adolescent is a time of profound biologic, intellectual, psychological, ‎and socioeconomic change that he will face a crisis. so compatibility may be ‎exposed to many hazards, such as depression, anxiety and other emotional ‎problems. but a planned regular exercise enhances physical and mental health ‎of adolescent female with diabetes.   the aim of this study was to determine the effect of exe...

The basolateral complex of the amygdala (BLA) plays a significant role in affective behavior that is likely regulated by afferents from the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC). Studies suggest that dopamine (DA) is a necessary component for production of appropriate affective responses. In this study, prefrontal cortical and sensory cortical [temporal area 3 (Te3)] inputs to the BLA and their modul...

In this paper, we propose an approach for affective characterization of movie scenes based on the emotions that are actually felt by spectators. Such a representation can be used to characterize the emotional content of video clips in application areas such as affective video indexing and retrieval, and neuromarketing studies. A dataset of 64 different scenes from eight movies was shown to eigh...

We present ASCERTAIN– a multimodal databaASe for impliCit pERsonaliTy and Affect recognitIoN using commercial physiological sensors. To our knowledge, ASCERTAIN is the first database to connect personality traits and emotional states via physiological responses. ASCERTAIN contains big-five personality scales and emotional self-ratings of 58 users along with their Electroencephalogram (EEG), Ele...

How can we best support others in difficult times? Studies testing the effects of supportive communication revealed mixed findings. The current study focuses on the effects of supportive communication following different disclosure styles, and includes outcome measures to assess emotional well-being. Hypotheses were tested in a 2 (disclosure style: cognitive reappraisal disclosure vs. emotional...

Thermal interfaces are a new area of research in HCI, with one of their main benefits being the potential to influence emotion. To date, studies investigating thermal feedback for affective interaction have either provided concepts and prototypes, or looked at the affective element of thermal stimuli in isolation. This research is the first to look in-depth at how thermal stimuli can be used to...

 This paper aims to determine whether the working environment that bank employees perceive is related to their affective responses and their perception about the service quality that is provided at their bank. More specifically, the study extends and links previous works by researching into the relationships between the organizational obstacles perceived, the employees’ psychological cl...

human brain has been constructed to be different between male and female from structural and functional points of view. this research aims at the study of the difference between two genders in perception of non- affective (linguistic) prosody of speech. the present study is cross – sectional, whose subjects include 50 iranians in two gender categories of male and female. the responses of each g...

INTRODUCTION Ruminative (abstract verbal) processing during recall of aversive autobiographical memories may serve to dampen their short-term affective impact. Experimental studies indeed demonstrate that verbal processing of non-autobiographical material and positive autobiographical memories evokes weaker affective responses than imagery-based processing. In the current study, we hypothesized...

Occupational therapists have used activity analysis to ensure the therapeutic use of activities. Recently, they have begun to explore the affective components of activities. This study explores the feelings (affective responses) that chronic psychiatric patients have toward selected activities commonly used in occupational therapy. Twenty-two participating chronic psychiatric patients were rand...