Common sense suggests that emotions are physical types that have little to do with the words we use to label them. Yet recent psychological constructionist accounts reveal that language is a fundamental element in emotion that is constitutive of both emotion experiences and perceptions. According to the psychological constructionist Conceptual Act Theory (CAT), an instance of emotion occurs whe...

According to Brehm (1966), if a person’s freedom to behave as they choose is threatened in some way, then they will become motivationally aroused to either reestablish the lost freedom, or to ensure that there is no further loss. This hypothetical motivational state is referred to as psychological reactance. While resistance is defined as behavior against compliance, psychological reactance is ...

Burnout is considered one of the most complicated psychological and social phenomena. It is affected by technological advance, but some researchers perceive it as a result of the gap emerged from recent advances. In this connection, many studies indicate that psychological stresses cause about (80%) of the diseases of this age. Different communities have seen a marked increase in the institutio...

BACKGROUND We aimed to investigate a key element of the early intervention approach whether treatment at an earlier stage of bipolar disorder is more effective than later in its course. METHODS A comprehensive literature review using Medline, Embase, Psychinfo, PsycArticle, and Web of Science, as data sources, with a subsequent narrative synthesis. Study quality was assessed using the Cochran...

Studies of human decision making have demonstrated that stress exacerbates risk taking. Since all decisions involve some element of risk, stress has critical impact on decision quality. Decisions are found to improve with stress up to an optimal threshold beyond which deterioration is observed. However, few studies have examined the psychological experiences underlying risk-taking behavior in c...

CONTEXT: Better survival rates have driven the cancer care from a medical illness model to a wellness model, which is concerned with the quality of women’s lives as well as the length of survival. AIMS: To evaluate the association between socio-demographic and disease characteristics with Quality of Life (QOL) in cervical cancer survivors. SETTINGS AND DESIGN: Descriptive study on quality of li...

Humans and other animals have a variety of psychological abilities tailored to the demands of asocial foraging, that is, foraging without coordination or competition with other conspecifics. Human foraging, however, also includes a unique element, the creation of resource pooling systems. In this type of social foraging, individuals contribute when they have excess resources and receive provisi...

The Arab and literary studies dealt with many issues, including the external dialogue, dialogue is second element of elements which "a that takes place between two or more persons, based on alternation personalities within framework scene, prompted researcher to address this topic, drives event Dramatic for its development generates in recipient sense it similar reality what character possesses...