Affect - Research News and Information

Thursday, November 20, 2008

"How long will I suffer?" versus "How long will you suffer?" A self-other effect in affective forecasting.

29 Sep 2008 This research presents evidence that people predict longer durations of negative affect for others than for themselves. It is argued that this self-other effect is based on the asymmetric availability of knowledge about psychological strategies ... Read more...

Me, myself, and us: salient self-threats and relational connections.

29 Sep 2008 Guided by their own amoebic self theory (C. T. Burris and J. K. Rempel, 2004), in 6 studies the authors explore the impact that involvement in an intimate relationship has on how a person appraises and responds to threat. They first show that ... Read more...

Massage therapy versus simple touch to improve pain and mood in patients with advanced cancer: a randomized trial.

12 Sep 2008 BACKGROUND: Small studies of variable quality suggest that massage therapy may relieve pain and other symptoms. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the efficacy of massage for decreasing pain and symptom distress and improving quality of life among persons with ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Affect'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• "How long will I suffer?" versus "How long will you suffer?" A self-other effect in affective forecasting. 29 Sep 2008
• Me, myself, and us: salient self-threats and relational connections. 29 Sep 2008
• Massage therapy to improve pain and mood in patients with advanced cancer. 12 Sep 2008
• Massage therapy versus simple touch to improve pain and mood in patients with advanced cancer: a randomized trial. 12 Sep 2008
• Symptoms and behavior problems of adolescents and adults with autism: effects of mother-child relationship quality, warmth, and praise. 30 Aug 2008
• Assessing regulatory emotional self-efficacy in three countries. 30 Aug 2008
• On the dimensionality of the Dispositional Hope Scale. 30 Aug 2008
• When differentiation and negative affect lead to integration and growth. 30 Aug 2008
• Anxiety and cognitive efficiency: differential modulation of transient and sustained neural activity during a working memory task. 30 Aug 2008
• Differential age trajectories of positive and negative affect: further evidence from the Berlin Aging Study. 30 Aug 2008
• The impact of a character posture model on the communication of affect in an immersive virtual environment. 28 Aug 2008
• Affective mechanisms linking dysfunctional behavior to performance in work teams: a moderated mediation study. 28 Aug 2008
• Blinded by anger or feeling the love: how emotions influence advice taking. 28 Aug 2008
• Collaborative coping and daily mood in couples dealing with prostate cancer. 28 Aug 2008
• [The serotonin transporter gene and personality: association of the 5-HTTLPR s allele, anxiety, depression and affective temperaments] 13 Aug 2008
• Event-related potential correlates of negation in a sentence-picture verification paradigm. 28 Jul 2008
• Indoors illumination and seasonal changes in mood and behavior are associated with the health-related quality of life. 28 Jul 2008
• [Cognitive and affective variables as predictors of life satisfaction] 28 Jul 2008
• Takotsubo cardiomyopathy in a patient with emotional stress. 28 Jul 2008
• Affective ratings of sound stimuli. 28 Jul 2008

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Technical information about 'Affect'

Definition: The feeling-tone accompaniment of an idea or mental representation. It is the most direct psychic derivative of instinct and the psychic representative of the various bodily changes by means of which instincts manifest themselves.

Descriptor UI: D000339

Alternative terms: Affect; Affects; Mood; Moods;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics;

Tree Number: F01.470.047;

History Note: 65(64); was see under EMOTIONS 1963-64