The present research examines the hypothesis that the fear of being laughed at is related to three emotions: shame, fear, and (low) joy. In two self-report studies the participants (N = 234, N = 102) filled in the GELOPH (Ruch and Titze, GELOPH46. Unpublished questionnaire, 1998) for the assessment of the level of gelotophobia and the Anchor Que question form (Ekman, Emotions Revealed: Recogniz...

Research suggests that contact with nature can be beneficial, for example leading to improvements in mood, cognition, and health. A distinct but related idea is the personality construct of subjective nature connectedness, a stable individual difference in cognitive, affective, and experiential connection with the natural environment. Subjective nature connectedness is a strong predictor of pro...

"The refined feeling, intellectual discrimination, and artistic initiative of the mature musician will not, as a rale, be found even in the higher grades of mentally deficient instrumentalists. The music that they make has a mechanical, imitative quality and is of a superficial type. Its function in their lives is not that of a vocation, but a socializing recreation: thus its final evaluation s...

No person who possesses a spark of humane feeling-, or who has any concern for the prosperity and happiness of our nation, can be other than impressed with the necessity for preventingmental deficiency. For it has been demonstrated to the full that mental defectives can never become independent and efficient citizens; that, from an economic standpoint, the lower grades are not only totally unpr...

This article aims to identify the main determinants of self-rated health and well-being in the elderly Portuguese population, using a set of dimensions including demographic and socioeconomic indicators, characteristics of interpersonal networks and social activities, health, sexual activity, representations of aging, and feeling of happiness. Taking socioeconomic, behavioral, and attitudinal p...

The present study investigated age-related changes in the ability to discriminate between distinctions in the emotion underlying enjoyment and nonenjoyment smiles, both when making explicit decisions about feelings of happiness and when making social judgments of approachability. No age differences were found in the ability to discriminate between these two types of smile. However, older adults...

We explore the concept of healer’s high, a phenomenon similar to runner’s high. define high as psycho-endocrine response intense happiness and bliss, accompanied by feeling enhanced energy, experienced health care professionals when they heal or help someone. describe endocrinology that underlies posit this may be used enhance professional satisfaction, mitigate compassion fatigue burnout.&#x0D...

Stress is a feeling of not being able to cope with specific needs and events. It part parcel persons life. can be motivator, essential for survival, but persistently negative response challenges have ill effects on health happiness. Homoeopathy scientific system medicine that considers man as whole give more importance mind emotion an individual. So homoeopathic symptom similar help the patient...