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Banaji, Mahzarin Rustum. "Affect and Memory: An Experimental Investigation." Connect to resource, 1986. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1211214945.

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Penny, Martin John. "Affect, anxiety and attraction : masculinity, therapy and counselling psychology." Thesis, City University London, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.507263.

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Neiss, Michelle Roseanne, and Michelle Roseanne Neiss. "The relationship between positive affect and negative affect: A behavioral genetic analysis." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/289180.

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For years, researchers have debated the structure of affect. Although many researchers claim positive and negative affect are independent, others present evidence that the two are bipolar. The current study used a behavioral genetic design as a unique way to address this debate. A national sample of 783 sibling pairs, including 117 identical twins, 160 fraternal twins, and 506 full-sibling non-twin pairs provided information on their positive and negative affect over the past month. A sub-sample of 210 twin pairs provided additional information on their positive and negative affect over daily and weekly time frames. Several different analyses indicated that at the phenotypic level, affect demonstrated a bipolar structure. Multivariate behavioral genetic analyses were used to estimate common genetic and environmental factors that influence the relationship between positive and negative affect, as well as the specific genetic and environmental factors that influence each. These analyses indicated that specific genetic and shared environmental factors were not necessary to explain the relationship between positive and negative affect. This pattern of results was consistent with the bipolar viewpoint. The structure of affect looked to be bipolar across differing time frames. No age differences in the structure of affect were found.
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Smith, Lauren M. "Rumination, negative affect and working memory| Does rumination moderate the relationship between negative affect induction and working memory?" Thesis, Seattle Pacific University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3593597.

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Depression affects about 20% of the U.S. population at some point in their lifespan (Gotlib & Hammen, 2002). One symptom of depression is impairment in cognitive functioning. Extensive research has previously identified a link between depressed mood and memory difficulties (Burt, Zembar, & Niederehe, 1995; O'Conner, Pollitt, Roth, Brook, & Reiss, 1990; Watkins & Teasdale, 2004). The purpose of the current study is to better understand the relationship between negative affect and memory impairment. I hypothesized that rumination would moderate the relationship between negative affect and working memory such that individuals who respond to negative affect with rumination would be particularly likely to show impairment in working memory. This was a single time point study in which participants were randomly assigned to one of two possible conditions. In each condition, participants were given a stressor task, the Paced Auditory Serial Addition Task (PASAT). This was followed by either failure feedback or success feedback. 146 undergraduate students, ages 18 to 30 were recruited and randomly assigned to one of the two conditions. The sample was approximately 79% female and 78% Caucasian and had a mean age of 18.77 (SD = 1.36). Participants completed measures of current depressive symptoms, trait rumination, affective state pre and post stressor task, and working memory. This study's findings lend support to previous research in that these results yielded a significant main effect of both the failure condition (F (1, 143) = 124.20, p = .00, partial &eegr; 2 = .47) and self-reported negative mood (F (3, 145) = 14.59, p = .00, R2 = .22) on lower working memory scores. Greater rumination appeared to have a main effect of lower working memory scores (F (2, 139) = 12.59, p = .00, partial &eegr;2 = .15) with rumination accounting for approximately 4% of the difference in working memory scores. However, results did not find support for a moderated model (F (2, 139) = .02, p = .98, partial &eegr;2 = .00). Although negative affect and rumination predicted working memory scores, rumination did not moderate the relationship suggesting that a different model may explain the cognitive effects of depression.

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Armon-Jones, Claire. "Varieties of affect." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670309.

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Levin, Lars. "Interbedömarreliabilitet i affektavläsning - en explorativ metodstudie." Thesis, Stockholm University, Department of Psychology, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-34772.

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Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka reliabiliteten i en metod för att observera affektuttryck, Stålforsmetoden. Stålforsmetoden fokuserar primärt på affektuttryck i ansiktet, och mer specifikt den första affekten som en patient uttrycker under en psykoterapisession (”överföringsaffekt”). Den teoretiska grunden är affektteori som utvecklats av Silvan Tomkins och Paul Ekman. Data har samlats in med strukturerad observation och analyseras kvantitativt. Interbedömarreliabilitet beräknades med Cohen’s Kappa och uppgick till K = 0,03, vilket innebär att det inte finns någon statistiskt säker överensstämmelse mellan bedömarna. Möjliga orsaker till avsaknaden av interbedömarreliabilitet såsom utbildningens utformning och omfattning samt operationaliseringen av observationsvariabeln diskuteras och förslag på framtida forskning lämnas.


The purpose of this study was to explore the reliability of a method for observing expressions of affect, “Stålforsmetoden”. Stålforsmetoden focuses primarily on facial expression of affect, and more precisely the first expression presented by a patient in a psychotherapy session (referred to as transference affect). The theoretical basis is affect theory as developed in the works of Silvan Tomkins and Paul Ekman respectively. Data has been collected through structured observation and analyzed quantitatively. Inter-rater reliability was calculated using Cohen’s Kappa and amounted to K = 0.03, which means that there was no significant agreement between raters. This result implies that the reliability of Stålforsmetoden in its present form is insufficient and that further development of the method is needed. Possible reasons for the absence of inter-rater reliability such as the adequacy of education and the operationalization of transference affect are discussed and suggestions for future research are presented.

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Middleton, Deborah Kathleen. "The theatre of affect." Thesis, University of Hull, 1993. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:3554.

