Affect & race/(Blackness)

How Does Real Affect Affect Affect Recognition In Speech?

Lexical Affect Sensing: Are Affect Dictionaries Necessary to Analyze Affect?

Recently, there has been considerable interest in the automated recognition of affect from written and spoken language. In this paper, we investigate how information on a speaker’s affect may be inferred from lexical features using statistical methods. Dictionaries of affect offer great promise to affect sensing since they contain information on the affective qualities of single words or phrase...

Positive Affect, Negative Affect, and Social Interaction

Two studies explored the relations of positive and negative affect (PA and NA) to social interaction. In Study 1, unacquainted dyads were surreptitiously videotaped as they participated in a 6-min interaction. Participants then evaluated the quality of the interaction. Independent observers also rated the videotaped interactions. Trait PA was positively related to both participant and observer ...

share of Pleasure seeking, positive affect, negative affect, and sense of self-efficacy in relapse to drug

The purpose of this study is to share of Pleasure seeking, positive affect, negative affect, and sense of self-efficacy in relapse to drug. This study design was Descriptive and correlational. The study population consisted of all addicts return to a drug relapse occurred in less than one year And referred to addiction treatment centers in Tehran in 1395 was the 8th District Improved convenient...

Does fluid restriction affect the image quality of skeletal scintigraphy?

Introduction: In Islamic countries in the month of Holy Ramadan many Muslims based on their religious Legislation refuse fluid intake during the fasting time though instructed to drink after injection of Tc-99m Methylene-diphosphonates [Tc-99m MDP] used for skeletal scintigraphy. We aimed to establish whether fluid restriction in Tc-99m MDP skeletal scintigraphy has an impact on its quality. M...