To study the influence of musical education on emotional reactions to dissonance, we examined self-reports and physiological responses to dissonant and consonant musical excerpts in listeners with low (LE: n=15) and high (HE: n=13) musical experience. The results show that dissonance induces more unpleasant feelings and stronger physiological responses in HE than in LE participants, suggesting ...

This paper provides a conceptual, theoretical, and empirical overview of the concept of the transcendent experience. The principal goal is to formalize a scientific field around the study of dimensions, determinants, and health outcomes of transcendence. This is accomplished through posing several fundamental questions and then answering them as concisely as possible in light of current theory ...

Increased emotional distress is linked to greater physiological reactions. During relationship conflict, these physiological reactions impact each partner’s physiological and physical well being. This emotional and physiological disturbance has been seen in direct relationship conflicts. Even though the aspect of the conflict that these disturbances are linked to creates physiological reaction,...

objective: stress and other emotional distress are prevalent among cardiovascular patients. this study is performed to investigate the effect of medical counseling on stress and physiological factors of patients after coronary artery bypass graft surgery (cabg) and percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (ptca).   methods: this study is of experimental type with pre-test, post-test and c...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Many theories of emotion have postulated a close relationship of the feedback of physiological changes and their perception with emotional experience. This paper reviews recent advances in theory and brain-imaging research on this topic of interoception and describes a hypothetical model of the potential mechanisms. RECENT FINDINGS Research from patients with spinal-cord inj...

Conversation analytical studies on emotion show how expression of is part the intersubjective experience. Emotions, however, are as much physiological experiential events. Physiological processes pertaining to involve changes in cardiovascular activity, activation sweat glands, and muscular activity. The dyadic systems theory by Beebe Lachmann (2002) suggests that actions regulate social intera...