Cultural context affects people's values regarding emotions, as well as their experiential and behavioral but not autonomic physiological responses to emotional situations. Little research, however, has examined how cultural context influences the relationships among values and emotional responding. Specifically, depending on their cultural context, individuals' values about emotion control (EC...

Abstract In contrast to mainstream accounts which explain the aesthetic experience of people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in terms cognitive abilities, this paper suggests as an alternative explanation “emotional abilities approach”. We present example a person ASD who is able exercise variety emotional contexts but has difficulties exhibiting their equivalents interpersonal relations. U...

Experiential (emotional) avoidance (EA), a core concept in acceptance and commitment therapy, involves an unwillingness to endure upsetting emotions, thoughts, memories, and other private experiences; and is hypothesized to play a role in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The present study examined how well EA, relative to traditional cognitive-behavioral theoretical constructs such as dysfu...

Epidemic investigations reveal an intimate interrelationship between pain and depression. The effect of electroacupuncture (EA) on pain or depression has been demonstrated individually, but its effect on pain-depression dyad is unknown. Our study aimed to screen a dominant EA frequency on pain-depression dyad and determine the validity of acupoint selection based on meridian theory. The pain-de...

A few studies have appeared in the literature suggesting that team learning might be an effective means for developing emotional intelligence (EI) abilities in the workplace. This study investigated the effects of attending a one-day emotional intelligence training session followed by participating in team-based learning on ability-based measures of emotional intelligence in a sample of MBA stu...

OBJECTIVE Childhood abuse is associated with a wide range of negative outcomes, including increased risk for development of emotion dysregulation and psychopathology, such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The goal of the present study was to examine associations between child abuse, PTSD symptoms, and performance on an emotional conflict regulation task that assesses implicit emotion re...

Ben Coleman and Weizhen Mao Department of Computer S ien e, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795, USA f oleman,wmg s.wm.edu Abstra t We onsider the unrelated ma hine s heduling problem where ea h job may have a di erent proessing time on ea h ma hine. This model a urately represents systems where ea h ma hine or worker has di erent abilities. A spe ial ase of this problem is t...