objective: borderline personality disorder is one of the most complex and prevalent personality disorders. many variables have so far been studied in relation to this disorder. this study aimed to investigate the role of emotion regulation, attachment styles, and theory of mind in predicting the traits of borderline personality disorder. method: in this study, 85 patients with borderline person...

objective: depression is a growing public health problem, which needs more consideration in primary care settings. by focusing primarily on developmental psychology, attachment style is one of the most influential variables on the risk of internalized disorders. although attachment styles have strong effects on emotional aspect of human mental life, emotional turbulence and dysfunction are cons...

setup of an emotion recognition or emotional speech recognition system is directly related to how emotion changes the speech features. in this research, the influence of emotion on the anger and happiness was evaluated and the results were compared with the neutral speech. so the pitch frequency and the first three formant frequencies were used. the experimental results showed that there are lo...

objective: it seems that emotion regulation strategies and fear of positive evaluation are among psychological components. which play critical role in anxiety disorders. the present study predicted school anxiety based on emotion regulation strategies and fear of positive evaluation in female students in savadkouh iran.  methods: this study is a descriptive-correlative research. a total of 110 ...

“When W. B. Cannon (1929) wrote his devastating and brilliant critique of the James-Lange theory of emotion,1 he would have been wise to follow the example of that great teacher of philosophy, Morris Raphael Cohen. At the end of a course in which he had demonstrated what was wrong with virtually every philosopher who had lived, Cohen was begged by his students to tell them what was right, what ...

One of the most fundamental distinctions in the field of emotion is the distinction between emotion generation and emotion regulation. This distinction fits comfortably with folk theories, which view emotions as passions that arise unbidden and then must be controlled. But is it really helpful to distinguish between emotion generation and emotion regulation? In this article, we begin by offerin...

There have been roughly as many theories of emotion as there have been people thinking about the topic. Despite several millennia of investigation, there is still little agreement about what constitutes an emotion, how many emotions there are, and whether such a number is even meaningful. One important and abiding distinction between various theories of emotion is that between the mentalist and...

Autism spectrum conditions (ASC) are characterised by deficits in understanding and expressing emotions and are frequently accompanied by alexithymia, a difficulty in understanding and expressing emotion words. Words are differentially represented in the brain according to their semantic category and these difficulties in ASC predict reduced activation to emotion-related words in limbic structu...

Many aspects of language comprehension are dependent on the identification of a perspectival/point-of-view anchor, who provides the perspectival center for interpreting the content of an utterance. To fully interpret epithets (ex.1a), evaluative adjectives (ex.1b), predicates of personal taste (ex.1c), epistemic modals (ex.1d) and adverbials of possibility (ex.1e), we need to know whose opinion...