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Evidence for animal grief?

open access: yesAnimal Sentience, 2016
The nature of evidence appropriate to the study of animal emotion (and cognition) is discussed in this review with reference to Barbara King’s book.
Carolyn Ristau
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Thigmotaxis in a virtual human open field test

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
Animal models are used to study neurobiological mechanisms in mental disorders. Although there has been significant progress in the understanding of neurobiological underpinnings of threat-related behaviors and anxiety, little progress was made with ...
Daniel Gromer   +2 more
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Psychological Effects of Biological Warfare [PDF]

open access: yesMilitary Medicine, 2001
We compare and contrast psychological and behavioral reactions to bioterrorism with responses to the use of traditional and chemical weapons by terrorists. We discuss the characteristics of biological agents that make them potent agents of terror. We suggest strategies for preparation and response to bioterrorism.
A E, Norwood, H C, Holloway, R J, Ursano
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Jigsaw Puzzles As Cognitive Enrichment (PACE) - the effect of solving jigsaw puzzles on global visuospatial cognition in adults 50 years of age and older: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

open access: yesTrials, 2017
Background Neurocognitive disorders are an important societal challenge and the need for early prevention is increasingly recognized. Meta-analyses show beneficial effects of cognitive activities on cognition. However, high financial costs, low intrinsic
Patrick Fissler   +6 more
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Pain-Related and Negative Semantic Priming Enhances Perceived Pain Intensity

open access: yesPain Research and Management, 2014
BACKGROUND: Negative affective and pain-related cues, such as pictures or words, have been shown to act as primes and enhance the perceived intensity of subsequent painful events.
Maria Richter   +7 more
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Evaluation of an eye tracking setup for studying visual attention in face-to-face conversations

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
Many eye tracking studies use facial stimuli presented on a display to investigate attentional processing of social stimuli. To introduce a more realistic approach that allows interaction between two real people, we evaluated a new eye tracking setup in ...
Antonia Vehlen   +4 more
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The encoding of stochastic regularities is facilitated by action-effect predictions

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
Our brains continuously build and update predictive models of the world, sources of prediction being drawn for example from sensory regularities and/or our own actions.
Betina Korka   +2 more
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Asymmetrical Update of Beliefs About Future Outcomes is Driven by Outcome Valence and Social Group Membership

open access: yesInternational Review of Social Psychology, 2023
People are eager to update their beliefs, such as a perceived risk, if they receive information that is better than expected but are reluctant to do so when the evidence is unfavourable.
Mihai Dricu   +3 more
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Self-rated social-emotional perception and its neurophysiologic and cardiac correlates while viewing a film showing the suffering of other people

open access: yesInternational Journal of Psychological Research, 2013
Using electroencephalographic (EEG) and cardiac measures, the study examined relevant mechanisms that may explain individual differences in self-rated emotion perception (i.e., the propensity of perceiving the emotional states of other persons in ...
Ilona Papousek   +5 more
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Gambling Environment Exposure Increases Temporal Discounting but Improves Model-Based Control in Regular Slot-Machine Gamblers

open access: yesComputational Psychiatry, 2022
Gambling disorder is a behavioral addiction that negatively impacts personal finances, work, relationships and mental health. In this pre-registered study (https://osf.io/5ptz9/) we investigated the impact of real-life gambling environments on two ...
Ben Wagner, David Mathar, Jan Peters
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