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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"affective response"”.
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Emotional engagement and orienting: the effects of picture size on affective response
… of dangers and appetitive cues. The Orienting Response (OR) is a fundamental response pattern that an organism executes whenever a novel or significant stimulus is detected, and has been shown to be consistently modulated by the affective value of a stimulus. However, detecting threatening …
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Understanding affective response to food using facial electromyography: a preliminary look at individual differences
Understanding consumer responses to food can aid the success of newly developed food products. Consumer responses can take many forms, with traditional consumer affective testing typically capturing self-reported hedonic liking of food products. Research has highlighted the importance of …
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Emotion and attention in the psychopath : an investigation of affective response and facilitated attention using event related potentials.
A prominent concern in psychopathy research is a deficit in processing emotionally relevant information, which may occur in the very early neural processing stages of stimulus evaluation. While contemporary functional imaging techniques like fMRI have unparalleled spatial resolution, their poor …
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Application of Automated Facial Expression Analysis and Facial Action Coding System to Assess Affective Response to Consumer Products
… testing but often does not capture affectual response as it pertains to product-generated (PG) and product-associated (PA) emotions. This research sought to assess the application of PA and PG emotion methodology to better understand consumer experiences. A systematic review of the existing …
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Street fight video exposure, affective response, racial judgments, and criminal sentencing recommendations: A study on non-fictional and non-news mediated violence
… bias model (MAAB-M) to investigate the affective and cognitive effects of interracial SFV exposure. MAAB-M aims to contribute to media researchers’ theoretical and practical approach to investigating intergroup conflict media across varying contexts. MAAB-M predicts viewers’ affective …
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Memory Bias in the Use of Accounting Information: An Examination of Affective Responses and Retrieval of Information in Accounting Decision Making
… the variable conditions under which a positive affective response (i.e., a decision or opinion that results in a positive valence) on previously viewed accounting information may and may not influence current decision-making. An affective response to accounting numbers may adversely influence …
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Breast self-examination: A test of Deci's theory of self-determination
… BSE performance from age, socioeconomic status, affective response to BSE, cognitive appraisal, social support, and intrinsic motivation. The variables of competence in BSE, affective response to BSE, and age explained 68% of the variance. Stepwise multiple regression was performed to examine the …
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Students' revision practices and attitudes in response to surface-related feedback as compared to content-related feedback on their writing
… mechanics or surface features. The academic and affective responses of 10th and 11th grade students toward the two kinds of feedback (content-related and surface-related) were assessed using a between-subjects design. For examination of students' affective response, each student's gender and …
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Purveying affect: Canadian newspaper coverage of the Diana Spencer and Karla Homolka chronologies
… use they have been constructed to prompt affective response in readers. Key categories of longstanding press mechanisms to purvey affect are scrutinized within the material: creating a sense of intimacy with the news protagonist; sexualizing story content; and depicting the content as …
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Re-imagining pedagogy in higher education: facilitating epistemic access and student success
… institutions. Recent scholarship indicates that affective factors, such as emotion and the awareness and stimulation of engagement, assist students in establishing a sense of connection with each other and the higher education institution and are important factors in their success. Situated …
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COMPARISON OF TWO BODY WEIGHT SCREENINGS OF SELF-CONSCIOUS EMOTIONS AND COPING
… is not much research to examine the emotional responses to such screenings.</p> <p>PURPOSE: To examine the group differences between the FIT3D and DXA protocol on emotional responses and the differences between weight classifications.</p> <p>METHODS: The Body and Appearance-related …
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Women, anger, and cardiovascular reactivity to interpersonal conflict
The present study examined differences in affective response and cardiovascular reactivity (CVR) in 42 women who were exposed to one of two harassment protocols; (i) Self-Harass, where participants were themselves harassed during a math task, (ii) Friend-Harass, where participants observed the …
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Coworker reactions to a partner with a physical disability
… models (kindness, social desirability, response amplification, reversed responses) were tested; none of these was supported. Contrary to findings of previous research, predicted affective response to disability was not found; rather, the findings support the notion of disability having a …
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Does that Sound Smell Good? An Experimental Investigation into the use of Verbal Smell References and Cooking Sounds in Radio Advertisements
… linkages between human senses and emotions and affective responses to marketing stimuli (e.g. Peck and Wiggins, 2006). However, there is presently a dearth of research addressing how advertising can creatively draw upon consumers' senses to elicit the desired responses by stakeholders (e.g. …
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Quality of experience: a discussion on experiential access to outdoor environments
… (a) wayfinding and making sense, and (b) affective response. The specific factors in the environment that influenced the quality of experience for these participants, other than those that contribute to making sense, were found to include: (a) interaction with nature, (b) awareness of …
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Cognitive reactivity: Evidence of a regulatory mechanism that compensates for dysphoric mood and mediates depression vulnerability
This study examined the cognitive operations and responses implicated in depression vulnerability to assess whether a depressive episode can be predicted. It involved 332 never depressed (ND), formerly depressed (FD)> and currently depressed (CD) women undergoing a major life transition (motherhood …
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Passive versus active exercise: An examination of affective change
In the examination of affective responses to acute aerobic exercise, researchers have plodded over the appropriate control condition to use in comparison with aerobic exercise, as a true placebo has eluded the field. This has resulted in a variety of conditions constituting “control” in the …
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Individual Differences in Behavioural and Physiological Responses to Affective Touch
… traits relate to behavioural and physiological responses to affective touch. Over the last few decades the functionality of C-Tactile afferents (CTs) have been investigated, with researchers positing that CTs function to signal the rewarding value of social tactile interactions. Here, by …
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Developing a theory of the emotional impact of auditory hallucinations: an exploratory study
… are presented on the behavioural, cognitive and affective responses to persistent voices of thirty participants with psychoses. After testing the reliability of their interview, data is then compared to that of the Chadwick and Birchwood (1994) sample. In addition, the research aimed to develop …
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