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A Multilevel Logistic Regression Analysis on the Likelihood of Overeating and Unplanned Eating
(Vanderbilt University, 2017-04)
This paper analyzed three models of emotional eating: the restraint disinhibition model, the affect-regulation model, and the externality model (Herman and Polivy, 1975; Haedt-Matt & Keel, 2011; Schachter, 1968). Emotional ...
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 ...
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 ...
Affect as a Model of Pro-Environmental Spillover
(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 ...
The acoustics of children's laughter
(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 ...
Facial Emotion Recognition and Processing in Fearless Dominance and Impulsive Antisociality
(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 ...
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 ...
Positive Emotions’ Effect on Buffering and Creativity: An Experimental Design
(Vanderbilt University, 2013-04-07)
Extending beyond the Undoing Hypothesis and the Broaden-and-Build theory, this experimental
design tested whether participants induced with a positive emotion would respond less, using
self-report measures, to a mild ...
Attentional Effects of Processing Emotional Faces Using Continuous Flash Suppression
(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) ...
Sex Differences in Positive Emotions within Appraisal Theory
(Vanderbilt University, 2013-04-29)
The psychological study of positive emotions is a relatively new and underdeveloped area
of inquiry. This study examines sex differences in the understanding, experience, and expression of positive emotions. Our participants ...