The neuropeptide 'oxytocin' (OT) is known to play a pivotal role in a variety of complex social behaviors by promoting a prosocial attitude and interpersonal bonding. One mechanism by which OT is hypothesized to promote prosocial behavior is by enhancing the processing of socially relevant information from the environment. With the present study, we explored to what extent OT can alter the 'rea...

Abstract Disgust represents an undesired state that signals the presence of threats in external environment, leading to a change needs and motivations aimed at coping with threats. The present research aims studying effects disgust consumer setting, proposing once disgusted consumers show immediate avoidance for familiar (vs. unfamiliar) brands. However, this avoidant reaction is followed by op...

Traffic includes people, cars and the environment, people are subjective changeable. When driver’s psychology or behavior changes, possibility of accident will increase. Emotion is a major factor affecting psychological physiological changes drivers. Anxiety generally considered to be one emotions that easy cause traffic accidents. For this, this paper collects counts driving data through desig...

setup of an emotion recognition or emotional speech recognition system is directly related to how emotion changes the speech features. in this research, the influence of emotion on the anger and happiness was evaluated and the results were compared with the neutral speech. so the pitch frequency and the first three formant frequencies were used. the experimental results showed that there are lo...

Emotional stimuli often attract attention, but at what cost to the processing of other stimuli? Given the potential costs, to what degree can people override emotion-based attentional biases? In Experiment 1, participants searched for a single target within a rapid serial visual presentation of pictures; an irrelevant, emotionally negative or neutral picture preceded the target by either two or...

The expression of emotion is determined by emotion and the presence and absence of others, i.e. social context. The present study examined social context differences in facial muscle activity and self-reported emotion of 11 major depressed and 11 non-depressed patients. Subjects were asked to imagine happy and sad situations with and without visualizing other people. Facial muscle activity over...

Introduction The present study addressed the variation of emotion regulation in the context of functional neurological symptom disorder (FNSD) by examining changes of functional neurological symptoms (FNS), general psychological strain, alexithymia, emotion regulation strategies, and cortical correlates of emotion regulation in the context of a standard inpatient treatment program. Methods an...

CONTEXT Social anxiety disorder is thought to involve emotional hyperreactivity, cognitive distortions, and ineffective emotion regulation. While the neural bases of emotional reactivity to social stimuli have been described, the neural bases of emotional reactivity and cognitive regulation during social and physical threat, and their relationship to social anxiety symptom severity, have yet to...

Emotion regulation plays a crucial role in adaptive functioning and mounting evidence suggests that some emotion regulation strategies are often more effective than others. However, little attention has been paid to the different ways emotions can be generated: from the 'bottom-up' (in response to inherently emotional perceptual properties of the stimulus) or 'top-down' (in response to cognitiv...