ackground: Anticipation is a critical component of affective processing in general and for anxiety in particular. Prior research uggests that the right insula plays an important role in anticipation of affective processing during aversive images. This study aimed o test the hypothesis that individuals with increased anxiety-related temperamental traits (anxiety-prone [AP]) relative to nxiety-no...

CONTEXT Women undergoing treatment for breast cancer often have psychological morbidity and body image difficulties. The risk factors for increased levels of stigma in women with breast cancer have not been adequately studied. AIMS This study aimed at investigating the associations of high levels of stigma in women with breast cancer. SETTINGS AND DESIGN This cross-sectional study was condu...

Selective attention plays a fundamental role in emotion regulation. To date, research has examined individuals' use of selective attention to regulate emotional responses during stimulus presentation. In the present study, we examined whether selective attention can be used to regulate emotional responses during a poststimulus period when representations are active within working memory (WM). O...

In one of the Father Brown short-stories, G.K. Chesterton described the (fictitious) French detective Aristide Valentin by writing that ‘‘(h)e was not ‘a thinking machine’; for that is a brainless phrase of modern fatalism and materialism. A machine only is a machine because it cannot think.’’ Although this aphorism dates from 1911, long before the notion of a thinking machine became popular, i...

Many studies have modeled several different concepts to explain destination loyalty; however, none integrated place-oriented (e.g., image, place attachment) and people-oriented cultural distance, social emotional solidarity) for their relative influences on loyalty. The current study tested the influence of image (place-oriented) perceived distances (people-oriented) as antecedents attachment s...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities can help an organization to build a favorable reputation; such thereby serve as buffer in times of crisis. However, research also suggests that these backfire and reinforce the reputational damage caused by crisis because they lead elevated expectations among stakeholders. Drawing on prior buffering effects, this study examines possible moderatin...

Stimuli that resemble humans, but are not perfectly human-like, are disliked compared to distinctly human and non-human stimuli. Accounts of this "Uncanny Valley" effect often focus on how changes in human resemblance can evoke different emotional responses. We present an alternate account based on the novel hypothesis that the Uncanny Valley is not directly related to 'human-likeness' per se, ...

An analysis of fear imagery in behavior therapy is developed from the combined perspectives of information processing theory and psychophysiology. Recent thought on imagery processing and storage is considered, and it is argued that affective images are best viewed as propositional structures rather than as iconic or holistic sensory representations. A method is presented for manipulating the i...