Rhetorical figures, which are frequently applied in advertisements, can add literary flavor to the texts, gratify audiences’ aesthetic needs, and deepen their impression. In advertisement translation, it is very common that the rhetorical figures applied in the original text are replaced with new ones in the translation. This research focuses on rhetorical figures’ function of enhancing audienc...

Though common sense suggests that positive thinking shelters people from depression, the four studies reported here showed that this intuition needs to be qualified: Positive thinking in the form of fantasies about the future did indeed relate to decreased symptoms of depression when measured concurrently; however, positive fantasies predicted more depressive symptoms when measured longitudinal...

doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1002-0829.2012.06.010 Mental Health Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China *correspondence: [email protected] After a protracted 27-year process of formulation, revision and re-revision by numerous psychiatrists, jurists, government administrators and legislators, the Mental Health Law of the People’s Republic of China was finally pas...

Self-assessment methods are broadly employed in emotion research for the collection of subjective affective ratings. The Self-Assessment Manikin (SAM), a pictorial scale developed in the eighties for the measurement of pleasure, arousal, and dominance, is still among the most popular self-reporting tools, despite having been conceived upon design principles which are today obsolete. By leveragi...

Research so far provided few clues on the order in which depressive symptoms typically remit during treatment. This study examined improve first, and whether changed before, simultaneous with, or after core of depression (i.e., sad mood, loss pleasure, interest). Participants were 176 patients with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) receiving outpatient treatment (a combination pharmacotherapy psy...

To analyze the scientific production that addresses issues related to pleasure, suffering, depression, workload, stress, Burnout Syndrome and psychological factors in professional nursing professionals. Methods: This is an integrative review, whose data collection was carried out from 2014 2018, SCIELO BRASIL database. Results: 13 articles were used produce this review. A flowchart showed inclu...