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Instructed fear, which denotes fearful emotions learned from others’ verbal instructions, is an important form of fear acquisition in humans. Maladaptive instructed fear produces detrimental effects on health, but little is known about performing an ...
Yicheng Zhang+9 more
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The interplay between schizophrenia liability and environmental influences has been considered to be responsible for the development of schizophrenia. Recent neuroimaging studies have linked aberrant functional connectivity (FC) between the default-mode ...
Hye Yoon Park+6 more
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Demonstration of an app-delivered digital therapeutic program for methamphetamine use disorder
This study assessed the feasibility and utility of a digital, all-virtual program designed for treatment of methamphetamine use disorder (MUD). Forty-nine adults with moderate- to severe-level MUD (per DSM-5 criteria) commenced the 8-week intervention ...
Kristin Muhlner+5 more
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Many decisions are curated, incentivised, or nudged by a third party. Despite this, only a handful of studies have looked at paternalistic decision-makers and the processes by which they arrive at their decisions. The role of affect, in particular, has been ignored so far, and yet restricting agency on a potentially large group of people might be ...
Paul Dolan+2 more
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There is increasing evidence that sleep plays an important role in affective processing. However, it is unclear whether dreaming—the subjective experiences we have during sleep—also serves an affect regulation function. Here, we investigated the within-person relationship between negative affect experienced in dreams and next-day waking affect level ...
Pilleriin Sikka+6 more
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Controversy and Growth Points in the Activity Theory in Psychology [PDF]
Background. Activity theory is the most powerful and influential current of Russian psychology in the world today. It considers the psyche to be a special form or function of object-oriented activity.
Andrey D. Maidansky
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The Importance of Multimodal Emotion Conditioning and Affect Consistency for Embodied Conversational Agents [PDF]
Previous studies regarding the perception of emotions for embodied virtual agents have shown the effectiveness of using virtual characters in conveying emotions through interactions with humans. However, creating an autonomous embodied conversational agent with expressive behaviors presents two major challenges. The first challenge is the difficulty of
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Anxiety and Depression Assessments in a Mouse Model of Congenital Blindness
Previous studies have reported that visual impairment can affect the quality of life leading to mental health disorders. This study aimed to investigate associations between vision impairment, depression and anxiety using a mouse model of congenital ...
Nouhaila Bouguiyoud+7 more
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Affective visualization in Virtual Reality: An integrative review [PDF]
A cluster of research in Affective Computing suggests that it is possible to infer some characteristics of users' affective states by analyzing their electrophysiological activity in real-time. However, it is not clear how to use the information extracted from electrophysiological signals to create visual representations of the affective states of ...
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DNA methylation profiling to assess pathogenicity of BRCA1 unclassified variants in breast cancer [PDF]
Germline pathogenic mutations in BRCA1 increase risk of developing breast cancer. Screening for mutations in BRCA1 frequently identifies sequence variants of unknown pathogenicity and recent work has aimed to develop methods for determining pathogenicity.
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