OBJECTIVE Catatonia is a psychomotor syndrome characterized by concomitant emotional, behavioural and motor symptoms. In many cases clinical symptoms disappear almost immediately with administration of lorazepam, which acts on GABA(A) receptors. METHODS Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) we investigated prefrontal activation patterns during emotion processing in catatonic pati...

This study examines whether emotion conveyed in recorded and synthesized voices affects perceptions of emotional valence of content, suitability of content, liking of content, and credibility of content. The research also compares recorded and synthesized speech. Participants heard two news stories, two movie descriptions and two health stories in a 2 (type of speech: recorded vs. synthesized) ...

Purpose – This paper aims to identify whether emotional intelligence relates to counterpart outcome satisfaction in negotiation contexts. Design/methodology/approach – A negotiation simulation and a pre-established measure of emotional intelligence were employed. Findings – In Study 1, multi-level models revealed that a participant’s ability to understand emotion positively predicted his or her...

OBJECTIVE To examine the rate of change in body mass index (BMI) percentile across 3 years in relation to emotion identification ability and brain-based reactivity in emotional processing regions. STUDY DESIGN A longitudinal sample of 202 youths completed 3 functional magnetic resonance imaging-based facial processing tasks and behavioral emotion differentiation tasks. We examined the rate of...

introduction: emotion is fundamental to nursing practice and emotional intelligence is considered as an important characteristic of nurses that can affect the quality of their work including clinical decision-making, critical thinking, evidence and knowledge use in practice, etc. the aim of this research was to assess and compare emotional intelligence between freshman and senior baccalaureate ...

This paper reports a five-stage study to identify what emotions are product relevant in Mexican culture, and to cross-compare these with the emotions identified in a prior study carried out in the Netherlands. 34 emotion terms in the Spanish language were identified as product relevant, 17 of which were related to product appearance. 21 emotion terms that were identified in this study coincide ...

This paper reports a study that evaluated a methodology and tool for eliciting the emotional experience of language learning. It has looked at the relative rate of change of different emotions over the course of a lesson and also the differences between self-report and observer reports of changes in emotion. Implications for the design of affectively intelligent systems are discussed.