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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"basic emotion"”.
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Human subjective homologues of established basic emotion correlations in lower mammals: a neuro-psychoanalytic study
… paradigm of Jaak Panksepp identifies two basic emotion systems as being centrally involved in this normal separation response, namely, PANIC/GRIEF and SEEKING, and it conceptualises the despair phase of the cascade as the normal prototype for depression. In affective terms, major …
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Interindividuální rozdíly v rozpoznávání emocí
… work deals with interindividual differences in emotion recognition, therefore it first introduces basic emotions, which is the concept used both by a number of studies and test methods looking into the ability to recognize emotions. Subsequently our attention focuses on emotion expressions, …
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Do Dilemmas on a Moral Judgment task Elicit Feeling States Known to Affect Information Processing?
The role of emotion in the process of moral decision making has become of interest in recent years (Haidt, 2001). At the same time, emotion researchers are beginning to understand that different basic emotion states (i.e., joy, anger) lead to different information processing styles (Aspinwall, …
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Metaphor and bilingual cognition : the case of Akan and English in Ghana
… in Ghana to talk about different aspects of two basic emotion concepts (ANGER and FEAR) when they speak English. On the one hand, findings from psycholinguistic research on the nature of the bilingual mental lexicon appear somehow inconclusive. On the other hand, cognitive linguistics research on …
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Emotions and the Mirror Neuron System: How far can sensorimotor simulation differentiate between dynamic emotional facial expressions?
… Despite the MNS’s growing associations with emotion processing, there are gaps in research that have yet to be explored, particularly when using sensorimotor oscillations as an index of MNS activity. This thesis aimed to reduce aspects of these knowledge gaps through three empirical studies. …
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Separation-distress as an affective mechanism of OCD
… distress (the associated feeling state of the basic emotion substrate PANIC; Panksepp, 1998) is a significant constituent of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). The aim was to characterize more accurately the affective nature of the disorder. Separation-distress and separation trauma were …
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Implicit and Explicit Emotional Responses to Light Induced Milk Oxidation and Breakfast Meals
Emotional responses, whether approach or withdrawal motivated, are fundamental factors in all food-related experiences. In this research project four experiments were completed with the goal of contributing to the growing body of research related to food and emotions. Implicit (unstated) measures …
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Emotion investigated with music of variable valence : neurophysiology and cultural influence
… harmonies, and thus possibly also of relatively basic feature extraction processes. Strikingly, it is still largely unknown how much the valence percept is dependent on physical properties of the stimulus and thus mediated by a universal perceptual mechanism, and how much it is dependent on …
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A Model of Workplace Anger Response Cycles
Anger is considered a basic emotion, evoked typically by something that interferes with the person's execution of plans or attainment of goals, as well as the perception of harm and unfair circumstances or behavior (Shaver, Schwartz, Kirson, & O'Connor, 1987). Research examining anger is largely …