Emotions, is the generic term for various subjective cognitive experiences and a psychological and physiological synthesized state generates under a variety of perceptions, thoughts, and behaviours. In general, emotion can be categorized into Joyful, Angry, Protected, Sad, Surprised, Fear, Satisfied and Unconcerned eight types of positive-negative emotions. More subtle and delicate emotions inc...

Three studies involving 104 undergraduates sought to examine how an individual's level of life satisfaction organizes their knowledge concerning the self's emotions. Participants judged the self's positive and negative emotions within a computerized task. Key results sought to determine whether judging two positive emotions in a consecutive sequence speeds the second judgment--a pattern of prim...

The assumption that positive affect leads to a better performance in simple cognitive tasks has become well established. We address the question whether positive and negative emotions differentially influence performance in complex problemsolving in the same way. Emotions were induced by positive or negative feedback in 74 participants who had to manage a computer-simulated complex problemsolvi...

r e s u M e n En este estudio se analiza el papel de las emociones en la protesta política. En los modelos actuales, la ira es la única emoción que se asocia a esas acciones. Sin embargo, los autores creen que no es la única emoción que moviliza a la ciudadanía, por ello afirman que junto a ella deben existir otras de valencia positiva. En este estudio participaron 316 estudiantes universitario...

“Despite of military’s captivation with high technologies systems, human performance remains the keystone of successful military operations” [1]. Cognitive enhancing-drugs strategies has been developed to improve the normal span of human abilities for completing mission essential tasks. A combination of certain attitudes and behaviours constituting a more natural approach based on physical trai...

Kok, B. E., Coffey, K. A., Cohn, M. A., Catalino, L. I., Vacharkulksemsuk, T., Algoe, S. B., . . . Fredrickson, B. L. (2013). How positive emotions build physical health: Perceived positive social connections account for the upward spiral between positive emotions and vagal tone. Psychological Science, 24, 1123-1132. (Original DOI: 10.1177/0956797612470827).

Although dozens of studies have examined the autonomic nervous system (ANS) aspects of negative emotions, less is known about ANS responding in positive emotion. An evolutionary framework was used to define five positive emotions in terms of fitness-enhancing function, and to guide hypotheses regarding autonomic responding. In a repeated measures design, participants viewed sets of visual image...

While it has been suggested that loving-kindness meditation (LKM) is an effective practice for promoting positive emotions, the empirical evidence in the literature remains unclear. Here, we provide a systematic review of 24 empirical studies (N = 1759) on LKM with self-reported positive emotions. The effect of LKM on positive emotions was estimated with meta-analysis, and the influence of vari...

this article, being in the modern field of sociology of emotions, studies the leadership of emotions during the islamic revolution by imam khomeini. inspired by the views of flam, king, polletta, jaspers & goodwin, this paper examines the requirements of transformation of counter-mobilizing emotions to the mobilizing ones that lead to the active protest against status quo, through emotional lib...