Browsing by Subject "Affect"
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A craniofacial-specific monosynaptic circuit enables heightened affective pain.
(Nature neuroscience, 2017-12)Humans often rank craniofacial pain as more severe than body pain. Evidence suggests that a stimulus of the same intensity induces stronger pain in the face than in the body. However, the underlying neural circuitry for ... -
Affect before Spinoza: Reformed Faith, Affectus, and Experience in Jean Calvin, John Donne, John Milton and Baruch Spinoza
(2009)Affects are not reducible to feelings or emotions. On the contrary, Affect Before Spinoza investigates the extent to which affects exceed, reconfigure and reorganize bodies and subjects. Affects are constitutive of and ... -
Autobiographical memories of anxiety-related experiences.
(Behav Res Ther, 2004-03)Ninety-nine undergraduate students retrieved three memories associated with each of the five emotional experiences: panic, trauma, worry, social anxiety, and feeling content. Subsequently, they answered 24 questions assessing ... -
Cosmetic Citizenship: Beauty, Affect and Inequality in Southeastern Brazil
(2010)This dissertation examines how perceptions of beauty in Brazil reflect both the existing social inequalities and the struggles to produce a more egalitarian society. While hegemonic discourses about beauty in Brazil foster ... -
Cruel Operators: History, Empire, and Affect in the Global Anglophone Novel
(2020)“Cruel Operators: History, Empire, and Affect in the Global Anglophone Novel,” reanimates and repoliticizes the idea of “cruel aesthetics” within contemporary literature by placing cruelty at the crux of global capitalism’s ... -
Cumulative stress in childhood is associated with blunted reward-related brain activity in adulthood.
(Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci, 2016-03)Early life stress (ELS) is strongly associated with negative outcomes in adulthood, including reduced motivation and increased negative mood. The mechanisms mediating these relations, however, are poorly understood. We examined ... -
Differential predictability of four dimensions of affect intensity.
(Cogn Emot, 2012)Individual differences in affect intensity are typically assessed with the Affect Intensity Measure (AIM). Previous factor analyses suggest that the AIM is comprised of four weakly correlated factors: Positive Affectivity, ... -
Disputes over memory ownership: What memories are disputed?
(Genes Brain Behav, 2006)The ownership of memories is sometimes disputed, particularly by twins. Examination of 77 disputed memories, 71 provided by twins, showed that most of the remembered events are negative and that the disputants appear to ... -
Effects of varenicline and cognitive bias modification on neural response to smoking-related cues: study protocol for a randomized controlled study.
(Trials, 2014-10-07)BACKGROUND: Smoking-related cues can trigger drug-seeking behaviors, and computer-based interventions that reduce cognitive biases towards such cues may be efficacious and cost-effective cessation aids. In order to optimize ... -
Hedonic Benefits of Experiential Preparation
(2007-07-24)While a vast amount of research in marketing has examined how information prior to purchase helps consumers to make purchase decisions, relatively little work has considered how marketers can increase the value consumers ... -
Investigating Cognitive/Affective/Sleep disturbance symptoms in Patients Receiving High-Dose Interleukin-2 Therapy
(2018)Patients undergoing intensive treatments for life-limiting chronic illnesses such as cancer often experience severe cognitive, affective, and sleep disturbance symptoms. Immunotherapies such as high-dose Interleukin-2 (IL-2) ... -
Learning from falling.
(Child Dev, 2006-01)Walkers fall frequently, especially during infancy. Children (15-, 21-, 27-, 33-, and 39-month-olds) and adults were tested in a novel foam pit paradigm to examine age-related changes in the relationship between falling ... -
Life scripts help to maintain autobiographical memories of highly positive, but not highly negative, events.
(Mem Cognit, 2003-01)A representative sample of 1,307 respondents between the ages of 20 and 94 was asked how old they were when they felt most afraid, most proud, most jealous, most in love, and most angry. They were also asked when they had ... -
People who expect to enter psychotherapy are prone to believing that they have forgotten memories of childhood trauma and abuse.
(Memory, 2010-07)We asked 1004 undergraduates to estimate both the probability that they would enter therapy and the probability that they experienced but could not remember incidents of potentially life-threatening childhood traumas or ... -
Sequential psychological and pharmacological therapies for comorbid and primary insomnia: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.
(Trials, 2016-03-03)BACKGROUND: Chronic insomnia is a prevalent disorder associated with significant psychosocial, health, and economic impacts. Cognitive behavioral therapies (CBTs) and benzodiazepine receptor agonist (BzRA) medications are ... -
The Politics of Imagination: Virtual Regulation and the Ethics of Affect in Japan
(2017)In the past decade, responding to the scourge of child pornography, countries around the world have passed legislation that erases the distinction between actual and virtual forms. One result is that comics, cartoons and ... -
The spatiotemporal dynamics of autobiographical memory: neural correlates of recall, emotional intensity, and reliving.
(Cereb Cortex, 2008-01)We sought to map the time course of autobiographical memory retrieval, including brain regions that mediate phenomenological experiences of reliving and emotional intensity. Participants recalled personal memories to auditory ... -
The Times We're In: Queer Feminist Criticism and the Reparative 'Turn'
(Feminist Theory, 2013)This article examines the reparative turn in current queer feminist scholarship by tracking its twin interest in the study of affect and time. By foregrounding Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's influential critique of what she called ... -
The Weight of Hope: Independent Music Production Under Authoritarianism in Egypt
(2018)This dissertation is an ethnographic study of the independent music scene in Cairo, in which music producers and cultural entrepreneurs who came of age during the 2011 revolution and 2013 counterrevolution hope to constitute ...
