Brooding rumination is associated with depressed mood, increased negative affect, prolonged anger and inhibited cardiovascular (CV) recovery. Distraction from rumination on a stressful interpersonal encounter is associated with faster CV recovery and decreased negative affect. Studies have suggested that a concurrent visuospatial (VS) task inhibits the maintenance of imagery associated with the...

Instrumentalists rely on physical gestures such as plunking, bowing, hitting, and blowing air into their instruments in order to produce sound; among tremendous number of human gestures, the body movements employed by musical performers are limited. This compositional project began with the idea of extending the relationship between human gestures and sound by electronic means. From that germin...

The study of Hebrew narratives has generally shown in modern scholarship the intriguing artistry of the biblical stories. However, the apparent simplicity of the angry scenes has not generated significant engagement of its representations. Against this backdrop, the present study describes the consistent literary patterns in the representation of angry scenes in Hebrew narrative, and particular...