Affective experiences occur across the wake-sleep cycle—from active wakefulness to resting (i.e., mind-wandering) sleep dreaming). Yet, we know little about dynamics of affect these states. We compared affective ratings waking, mind-wandering, and dream episodes. Results showed that mind-wandering was more positively valenced than dreaming, both dreaming were negatively wakefulness. also partic...

The uncanny valley (UCV) hypothesis describes a non-linear relationship between perceived human-likeness and affective response. The "uncanny valley" refers to an intermediate level of human-likeness that is associated with strong negative affect. Recent studies have suggested that the uncanny valley might result from the categorical perception of human-like stimuli during identification. When ...

16 cases of affective disorder were studied. 8 patients received carbamazepine and 8 received either chlorpromazine or imipramine. Ratings were carried out on the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression, Bech Rafaelsen Mania Rating scale and a side-effects symptom check list. Garbamazepine was found to be an effective treatment for affective disorders, possessing both anti-manic as well as anti-de...

OBJECTIVES AND METHOD Using 5 measurement bursts spanning 1 year, this study examined correspondences between retrospective end-of-year ratings and momentary ratings of positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA) in 53 older adult participants from the Berlin Aging Study. RESULTS Average momentary assessments were moderately positively correlated with retrospective ratings of PA and NA. Hie...

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...

The Affective Norms for English Words (ANEW) is a stimulus set that provides researchers with language words have been pre-rated on bipolar scales valence, dominance, and arousal. Researchers rely these pre-ratings to ensure the they select accurately reflect affective responses elicit. Each word has valence rating reflecting degree which people experience as positive or negative, midpoint rati...

This paper presents affective features designed for music and develops a method to predict dynamic emotion ratings along the arousal and valence dimensions. We learn a model to predict continuous time emotion ratings based on combination of global and local features. This allows us to exploit information from both the scales to make a more robust prediction.

Childhood attentional and neuromotor precursors of social competence and affective deficits in adolescents at risk for schizophrenia, adolescents at risk for affective disorder, and matched comparison adolescents were examined. The subjects were offspring of parents with schizophrenia or affective disorder and of normal parents matched on age, sex, and socioeconomic status from the New York Hig...

Pragmatic assessment and consistency in rating are among the subject matters which are still in need of more profound investigations. The importance of the issue is highlighted when remembering that inconsistency in ratings would surely damage the test fairness issue in assessment and lead to much diversity in ratings. Our principal concern in this study was observing the criteria that American...

The relation between cognitive distortion and depression, found in adult affective disorders, has not previously been demonstrated in childhood affective disorders. Therefore, a Cognitive Bias Questionnaire for Children (CBQC) was developed to examine this relation in a sample of 39 psychiatrically disturbed children and adolescents. The depressed-distorted (DD) scale from the CBQC was signific...