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Drawing on physiological research, this study explores disclosures after sexual activity, or ‘‘pillow talk.’’ Oxytocin, better known as the ‘‘bonding hormone,’’ has been associated with physical affection and intimacy. While the hormone was originally studied for its role in childbirth, recent work has started to explore oxytocin’s other effects, such as decreasing stress, decreasing perception...

Affection games are ludic experiences in which players are required to express culturally recognized expressions of liking as a primary goal in the game. Interestingly, while the physical world of analog play has many such activities, the digital world has been relatively limited in affording players the ability to express affection as the primary game goal. Affection games in digital play exis...

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Abstract Temporal experience and its radical alteration in schizophrenia have been one of the central objects investigation phenomenological psychopathology. Various phenomenologically oriented researchers argued that change mode temporal present can foreground psychotic symptoms delusion. This paper aims to further development such a by highlighting much-neglected aspect schizophrenic experien...