Affect
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Friday, November 20, 2009

Felt obligation to help others as a protective factor against losses in psychological well-being following functional decline in middle and later life.

11 Oct 2009 This study examined felt obligation to help others in two domains (close others and society) as protective factors against losses in psychological well-being following functional decline. Lagged-dependent regression models were estimated using data ... Read more...

Rapid emotion regulation after mood induction: age and individual differences.

4 Oct 2009 Previous research has suggested that emotion regulation improves with age. This study examined both age and individual differences in online emotion regulation after a negative mood induction. We found evidence that older adults were more likely to ... Read more...

Persons with mild and moderate Alzheimer's disease use verbal-instruction technology to manage daily activities: effects on performance and mood.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: To extend the evaluation of verbal-instruction technology for helping persons with mild and moderate Alzheimer's disease recapture daily activities and improve their mood. METHODS: Two studies targeted two activities (i.e. snack ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Affect'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Felt obligation to help others as a protective factor against losses in psychological well-being following functional decline in middle and later life. 11 Oct 2009
• Rapid emotion regulation after mood induction: age and individual differences. 4 Oct 2009
• Persons with mild and moderate Alzheimer's disease use verbal-instruction technology to manage daily activities: effects on performance and mood. 29 Sep 2009
• Physiological and psychological effects of escape from a sunken submarine on shore and at sea. 29 Sep 2009
• The role of mindfulness in borderline personality disorder features. 29 Sep 2009
• Effects of preoperative ibuprofen on pain after separator placement. 29 Sep 2009
• Age-related alterations in simple declarative memory and the effect of negative stimulus valence. 29 Sep 2009
• Testosterone and unconscious positive priming increase human motivation separately. 21 Sep 2009
• N400 during recognition of voice identity and vocal affect. 21 Sep 2009
• Association of an educational program in mindful communication with burnout, empathy, and attitudes among primary care physicians. 21 Sep 2009
• Effect of acute antidepressant administration on negative affective bias in depressed patients. 13 Sep 2009
• Efficacy of electroconvulsive therapy in Fahr disease associated with bipolar psychotic disorder: a case report. 30 Aug 2009
• Both happy and sad melodies modulate tonic human heat pain. 30 Aug 2009
• Psychological mood state of opiate addicted women during pregnancy and postpartum in comparison to non-addicted healthy women. 30 Aug 2009
• Transdermal estradiol for postpartum depression: a promising treatment option. 30 Aug 2009
• Gaze behavior and affect at 6 months: predicting clinical outcomes and language development in typically developing infants and infants at risk for autism. 30 Aug 2009
• Competition affects food choice in women. 30 Aug 2009
• Studying affect among the Chinese: the circular way. 30 Aug 2009
• Impact of acute tryptophan depletion on mood and eating-related urges in bulimic and nonbulimic women. 30 Aug 2009
• Effects of overnight sleep restriction on brain chemistry and mood in women with unipolar depression and healthy controls. 30 Aug 2009

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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