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There is an extensive body of work in the fields of philosophy, psychology, and sociology which identifies a specific world view based on the following criticism of modern society: that people live monocerebral existences divided from their physical, emotional, and intuitive abilities. In this state, the capacity for affect -emotional response - is believed to be atrophied, and experience nullified. Such a condition - which may be loosely termed 'mind/body split' - results in a diminished ability to relate to other people, a sense of alienation from the world, and a pathological loss of human capacities. Many psychologists believe that this state prefigures neuroses, destructiveness, and schizophrenia. This thesis is concerned with the concept of 'mind/body split' and its relation to affective communication in the theatre. The subjects of my enquiry are theatre practitioners or companies whose work has directly addressed these issues: Antonin Artaud, Jerzy Grotowski, The Living Theatre, The Performance Group, The Open Theatre, Peter Brook, and Eugenio Barba. My aim has been to re-examine the work of these seven in order to produce evidence of their concern for affect, heightened experience, and the healing of mind-body schism. I propose that an understanding of these concerns provides a major critical key to the appraisal of the practitioners in question.
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Beattie, Louise. "Does sleep affect socio-emotional functioning?" Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2015. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6290/.

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In the first chapter I compare and contrast the extant literature on sleep loss and insomnia, including theories as to how insomnia develops and the role of the circadian and homeostatic systems. In Chapter 2 I summarize the extant literature on sleep, emotion perception, and social task performance, and review the relevant emotion literature. I then critically appraise this literature and suggest future directions for this field. In Chapter 3 I pilot an emotion recognition task among students, including measures of sleep and empathy. Results suggest that the previous nights’ sleep, as well as depression scores, are significant predictors of happiness recognition. In Chapter 4 I assess emotion recognition in insomnia using dynamic stimuli, and results suggest that insomnia disorder impairs the categorization accuracy of high intensity expressions of sadness and low intensity expressions of surprise. Sleep diary parameters were also found to be significant predictors of happiness recognition on both accuracy and reaction time measures. I then assess how normal sleepers perform with these stimuli in Chapter 5, testing subjects at different times since waking. Chapter 5 Experiment One suggests that the early group are more sensitive towards several temporal parameters, with no effects on emotion recognition. Chapter 5 Experiment Two suggests that normal sleepers tested early are less sensitive towards mid-intensity expressions of anger and sadness, with effects on intensity recognition. These results are interpreted in the context of differences with the two late-tested groups. Chapter 6 extends these results to static stimuli, with results suggesting that the early group tend to make more errors when categorizing happy faces. Chapter 7 returns to the daytime impairments in insomnia disorder, suggesting that theory of mind task performance is altered when reaction times are measured. As a result of issues raised in this thesis Chapter 8 systematically reviews the literature on how normal sleepers are screened for participation in research studies, suggesting future criteria. Chapter 9 summarizes these results in the context of hyperarousal and the etiology of insomnia disorder.
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Griffiths, Robert Peter. "Cyber athletes identification, competition, and affect implication /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1180009007.

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Brown, Christina Marie. "The Role of Affect in Self-Regulation." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1240420863.

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Zetzer, Emily E. "Examining Whether Instrument Changes Affect Song Recognition the Way Talker Changes Affect Word Recognition." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1463321447.

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Arapakis, Ioannis. "Affect-based information retrieval." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2010. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1867/.

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One of the main challenges Information Retrieval (IR) systems face nowadays originates from the semantic gap problem: the semantic difference between a user’s query representation and the internal representation of an information item in a collection. The gap is further widened when the user is driven by an ill-defined information need, often the result of an anomaly in his/her current state of knowledge. The formulated search queries, which are submitted to the retrieval systems to locate relevant items, produce poor results that do not address the users’ information needs. To deal with information need uncertainty IR systems have employed in the past a range of feedback techniques, which vary from explicit to implicit. The first category of feedback techniques necessitates the communication of explicit relevance judgments, in return for better query reformulations and recommendations of relevant results. However, the latter happens at the expense of users’ cognitive resources and, furthermore, introduces an additional layer of complexity to the search process. On the other hand, implicit feedback techniques make inferences on what is relevant based on observations of user search behaviour. By doing so, they disengage users from the cognitive burden of document rating and relevance assessments. However, both categories of RF techniques determine topical relevance with respect to the cognitive and situational levels of interaction, failing to acknowledge the importance of emotions in cognition and decision making. In this thesis I investigate the role of emotions in the information seeking process and develop affective feedback techniques for interactive IR. This novel feedback framework aims to aid the search process and facilitate a more natural and meaningful interaction. I develop affective models that determine topical relevance based on information gathered from various sensory channels, and enhance their performance using personalisation techniques. Furthermore, I present an operational video retrieval system that employs affective feedback to enrich user profiles and offers meaningful recommendations of unseen videos. The use of affective feedback as a surrogate for the information need is formalised as the Affective Model of Browsing. This is a cognitive model that motivates the use of evidence extracted from the psycho-somatic mobilisation that occurs during cognitive appraisal. Finally, I address some of the ethical and privacy issues that arise from the social-emotional interaction between users and computer systems. This study involves questionnaire data gathered over three user studies, from 74 participants of different educational background, ethnicity and search experience. The results show that affective feedback is a promising area of research and it can improve many aspects of the information seeking process, such as indexing, ranking and recommendation. Eventually, it may be that relevance inferences obtained from affective models will provide a more robust and personalised form of feedback, which will allow us to deal more effectively with issues such as the semantic gap.
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Crutchfield, Audra Louise Neumann Craig Stephen. "Negative affect and positive symptoms of psychosis." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2009. http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12109.

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Knarr, Abram J. "Do Peripheral HUD Warnings Affect Driving Ability?" Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10750884.

