Background: The main objective of this study is the Predictive role of personality traits with mediation of affective control in conjunction with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (ABS) among the students of Bushehr University of Medical Sciences (2013-2014) Materials and Methods: This research is co relational studies with sample size of 384 (252 females and 132 males) who were selected by stratified r...

Recent neural network models for the production of primate vocalizations are largely based on research in nonhuman primates. These models seem yet not fully capable of explaining the neural network dynamics especially underlying different types of human vocalizations. Unlike animal vocalizations, human affective vocalizations might involve higher levels of vocal control and monitoring demands, ...

Evidence that structured physical activity can help to regulate affective state has spurred interest in identifying associations between unstructured physical activity and affective states during daily life. The present study examined whether stressful daily life situations that elicit affective arousal also elicit increased physical activity in the form of restless movement. The study compared...

Previous studies have shown that depressed individuals have difficulty directing attention away from negative distractors, a phenomenon known as affective interference. However, findings are mixed regarding the neural mechanisms and network dynamics of affective interference. The present study addressed these issues by comparing neural activation during emotion-word and color-word Stroop tasks ...

We analyse control functions of affective states in relatively simple agents in a variety of environments and test the analysis in various simulation experiments in competitive multi-agent environments. The results show that simple affective states (like “hunger”) can be effective in agent control and are likely to evolve in certain competitive environments. This illustrates the methodology of ...

  Background: Trait anger is associated with numerous physiological and psychological problems and is a social health problem. The current study aimed to evaluate the socio-demographic and nutritional determinants of trait anger in young males. Methods: In the current study, 150 young males aged between 14-44 years were randomly selected. General information was obtained and anthropometric ass...

Positive (PA) and negative affect (NA) are two separate systems markers of subjective well-being and measures of the state depression (low PA combined with high NA). The present study investigated differences in temperament, character, locus of control, and depressive symptoms (sleep quality, stress, and lack of energy) between affective profiles in an adolescent sample. Participants (N = 304) ...

OBJECTIVE This study was designed to determine whether affective inhibition and somatosensory amplification are elevated in patients with a history of myofascial face pain (MFP). These processes may underlie a tendency to express distress in somatic rather than affective terms, leading to somatized or masked depression. DESIGN Women (n = 162) with a history of MFP were compared with demograph...