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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"emotion research"”.
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Emotion in English as an additional language oral communication: Vietnamese English language teachers and students
In applied linguistics, the scope of emotion research has broadened from the simple linear cause and effect paradigm of anxiety to multiple facets of emotions and their interaction with various aspects of language learning. Along with this development, the social dimension of emotions is currently …
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The importance of perceived utility of emotion
To date, the vast majority of emotion research has been devoted to the role of felt affect. In contrast, relatively little is known regarding the role of other, potentially important emotion constructs (commonly referred to as “meta-emotion”). The present research examined the perceived utility of …
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ANXIETY AND INITIAL VALUE DEPENDENCY IN STARTLE HABITUATION
… of biological reactivity have proven useful in emotion research, but the correlation between change statistics and initial value makes interpretation complicated. The present studies explore how trait anxiety (TA) and contextual anxiety (CA) relate to habituation kinetics of the startle eyeblink …
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On urban fear: privilege, symbolic violence, topophobia: the everyday experiences of middle-class women in Secunda, South Africa
… of planners) and meaning (infused through emotions, identities and power relations) of space are explored. I dispute the bias against emotion-based research that exists within planning, arguing that this has debilitating consequences for transformation. I suggest the use of intersecting …
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Two Essays on Hope and Consumer Behavior
… While hope is a commonly experienced positive emotion, research on the impact of hope on consumer decision making is relatively sparse. The first essay examines the impact of hope on gambling intentions. Findings from seven studies, including one consequential, demonstrate that in a gambling …
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Þá varð hlátr mikill: On the role of laughter in Old Norse saga literature
The field of emotion research is vast and continuously growing, and laughter might be the most prominent and contagious of all emotions we experience. Even though the word ‘laughter’ can be found in a plethora of study titles, the reader is frequently left disappointed as the focus is most often …
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How Capable Does That Make You Feel? Appraisal Dimensions of Emotion and Health Behavior Judgments
… a central construct utilized in health behavior research, existing studies generally overlook the influence of affect (as mood states or specific emotions) on self-efficacy judgments. Those that have examined affect have focused on the influence of positive or negative valence on self-efficacy …
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Kinderliteratur und der Blick von Kindern in die Zukunft
… Unsicherheiten kann die zukunftsgerichtete Emotion Hoffnung eine unterstützende Rolle spielen. Denn Hoffnung stärkt persönliche Ressourcen und fördert einen konstruktiven Umgang mit Herausforderungen. Daher wird Hoffnung seit einigen Jahren verstärkt erforscht. Die emotionale Komponente von …
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An investigation into the emotion-cognition interaction and sub-clinical anxiety
… approaches in the study of the emotion-cognition interaction and sub-clinical anxiety. The research questions addressed in this thesis concern, specifically: the impact of emotion on attention; the interplay between attention and emotion in anxiety;and the cognitive construct of …