Watching affective Pictures

Freezing in Posttraumatic stress Disorder Patients while Watching affective Pictures

A Digital Photography Framework Supporting Social Interaction and Affective Awareness

Photographs have significant social roles. For example, they help families and friends to preserve an affective link and provide a support for communication. The increasing popularity of digital photography, combined with global networking, is likely to emphasize this function as sharing photographs will become cheaper, faster and easier. Based on this observation, we propose a framework allowi...

Subjective Responses to Emotional Stimuli During Labeling, Reappraisal, and Distraction

Although multiple neuroimaging studies suggest that affect labeling (i.e., putting feelings into words) can dampen affect-related responses in the amygdala, the consequences of affect labeling have not been examined in other channels of emotional responding. We conducted four studies examining the effect of affect labeling on self-reported emotional experience. In study one, self-reported distr...

Positively Picturing Pain? Using Patient-generated Pictures to Establish Affective Visual Design Qualities

Pictures (non-affective) 3 1 0 4 24 Abstract Pictures (affective) 0 0 0 0 0Pictures (affective) 0 0 0 0 0 Literal Pictures (non-affective) 28 0 13 28 29 Literal Pictures (affective) 0 1 0 0 0

Approach-avoidance activation without anterior asymmetry

Occasionally, the expected effects of approach-avoidance motivation on anterior EEG alpha asymmetry fail to emerge, particularly in studies using affective picture stimuli. These null findings have been explained by insufficient motivational intensity of, and/or overshadowing interindividual variability within the responses to emotional pictures. These explanations were systematically tested us...