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The Language and Affect of Belief [PDF]

, 2019
Research on emotion in anthropology has been supplanted by an ethnographic turn toward ‘subjectivity’, ‘embodiment’, ‘personhood’, and ‘experience’. In this article, I explore how these interrelated modes of analysis can help ethnographers to better ...
Schultz, Callan
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Reasons and Theories of Sensory Affect [PDF]

, 2018
Some sensory experiences are pleasant, some unpleasant. This is a truism. But understanding what makes these experiences pleasant and unpleasant is not an easy job. Various difficulties and puzzles arise as soon as we start theorizing.
Aydede, Murat, Fulkerson, Matthew
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Trait self-consciousness predicts amygdala activation and its functional brain connectivity during emotional suppression: an fMRI analysis

Scientific Reports, 2017
The present functional magnetic resonance imaging study investigated how trait neuroticism and its heterogeneous subdimensions are related to the emotional consequences and neural underpinnings of emotion regulation. Two levels of neuroticism assessments
Shengdong Chen, Changming Chen, Jiemin Yang, Jiajin Yuan   +3 more
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The sexuality assemblage: Desire, affect, anti-humanism [PDF]

, 2013
Two theoretical moves are required to resist the ‘humanist enticements’ associated with sexuality. Post-structuralism supplies the first, showing how the social produces culturally-specific sexual knowledgeabilities.
Alldred, P, Fox, NJ
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Placebo response in trials with patients with anxiety, obsessive-compulsive and stress disorders across the lifespan: a three-level meta-analysis

BMJ Mental Health, 2023
Question Randomised controlled trials assessing treatments for anxiety, obsessive-compulsive and stress-related disorders often present high placebo response rates in placebo groups.
Pim Cuijpers, Luis Souza Motta, Natan Pereira Gosmann, Marianna de Abreu Costa, Marianna de Barros Jaeger, Júlia Frozi, Laura Tietzmann Grevet, Lucas Spanemberg, Gisele Gus Manfro, Daniel Samuel Pine, Giovanni Salum   +10 more
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Does drying affect gel networks? [PDF]

, 2018
The properties of low molecular weight gels are determined by the underlying, self-assembled network. To access information on the network, it is common for techniques to be used that require the gel to be dried, such as transmission electron microscopy ...
Adams, Dave J.
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Affective Engagement in Knowledge-making

Tecnoscienza, 2022
This article provides an overview of the discussion animating the track “Doing research in technoscience as affective engagement” organised at the VIII STS Italia Conference.
Michela Cozza
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Neural correlates of altered reward-driven attention in chronic pain and opioid use

Scientific Reports
While attentional processing of reward may be altered in chronic pain, the neural circuits underlying these alterations, and impact from opioid use have remained unclear. To investigate the neural representation of attentional processing in chronic pain,
Su Hyoun Park, Anne K. Baker, Katherine T. Martucci   +2 more
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Armchair Evaluative Knowledge and Sentimental Perceptualism

Philosophies, 2023
We seem to be able to acquire evaluative knowledge by mere reflection, or “from the armchair.” But how? This question is especially pressing for proponents of sentimental perceptualism, which is the view that our evaluative knowledge is rooted in ...
Michael Milona
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Affect and strategy use in independent language learning [PDF]

, 2008
Affect is about emotions and feelings, moods and attitudes, anxiety, tolerance of ambiguity and motivation. For some it is also connected with dispositions and preferences (Oatley & Jenkins, 1996).
Hurd, Stella
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