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Heads Up Display (HUD) technologies are being developed to assist drivers and reduce safety hazards. The current study used the Lane Change Task (LCT) and a Peripheral Detection Task (PDT) divided into high and low workload tracks to assess effects of employing a HUD to alert drivers to moving objects in their periphery that are possible hazards. The intent of the current study was to determine whether visual warnings displayed in either color, flashing, or color and flashing formats, would improve detection of moving stimuli without adversely impacting driving ability. Results indicated that the PDT had no significant effect on LCT performance. However, significant main effects of warning format and workload on reaction times, false alarm rates, and sensitivity were obtained. Performance on the PDT task was best when the warnings were non-flashing and yellow, especially in the low workload condition. Explanations of performance on both tasks are discussed.

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Last, Stephanie Jane. "Reading the Villain: The Psychology of Character in the Victorian Novel." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/29627.

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This thesis is concerned with the complex and unsettling villain that emerges from the Victorian novel. Moving away from simplified, black and white conceptions of the ‘bad character’, the novel offers a nuanced, vivid, uncertain picture of villainy. Recent contributions to character studies usefully acknowledge that characters can be both human-like entities and integral cogs in the formal structures of narratives, yet the specific import of the villain character remains an intractable problem. This thesis offers a new intervention into the character debate by focusing on the intricacies the ‘villain effect’ – that is, what one character type, the villain, does to readers and what plot requires of it. It scrutinises the affective impact of the villain, alongside its imperative contributions to narrative configuration and explication, in the works of Charles Dickens, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, Anthony Trollope, Wilkie Collins, and Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Given its tendency to spark confused and conflicted feelings rather than straightforwardly negative ones, the villain offers a unique way to address the psychology of reading. The experience of reading the villain is bound up in a specific type of fervid attachment entrenched in both negative and positive affect. The conundrum this thesis investigates, therefore, is why the villain produces dynamic psychological responses in readers, involving an overflow of feeling and paradoxical reactions which are difficult to reconcile. I draw primarily on psychoanalytic methodologies, which are attuned to fixations and ambivalences, to work through these knotty, heightened responses. Among others, Sigmund Freud’s theory of the uncanny and Julia Kristeva’s notion of abjection help to explicate the villain’s uniquely uncomfortable hold on readers. Silvan Tomkins’s theory of primary affect offers another psychological angle, illuminating the more instinctive dimensions of reader response.
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Nash, A. L., S. A. Stringer, Stacey L. Williams, C. J. Thompson, and M. A. Gaudio. "Humor and Writing Reduced Negative Affect." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8071.

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Stewart, Brad Randall. "Adolescent Perceptions, Affect, and Self-Efficacy." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1430919538.

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Yeung, Wing Man. "Affect, appraisal and consumer judgment /." View Abstract or Full-Text, 2003. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?MARK%202003%20YEUNG.

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McPherson, Terry Lee. "Competitive fencers' affect, the intuitive-reflective appraisal model." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0002/MQ36722.pdf.

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Roth, Rachel Anne. "Improving Middle School Students' Subjective Well-Being: Efficacy of a Multi-Component Positive Psychology Intervention Targeting Small Groups of Youth and Parents." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5573.

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A dual-factor model of mental health conceptualizes mental health status as a combination of both psychopathology and subjective well-being. Current literature indicates that complete mental health (i.e., low psychopathology, high subjective well-being) is associated with the best academic and social functioning among youth. Thus, the absence of psychopathology alone is not sufficient for student success. While research on interventions for improving subjective well-being, termed positive psychology interventions (PPIs), is increasing, PPIs for youth in particular lag behind similar interventions for adults. Additionally, a majority of youth-focused PPIs have targeted singular constructs (e.g., gratitude, character strengths), have neglected to include relevant stakeholders in youth's lives, and have not examined the impact of booster sessions on maintaining gains in subjective well-being. Research questions answered in the current study pertain to: (a) the impact of a comprehensive, multi-target, multi-component, small-group youth-focused PPI on students' subjective well-being and symptoms of psychopathology, and (b) the extent to which booster sessions can prevent students from experiencing post-intervention declines in subjective well-being and symptoms of psychopathology. To answer these questions, 42 seventh grade students were randomly assigned to either immediately receive the PPI or to a wait-list control group; all participants' subjective well-being and symptoms of psychopathology were analyzed across time. At immediate post-intervention, students who participated in the PPI made significant gains in all components of subjective well-being, and there was a trend for them to report less internalizing and externalizing symptoms of psychopathology relative to students in the wait-list control group. By seven-week follow-up, students who participated in the PPI exhibited sustained high levels of positive affect, and there was a trend for them to report sustained low levels of negative affect and internalizing symptoms of psychopathology relative to students in the wait-list control group. Thus, findings from the current study support this multi-component PPI as an evidence-based method for making long-lasting improvements in early adolescents' positive affect, a primary indicator of subjective well-being. Implications for school psychologists, contributions to the literature, and future directions are discussed.
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Kozar, Christina J. "Affect intensity and affect regulation in prisoners with a history of self-harm." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 1999. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1236.

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Prisoners with a history of self-harm have reported experiencing more anger (e.g., Hilbrand, Krystal, Sharpe, & Foster, 1994 ), and despair (e.g., Shea, 1993 ), and less ability to cope (e.g., Shea, 1993; Liebling, 1992) than prisoners with no history of self-harm. This suggests that intense negative affective experiences and less control over these states might be pervasive characteristics in individuals vulnerable to self-harm. The present study tested the hypotheses that high affect intensity, the tendency to experience both positive and negative emotional states intensely (Larsen & Diener, 1987), and deficits in negative affect regulation would be associated with self-harm behaviour. Twenty prisoners with a history of self-harm and twenty control prisoners rated emotional responsiveness on a modified version of the Affect Intensity Measure (Larsen & Diener, 1987), and the utility of strategies to decrease intense negative affective states on an affect regulation strategies checklist (ARSC). Prisoners with a history of self-harm reported experiencing significantly more intense- levels of negative affect and less experience of serene states than control prisoners. Positive affect intensity levels did not differ between groups. The self-harm group reported utilising a significantly more varied, but less efficient repertoire of affect regulation strategies. They also rated cognitive strategies significantly lower and aggressive strategies significantly higher. Results suggest that screening prisoners for intense negative emotional responsiveness and dysfunctional affect regulation may facilitate the identification and management of prisoners vulnerable to self-harm. Further research is required to validate the dimensions of the AlM(M) and the ARSC, and explore the mechanisms of intense negative affective experiences and self-harm behaviour.
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Carroll, James M. "The psychometrics of a bipolar valence activation model of self-reported affect." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ56520.pdf.

