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Understanding the Stress and Emotional Triggers of Disordered Eating Behaviors in College Students
(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04-17)
Research has shown a relationship between stress and emotion in those with, or who are at-risk for, eating disorders. However, more research needs to be done on how levels of stress and emotion affect eating behaviors that ...
Social Brains, Social Bodies: Investigating the Role of Personality in Embodied Emotion
(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-07)
Accurate emotion perception is essential for adaptive social functioning. Abnormal emotion perception and associated social impairments are core features of neuropsychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia and autism. ...
Priming Emotion-Eliciting Appraisals through Music
(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04)
Appraisal theory claims that emotions are elicited as a result of a meaning analysis in which a person evaluates the implications of his or her circumstances for his or her personal well-being. This study tests the process ...
Frowning Makes it Seem Harder
(Vanderbilt University, 2007-04)
Peabody College of Education & Human Development
Appraisal in Positive Emotion: Differentiation Between Hope and Challenge/Determination
(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 ...
Sex differences in the experience of anger and anger-related emotions
(Vanderbilt University, 2008-04)
This study looks at the influence of social factors on the elicitation of emotion. Specifically, the study focuses on variations of anger experience as a result of different gender-dyad interactions. Participants imagined ...
Social Support and Gratitude: Assessing Divergence through Writing
(Vanderbilt University, 2018)
Although two types of emotional writing have been previously studied, there is no research that examines writing about social support. Yet the hypothesized mechanisms that drive benefits of gratitude journaling and expressive ...
Embodied Trauma: The Relationship Between Interoception and Emotional Experience
(Vanderbilt University, 2024-04)
While post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can manifest as a variety of different symptom profiles, many cases of the disorder involve interoceptive difficulties. The goal of this study was to further investigate the ...