Understanding emotionally relevant situations in primary dental practice. 2. Reported effects of emotionally charged situations

Emotionally challenging learning situations: medical students' experiences of autopsies

Objectives: To explore medical students’ experiences of an emotionally challenging learning situation: the autopsy. Methods: Qualitative data were collected by means of written accounts from seventeen students after their first and third autopsies and a group interview with seven students after their first autopsy. Data was interpreted using inductive thematic analysis. Results: Students experi...

Sony’s Emotionally Charged Chip

While Intel and the PC industry stumble around in search of some need for the processing power they already have, Sony has been busy trying to figure out how to get more of it—lots more. The company has apparently succeeded: at the recent International Solid-State Circuits Conference (see MPR 4/19/99, p. 20), Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) and Toshiba described a multimedia processor that wi...

Emotionally charged earcons reveal affective congruency effects.

In the present study, the affective impact of earcons on stimulus classification is investigated. We show, using a picture-categorization task, that the affective connotation of earcons in major and minor mode (representing positive and negative valence, respectively) can be congruent or incongruent with response valence. Twenty participants classified pictures of animals and instruments in 256...

Rapid Facial Reactions to Emotionally Relevant Stimuli

Influence of Emotionally Charged Information on Category-Based Induction

Categories help us make predictions, or inductions, about new objects. However, we cannot always be certain that a novel object belongs to the category we are using to make predictions. In such cases, people should use multiple categories to make inductions. Past research finds that people often use only the most likely category to make inductions, even if it is not certain. In two experiments,...