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Compeau, Larry D. "The influence of affect on product evaluations and search behavior : an integration of affect and the economics of information /." Diss., This resource online, 1991. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07282008-134310/.

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Wilson, Kacey Jo Pipes Randolph Berlin. "The relationship of affective training climate of doctoral counseling and clinical psychology training programs to student psychotherapist affect and professional development." Auburn, Ala, 2008. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/EtdRoot/2008/SUMMER/Counselor_Education/Dissertation/Wilson_Kacey_4.pdf.

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Sage, Adam. "Attributing deflections of others to explain agency." [Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=kent1259181941.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Kent State University, 2009.
Title from PDF t.p. (viewed April 14, 2010). Advisor: William Kalkhoff. Keywords: Affect Control Theory; attribution; emotions; agency. Includes bibliographical references (p. 26-28).
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Bland, Cassandra. "Influence of negative affect on false memory production." Thesis, City, University of London, 2017. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/17402/.

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This thesis investigates the effect of negative emotion induction on the production rate of false memories. False memories are a significant concern for situations in which the accuracy of memory is relied upon or called into question. Within the legal system eyewitness testimonies may often be the only available evidence in determining who committed a crime. In addition, in many clinical and counselling therapies memory is a central focus. In both sectors, emotion, particularly negative emotion, may affect the encoding and retrieval of false memories. Past research has previously shown that negative emotion, depending on the situation, can significantly increase, or protect against, false memory production. However, there are still many gaps in our understanding of these effects, and this thesis examines the effect of negative emotion inductions on the production of endogenous and exogenous false memories. With spontaneous endogenous false memory production, there is little known about the effect of discrete emotions, and emotion congruency. This thesis presents novel evidence of a discrete emotion congruency effect with spontaneous false memory production. This thesis also presents new perspectives on the effect of negative emotion on existing memories. Source memory errors for new false information are shown to be inflated for negative stimuli compared to neutral and positive. In addition, there is evidence that negative emotion inductions can alter the affective qualities of an already established neutral memory. The experiments presented support associative activation accounts of false memory production. The experimental evidence also demonstrates a need for future research to consider motivational aspects of emotion and investigate how goal relevance may facilitate false memory production.
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Hollett, Paul. "Parkinson's disease and the perception of body affect." Thesis, University of Hull, 2014. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:10421.

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Objective: Parkinson's disease (PD) is a degenerative neurological condition causing severe physical and cognitive impairments. Due to the severity of disability caused by PD, individuals are usually in need of long term care. Care is often provided by partners. This review aimed to discover the impact of PD upon the couple relationship. .Method: The search terms (Parkinson*) AND (Spous* OR Couple* OR Partner* OR Husband* OR Wife* OR Wive* OR Marital* OR Marriag* Or Relationship*) were entered into the PsycINFO, Scopus and PUBMED databases resulting in 12,810 papers. After assessments of suitability and the removal of duplicate papers 27 studies were included in this review. Results: PD was shown to have negative impacts on spouses and the spousal relationship. Particular PD symptoms caused specific negative effects. Negative impacts of PD were found to be mediated by a variety of factors internal and external to the spousal relationship. Discussion: Increased attention is needed into how negative outcomes of PD impact well partners and the partner relationship, in addition to factors which can mediate this. Clinical implications include areas for increased professional awareness and for targeted interventions. The findings also highlight possible further areas of research including; considering the effect of specific PD symptoms on the couple relationship and possible protective factors that minimise the effect of PD on well partners and couple dyads.
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Becker, Theresa M. "Differential effects of negative and positive affect on context processing." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5086.

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The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on September 15, 2009) Includes bibliographical references.
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Crutchfield, Audra. "Negative affect and positive symptoms of psychosis." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2009. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12109/.

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The current study utilized structural equation modeling (SEM) to examine the factor-to-factor relations and temporal associations between disturbances in negative affect (NA) and positive symptoms of psychosis (PP). Data were drawn from a large, public-domain data set (MacArthur Violence Risk Assessment Study). A dimensional approach was used to conceptualize and identify latent variables of NA (depression, anxiety, and guilt) and PP (hallucinations, delusions, and thought disorder) among individuals with a diagnosis of primary psychotic disorder. Results showed that anxiety, guilt, and depressed mood modeled an NA latent variable, and that hallucinations and unusual thought content modeled a PP latent variable. As predicted, results revealed strong, significant cross-sectional (synchronous) associations between NA and PP at each measured time-frame, suggesting that NA and PP occurred concurrently within the sample. Contrary to predictions, no significant cross-lagged effect between NA and PP was identified (10 weeks and 20 weeks respectively).
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Curtis, Guy. "The effect of anxiety on impression formation." University of Western Australia. School of Psychology, 2002. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2006.0125.

