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Oxytocin and social pretreatment have similar effects on processing of negative emotional faces in healthy adult males [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Oxytocin has been shown to affect several aspects of human social cognition, including facial emotion processing. There is also evidence that social stimuli (such as eye-contact) can effectively modulate endogenous oxytocin levels.
Hernádi, Anna   +3 more
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The Influence of Sleep on the Consolidation of Positive Emotional Memories: Preliminary Evidence

open access: yesAIMS Neuroscience, 2014
Studies have not only shown that a period of sleep following learning offers greater benefits to later memory than a period of wakefulness, but also that sleep actively promotes those components of memories that are emotionally salient.
Alexis M. Chambers, Jessica D. Payne
doaj   +1 more source

The Qingdao Preschooler Facial Expression Set: Acquisition and Validation of Chinese Children’s Facial Emotion Stimuli

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
Traditional research on emotion-face processing has primarily focused on the expression of basic emotions using adult emotional face stimuli. Stimulus sets featuring child faces or emotions other than basic emotions are rare.
Jie Chen   +5 more
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Towards a Positive Welfare Protocol for Cattle: A Critical Review of Indicators and Suggestion of How We Might Proceed

open access: yesFrontiers in Animal Science, 2021
Current animal welfare protocols focus on demonstrating the absence (or at least low levels) of indicators of poor welfare, potentially creating a mismatch between what is expected by society (an assurance of good animal welfare) and what is actually ...
Linda J. Keeling   +3 more
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Beyond happiness: Building a science of discrete positive emotions. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
While trait positive emotionality and state positive-valence affect have long been the subject of intense study, the importance of differentiating among several "discrete" positive emotions has only recently begun to receive serious attention.
Campos, Belinda   +5 more
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The effects of compassion experienced by SME employees on affective commitment: Double-mediation of authenticity and positive emotion [PDF]

open access: yesManagement Science Letters, 2019
The purpose of this study is to empirically examine the effects of compassion experienced by small-to-medium enterprise (SME) employees on affective commitment through authenticity and positive emotion. This study was conducted with 200 employees working
Sung-Hoon Ko, Yongjun Choi
doaj   +1 more source

Influence of distributive justice on organizational citizenship behaviors: The mediating role of gratitude

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
Distributive justice is known to have important emotional and affective outcomes. The present study explores the role of distributive justice as an antecedent to feelings of gratitude toward the organization.
R. Bala Subramanian   +2 more
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Joy and calm: how an evolutionary functional model of affect regulation informs positive emotions in nature [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Key theories of the human need for nature take an evolutionary perspective, and many of the mental well-being benefits of nature relate to positive affect.
Maratos, Frances A.   +3 more
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Criterion and incremental validity of the emotion regulation questionnaire. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Although research on emotion regulation (ER) is developing, little attention has been paid to the predictive power of ER strategies beyond established constructs. The present study examined the incremental validity of the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire
Ioannidis, CA, Siegling, AB
core   +6 more sources

Coping With COVID-19: The Benefits of Anticipating Future Positive Events and Maintaining Optimism

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
In early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic forced a large portion of the world into quarantine, leading to an extensive period of stress making it necessary to explore regulatory techniques that are effective at stimulating long-lasting positive emotion ...
Calissa J. Leslie-Miller   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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