RAMOS, A. AND P. MORMÈDE. Stress and emotionality: A multidimensional and genetic approach. NEUROSCI BIOBEHAV REV. 22(1) 33–57, 1998—The use of behavioural tests aiming to assess the psychological components of stress in animals has led to divergent and sometimes arbitrary interpretations of animal behaviour. This paper presents a critical evaluation of behavioural methods currently used to inv...

A model of the effects of children's temperament (negative and positive emotionality, impulsivity and attention focusing) on post-divorce threat appraisals, coping (active and avoidant), and psychological symptoms (depression and conduct problems) was investigated. The study utilized a sample of 223 mothers and children (ages 9 to 12 years) who had experienced divorce within the last two years....

According to one view about the rationality of belief, such rationality is ultimately nothing other than the rationality that one exhibits in taking the means to one’s ends. On this view, epistemic rationality is really a species or special case of instrumental rationality. In particular, epistemic rationality is instrumental rationality in the service of one’s distinctively cognitive or episte...

Research into visual and multimodal rhetoric has been dominated by social scientific textual perspectives that may not be able to provide documented understandings of how rhetorical objects are actually experienced an audience. In this study, the authors engage in protocol analysis through 10 in-depth interviews asking informants make sense selected political advertisements 2020 US election cam...

The present study investigates the vocal expression of emotions in Korean and the perception of the emotions by Korean, American, and French listeners. The emotions were taken from spontaneous speech of three female Koreans. The listeners rated the emotionality on the scales of emotional valence and activation. The results showed that the listeners agreed on the global emotional perception. How...

This study examined two potential developmental pathways through which the temperament risk factor of negative emotionality (NE) leads to prospective increases in depressive symptoms through the mediating role of stressors and anxious symptoms in a sample of early to middle adolescents (N = 350, 6th-10th graders). The primary hypothesized model was that baseline NE leads to increased stressors,...