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Causes of Interference: Working Memory and Distraction
(Vanderbilt University, 2011-02-06)
Working memory accounts for various types of cognitive processing, including object and spatial processing. Distraction has been demonstrated to be domain-specific with the strongest interference coming from a distractor ...
Emotion regulation of fear and disgust: Implications for anxiety disorders
(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 ...
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. ...
Blinking our Attention Backwards: The Dual-Direction Emotional Blink of Attention
(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 ...
Effect of Discrete Emotions on Eyewitness Memory and Helping Behavior
(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 ...
Relation of Depressive Symptoms to Mood-Congruent Memorial Bias in Young Children: A Longitudinal Study
(Vanderbilt University, 2007-04)
The current study examines whether children show evidence of adult-like depressive cognitive schemas and when such schemas emerge. Mood-congruent cognitive schemas have been strongly associated with adult depression (Ingram, ...
Refining a Measure of Appraisal Style
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-05)
The following study addresses creating a new, more efficient measure for evaluating appraisal styles, specifically emotion-focused, or accommodative-focused, coping potential and problem-focused coping potential. The ...