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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"facial affect"”.
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Neuropsychological effects of anxiety without depression on facial affect perception
… where anxious subjects' reaction times to affective valences were slower than nonanxious subjects. Additionally, anxious subjects failed to demonstrate a negative affective bias for neutral stimuli. Results are discussed in terms of arousal theory, where anxious subjects may be considered …
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Cerebral asymmetry in facial affect perception of women: neuropsychological effects of depression
Forty right-handed women, half who had been classified as depressed, the other half nondepressed, participated in a tachistoscopic study of the influence of depression on the cerebral hemispheric processing of Ekman and Friesen’s (1976) happy, sad, and neutral emotional faces. A dynamometer was …
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Facial Affect Recognition and Interpretation in Adolescents At Risk for Developing Bipolar Disorder
… risk for developing bipolar disorder (BPD) have facial affect processing deficits as well as to examine the relationship between affect processing and family environment. Participants with a family history of bipolar disorder with (AR + BPD) and without (AR) the disorder themselves were compared …
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Effects of preschoolers' gender and prosocial behavior on their abilities to decode and encode facial affect
… gender on their abilities to decode and encode facial expressions. Four hypotheses were addressed in this study. The first hypothesis predicted a positive correlation between decoding abilities and pro social behavior of preschool-level children. The second hypothesis made a similar prediction, …
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Trauma, PTSD, and the processing of emotional information: The utility of examining facial affect recognition and emotional context
… method of examining emotional processing, facial affect recognition. In Study 1, I created a new stimulus set of facial expressions and contextual backgrounds, the Contextual Recognition of Affect Faces Task (CRAFT), in which participants view faces displaying different facial expressions …
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The effects of hostility and arousal on facial affect perception: a test of a neuropsychological model of hostility
… has historically been a heavily researched affective construct. The purpose of this experiment was to test hypotheses derived from a neuropsychological model of hostility utilizing two common research paradigms from the extant literatures on hostility's cognitive and physiological …
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Social-Emotional Processing and Bullying Behaviour
… While the relation between poorer empathy and facial affect recognition and aggressive behaviour is well documented, few studies have examined these individual characteristics and bullying behaviour. Moreover, research to date presents conflicting results, making it difficult to form …
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Can the empathic underpinning of counselling psychologists detect gelotophobic responses to expressions of joy above non-counselling psychologists and psychology others?
… laughter meaning expressions of joy negatively affect interpersonal interactions and could be a barrier to positive outcomes in therapy. This study investigated participants’ perceptions of gelotophobes and non-gelotophobes responding to expressions of joy and examined whether the empathic …
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Young infants' attention and emotional responses to dynamic and static bimodal displays of affect
… was designed to elucidate the function of adult facial and vocal behavior for infant perception and expression of affect. Nine infants were studied longitudinally at 2 months and at 3 1/2 months using a dynamic visual display that consisted of a videotape of a woman moving her face while …
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Assessing the co-occurrence of psychological well-being in the intimate relationships of ex-services personnel in Northern Ireland
… in emotional processing, specifically in facial affect recognition. The questionnaire data was analysed primarily through dyadic Actor-Partner-Interdependence-Models. The eye tracking study used the Facial Affect Recognition Task and the Contextual Recognition of Affect Faces Task, in …
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Electrophysiological indices of the violence inhibition mechanism and their associations with physical agression, callous-unemotional traits, and dietary omega-3
… traits, is used to explain how the perception of facial distress might inhibit an ongoing aggressive act. Despite a sizeable literature characterising the violence inhibition mechanism, to date, empirical research has overlooked this investigation on an electrophysiological level. This thesis …
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Attention-deficit / hyperactivity disorder and parent-child affective congruence in middle childhood
… cognition differences (i.e., differences in facial affect categorization) and long-term detrimental social outcomes (i.e., difficulties with employment) among those with the disorder relative to those without it. However, few studies have examined differences in social behavior between people …
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ERP and Theta Activity Associated with Facial Emotion Memory
<p>Facial emotion recognition is an important component of daily functioning and is highly connected to the social element of human interaction. At present, it is not clear whether initial stimulus encoding or memory maintenance of the face promotes accurate facial emotion memory. The purpose of …
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Automatic Behavioral Analysis from Faces and Applications to Risk Marker Quantification for Autism
… including a method for pose-invariant facial expression recognition, a self-contained mobile application for behavioral analysis, and a framework to calibrate a trained deep model with data synthesis and augmentation. First we focus on pose-invariant facial expression recognition. It is …
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Right hemisphere decline in the perception of emotion as a function of aging
… aging process was tested in two studies using a facial recognition and a response time task. In Study 1, subjects (N=60) were asked to identify facial affect fram 50 standardized photographs of 5 affective categories: Happy, Neutral, Sad, Angry, and Fearful, and were asked to rate the intensity …
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Interactivity and authenticity in AI-augmented videos
… Inspired by the dramatic differences in visual affect between newscasters from 1969 and 2017, I then design and implement a new computer vision algorithm that allows the viewer to modify the facial affect of a person in the video they are watching using a generative adversarial network. …
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Facial responses to facial expressions of emotion in dangerous and severe personality disorder
When people view facial expressions of emotion they tend to mimic or mirror the expression. According to Leventhal's perceptual-motor theory of emotion, this response occurs when innate central motor programmes are activated. There is evidence that individuals with psychopathic traits have impaired …
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Neurophysiologische Korrelate der Verarbeitung von Gesichtern und emotionalen Gesichtsausdrücken bei Gesunden und Patienten mit schizophrenen Erkrankungen
Ausgangspunkt für diese Arbeit war die Diskrepanz zwischen der vielfach belegten Schwierigkeit schizophrener Patienten bei der Dekodierung emotionaler Gesichtsausdrücke und dem mangelhaften Wissen über die hierfür verantwortlichen Prozesse. In der Literatur der letzten Jahre gab es einige viel …
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Immediate effects of a relaxation treatment upon subject perception of facial expression of emotion
… treatment had upon the subject's perception of facial expression of emotion with state anxiety held constant. Specifically, this study attempted to compare subjects who received a 25-minute taped recorded relaxation treatment with subjects who did not receive the relaxation treatment and …
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