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[Truncated abstract] The anxiety-assimilation hypothesis (Wilder, 1993) and the capacity constraint plus control motivation model (Fiske & Morling, 1996) predict that anxiety causes people to form more stereotypic impressions of others. Affect-as-information (Schwarz & Clore, 1983) and affect-priming (Bower, 1991) theories predict that anxiety causes people to form affect-congruent (i.e., more threatening) impressions of others. A novel research paradigm was used in Experiment 1 to separate the predictions of these two classes of theories, recognizing that their predictions were not mutually exclusive. Experiment 1 found that anxious persons formed more threatening, but not more stereotypic, impressions of a target person. This result replicated in Experiment 2, with a different population and a different anxiety manipulation. In addition, Experiment 2 found that the anxiety-congruent bias in impression formation was limited to participants? ratings of traits that corresponded to the information presented about the target. The results of Experiments 1 and 2 were taken as support for an affect-priming rather than affect-as-information account of the effect of anxiety on impression formation. Experiments 3 and 4 investigated anxiety effects on encoding and recall that underlie affect-priming explanation of affect-congruent impression judgment biases. Experiment 3 found that anxious participants spent more time encoding non-stereotypic information and recalled less stereotypic information than non-anxious participants. In Experiment 4 anxious participants again recalled less stereotypic information. This study also found that anxious participants? recall and impression judgments were affect-congruent. ... As predicted by the modified affect-as-information theory, the affect-attribution manipulation left participants? anxiety levels unaltered but it did attenuate the anxiety-congruent impression bias. In addition, anxious participants in this study recalled less stereotypic than non-stereotypic information. The findings of this thesis raised several new questions and theoretical challenges. The new experimental paradigms that were used to examine the questions in this thesis will also allow the examination of the interplay of stereotypes and valence in judgments in future research for persons in affective states other than anxiety. Such research would allow for the continued revision and development of theories of affect and social cognition.
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Farias, Arielle B. "The Factors that Affect First-Generation Students’ College Enrollment and Success." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1516.

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The purpose of this thesis is to provide an analysis of the principal factors that affect first-generation students while traversing through the higher education pipeline. Specifically, this thesis will discuss the factors that affect the chances of first-generation students gaining admission to postsecondary institutions and later persisting to graduation in those institutions. In addition, this thesis will discuss the possibility of prescriptive policies in ameliorating the very real deficits that these students face in succeeding in college.
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Spatny, Jerry. "The positive effects of humor on affect and coping skills." Virtual Press, 1997. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1045630.

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The present study examined the relationship of sense of humor to affect and coping with humor ability. The participants were 147 Introductory Psychology students from Ball State University. Participants first took the Situational Humor Response Questionnaire (SHRQ: Martin & Lefcourt, 1984), then observed 1 of 3 videos (i.e., sad, neutral, or humorous), which was then followed by the Coping with Humor Scale (CHS: Martin & Lefcourt, 1983) and the Multiple Affect Adjective Check List (MAACL: Zuckerman & Lubin, 1965). The results indicate that sense of humor is inversely related to depression and hostility regardless of video condition but not with anxiety. Low sense of humor participants were influenced greatly as a function of the video condition but the high sense of humor paticipants were not. High sense of humor paticipants used humor to cope more than the low sense of humor participants in the sad video condition. The findings indicate that sense of humor is strongly related to depression, that depression levels can be reduced with a humor stimulus, and that those with a high sense of humor are more likely to use humor to cope with problems.
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Sirois, Fuschia M., Ryan Kitner, and Jameson K. Hirsch. "Self-Compassion, Affect, and Health-Promoting Behaviors." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/685.

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Objective: Emerging theory and research suggest that self-compassion promotes the practice of health behaviors, and implicates self-regulation as an explanatory factor. However, previous investigations focused only on behavior intentions or health risk behaviors, and did not investigate the role of emotions. This study expands on this research using a small-scale meta-analysis approach with our own data sets to examine the associations of self-compassion with a set of health-promoting behaviors, and test the roles of high positive affect and low negative affect as potential explanatory mechanisms. Method: Fifteen independent samples (N = 3,252) with correlations of self-compassion with the frequency of self-reported health-promoting behaviors (eating habits, exercise, sleep behaviors, and stress management) were meta-analyzed. Eight of these samples completed measures of positive and negative affect. Results: Self-compassion was positively associated with the practice of health-promoting behaviors across all 15 samples. The meta-analysis revealed a small effect size (average r = .25; p < .001) of self-compassion and health behaviors, with low variability. Tests of the indirect effects of self-compassion on health behaviors through positive and negative affect with multiple mediator analyses revealed small effects for each. Separate meta-analyses of the indirect effects (IE) were significant for positive (average IE = .08; p < .001) and negative affect (average IE = .06; p < .001), and their combined indirect effects (average IE = .15; p < .0001). Conclusion: Self-compassion may be an important quality to cultivate for promoting positive health behaviors, due in part to its association with adaptive emotions.
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Fuller, Elizabeth M. "An Examination of Underlying Causes for Differences in Affect-Rich and Affect-Poor Choice." Scholar Commons, 2018. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7152.

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Real life decision-making frequently involves some level of affect, and research has demonstrated that individuals decide differently when outcomes are more or less rich with feeling. This difference in choice has previously been attributed to probability insensitivity in the presence of affect. In a series of three studies, we explored this possibility, while also testing alternative explanations, namely, that differences exist because of outcome characteristics such as comparability or precision. Individuals made choices between affect-rich side effects and affect-poor monetary lotteries in either a strictly numeric format, or with the addition of an icon array. Across the three studies we found little evidence that the icon array was beneficial, casting doubt on the previous explanation that differences in affect-rich and affect-poor choice are due to probability insensitivity. Contrary to our predictions, we did not find evidence that differences in choice could be attributed to outcome comparability, as there continued to be decrements in affect-rich choice, despite making affect-rich outcomes more comparable. As predicted, when precision in each affective context was better equated by describing monetary outcomes in less precise terms, the difference in affect-rich and affect-poor choice disappeared. It appears that it is difficult to choose well when outcomes are vague, which we suggest is potentially the result of a challenge integrating probability and outcome information. This research is a first step in providing a viable explanation for the “affect gap” and contributes to our understanding of how and why affect-rich and affect-poor choice may differ.
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Cochrane, Angela J. "When to correct errors when teaching a new task to children with autism." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2016. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc955059/.

