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Aging is associated with positive responding to neutral information but reduced recovery from negative information
Studies on aging and emotion suggest an increase in reported positive affect, a processing bias of positive over negative information, as well as increasingly adaptive regulation in response to negative events with advancing age. These findings imply that older individuals evaluate information differently, resulting in lowered reactivity to, and/or faster recovery from, negative information, while maintaining more positive responding to positive information. We examined this hypothesis in an ongoing study on Midlife in the US (MIDUS II) where emotional reactivity and recovery were assessed in a large number of respondents (N = 159) from a wide age range (36–84 years). We recorded eye-blink startle magnitudes and corrugator activity during and after the presentation of positive, neutral and negative pictures. The most robust age effect was found in response to neutral stimuli, where increasing age is associated with a decreased corrugator and eyeblink startle response to neutral stimuli. These data suggest that an age-related positivity effect does not essentially alter the response to emotion-laden information, but is reflected in a more positive interpretation of affectively ambiguous information. Furthermore, older women showed reduced corrugator recovery from negative pictures relative to the younger women and men, suggesting that an age-related prioritization of well-being is not necessarily reflected in adaptive regulation of negative affect
Effects of exercise on brain and peripheral inflammatory biomarkers induced by total sleep deprivation in rats
Linking psychological need experiences to daily and recurring dreams
The satisfaction of individuals’ psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness, as conceived from a self-determination theory perspective, is said to be conducive to personal growth and well-being. What has been unexamined is whether psychological need-based experiences, either their satisfaction or frustration, manifests in people’s self-reported dream themes as well as their emotional interpretation of their dreams. A cross-sectional study (N = 200; M age = 21.09) focusing on individuals’ recurrent dreams and a three-day diary study (N = 110; M age = 25.09) focusing on daily dreams indicated that individuals experiencing psychological need frustration, either more enduringly or on a day-to-day basis, reported more negative dream themes and interpreted their dreams more negatively. The contribution of psychological need satisfaction was more modest, although it related to more positive interpretation of dreams. The discussion focuses on the role of dreams in the processing and integration of psychological need-frustrating experiences
The effect of dissonant persuasive communications upon changes in a self-referring attitude1
Eugenics Incarceration and Expulsion: Daniel G. and Andrew T.’s Deportation from 1928 Toronto, Canada
The effects of an appraisal manipulation: Affect, intrusive cognitions, and performance for two cognitive tasks
Actually in the cinema: A field study comparing real 3D and 2D movie patrons' attention, emotion and film satisfaction
While 3D movies and fantasy film genre
rise in popularity, the empirical exploration of viewers' cognitive and
emotional engagement with film is currently limited and entirely derived from
laboratory based studies of small samples. This study investigated the effect
of stereoscopic realism (3D effect) on viewers' attention, emotion and satisfaction
by collecting data from 225 cinema patrons who were leaving the movie theatre
having just viewed Thor. The viewers
from the 3D condition rated their experience as more perceptually realistic and
reported being less distracted during the film than their 2D counterparts. Yet
no significant group differences were observed in self-reported emotional
arousal or satisfaction with the whole experience. Further analysis revealed
that perceptual realism was a better predictor of viewer satisfaction than
emotional arousal. We consider the idea that these findings may be a function
of the fantasy genre and call for researchers to extend this line of study.Update Emabargo date when publication date is known - OR 21/10/2013SB. 18/11/2013