This article presents the Appraisal Tendency Framework (ATF) (Lerner & Keltner, 2000, 2001; Lerner & Tiedens, 2006) as a basis for predicting the influence of specific emotions on consumer decision making. In particular, the ATF addresses how and why specific emotions carry over from past situations to color future judgments and choices. After reviewing the main assumptions and the five main pr...

abstract background: infertility and the reactions of people towards it can lead to psychological disorders which have negative effects on the life of young couples. therefore, this study aims to comparatively analyze the level of mental health, happiness, inferiority feelings, sexual satisfaction and marital conflict in fertile and infertile women in kermanshah. methods: this cross-sectional s...

Psychopathy is characterized by extensive emotional impairments. However, the current empirical literature on empathy and alexithymia in psychopathy provides heterogeneous results. Random-effects models were performed studies examining association between Interpersonal Reactivity Index as well Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20. In total, 72 articles providing 716 effect sizes representing 15,016 par...

Background & aim: Stability and survival of marital life depends on the love and positive feelings towards spouse in married couples. Sexual assertiveness is considered as a person's ability to have intercourse to meet his/her sexual needs and promote sexual relationships with the spouse. The more couples are aware of each other's sexual needs and can satisfy those needs, the more desirably the...