The desire for social distance towards individuals with obesity as part of the stigmatization process has not been investigated. The aims of this study include: (a) determining the prevalence of social distance and its domains in a population-based sample; (b) reporting levels of emotional response; and (c) investigating the association of BMI, emotional response and social distance. The data w...

Some people experience pleasant emotion when listening to sad music. Therefore, they can enjoy listening to it. In the current study, we aimed to investigate such apparently paradoxical emotional mechanisms and focused on the influence of individuals' trait empathy, which has been reported to associate with emotional responses to sad music and a preference for it. Eighty-four elementary school ...

Abstract Building on previous work investigating the impact of exposure to (a) records with traumatic potentialities and (b) interactions donors community researchers whose suffering is documented in archives, this study sought better understand emotional aspects archival work. Using a diary research methodology, 15 archivists engaged keeping for approximately four months. What emerged was broa...

Litigation is, by its very nature, an adversarial process. It can result in parties involved feeling aggrieved in response to both the actions chosen by others and the actions that a priori had been expected of others. Parties often want to have their day in court in order to see justice done or to vent a retributive intent. This paper shows that certain emotions can result in a higher frequenc...

BACKGROUND The psychological functioning of living donor (LD) and deceased donor (DD) recipients are important factors for emotional adjustment to transplantation. This study investigated differences in medical, sociodemographic and emotional factors between these two groups. METHODS A total of 241 kidney transplant recipients (68 LD, 173 DD) completed questionnaires on emotional and behaviou...