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The purpose of this experiment was to investigate Tosti's proposal about the timing of feedback. The study examined whether it is better to correct immediately after the error occurs or whether it is better to wait until immediately before the next opportunity to respond. In addition, it aimed to determine whether corrections delivered at different times produced different learner affects. Four children with autism were taught to label two sets of pictures under the two different conditions. Results showed that the timing of the feedback yields similar results in regards to number of correct responses and total trial count. However, in regards to time spent in teaching and learner affect, correcting errors before the next opportunity to respond showed to be the more efficient procedure and produced more favorable affect.
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Gallo, Melanie Cain. "The Impact of Need for Affect and Personality on Relationship Conflict in Groups." Thesis, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10603862.

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Relationship conflict in groups has been shown to be detrimental to group outcomes, and research notes that emotion or affect plays a significant part in its development. The Need for Affect (NFA) is a construct that reflects an individual’s attitude toward emotion and their level of desire to either approach or avoid emotion-inducing situations This study examined the relationship between NFA and relationship conflict in groups, then sought to determine whether the neuroticism personality trait was a moderator to that relationship. Members of 14 small workgroups (N = 68) in various organizations were administered a 67-question survey designed to (1) measure their individual need for affect level, (2) score their Big Five personality traits, and (3) measure intragroup conflict in their respective groups. Neuroticism was one of the five personality traits of interest because it has been shown to have a negative correlation with NFA. Pearson’s correlational analysis was run to test the neuroticism – NFA relationship, as well as the NFA – relationship conflict relationship. PROCESS moderation analysis was also conducted to test the moderation effect of neuroticism on the NFA – Conflict relationship. There was a significant negative correlation between neuroticism and NFA. However, no significant relationship existed between NFA and relationship conflict, and neuroticism did not significantly moderate that relationship.

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LaBarge, Monica Claire. "Integral affect and attitude strength in health communications /." view abstract or download file of text, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1421612801&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 189-197). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Sherman, Adam Grant. "Development of a test of facial affect recognition /." Access abstract and link to full text, 1994. http://0-wwwlib.umi.com.library.utulsa.edu/dissertations/fullcit/9510111.

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Phillips, Julie Ann. "Spouses' conflict profiles and the role of affect." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/185531.

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Marital research has demonstrated that one of the most important factors related to marital satisfaction is spouses' response to marital conflict. Three types of conflict behavior have been previously identified: problem solving, coercion, and avoidance. Problem solving has been linked to marital satisfaction, whereas coercion and avoidance have been linked to marital dissatisfaction. Previous marital researchers have studied couples' response to marital conflict as though spouses' typical response to conflict consists of only one of these types. In addition, marital researchers have only recently begun examining the role of emotion and cognitive processes in marital conflict. The present study is descriptive in nature and addresses three goals. First, subgroups of spouses and couples are identified based on the pattern of conflict behaviors they endorse. Second, relationships among perception of partner conflict behavior, specific emotions, and perception of self conflict behavior are explored. Third, sex differences found with regard to the first two goals are examined. Subjects consisted of two samples, a clinical sample and a research sample, resulting in a heterogeneous total sample of 117 couples. Cluster analysis identified four subgroups of husbands and five subgroups of wives. Differences in husband and wife clusters were consistent with previous marital conflict research. Although the valence of emotion was found to differentiate among the various subgroups of spouses, the type of emotion (e.g. sadness versus anger) was not found to differentiate these groups. However, regression analyses identified more complex relationships which varied with group identity and gender. In these relationships, the type of emotion was important. Limitations of the present study, clinical implications, and implications for future research are discussed.
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Delaunay, Annegracien. "The Effect of Choice in Exercise Intensity on Affect and Cognition." TopSCHOLAR®, 2011. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1090.

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While there are studies linking positive psychological outcomes with exercise, few have focused on choice as a moderating factor. The research that has examined choice as a moderator yielded mixed results. Currently no research has looked at the impact of choice of exercise intensity on the psychological benefits of acute exercise; specifically, affective and cognitive gains. According to Landers (2008), acute exercise refers to a single bout of exercise usually lasting a short duration, whereas chronic exercise refers to long term repeated bouts of exercise (e.g., weeks, months, or years). Participants in this study consisted of 117 collegiate psychology students. The study consisted of two trials. The first trial was used to establish a baseline. Next, students were randomly assigned to one of four conditions for the second trial. Everything stayed consistent from the first trial to the second trial, except the extent of choice given with regard to exercise intensity. Affect and cognition measures were given to all participants on both days. For trial two, group 1 was given full choice, e.g., they were able to exercise at their own pace. Group 2 had to exercise at the average pace from their first session, group 3 exercised at a pace equivalent to two rate of perceived exertion (RPE) levels above their average pace from the first session, and group 4 exercised at a pace two RPE levels below their average pace from the first session. A mixed model MANOVA was used to analyze the participants’ cognitive and affective data. Although the outcomes of the study were limited, Group 1 (choice) performed better on two of the executive function measures (Trail Making Test, Letter Number Sequence) for the second trial than the other experimental groups.
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McCord, Patricia A. "Nonverbal Evidence of Displaced Intergroup Affect." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2007. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/psych_theses/42.

