Browsing by Subject "emotion"
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(Vanderbilt University, 2014)Previous research has shown that stuttering, a potentially life-altering developmental disorder with typical onset during the preschool years, is linked in severity to temperamental and situational emotionality. Thirty-three ...
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(2023-04-19)Department: PsychologyThe association between physiological and emotional responses over time, often termed concordance, has been theorized decades, yet empirical evidence has been mixed. The assessment of underlying biological mechanisms and ...
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(2016-11-09)Department: Hearing and Speech SciencesPurpose: The purpose of the current study was to investigate cortical associates of emotional reactivity and emotion regulation (as indexed by the amplitude of evoked response potentials [ERP]) in young children who do ...
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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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(2004-03-26)Department: PsychologyThe prevalence of childhood overweight/obesity in the United States is increasing at alarming rates and these rates vary between ethnicities. It was hypothesized that using an ecological model, childhood predictors leading ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-15)Many studies have shown that how we are feeling effects what we remember. However, few have addressed how specific, discrete emotions (happiness, fear, disgust, etc.) effect memory. This project examined the effect of ...
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(2009-07-10)Department: PhilosophyThis project examines the role that emotions can and should play in morality and moral theory. A philosophical study of emotion inevitably leads to an discussion of the evaluation of emotion, which is a topic covered both ...
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(2023-10-03)Department: PsychologyHumans relate to their spatial environment according to their interpretation of physiological signals (e.g., hunger, temperature, gastrointestinal symptoms). Therefore, changes inside the body operate to serve ‘one’s ...
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(Onati Socio-Legal Series, 2019)This special issue of Oñati Socio-Legal Series, titled Judging, Emotion and Emotion Work, is the result of presentations and discussions during an interdisciplinary workshop at the International Institute for the Sociology ...
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(2014-04-09)Department: NeuroscienceThe emotional attentional blink (EAB), also known as emotion-induced blindness, refers to a phenomenon in which the brief appearance of a task-irrelevant, emotionally arousing image captures attention to such an extent ...
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(2011-12-10)Department: PsychologyThe orbitofrontal cortex has been speculated to play an important role in the processes that allow emotional factors to influence decision-making. In recent neuroimaging studies, orbitofrontal activity patterns have been ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-22)Using prosodic, facial, and musical stimuli, this study probed the extent of emotion recognition deficits in schizophrenic patients. Difficulties in the perception of emotional material have been well documented in the ...
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(2009-01-20)Department: Electrical EngineeringRecent advances in robotics and intelligent systems are expected to usher in a new era where the need for machines to “understand” humans becomes increasingly important. It should permit more meaningful and natural ...
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(2012-07-30)Department: PsychologyThe startle blink reflex (SBR) is a well-validated measure of defensive emotional processing, particularly in picture viewing paradigms. Its magnitude is facilitated within 50 ms of picture onset, followed by an overall ...
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(2023-03-29)Department: ReligionW. E. B. Du Bois claimed that the unasked question posed to Black people in the early 20th century was “how does it feel to be a problem?” This 21st century dissertation inverts Du Bois’ question, asking, “how does ‘the ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-20)The associations among positive emotions and different personality factors may hold a key to understanding individual differences in emotional experience. The present research sought to examine individual differences by ...
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(2008-05-01)Department: ManagementThis project is concerned with the process by which individuals consume and process reputational information, and how reputations inform decisions to engage in trusting behavior, especially in online market contexts. In ...
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(2021-06-02)Department: ReligionThis dissertation argues that affect is a critical element of worship. One of the reasons people go to church or go to one church instead of another is because of how worship makes them feel. The subjective nature of feeling ...
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(2020-04-03)Department: Psychology“Social-emotional expertise” (SEE) is a construct that describes individual differences in the ease and adaptability of navigating social situations. Variability in SEE has implications for both the ability to manage ...
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(2023-03-23)Department: ReligionThis dissertation is a multidisciplinary theological critique of whiteness. The project models a critical theological analysis grounded in a mixed-methods study of white Christian discourse about race between May 2020 and ...