Abstract Expertise provides numerous benefits. Experts process information more efficiently, remember better, and often make better decisions. Consumers pursue expertise in domains they love chase experiences that them feel something. Yet, might becoming an expert carry a cost for these very feelings? Across than 700,000 consumers 6 million observations, developing hedonic domain predicts emoti...

The hippocampus and caudate nucleus are anatomical components of relatively independent memory systems and recent research has focused on the nature of the interaction between these two systems. The amygdala exerts a general modulatory influence on memory storage processes related, in part, to an organism's level of affective or emotional arousal. Moreover, affective state can influence the use...

This paper examines existing research on the impact of terrorism on expatriate coping strategies. We consider pre-assignment fear of terrorism, in-country coping strategies, and anxiety and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) associated with repatriation. The extant research is small but growing. Our model for expatriate coping at the pre-departure, in-country, and repatriation stages includes...

Based on attachment theory, Emotionally Focused Th erapy (EFT) theorizes that attachment styles infl uence marital quality. Although research supports this relationship among young couples, no research has examined attachment styles and marital quality in midlife marriages. We examined this issue using data from 429 married people between the ages of 40 and 50. Results indicated that insecure a...

Copyright is held by the author/owner(s). Proceedings of TVUX-2013: Workshop on Exploring and Enhancing the User Experience for TV at ACM CHI 2013, 27 April 2013, Paris, France. Abstract In this paper, we foresee a TV set which is aware of viewers emotions and its environment. This idea goes beyond personalization by taking into account the time and location dependent factors. We argue that not...

This study addresses the matter of reflexive control of the emotional states by means of Reflexive Game Theory (RGT). It is shown how to build a bridge between RGT and emotions. For this purpose the Pleasure-Arousal-Dominance (PAD) model is adopted. The major advantages of RGT are its ability to predict human behavior and unfold the entire spectra of reflexion in the human mind. On the other ha...

In New YorkCity from 1971 to 1975, only 1.6 per cent of all police firearms discharges involved the class of people police have since come to call emo tionally disturbed persons (EDPs). Still, because po lice were comparatively unrestrained in those years, the number of such incidents was quite large: 46, or better than 9 per year.1 In theyears since then, police shootings have declined dramati...

Our primary objective was to investigate whether HEXACO personality profiles predict different coping strategies during the first wave of COVID?19 pandemic. We chose a person-centered approach as it enabled visibility personal structures differentiating between adaptive and maladaptive in nonclinical sample. Latent profile analysis identified three distinct profiles, each complemented by its sp...