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Showing 1 to 20 of 105 for “"Affective States"”.
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Using Trait Self-Distancing to Predict Affective States
… studied as induced and spontaneously occurring states. I argue that the perspective that one takes when engaging in self-focus can be understood as a personality trait. Two studies are reported where I construct and evaluate the Self-Distancing Scale (SDS), which is a self-report measure of …
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Risk attitudes and affective states among young adults
… findings emphasise the importance of considering affective states in designing interventions to address risky behaviours among young adults, contributing to improved public health outcomes.
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The Development and Validation of a Neural Model of Affective States
… non-invasive measurement and prediction of brain states in real-time, which can be used to provide feedback to facilitate regulation of brain states (LaConte, 2011). Real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging (rt-fMRI)-guided neurofeedback, has promise as a novel therapeutic method in which …
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Surgical castration in piglets: its impacts on pain and affective states
… common husbandry procedure in the United States swine industry, with nearly 100% of males castrated. The procedure is performed primarily to prevent the occurrence of boar taint in the meat and to reduce aggression as the animals age. No research has investigated the impact of surgical …
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On Affective States in Computational Cognitive Practice through Visual and Musical Modalities
Learners' affective states correlate with learning outcomes. A key aspect of instructional design is the choice of modalities by which learners interact with instructional content. The existing literature focuses on quantifying learning outcomes without quantifying learners' affective states during …
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Children's Third-Party Punishment Behaviour: The Roles of Deterrent Motives, Affective States and Moral Domains
… for theoretical accounts of the cognitive and affective processes involved in 3PP, methodological implications for future research avenues and, potentially, practical implications for the development of intervention studies.
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Effects of Television Clips with Hedonic and Eudaimonic Tone on Viewers\' Affective States and Subsequent Program Selection
… these motivations as traits, rather than as states. Recent research has used survey methods to determine that those with hedonic motivations tend to seek out entertainment that is hedonic in nature and feel more fun affect while watching, while those with eudaimonic motivations for consuming …
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Chicken or fish? Do environmental complexity and stocking density impact affective states of broiler chickens and rainbow trout?
… anxiety and fear, resulting in negative affective states and poor animal welfare. Affective state (or emotional state) is a cumulative product of short-term life experiences, ranging from positive to negative. Because affective states are largely influenced by environmental condition, …
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Predictors of General Education Teachers' Self-Efficacy for Educating Autistic Students: Enactive Mastery Experiences, Vicarious Experiences, Verbal/Social Persuasions, and Physiological and Affective States
… included 295 K-12 teachers in several Midwestern states. Data were collected using an online survey containing a demographic questionnaire, an adapted version of the Autism Knowledge Questionnaire (AKQ), the Autism Attitudes Scale for Teachers (AAST), and the Teachers’ Self-Efficacy for Autism …
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The effects of auditor-client relationships, auditor-auditor relationships, and persuasive communication on auditor's' objectivity
Auditors are subjected to various affective states during a financial examination and these affective states influence how auditors retrieve, encode, and process audit observations and client representations. Do the affective states induced by auditors' interpersonal relationships with the client, …
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THE LANDSCAPE OF AFFECTIVE MEANING
… that have the capacity to sig- nal the speaker’s affective states, i.e., to display the speaker’s feelings with respect to a certain stimulus. For this reason, swear words are often called expressives. Which linguistic mechanisms allow swear words display affective states, and, more importantly, …
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Affective Visualization in Virtual Reality Systems
… to infer some characteristics of users’ mental states by analyzing their electrophysiological responses in real-time. However, it is unclear how to use the information extracted from electrophysiological signals to adjust the stimuli inside a virtual environment according to the user’s affective …
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Using affective computing to enhance the believability of virtual agents and the social interaction with users
… humans has fuelled extensive research efforts in affective computing, the field dedicated to developing systems that recognize and adapt to human emotions. Despite advancements in recent decades, the field continues to face challenges related to (1) responding accurately to human emotions and …
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The Influence of Job Satisfaction and Life Satisfaction on Immediate Mood States, Withdrawal Intentions, and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors
Affective states influence an individual's level of job satisfaction and life satisfaction. Affective states also influence behavior (e.g., withdrawal intentions and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors). The present study investigated the inverse relationship—that is, whether job and life …
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Top-down attentional control in affective contexts
… executive function operates within the transient affective states of everyday life, even though research suggests that such affective states may influence cognition. The present study examined top-down attentional control, one component of executive function, during three distinct affective …
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Automated posture analysis for detecting learner's affective state
… that three teachers could reliably recognize 5 affective states (high interest, interest, low interest, taking a break and boredom). Hence, a static posture recognition system that distinguishes the set of 9 postures was built. This system senses the postures using two matrices of pressure …
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College teaching preparedness : contributions of graduate student experiences
… and teaching approach, combined. Positive affective states and positive verbal experiences contributed significantly to teaching efficacy. Conceptual change/student focused approaches, for both lecture and discussion class styles, contributed significantly to teaching efficacy. Positive …
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Entrepreneurship as a Process of Self-Fulfillment: Well-Being, Affect, and Behavioral Strategies
… suggests that entrepreneurs manipulate their affective states through their behavior thus are able to keep engaged in startup despite high uncertainty about their goals and achievement levels. I analyze individual entrepreneurs' behavior, emotions, and perceptions as the uncertain future …
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Social-psychological determinants of well- and ill-being among vocational dancers: a self-determination theory approach
… need satisfaction (BPNS) and reported affective states and exhaustion were explored via structural equation modeling. In study two, changes in autonomy support and BPNS were modeled as predictors of changes in dancers’ burnout during the academic year. Multilevel modeling techniques …
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