The Elemental Psychopathy Assessment (EPA) is a 178-item self-report measure designed to assess the basic elements of psychopathy from a Five-Factor Model perspective: Anger, Arrogance, Callousness, Coldness, Disobliged, Distrust, Dominance, Impersistence, Invulnerable, Manipulation, Opposition, Rashness, Self-Assurance, Self-Centered, Self-Contentment, Thrill-Seeking, Unconcern, and Urgency. T...

This work supports the hypothesis that the origin of child abuse and homicide, perpetrated by the mother, occurs during the gestational stage, birth, and postnatal period, in women who do not created during these stages, an affective bond with the baby / nasciturus, alternately the woman, was suffering from some personality disorder most frequency depression, psychosis, anxiety, suicide attempt...

People tend to show some types of interpersonal behavior after feeling gratitude: reciprocal behavior, expression of apology, expression of thanks, and prosocial behavior. We examined the mechanism of these behaviors in 304 undergraduate students who were presented with three types of situations that produce gratitude: receiving help, receiving gifts, or imposing on others. We asked participant...

More positivity than negativity is demonstrated in this analysis of discrete emotions among 353 community-dwelling individuals from 72 to 99 years old. A complexity in positive emotions was displayed, with more happiness, contentment, and gratitude reported than frustration, sadness, and anger. Our results also imply that another individual's presence may elicit negative emotions such as anger ...

Since the dawn of written history, happiness has attracted the attention of great philosophers, including Confucius, Buddha, Socrates, and Aristotle (McMahon, 2006; The Pursuit of Happiness). Happiness has been variously conceptualized and defined throughout history, influenced by the thinking of the times. Today it has come to be recognized as, “the experience of joy, contentment, or positive ...

We discuss experiments on two individuals in whom specific textures (e.g., denim, wax, sandpaper, silk, etc.) evoked equally distinct emotions (e.g., depression, embarrassment, relief, and contentment, respectively). The test/retest consistency after 8 months was 100%. A video camera recorded subjects' facial expressions and skin conductance responses (SCR) were monitored as they palpated diffe...

Our society’s utilitarian premises imply that only which can be possessed, mastered and quantified said to lead pleasure contentment. This article contends an alternative this stance, according a number of philosophers ennui despair, found in Albert Samain’s poetical prose works. writings suggest things acquire more depth aura once they are lost poeticised through nostalgia longing, thus absenc...

This article aims to explore a sapiential response the question of inner experience conflict between voluntary and involuntary, which Ricœur alludes in first volume his Philosophy Will. I take as my starting point Ricœur’s reference conclusion three pieces advice given by Descartes achieve contentment, equates with virtues decision, effort consent. Building on assertion that we receive life inv...

the dissemination of western culture in the world has promoted a type of consumer culture which corresponds with the capitalist system. this has not only affected on urbanites, but has also made dramatic changes the life style of rural people. so nowadays contentment is not deemed valuable and many people believe that these values are outmoded. in this article, hesar khorvan village has been se...

This research examines 3rd parties' reactions to the abusive supervision of a coworker. Reactions were theorized to depend on 3rd parties' beliefs about the targeted coworker and, specifically, whether the target of abuse was considered deserving of mistreatment. We predicted that 3rd parties would experience anger when targets of abuse were considered undeserving of mistreatment; angered 3rd p...