What are ‘positive’ affect and emotion?

Emotion Positive Affect , Social Connectedness , and Healthy

What Are Emotion Theories About?

This is a set of notes relating to an invited talk at the cross-disciplinary workshop on Architectures for Modeling Emotion at the AAAI Spring Symposium at Stanford University in March 2004. The organisers of the workshop note that work on emotions “is often carried out in an ad hoc manner”, and hope to remedy this by focusing on two themes (a) validation of emotion models and architectures, an...

What Are Emotion Expressions For?

Although research on the nonverbal expression of emotion has played a prominent role throughout psychology during the past two decades—including an instrumental role in the development of contemporary evolutionary psychology—little research has focused on the evolutionary origins and functions of the emotional expressions themselves. However, recent findings from psychophysical, comparative, so...

Positive/ Negative Affect, Strategies of Cognitive Emotion Regulation and Alexithymia in Female Patients with Migraine Headache

Background and Purpose: The most common headache, migraine, is a recurring and pulsing pain together with nausea, which may last for 4 to 72 hours. Since migraine has multiple biological, psychological, and environmental causes, it is considered a chronic disease by health psychologists. This comparative and investigative research aims to answer this essential question that whether positive and...

Associations between Positive and Negative Affect and Emotion Regulation Strategies

Cognitive reappraisal is an antecedent-focused emotion regulation strategy that involves changing the emotional impact of a situation by changing thoughts about it. Expressive suppression is a response-focused emotion regulation strategy that involves inhibiting ongoing behavioral response to an emotional situation. Reappraisal is generally an effective strategy related to more positive experie...