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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"emotional arousal"”.
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The relationship between hand-nearness, emotional arousal, and visual processing
… the same as those that occur when an observer is emotionally aroused. In the present dissertation, three experiments examined whether hand-nearness and emotional arousal affect visual processing through a shared cognitive mechanism. More specifically, it was proposed that hand-nearness activates …
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Dyslexic Hearts: Links between Couples' Interpersonal Sensitivity, Emotional Arousal, Situational Intentions and Emotional Expression
… (whether it is positive or negative) of the emotional arousal of the sender and the perceiver are linked in meaningful ways with changes in IPS over the interaction. Momentary changes in intentions to facilitate conversation and to control emotional arousal covaried significantly with IPS as …
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The effects of racially-motivated emotional arousal on the eating behaviors of african american women
… procedural precedence for future restrained or emotional eating, racial microaggressions, or social ostracism studies. Results from this study also suggest several useful implications for obesity treatment and prevention programs.</p>
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A machine learning approach to predict emotional arousal and aggressive driving from EDA and heart rate signals
… aims to predict aggressive driving behavior and emotional arousal using physiological signals, Electrodermal Activity (EDA) and Heart Rate (HR), collected via the Empatica E4 wristband in real-world driving conditions. A total of 25 drivers participated in this study. From the collected …
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Behavioural, Pharmacological, and Immunohistochemical Investigation of 50 kHz USVs as an Expression of Positive Emotional Arousal in the Long Evans Rat
… thought to effectively represent an underlying emotional state within the organism manifested at the behavioural level. The main goal of my thesis was to characterize, at multiple levels of analysis, the 50 kHz USVs of the adult rat as an overtly expressed form of positive emotional arousal. In …
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Examining Autobiographical Memory Specificity, Expressed Emotional Arousal and Client Experiencing in Emotion - Focused and Client - Centered Treatments of Depression: A Process - Outcome Analysis
… relationship between higher levels of expressed emotional arousal and more specific memory narratives existed in clients who demonstrated positive therapeutic outcome (Boritz, Angus, Monette, Hollis-Walker & Warwar, 2011). The purpose of the present study was to extend the research of Boritz et …
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An investigation into stuttering development: a longitudinal approach
… daily information regarding the four greatest emotional events and associated emotional arousal and speech disfluency. Conversational samples of speech were collected on weekly visits to the clinic, which were transcribed and coded for speech disfluencies. It was hypothesized that emotional …
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Career decision learning experiences : development and validation of a scale
… learning, mastery experiences, negative emotional arousal, and positive emotional arousal). Positive emotional arousal is the author’s innovation, based on Fredrickson’s (2001) Broaden and Build Theory of Positive Emotion, which posits that positive emotion contributes uniquely to …
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The influence of arousal on visuocortical processing in humans
… to moment, with one process being states of arousal. For example, driving on a freeway, our vision is likely quite different when we are drowsy compared to when we are alert. While animal studies have found arousal states to substantially modulate visual responses, our understanding of its …
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Emotional responses to environmental messages: Implications for future environmentally responsible behavioral intentions
… (message modality and message valence) and emotional arousal (positive and negative) in predicting environmentally responsible behavioral intentions. Using an experimental protocol designed to induce emotions in the laboratory, I measured specific emotional responses to gains-framed and …
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Effects of a brief mindfulness induction : an event-related potential study.
… impact a brief mindfulness induction had on the emotional arousal of individuals with insecure attachments. Participants were prescreened to determine their attachment style (i.e., anxiously or avoidantly attached) prior to coming to the lab for data collection. Once in the lab, participants …
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The brain-wave information detection (BID) system: A new paradigm for psychophysiological detection of information
… of the physiological concomitants of emotional arousal. This new paradigm measures the brain-wave manifestations of information-processing brain activity."
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Alexithymia subscales have distinct roles in both the variability of arousal ratings and in associations with anxiety and psychological inflexibility
… is a subclinical cluster of deficits in emotional processing prevalent across a wide variety of clinical populations. One alexithymia component, difficulty identifying feelings (DIF), appears the most related to both distress and treatability. Unfortunately, effects of alexithymia on …
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The germs inside me: Pediatric patients' conceptualization of illness and regulation of emotions during hospitalization
… and application of adaptive strategies to modify emotional arousal, as significant predictors of successful adjustment to a medical environment. Preexisting research has neglected to investigate the constructs of illness conceptualization and regulatory systems of emotions. Using a sample of 26 …
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The Effect of Peer Presence on Risk Taking Behavior Among Late Adolescents
… explored a potential mechanism of said effect, emotional arousal. Given the salience of peers in the social context of adolescents’ lives, it is not surprising that peer influences are a common lens through which risk-taking behaviors are investigated. Research from experimentally based …
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Memory for Positive, Negative, and Comparison Ads: Studying Semantic Associations Between Candidates and Issues Using EEG
… studies frequently conflate intended and actual emotional responses, which may account for inconsistent empirical results. This dissertation proposes that Negative Ads and Comparison Ads should lead to greater Memory relative to Positive Ads, according to the negativity bias (Hypothesis 1 and 2, …
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The Effect of Mindfulness on Adolescent Self-compassion, Self-regulation, and Stress: Exploring the Association Between Individual Factors and Markers of Well-being
… changes were not found in physiological arousal, emotional arousal, intrusive thoughts, or long-term self-regulation. Adolescent females experienced greater increases in their self-compassion in comparison to adolescent males. Ninth grade students experienced greater increases in their …
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The Measure of Emotion During an Attention Demanding Task and Mindfulness Biofeedback for Improved Selective Attention
… orienting phases provided an active measure of emotional arousal throughout the MOT phases and a selective attention test was conducted pre and post (Cambridge Brain Science [CBS]). Results: Significant effects of MB were evident through higher selective attention scores. As predicted, EDA …
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Defining the Components of Academic Self-Efficacy in Navajo American Indian High School Students
… past success, modeling, verbal persuasion, and emotional arousal. Information about grade point averages (GPA) and standardized achievement tests (IOWA Tests of Educational Development) were obtained for a sample of American Indian Students (N = 118) as a measure of past success. Three …
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