UNLABELLED Variations in environmental aversiveness influence emotional memory processes in rats. We have previously shown that cannabinoid effects on memory are dependent on the stress level at the time of training as well as on the aversiveness of the environmental context. Here, we investigated whether the hippocampal endocannabinoid system modulates memory retrieval depending on the trainin...

Abstract Perceived financial constraints are ubiquitous, and prior research suggests that consumers who feel financially constrained especially likely to engage in compensatory consumption signal positive attributes or offset the aversiveness associated with their state. However, it is unclear whether spending confers greater happiness when constrained. Seven high-powered studies (N = 7,228) de...

OBJECTIVES This study was undertaken for two purposes: First, to provide a comparison of subjective performance and benefit measured with the Abbreviated Profile of Hearing Aid Benefit (APHAB) questionnaire for two groups. One group included hearing-impaired individuals using 1990s-era linear processing hearing aids. The other group included hearing-impaired individuals using more current wide-...

minutes before training (5), we sought to determine whether such injections of amphetamine also antagonize the effects of cycloheximide on activity. Mice were first injected with cycloheximide; 3 hours and 45 minutes later, they were injected subcutaneously with amphetamine (1 mg/kg) or saline. This interval between drug injections is the same one employed in memory studies, where amphetamine, ...

It is well established that emotions are organized around two motivational systems: the defensive and the appetitive. Individual differences are relevant factors in emotional reactions, making them more flexible and less stereotyped. There is evidence that health professionals have lower emotional reactivity when viewing scenes of situations involving pain. The objective of this study was to in...

The Situational Humour Response Questionnaire [SHRQ, Martin Lefcourt (1984) Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 47, 145–155] measures the propensity to smile and laugh in a variety of daily life situations. Since the SHRQ is regarded as a test of “sense of humour”, its validity in the field of humour appreciation was investigated. Two student samples (N = 105 and 101) from Indiana ans...