The current study examined how manipulating information about whether emotions are fixed or malleable influences the extent to which individuals engage in different emotion regulation strategies. We hypothesized that fixed, compared to malleable, emotion beliefs would produce less effort invested in emotion regulation. Participants were randomly assigned to experimental conditions emphasizing t...

OBJECTIVES To assess the feasibility and acceptability of a mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR)-based intervention and determine if the intervention is associated with a significant signal on empathy and emotional competencies. DESIGN Two pre-post proof-of-concept studies. SETTING Participants were recruited at the University of Montreal's Psychology Department (Study 1) and the CHU S...

introduction: research shows that there is a relationship between students’ perceptions of classroom and learning environment and their cognitive, affective, emotional and behavioral outcomes, so, in this study the relationship between medical students’ perception of learning environment and academic emotions was examined. methods: the research method used was descriptive-correlative. the stati...

Extensive researches in other disciplines have documented emotions as a substantial aspect of human thoughts and behaviors. In our field, two types of emotions have been analyzed as antecedents of IT use: system specific emotions and general IT emotions. No study in our field focuses on system-unrelated emotions. In addition, most studies focused on the impact of emotions on the continued use o...

While emotional difficulties are highly implicated in borderline personality disorder (BPD), the dynamic relationships between emotions and BPD symptoms that occur in everyday life are unknown. The current paper examined the function of negative emotions as they relate to BPD symptoms in real time. Experience sampling methodology with 281 participants measured negative emotions and borderline s...

In an effort to extend the current literature on “fat talk,” a 2 (Target’s Self-Presentation Style: Fat Talk or Self-Acceptance) x 2 (Target’s Relative Weight Status: Thinner Than Participant or Heavier Than Participant) between-groups experiment was conducted. A sample of 142 women read one of four online scenarios describing a hypothetical shopping trip, and then gave feedback about their res...

Purpose – This paper aims to study the influence of emotions on security behaviour by reviewing Information Systems Security (ISS) topics in Information Systems (IS) literature. Researchers in ISS study how tomotivate people to adhere to security policies; theymainly focus on cognitive models such as the technology acceptance model (Davis, 1985), innovation diffusion theory (Brancheau and Wethe...