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This study examined the effects of racial insult on the propensity to either categorize or individuate outgroup members. Reaction times and self-reports measures were employed to gauge reactions to an insulting video. White and African American participants heard an insult, and then completed the Go/No-Go Association Task (GNAT), as well as the Internal Motivation to Control Prejudice Scale (IMS) and the External Motivation to Control Prejudice Scale (IMS), the Motivation to Control Prejudice Scale (MCPRS) the Social Distance Scale (SDS), and made ratings on a feeling thermometer about the people in the insult video. African Americans showed more negative responses to outgroup members than Whites on the explicit measure, but Whites showed more negative responses to outgroup members than African Americans on the implicit measure.
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Seymore, Candice, and kelly Moore. "Affect intensity, drug motivations, and polysubstance use." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/asrf/2019/schedule/48.

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People often use substances to cope with intense emotions, but more research is needed in this area. The scale we used to measure affect intensity was the Affect Intensity Measure (AIM). The participants self-reported their substance use. Drawing from a sample of adults in substance use treatment (n=118), we used regression analysis to examine the relationship between affect intensity, drug use motivations, and polysubstance use. Having this information is crucial to understanding how emotional experiences can be related to substance use. By knowing this we can also alter treatment to be specific to the individual, in order to improve the success rate of treatment facilities. More research is needed examining the relationship between affect intensity, motivation for substance use, and substance use patterns among people who are receiving substance use treatment.
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Hamilton, Jessica Leigh. "Physiological Markers of Stress Generation and Affect Reactivity in Depression." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2017. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/460183.

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Although existing research has evaluated physiological and environmental risk factors for depression, these processes are often examined in isolation without considering the dynamic relationships in risk for depression. The present study evaluated physiological markers of resting and stress-reactive respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA and RSA reactivity) as predictors of depressive symptoms and interpersonal stress generation, a mutable and potent vulnerability for depression. Further, we examined whether stress generation predicted subsequent depressive symptoms. In a sample of late adolescents (N = 105; 18-22 years; 76% female), individuals who screened in for a history of clinical and subclinical depression participated in a micro-longitudinal assessment with a diagnostic interview, in-laboratory socio-evaluative stressor task, and two weeks of daily assessments of stressful events and depressive symptoms. First, results indicated that there were no clinical or physiological differences between individuals with a clinical or subclinical depression history. Our multilevel modeling analyses revealed that: 1) only lower levels of resting RSA predicted depressive symptoms over the two-week period; 2) only lower RSA reactivity predicted greater interpersonal stress generation, but not independent stressors; 3) interpersonal stress generation mediated the relationship between RSA reactivity and depressive symptoms, but not resting RSA and depressive symptoms; 4) sex differences only occurred in the relationship between resting RSA and depressive symptoms; and 5) there were no interactive effects of resting RSA and RSA reactivity on depression or interpersonal stress generation. These findings highlight the importance of assessing both resting RSA and RSA reactivity in the examination of depression and depression-related processes.
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Sampasivam, Lavanya. "Implicit beliefs, achievement goals and affect: a cross-cultural comparison." Thesis, McGill University, 2010. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=86820.

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Research suggests that the implicit theories students hold about learning predict the types of goals they set for learning and the consequences these belief-goal structures have on student cognition, affect, and behaviour. Although previous studies have indicated that individuals with incremental and entity theories of intelligence set mastery and performance goals for learning, respectively, there is a lack of studies testing the validity of this relationship across cultures. Caucasian (n = 58) and Asian (n = 38) students completed measures of their implicit beliefs about intelligence, their achievement goals, and affect. After learning a novel way to solve multiplication problems, participants were randomly assigned to a negative, positive, or no feedback condition. Participants' beliefs, goals and affect were reassessed following feedback. Results show that Asians did not endorse incremental theories of intelligence significantly more than Caucasians, that Asian students' endorsements of mastery and performance goals were highly correlated and that both Caucasian students and Asian students were significantly affected by negative performance feedback. These results are consistent with a growing body of research suggesting that current conceptualizations of achievement goal theory are not cross-culturally valid.
Cette recherche suggère que les théories implicites sur l'apprentissage qu'ont les étudiants prédisent les types but que ces derniers se fixent pour apprendre ainsi que les conséquences que ces structures de convictions d'apprentissage ont sur leurs cognition, leur affect et leur comportements. Malgré le fait que les études précédentes indiquent que les individus ayant un modèle d'intelligence incrémentale et d'entité se fixent respectivement des buts de maîtrisent et de performance pour apprendre, il y a un manque d'étude testant la validité de ces structures théorique à travers les cultures. Des étudiants caucasiens (n=58) et les asiatiques (n=38) ont complété des mesures de leurs convictions à propos de l'intelligence, de leurs buts d'accomplissement et leur affect. Après avoir appris une nouvelle méthode pour résoudre des multiplications, les participants ont été assignés au hasard à recevoir des remarques négatives, positives ou aucune remarque. Les convictions, buts et affect ont été réévalués suite à ces remarques. Les résultats montrent que les asiatiques n'appuient pas la théorie d'intelligence incrémentale de façon plus significative que les caucasiens, que la maîtrise et la performance chez les étudiants asiatiques sont hautement corrélés et que les étudiants caucasiens et asiatiques sont significativement affectés par des remarques négative sur leur performance. Ces résultats sont consistants avec une entité de recherches en constante évolution qui suggère que les présentes conceptualisations sur les théories des buts d'accomplissement sont valides à travers les cultures.
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Hsing, Courtney Kelly. "Third-person Visual Imagery Perspective Facilitates the Experience of General Affect as Emotion." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1524234813750027.

