Hei-Lim (Michael) Lio Raymond Rody This study investigates the emotional impact of casino servicescape among Chinese table games gambling participants, and its impact on their approach/avoidance behavior. Data on casino servicescape, pleasure, arousal and dominance emotion (PAD) and approach/avoidance responses were obtained from 158 Chinese gamblers in Macau and analyzed using path analysis. T...

It required the literary man to base his artistic output on a basic basis from which achieve creativity, and trends currents have varied, specifically in postmodern period, directed its attention margins casual things. Accordingly, we will try discover search for what was rejected excluded by schools, while symbolism school interested considered it as an original reference them. There are some ...

Literature containing supra-natural, or magical events has enchanted generations of readers. When reading narratives describing such events, readers mentally simulate a text world different from the real one. The corresponding violation of world-knowledge during this simulation likely increases cognitive processing demands for ongoing discourse integration, catches readers' attention, and might...

Pleasure is an under-researched and under theorized concept within health and health-related areas, particularly in relation to physical activity in older age. This gap is addressed here. The paper forms part of a larger qualitative project conducted between March 2011 and July 2013 within which fifty-one physically active older adults (age sixty to ninety-two years) were interviewed about thei...

This paper investigates how the use of machine learning techniques can significantly predict the three major dimensions of learner’s emotions (pleasure, arousal and dominance) from brainwaves. This study has adopted an experimentation in which participants were exposed to a set of pictures from the International Affective Picture System (IAPS) while their electrical brain activity was recorded ...

BACKGROUND Anhedonia and amotivation are substantial predictors of poor functional outcomes in people with schizophrenia and often present a formidable barrier to returning to work or building relationships. The Temporal Experience of Pleasure Model proposes constructs which should be considered therapeutic targets for these symptoms in schizophrenia e.g. anticipatory pleasure, memory, executiv...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact pedagogical intervention on early childhood education professionals’ emotional availability children with different temperament characteristics. Participants were 136 (intervention group = 87; control 49) aged 1–6 years from 16 and care centres in Finland. PedaSens a 9-month programme that included theory video-based training for professional...

Websites contain multiple visual stimuli. The visual complexes presented on webpages result in diverse levels of information uncertainty (IU) and induce viewers’ perceptive and cognitive responses (Eroglu, Machleit, & Davis, 2003). The inclination of one’s uncertainty avoidance (UA) relates to his/her emotional responses and adapts the information uncertainty in a contrary direction. (Marcus, 2...