Intelligent product recommendation agents (RA) are used widely in e-commerce to reduce consumers’ effort and to increase the accuracy of their decisions. This study investigates how to design RAs, for desktop and handheld devices, to alleviate the negative emotions associated with the normative decision-strategy which generates accurate decisions but only with extensive effort on the part of us...

Music's universality and its ability to deeply affect emotions suggest an evolutionary origin. Previous investigators have found that naltrexone (NTX), a μ-opioid antagonist, may induce reversible anhedonia, attenuating both positive and negative emotions. The neurochemical basis of musical experience is not well-understood, and the NTX-induced anhedonia hypothesis has not been tested with musi...

Metacognitive emotion regulation strategies involve deliberately changing thoughts or goals to alleviate negative emotions. Adults commonly engage in this type of emotion regulation, but little is known about the developmental roots of this ability. Two studies were designed to assess whether 5- and 6-year-old children can generate such strategies and, if so, the types of metacognitive strategi...

Emotional dysregulation is hypothesized to be a core feature of borderline personality disorder (BPD). In this study, we investigated the course of emotions in response to standardized emotion inductions in BPD. A total of 26 female BPD patients, 28 matched healthy control subjects, and 15 female patients with major depressive disorder listened to short stories inducing an angry, joyful, or neu...

This paper is an investigation on negative emotions states recognition by employing of Fuzzy Adaptive Resonance Theory (Fuzzy-ART) considering the changes in activities of autonomic nervous system (ANS). Specific psychological experiments were designed to induce appropriate physiological responses on individuals in order to acquire a suitable database for training, validating and testing the pr...

Emotions may play an important role in how citizens respond to public policies, and energy policies particular. Yet, little insights exist into causes of those emotions. This study investigates ethical concerns as the basis We test whether people perceive unequal distribution negative outcomes a local project more unfair than equal thereof and, turn, experience stronger emotions (hypothesis 1) ...

Emotions are an important behaviour of humans and may arise in driving situations. Uncontrolled emotions can lead to harmful effects. To control and reduce the negative impact of emotions, we have built a virtual driving environment in which we can capture and analyse emotions felt by the driver using EEG systems. By simulating specific emotional situations we can provoke these emotions and det...

The willingness of individuals to trust each other is fundamental to economic and political life. In this paper we investigate the affective basis of trust. We explore whether and how manipulations of emotion influence behavior in the trust game. We also provide the first clear evaluation of a common method for manipulating emotions, the Autobiographical Emotional Memory Task (AEMT), to see how...

This study investigated children's empathic responses to their mother's distress to provide insight about child factors that contribute to parental socialisation of emotions. Four- to six-year-old children (N = 82) observed their mother's sadness and anger during a simulated emotional phone conversation. Children's facial negative affect was rated and their heart rate variability (HRV) was reco...

Although emotions and ideology are important factors guiding policy support in conflict, their interactive influence remains unclear. Based on prior findings that ideological leftists’ beliefs are more susceptible to change than rightists’ beliefs, we tested a somewhat counterintuitive extension that leftists would be more susceptible to influence by their emotional reactions than rightists. In...