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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Affect perception"”.
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Neuropsychological effects of anxiety without depression on facial affect perception
… where anxious subjects' reaction times to affective valences were slower than nonanxious subjects. Additionally, anxious subjects failed to demonstrate a negative affective bias for neutral stimuli. Results are discussed in terms of arousal theory, where anxious subjects may be considered …
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Cerebral asymmetry in facial affect perception of women: neuropsychological effects of depression
Forty right-handed women, half who had been classified as depressed, the other half nondepressed, participated in a tachistoscopic study of the influence of depression on the cerebral hemispheric processing of Ekman and Friesen’s (1976) happy, sad, and neutral emotional faces. A dynamometer was …
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The neurobehavioral correlates of affect perception as a function of verbal fluency classification
… for a word (bower, dower, power, or tower) or affective tone (happy, sad, angry, or neutral). The most important findings of this study were the main effects of fluency (higher, middle, and lower), stimulus type (word and affect), and focus or intention (focus left and focus right). Subjects …
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The effects of hostility and arousal on facial affect perception: a test of a neuropsychological model of hostility
… has historically been a heavily researched affective construct. The purpose of this experiment was to test hypotheses derived from a neuropsychological model of hostility utilizing two common research paradigms from the extant literatures on hostility's cognitive and physiological …
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Continual Learning for Affective Robotics
… need to actively participate in the human ‘affective loop’, sensing and interpreting human socio-emotional behaviours while also learning to respond in a manner that fosters their social and emotional wellbeing. Embedding affective robots with learning mechanisms that enable such a robust …
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SECONDARY THREE EXPRESS STUDENTS' PERCEPTION OF LITERATURE
… to examine the .factors that influence students' perception of Literature in English in the hope that the insights provided will enable teachers and others, e.g., administrators, parents, and students themselves, to be better able to take measures to nurture a more positive perception. Three …
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Functional cerebral asymmetry: a test of the selective activational model
… imagery (Experiment 1) and subvocal rehearsal of affective words (Experiment 2). Reaction time performance in the visual field contralateral to the activated hemisphere was hypothesized to improve. No evidence supporting this hypothesis was found in these experiments, though experimental tasks had …
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Sorry states : apologies in international politics
… theory about the role of intentions in threat perception between states, as well as to policy debates about the role of contrition in peace building. The apology theory posits that a state's "policies of remembrance" affect perception of its intentions in the eyes of other states, and thus …
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What's odd? Cognitive processing of social contexts based on autistic traits within the general population
… of ASD-like traits in the general population can affect perception of social contexts (Baron-Cohen et al., 2001; Bayliss & Tipper, 2006; Ruzich et al., 2015). ASD-like traits were measured by the Autism Quotient (AQ; Baron-Cohen et al., 2001). Participants completed a visual/social oddity task …
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The effects of carbohydrate supplementation on mood states of bodybuilders consuming a low energy diet
… low energy, low carbohydrate diet may negatively affect mood states. Further research suggests that carbohydrate consumption can positively affect mood states. This study evaluated two main ideas: (1) does the consumption of a carbohydrate supplement affect mood states during weight training bouts …
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De la escucha atenta a la escucha visual. Aproximación teórica a los modelos de percepción de la música
… how of listening are found in the analysis of perception from the phenomenological approach, in social and cultural history, in sound studies, in musicology and ethnomusicology, anthropology, in the history of technology, cultural studies, philosophy and even in political history. One of the …
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A Study of Student and Faculty Perceptions of the Religious Environment of Andrews University in Relation to Religiosity
<p>Problem. A report of the perceptions of the environment of an institution can be useful inassessing the effectiveness of that institution. This study assessed student and faculty perceptions of the religious environment of Andrews University, a Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) school.</p> <p>Method. …
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A qualitative study of relationship building between alternative high school students and their teachers
… and feelings between a teacher and student that affect perception, understanding, and value between teachers and students. Areas explored in this study include understanding how teachers in an alternative high school build positive relationships with students who had previously experienced little …
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Developing an Affect-Aware Rear-Projected Robotic Agent
… the development of a low-cost, flexible, affect-aware rear-projected robotic agent (called <em>ExpressionBot</em>), that is designed to support verbal and non-verbal communication between the robot and humans, with the goal of closely modeling the dynamics of natural face-to-face …