Browsing by Subject "Emotions"
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-04-12)Laughter is a unique sound--one that most of us produce many times each day. Despite laughter's seeming ubiquity, though, we really do not know much about this vocalization's psychological function(s) or details about its ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2018)In an effort to mitigate the potentially catastrophic effects of human consumption on the environment, many researchers are driven to understand the mechanisms underlying sustained engagement in pro-environmental behavior ...
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(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2012)Judges get angry. Law, however, is of two minds as to whether they should; more importantly, it is of two minds as to whether judges’ anger should influence their behavior and decision making. On the one hand, anger is the ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-08)The object of this study was to test individual differentiation between the emotions Hope and Challenge/Determination in terms of motivational, cognitive, and behavioral components. The former emotion requires a more ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009)Controversy exists concerning whether emotionally valenced information facilitates or inhibits orientation of spatial attention when presented without observers' awareness. Following prior work by Jiang et al., (2006) ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2021-04-07)There is limited research on how parents respond to their children’s emotions, both positive and negative, and how the type of emotion and internal processes of the parent are linked to their responses. The current study ...
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(University of Illinois Law Review, 1999)Legal scholars have developed two dominant theories of litigation behavior: the Economic Theory of Suit and Settlement,which is based on expected utility theory, and the Framing Theory of Litigation, which is based on ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04)The Emotional Blink of Attention paradigm reveals a significant relationship between emotion and attention. In the current study, we tested the effects of a forward and backward Emotional Blink of Attention (EBA) on ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-24)There has been limited research regarding the differences in motivational urges, action tendencies and enacted behaviors on a cross-cultural basis. To study this, we administered an online questionnaire, composed of two ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2016)Research on embodied emotions suggests that our ability to simulate bodily emotions enables us to better understand others’ emotions. Music has been shown to influence emotion processing, and music therapy is effective in ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2012-03-29)Successful, efficacious, and reliable mood induction procedures are an important part of emotion research. Film clips have already been shown to reliably induce discrete negative emotional states, as well as general positive ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04-04)Although the emotion of fear has been central to traditional conceptualizations of the development and treatment of anxiety disorders, recent research suggests that the emotion of disgust may also play an important role ...
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(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2009)In Gonzales v. Carhart the Supreme Court invoked post-abortion regret to justify a ban on a particular abortion procedure. The Court was proudly folk-psychological, representing its observations about women's emotional ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2007-04-06)This study looked at the positive emotions of gratitude, pride, and happiness. Sixty-three Vanderbilt University undergraduate participants were randomly assigned to one of three conditions assessing their appraisals, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011)Psychopathy has been shown to be associated with deficits in recognizing and processing emotion. We used a face recognition task in which 86 participants screened in the Vanderbilt emergency room viewed faces of men and ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-12)There is currently a significant amount of research being conducted to pinpoint differences between men and women and they way they think, emote, and experience life. While the current literature has uncovered significant ...
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(Marquette Law Review, 2004)The theory of principled or problem-solving negotiation assumes that negotiators are able to identify their interests (or what they really want) in a negotiation. Recent research on effective forecasting calls this assumption ...
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(2009-04-09)Department: Electrical EngineeringReal-time search techniques have been used extensively in the areas of task planning and decision making. In order to be effective, however, these techniques require task-specific domain knowledge in the form of heuristic ...