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Showing 1 to 20 of 118 for “"affective responses"”.
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Misforecasting Positive Affective Responses to Prosocial Behavior
… forecasted and experienced affect is called affective misforecasting. Across five studies, the present research examines the impact of affective misforecasting on prosocial behavior. More specifically, this research shows that with </p> <p> general everyday helping behaviors, consumers …
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Crowdsourcing affective responses for predicting media effectiveness
… this thesis I present several studies measuring responses to advertising. Facial expressions, heart rate, respiration rate and heart rate variability can inform us about the emotional valence, arousal and engagement of a person. In this thesis I demonstrate how automatically-detected naturalistic …
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Affective responses to environmental influences in immature rats
<p>The purpose of the present investigation is to add to the growing body of knowledge about the behavioral development of rats. It is an enlargement of a study by Roberts (1966) who investigated the effects of quantitative reward shifts on the behavior of immature rats. Roberts' experiment was in …
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Measuring Affective Responses to Different Types of Nature Exposure
… or mountainous scenes, as well as self-reported affective and associative responses to those environmental exposures are possible explanations for the experience of wellbeing when one is exposed to nature. Measures included the Nature Relatedness Scale, State Vitality Scale, Positive and Negative …
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Affective Responses to Task Characteristics: The Role of Organizational Function
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-13T18:21:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7606753.pdf: 6286117 bytes, checksum: cb312261106842c303ecdb9d2aae837f (MD5) Previous issue date: 1975
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Effects of Embodiment on Perceptual and Affective Responses to Infant Crying
Three experiments were conducted to investigate how changes in bodily states might be related to perceptions of infant vocalizations. In Study 1, participants were asked to hold a pencil between their lips, mimicking a smile, while listening to infant crying. Although there were no embodied effects …
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Predicting Self-Reported Affective Responses to Exercise: An Examination of Individual Differences
… personality dimensions predicting post-exercise affective responses. Limited support was also available for the two models of regional brain activity. For the models of regional brain activity, many of the results were in the opposite direction of what was hypothesized by the models. As a whole, …
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Analyzing Affective Responses to Virtual Spaces Using Physiological Sensors and Verbal Descriptions
… wearable sensors to collect and analyze human responses, especially emotions, when experiencing virtual spaces. It tests if the collected data can be used to predict users’ emotional responses to a spatial design in VR and to help architects design in a more informed and data-driven way. To …
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Experimentally-induced success and failure in bulimic and nonbulimic women: cognitive and affective responses
… additionally, the second study included affective variables. ln Study I, 569 students were screened with questionnaires. Based on correspondence of questionnaire items to DSM-III criteria, 20 bulimic women were selected, along with 20 matching, nonbulimic women as a control group. These …
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A Dose -Response Investigation of Patterns and Correlates of Affective Responses to Acute Exercise: The Dual -Mode Hypothesis
"Affective responses to single bouts of exercise are likely to influence the long-term adherence to exercise programs. It is, therefore, important from a public health perspective to understand the factors that influence these affective responses. One factor that has received relatively little …
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Fast-food consumption: application and extension of the theory of planned behaviour to incorporate affective responses and implicit associations.
… variables included for examination were affective responses to fast food, individual differences in sensitivity to reward, and the extent to which both consideration of the future consequences of frequent fast-food consumption and fear of being negatively evaluated are influential on …
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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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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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The role of aging and emotion in processing health-related framed messages
… Recent evidence has suggested that different affective responses with framing may contribute to these effects. However, the underlying mechanisms of how an effect is evoked, and how affective responses can interact with the cognitive processing of framed messages, especially as a function of …
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An Examination of Administrative Positions in Physical Education and Sport Using the Job Characteristics Model
… These psychological states can lead to positive affective responses: satisfaction, internal work motivation, and growth satisfaction. The relationships between the core dimension, psychological states, and affective responses are moderated by individual differences in growth need strength and …
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The influence of affect on product evaluations and search behavior: an integration of affect and the economics of information
… processors. Consumer’s feeling states, or affective responses, are viewed as beneficial to consumers in that they provide information for the decision-making process. Two separate studies, based on two divergent perspectives, were conducted to investigate consumers’ feeling states. An …
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The effects of low-to-moderate intensity aerobic exercise on cognition and affect
… effects on cognition and result in positive affective responses. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of acute low-to-moderate intensity aerobic exercise on behavioral measures of cognition (i.e., attentional inhibition, working memory) and affective states (i.e., state …
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Variability in the Affective Exercise Experience of Low-active Women: Exploring the Role of Cognitive Appraisal During Exercise
… in recent years has been the exploration of affective responses to acute exercise. However, there has been little research into the affective experiences of habitually low-active women during exercise and the mechanisms that govern these responses. This is surprising given the current high …
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