BACKGROUND Children of depressed mothers are themselves at elevated risk for developing a depressive disorder. We have little understanding, however, of the specific factors that contribute to this increased risk. This study investigated whether never-disordered daughters whose mothers have experienced recurrent episodes of depression during their daughters' lifetime differ from never-disordere...

Automatic emotion recognition is a major topic in the area of human– robot interaction. This paper presents an emotion recognition system based on physiological signals. Emotion induction experiments which induced joy, sadness, anger, and pleasure were conducted on 11 subjects. The subjects’ electrocardiogram (ECG) and respiration (RSP) signals were recorded simultaneously by a physiological mo...

Even though the use of actors is a popular method for researching the expression of emotion, little is known about the relation between acted and real emotions. To shed some light on this, we set up a novel experiment, based on the Velten mood induction procedure, during which participants have to utter pre-defined sentences with a strong emotional content. In one group of participants, real po...

Stress can increase emotional vigilance at the cost of a decrease in attention towards non-emotional stimuli. However, the time-dependent effects of acute stress on emotion processing are uncertain. We tested the effects of acute stress on subsequent emotion processing up to 40 min following an acute stressor. Our measure of emotion processing was the late positive potential (LPP) component of ...

Although definitions of emotion dysregulation infer difficulties in selecting and implementing regulation (ER) strategies, surprisingly few studies have examined the relationship between trait a wide range specific ER strategies. The present study used data-driven approach to assess trait- state-related strategy use 99 women (aged 18–55) recruited from community with varying levels dysregulatio...

aim and background:  major depressive disorder (mdd) has physically and psychological effect on individuals with that disorder. one of the effective areas is emotion expression styles and metacognitive beliefs that has important role in interpersonal and between individual relationships. the purpose of this research was study of emotion expression styles and metacognitive beliefs in individuals...

emotion is one of the human soul’s aspects which have a complex relationship with action and cognition. martha craven nussbaum considers emotion as one of the figures of cognition and believes that emotion is the recognition of a person’s very important living aspects which are not under his control. in her view, emotion is based on the subject. this notion proves that emotion is a part of cogn...

Music is often used for emotion induction because it can change the emotions of people. However, since we subjectively feel different when listening to music, propose an system that generates music adapted each individual. Our automatically suitable based on predicted from electroencephalogram (EEG). We examined three elements constructing our system: 1) a generator creates induces resemble inp...

To cite this version: Causse, Mickael and Pavard, Bernard and Senard, Jean-Michel and Démonet, Jean-François and Pastor, Josette Positive and negative emotion induction through avatars and its impact on reasoning performance: cardiovascular and pupillary correlates. (2012) Studia Psychologica, vol. 54 (n° 1). pp. 37-51. ISSN 0039-3320 Open Archive Toulouse Archive Ouverte (OATAO) OATAO is an op...