Affect-Aware Recommendations
The role of detecting affects from text is to detect affective states such as mood, sentiment and emotions from textual data. The main affective tasks, including sentiment analysis, emotion classification and sarcasm detection have been popular in recent years due to a broad range of relevant …
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Exposure frequency and affect
… to examine the hypothesis that attitudinal affect is a monotonic function of frequency of exposure. In the first experiment while supporting the frequency-affect relationship a non significant difference between males and females and positive and negative set conditions were obtained. In the …
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The theatre of affect
… abilities. In this state, the capacity for affect -emotional response - is believed to be atrophied, and experience nullified. Such a condition - which may be loosely termed 'mind/body split' - results in a diminished ability to relate to other people, a sense of alienation from the world, …
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Extraversion and Positive Affect
… relation between extraversion and positive affect is a cross-cultural universal, and how cultural dimensions (individualism versus collectivism, and power distance) influence the size of the extraversion-happiness relation. It was found that the relation between extraversion and pleasant …
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Mental Health Consequences of Unemployment: Mental Health, Somatic Symptoms, Depressive Affect and Positive Affect
… This follows for somatic symptoms, depressed affect and positive affect, but the source driving the effects differs between factors and with the CESD-10 as well. We found that those who are NEA suffer to a greater extent in positive affect than in the other two factors relative to the …
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How Beliefs Affect Relationship Formation
Past research has investigated racial implicit biases in the context of short-term relationships, such as strangers. However, implicit biases have not been studied in the context of longer-term relationships. The present study explores ways in which implicit biases may impact integral aspects of …
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Does birth order affect intelligence?
<p>The purpose of this exploratory investigation was to determine whether birth order has an effect on intelligence. Seventy-four undergraduate students from Rowan University participated in my study. During class-time, I handed out a questionnaire with questions pertaining to the student's birth …
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Towards the Affect of Intimacy
… encroaching on our everyday activities and even affecting our moral decision-making processes. As genuine upgrades of our practical space, they are destined to play a larger formative role in people’s lives in the future. Following Heidegger in Das Ding (Heidegger 1951), Latour once framed the …
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Psychological biases affect hedonic ratings
… a multidimensional attribute tended to be more affected by the contrast effects than a simpler attribute. Several scales have been used for assessing the degree of food liking/disliking. This study provided a good practice protocol, suggesting use of a regular scale length (100 mm.) for …
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Affect in *Text and Speech
… into three parts for large-scale exploration of affect in texts (specifically tales). Besides covering annotation and data set description, the chapter includes a hierarchical affect model and a qualitative-interpretive examination suggesting characteristics of a subset of the data marked by high …
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How affect influences judgement processes
That mood affects judgment has been well documented, but exactly how mood affects judgment is still unclear. Two experiments help to clarify the influence of mood on judgment processes. In the first, subjects' likelihood judgments are shown to be influenced by mood, such that there is an …
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Developing affect-aware robot tutors
… However, these methods do not draw on the affective signals that good human teachers use to assess knowledge, such as indications of discomfort, engagement, or frustration. This thesis aims to make understanding affect a central component of a knowledge assessment system, validated on a …
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Does income distribution affect innovation?
… test the hypothesis that income distribution affects innovation. The econometric results suggest that countries with more equal income distribution spend more on innovative activity, produce more innovative outputs, and are more productive in producing innovations than those with less equal …
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Brief Affect Recognition Thresholds: A Systematic Evaluation of The Japanese and Caucasian Brief Affect Recognition Test
… benefits. The Japanese and Caucasian Brief Affect Recognition Task (JACBART) has been proposed as the standardized measure of affect recognition capabilities with micro-expression durations (i.e., facial expressions lasting less than 500 ms). In this paradigm target expressions of emotion …
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Downers: Crip Affect and Radical Relationalities
Taking up prior formulations of crip affect, I explore the positionality of the downer as one whose body complicates global economies of social and political encounter. Engaging with neoliberal formulations of embodiment and the co-constitutive forces of heteronormativity and compulsory …
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Affect, Literature and the Medical Encounter
… in the amelioration of the illness experience. Affect theory, especially as described by Massumi, Stern, Sointu, Damasio and Frank, employs the concepts of "the virtual", embodiment, and "vitality" in examining the dynamics, and enhanced potential for healing, of the clinical consultation. Seen …
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The Association of Diet with Affect
… or deleterious for cardiovascular disease affect mood. The purpose of this study was to examine associations between consumption of foods typical of Mediterranean and Western diets and fatty acids with positive and negative affect.</p> <p>Adventist church attendees residing in North America …
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Stressors that Affect Psychotherapists' Therapeutic Functioning
<p><em>Problem.</em> The purpose of this study was to look at the stressors psychotherapists experience in their work to determine those that are positive and those that are negative. In addition, this study looked at stressors viewed as positive and negative by several subgroups of …
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