Although emotions elicited by the fictional world or the artefact play a part in story-driven video games, they are certainly not the focus of the experience. From a cognitive psychological perspective, this paper studies the appraisal and action dimensions of emotions arising from gameplay. As it relies on cognitive film theories about popular narrative movies, it also revisits their conceptua...

Objectives: There is growing evidence that many emotionregulation processes operate at implicit levels, and the ability to regulate emotions without the need for conscious effort is important for mental health. The glucocorticoid hormones (cortisol in humans) are crucial for stress responses and adaptation, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been associated with both cortisol dysregul...

STUDY SELECTION AND ASSESSMENT Articles or dissertations were selected if they were qualitative reports, addressed turning points or a process of change in health behaviour over time, and were grounded in or supported by observational or verbatim qualitative data. 2 reviewers independently coded study findings in categories of main concept, pre-change influences, turning point, and steps in the...

The present study investigated whether imagery could manipulate athletes' appraisal of stress-evoking situations (i.e., challenge or threat) and whether psychological and cardiovascular responses and interpretations varied according to cognitive appraisal of three imagery scripts: challenge, neutral, and threat. Twenty athletes (M(age) = 20.85; SD = 1.76; 10 female, 10 male) imaged each script ...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness psychological treatments and identify required adaptations increase acceptability improve outcomes for people with dementia or mild cognitive impairment who experience distress. Design/methodology/approach Cochrane Dementia Cognitive Improvement Group Specialised Register other databases were searched eligible studies. Inclusion...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the pattern, motivation and facilities for choosing journal club topics by residents in two medical institutions in India. METHOD A self-appraisal questionnaire was used to compare motivation for choice of topics, availability of infrastructure, sites and type of articles accessed and formal training in computer based literature search in two medical institutions- a post...

Cognitive appraisals of the trauma play a key role in children’s adjustment following a traumatic event, but how these appraisals develop is not well understood. Cognitive models of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) suggest that social support is a key influence on the development of appraisals, and we aimed to explore this relationship further. As predicted by cognitive models of PTSD...

This article presents the Appraisal Tendency Framework (ATF) (Lerner & Keltner, 2000, 2001; Lerner & Tiedens, 2006) as a basis for predicting the influence of specific emotions on consumer decision making. In particular, the ATF addresses how and why specific emotions carry over from past situations to color future judgments and choices. After reviewing the main assumptions and the five main pr...

Affective appraisal often involves processing complex and ambiguous stimuli, such as the mood of a group people. However, affective neuroimaging research often uses individual faces as stimuli when exploring the neural circuitry involved in social appraisal. Results from studies using single face paradigms may not generalize to settings where multiple faces are simultaneously processed. The goa...