Interjection has no concrete meaning like noun, verb, nor adjective. It appears in spoken language to express one’s emotion a certain condition or situation. The interjection 哎呀 aiya is one of the most frequently used modern Chinese. Concerning哎呀, Oxford Concise Chinese Dictionary (2010:1) only mentions that 哎呀is surprise discontent. We presume there are more emotions available be expressed. Ba...

Although it has often been presumed that jobs involving “people work” (e.g., nurses, service workers) are emotionally taxing (Maslach & Jackson, 1982), seldom is the emotional component of these jobs explicitly studied. The current study compared two perspectives of emotional labor as predictors of burnout beyond the effects of negative affectivity: job-focused emotional labor (work demands reg...

The current study investigated if deficits in processing emotional expression affect facial identity processing and vice versa in children with autism spectrum disorder. Children with autism and IQ and age matched typically developing children classified faces either by emotional expression, thereby ignoring facial identity or by facial identity disregarding emotional expression. Typically deve...