An example of proactive control is the usage of informative cues to prepare for an upcoming task. Here the authors will present data from a series of three experiments, showing that positive affect along with low arousal reduces proactive control in form of a reduced reliance on informative cues. In three affect groups, neutral or positive affective picture stimuli with low and high arousal pre...

Sir, We would like to respond to the article titled "Re-emergence of positive symptoms of schizophrenia during the course of treatment with risperidone" (Bajaj et al.), that was published in the Indian Journal of Psychiatry, Vol.41/No.2/April, 1999. It was quite interesting to note that these authors had observed a re-emergence of positive symptoms in 7 patients, out of 30 patients of schizophr...

People often encounter one emotion-triggering event after another. To examine how an emotion experience affects those that follow, the current article draws on the appraisal-tendency framework and cognitive appraisal theories of emotion. The emotional blunting hypothesis predicts that a specific emotion can carry over to blunt the experience of a subsequent emotion when defined by contrasting a...

purpose: to ascertain the role of social support and positive affect in prediction of addiction relapse. materials and methods: the research method was a causal-comparison. population included all the clients seeking for medical advice in the centers for addiction treatment in saravan and iranshar. the sample includes 186 participants (83 participants had no relapse and 83 participants had rela...

BACKGROUND Apathy is common in aging, but the processes underlying its different components are still unclear. The aim of this study was to examine the relationships between apathy and prospective memory (PM), a process involved in the execution of delayed intentions. METHODS Fifty elderly participants completed a PM task and a working memory task. Close relatives of the participants were giv...