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Showing 1 to 20 of 78 for “"positive emotion"”.
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Anticipatory Positive Emotion and Recovery from Stress
… Some research has shown that anticipatory positive emotion may aid in this process. We expanded on this topic by comparing the effects of anticipatory positive emotion on recovery from stress to those of positive emotion stemming from a past event, which has also been shown to improve …
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THE EFFECTS OF POSITIVE EMOTION ON COGNITIVE REAPPRAISAL
Both experiencing incidental positive emotion and using reappraisal strategies can help people regulate their emotions when coping with stress. Studies exploring individual differences have found strong associations between positive emotion and cognitive reappraisal success. However, the causal …
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EMOTION SUPPRESSION AND ITS IMPACT ON POSITIVE EMOTION EXPERIENCE.
… This thesis aimed to examine the impact of emotion suppression of negative material on subsequent reactivity to positive material with a group of MDD participants and healthy controls. A mixed design laboratory based experiment was used, where in the first condition participants firstly …
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The Role of Attachment in the Use of Positive Emotion Regulation After Stress
… attachment dimensions are typically successful emotion regulators, while individuals higher on the anxious or avoidance dimensions are normally poor at emotion regulation. The current study aims to test differences in the ability to use positive emotion regulation between individuals who are …
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Positive Emotion, Attentional Focus and Physical Health-Related Behaviors in the Family System
… examined the associations between high approach positive emotion (HAPE; positive emotions that occur pre-goal and motivate individuals towards approaching/acting upon that motive), attentional focus and physical health-related behaviors, including physical activity and overeating, in adolescents …
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Change in positive emotion and recovery of functional status following stroke rehabilitation in older adults
… of functional status following stroke is positive emotion. In elderly populations, positive emotion has been shown to be protective of stroke and has been associated with functional recovery following stroke. However, most studies examining the relationship between positive emotion and …
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Influences of cohort differences and positive emotion on the relationship between cognition and disability in activities of daily living among older Mexican Americans
… is a known risk factor for disability. Positive emotion is associated with improved health outcomes. Little is known regarding its ability to modify the relationship between cognition and disability. Lastly, the driving factor behind the increase in disability for newer cohorts of …
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The relevant and reliable language theory : developing a language measure of trust for online groups
… The first two empirical studies revealed that positive emotion is reliably linked to trust, that is to say that dyads and groups that produce more positive emotion words show greater trust. In addition, by priming group members to believe their group was either high or low in trustworthiness, …
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Emotion versus Motivation: Probing Dissociable Effects on Cognitive Control Through Task Performance, Pupillometry Methods, and Individual Differences
… An important question concerns the nature of emotional manipulations: i.e., direct induction of affectively valenced subjective experience) versus motivational manipulations: e.g., delivery of performance-contingent rewards and punishments) and their impact on cognitive control. Given previous …
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Two Essays on Hope and Consumer Behavior
… making. 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 …
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Make 'em laugh: humor's role in seeking science-based messages
… online experiment this project measured if positive emotion, conceptualized as feeling joy, which can be described as experiencing elation or mirth, was invoked when exposed to a humorous science-based message; whether exposure to humorous science-based messages have a direct effect on …
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Defining Affective Working Memory
… component specialized for maintaining emotions. The crux of the evidence for affective WM is the finding of differential selective interference effects on the maintenance of negative emotions compared to the maintenance of visuospatial information (Mikels & Reuter-Lorenz, in press). …
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Understanding the role of emotion in viral marketing
… yet a means to share their experiences and emotion with others. This study aims to answer why Internet users in South Africa share content online and to better understand the role of emotion in viral marketing. There are three main objectives of this study: to determine what encourages …
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The role of resilience in individual innovation
… despite growing evidence of the value of many positive psychological characteristics in organisational behaviour, the role of resilience in individual innovation has received little attention in the literature. This thesis describes two studies of this issue. First, current perspectives and …
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Investigating emotion and reward processing using an associative matching task
… a unique preference for stimuli with an emotional or rewarding connotation, compared to stimuli with no emotional or rewarding connotation. Known as a prioritisation effect, this phenomenon leads to enhanced memory, attention, reaction time and accurate responses to emotional and …
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Emotion Regulation and Borderline Personality Features
Despite evidence showing that emotion dysregulation is a key feature of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), it remains unclear how the process of emotion regulation is disrupted in this population. This thesis makes an original contribution to knowledge by exploring how emotion regulation is …
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Electrophysiological, observed, and subjective emotional responses to infant vocalizations: the role of adult attachment
… electrophysiological, behavioral, and subjective emotional responding to infant distress and non-distress vocalizations. Results revealed that narrative-based adult attachment—as measured by the Attachment Script Assessment—was consistently associated with responding to infant distress. …
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Effects of Motion on Infants' Negativity Bias in Emotion Perception
… more to, and responding to more negative emotion information from the environment than positive emotion information. This study used a Tobii© T60 eye-tracking system to examine differences in 8- to 12-month-old infants' latencies to disengage from a centrally-presented face for three …
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Children's organization and development of emotion: attachment relationships, perceptual asymmetry, and executive functioning
… perceptual asymmetry in the processing of emotion, and executive functioning (EF) on their recognition of different emotions, emotion expression, and social initiations among peers. A total of 65 three to five year-old children (37 girls, 28 boys) completed attachment story-stem doll plays, …
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The Promise and the Peril of Equipping Service Chatbots with Emotions and Choices
… chatbots with some important features such as emotional capabilities and choice provision. My dissertation not only investigates how customers respond to chatbots with emotional capabilities and choice-equipped chatbots during a service interaction, but also explores why and when these critical …
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