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Mojica, Andrew Joseph. "Can Semantic Activation Affect Figure Assignment?" Diss., The University of Arizona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/321450.

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Figure assignment entails competition between object properties on opposite sides of borders. The figure is perceived on the side of the border that wins the competition. Ample evidence indicates that configural familiarity is among the competing object properties. We investigated whether priming the semantics of a familiar object suggested along one side of a border can increase its likelihood of winning the competition. To prime the semantics, we presented brief masked exposures of object names before brief masked exposures of displays where a portion of a familiar object was suggested on one side of a central border separating two equal-area, black-and-white regions. Participants reported whether the figure lay on the left or right side of the central border and were unaware of the presence of the word prime. These experimental primes named either the Same Object (SO) or a Different Object (DO) as the familiar object suggested in the display. In the DO condition, the word named an object either in the Same Category (DO-SC) or a Different Category (DO-DC) as the familiar object suggested in the display, where superordinate category was defined as natural versus artificial objects. We also used non-words as control primes. We hypothesized that, if semantic activation influences figure assignment, participants in the SO and DO-SC conditions should be more likely than participants in the DO-DC condition to perceive the figure on the side where the familiar object lies following experimental primes than control primes. We did not observe differences between experimental and control prime in any condition. However, we did obtain a Prime Context Effect, in that participants were more likely to perceive the figure on the familiar side of the border in the SO and DO-SC conditions than in the DO-DC condition. The Prime Context Effect shows that participants discerned the relationship between the masked word prime and the semantics of the familiar object suggested in the display, and this led them to change their strategy on both experimental and control trials. We also found that behavior changed over the course of the experiment: Participants in the DO-DC condition perceived the figure on the familiar side of the border more often in the second half of the experiment, on both experimental and control trials. This pattern suggests that over the course of the experiment, they learned to rely more on information from the display than from the prime, perhaps by restricting their attention to the time when the figure-ground display appeared. Participants in the DO-SC condition perceived the figure on the familiar side of the border more often on experimental trials in the second half of the experiment, whereas their performance on control trials did not differ in the first and second half. We hypothesize that participants in the DO-SC condition learned to match the superordinate semantics of the experimental prime and the display, leading to semantic priming. Taken together, these results show that (1) participants can quickly learn the relationship between experimental primes and target displays and can change their strategy accordingly, and (2) semantic activation can affect figure assignment.
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Louth, Shirley May. "Alexithymia and the capacity to evaluate states of affect and pain." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0031/NQ27190.pdf.

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Castano, David Charles. "Affect and Online Privacy Concerns." NSUWorks, 2015. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/gscis_etd/41.

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of affect on privacy concerns and privacy behaviors. A considerable amount of research in the information systems field argues that privacy concerns, usually conceptualized as an evaluation of privacy risks, influence privacy behaviors. However, recent theoretical work shows that affect, a pre-cognitive evaluation, has a significant effect on preferences and choices in risky situations. Affect is contrasted with cognitive issues in privacy decision making and the role of affective versus cognitive-consequentialist factors is reviewed in privacy context. A causal model was developed to address how affect influences privacy concerns and privacy behaviors. The model of privacy risk proposed in this model argues that affect (or “feelings”) influences privacy behaviors directly as well as thru privacy concerns. To test the model, subjects were recruited using Mechanical Turk and paid for their participation. Affect, the key construct in this research, was measured using a word association technique as well as methods developed in the implicit attitudes research. Well-known scales were used to measure privacy concerns and behavioral intentions. Data was collected from subjects using a pretested privacy scenario. Data analysis suggests that, in line with published IS research, privacy concerns affect privacy behaviors. Affect has no impact on privacy concerns nor on privacy behaviors at the traditional 5% level of significance, though it is significant at the 10% level of significance. Improving the instruments used to measure affect, use of a large sample size to detect small effect sizes and more control over the instrument administration instead of an online survey are suggested for future research.
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Discont, Steve. "Workplace Mistreatment, Affect, and the Sexual Minority Experience." Thesis, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10608300.

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This study investigates the impact of low-intensity workplace mistreatment on affective outcomes for sexual minority workers. The study was grounded in affective events theory and minority stress theory. Data was composed of survey responses from a convenience sample of 380 U.S. adults who work full-time and identify as sexual minorities. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses revealed workplace incivility and heterosexist microaggressions significantly predicted negative discrete emotional reactions (i.e., anger, disgust, fear, guilt and sadness). Internalized heterosexism moderated the predictor-outcome relationship between incivility and affective disgust, and between heterosexist microaggressions and affective anger, disgust, and sadness, such that individuals with low internalized heterosexism had greater negative outcomes when forms of mistreatment were high. Results are discussed in terms of both their theoretical implications, and practical implications for organizational research and practice.

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Kristovics, Alexandra, University of Western Sydney, of Arts Education and Social Sciences College, and School of Psychology. "Anxiety sensitivity within the structural model of affect." THESIS_CAESS_PSY_Kristovics_A.xml, 2002. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/768.

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This study examines physiological aspects of anxiety using different scales.Anxiety can be positively related to the high-order dimension of negative affect only, whereas depression is not only positively related to negative affect but is also negatively related to the higher-order dimension of positive affect.In this thesis, an exploration of the factor structure of the ASI was undertaken, as well as other measures of anxiety and hyperchondriasis using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA).Some results indicated that most constructs examined are multidimensional.Socially observable symptoms were also negatively related to positive affect (lack of self assurance) and mental incapacitation were positively related to guilt.There must be some consensus on the meaning of anxiety in order to establish its relationship with the higher-order dimensions of positive and negative affect. Results point to the importance of examining the construct validity of various scales
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