The endowment effect is the finding that minimum selling prices for a particular good exceed maximum buying prices. We build on and extend previous research showing that emotions influence the endowment effect, and reveal that the two negatively valenced decision-related emotions, regret and disappointment, have distinct effects on the valuation of an object. We found that an induction of regre...

Very few studies in humans have quantified the effect obtained after direct electrical stimulation of the amygdala, in terms of both emotional and physiological responses. We tested patients with drug-resistant partial epilepsies who were explored with intracerebral electrodes in the setting of presurgical evaluation. We assessed the effects of direct electric stimulations in either the right o...

Psychological theories of emotion have often defined an as simultaneous changes in several mental and bodily components. In addition, appraisal assume that component elicits the other components (e.g., motivational, behavioural, experiential). Neither componential definition nor theory been systematically translated to paradigms for induction, many which rely on passive induction without a clea...

Nowadays, consumers’ well-being plays a decisive role in the purchase of cosmetic products. Although factors influencing are very subjective, companies strive to develop their products such way that positive effect is likely. Therefore, methods required objectively explore and scientifically prove product’s performance on humans. In this placebo-controlled study, method was developed evaluate r...

Emotion is assumed to change how people process information by modulating attentional focus. Two recent studies (Spachtholz et al., 2014; Xie & Zhang, 2016) reported that self-reported negative emotion boosted the precision with which was stored in visual working memory. Here we attempted and failed replicate these findings across seven conducted four countries. induced presenting emotional ima...

aim and background: the aim of the present study was to develop a short form of the persian version of the cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire (cerq-p-short) and to examine its reliability and validity. methods and materials: the cerq-p was administrated to 420 (220 male and 200 female) iranian university students in 2009-2010 academic year. following stepwise omission of the items with ...

Introduction: Converging evidence suggests that both emotional and cognitive processes are critically involved in moral judgment, and may be mediated by discrete parts of the prefrontal cortex. The current study aimed at investigating the mediatory effect of right Frontopolar Cortex (rFPC) on the way that emotions affect moral judgments.  Methods: Six adult patients affected by rFPC and 10 hea...

This study examined the effect of matching musical emotion and mood listener on working memory free recall in normal aging. Memory measures were taken at baseline healthy young older participants, and, following a happy or sad induction, again after exposure to both mood-matching -mismatching music counterbalanced repeated design. Compared baseline, [i] was greater than mood-mismatching groups,...

background: a great deal of attention has been given to the study of learning disorders. hence, the aim of this research was to study the effect of emotion regulation training in decreasing emotion failures and self-injurious behaviors among students suffering from specific learning disorder. methods: this was an experimental study with the pre-test, post-test and a control group. research popu...