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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Emotion Theory"”.
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The light in the darkness: an assessment of the retributive urge
… this thesis I examine in detail the retributive emotions, or the retributive urge, which typically precede retributive punishment. The four main chapters are dedicated to individual issues regarding the retributive urge: its genealogy, its schematic structure, its rationality, and its moral …
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Multivariate Discrimination of Emotion-Specific Autonomic Nervous System Activity
… patterning during experimentally manipulated emotion. Film clips previously shown to induce amusement, anger, contentment, disgust, fear, and sadness, in addition to a neutral control, were presented to 34 college-aged subjects while electrodermal activity, blood pressure and electrocardiogram …
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Effects of anthropogenic change on animal cognition and emotion
… However, the effects on animal cognition and emotion are less studied. In this thesis, I argue that anthropogenic change impacts animals’ mental states, with implications for both individuals (welfare) and populations (conservation). My first experiment explores the transition from keeping …
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Stress fractures : loss and emotion in the recent Irish cinema
… last fifteen years treat the representation of emotion; specifically, the ways the films represent and engage with the emotions associated with loss. The dissertation begins with a review of the contemporary critical perspectives on the recent Irish cinema, and of the pertinent critical debates …
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The Parenting Styles Self-Test: Reliability and construct validity.
… over the last decade, Gottman developed meta-emotion theory (Gottman, Katz, & Hooven, 1997). Meta-emotion refers to one's thoughts and feelings about emotion. The meta-emotion construct is intended to capture parents' fundamental attitude toward emotion in themselves and their children. In …
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INVESTIGATIONS ON COGNITIVE COMPUTATION AND COMPUTATIONAL COGNITION
… have focused on modelling concepts inspired by emotion theory. A model of emotional interaction between artificial agents, based on probabilistic finite state automata, is presented: in this model, agents have personalities and attitudes that can change through the course of interaction (e.g. by …
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An exploration of the emotional network in donation activity in local crisis scenarios
… the interdependent relationship between emotional transmission and donation networks in localised natural disaster contexts. As the frequency and severity of disasters increase globally, including bushfires and floods in Australia, donations have become pivotal to short-term relief and …
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Understanding the role of emotion in viral marketing
… yet a means to share their experiences and emotion with others. This study aims to answer why Internet users in South Africa share content online and to better understand the role of emotion in viral marketing. There are three main objectives of this study: to determine what encourages …
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The Interplay between Interoceptive and Cognitive Components in Alexithymia
… psychiatric construct indicating impaired emotional awareness. Its main features are (i) difficulties in identifying feelings and distinguishing them from bodily sensations, (ii) difficulties describing feelings to others, (iii) an externally oriented style of thinking, and (iv) a poor …
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Implications of Tailoring Emotional Expression within an Expressive Writing Paradigm
… uses the theoretical perspective that both emotion and emotional processing theories could greatly enhance feedback messages given in a linguistic writing paradigm. The measurement of emotional expression is briefly reviewed along with the basic expressive writing paradigm, outcome of this …