Many studies in the field of positive media psychology have investigated effects meaningful film on viewer’s feelings and openness to others, all while music is number #1 source for feeling moved, touched or inspired. Therefore, current study examined role compared pleasurable listeners emotional experiences, connectedness, altruistic behaviors. In a pre-posttest experiment, 105 participants (M...

BACKGROUND Apart from objective exam results, the overall feeling of preparedness is important for a successful transition process from being a student to becoming a qualified doctor. This study examines the association between self-assessed deficits in medical skills and knowledge and the feeling of preparedness of junior doctors in order to determine which aspects of medical education need to...

Subjects rated their confidence that each word from a set of 585 words referred to an emotion. As a strategy for discriminating words that refer to genuine emotions from words that refer to other kinds of conditions, ratings were collected in two different linguistic contexts: first, in the context of feeling something and second, in the context of being something. We hypothesized that words th...

Past research suggests that feeling understood enhances both personal and social well-being. However, little research has examined the neurobiological bases of feeling understood and not understood. We addressed these gaps by experimentally inducing felt understanding and not understanding as participants underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging. The results demonstrated that feeling und...

OBJECTIVE To explore physicians' thoughts and considerations of participation in medical decision making by hospitalised elderly patients. DESIGN A qualitative study using focus group interviews with physicians interpreted with grounded theory and completed with a questionnaire. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS The setting was three different hospitals in two counties in Sweden. Five focus groups w...