People base many decisions on affective forecasts, predictions about their emotional reactions to future events. They often display an impact bias, overestimating the intensity and duration of their emotional reactions to such events. One cause of the impact bias is focalism, the tendency to underestimate the extent to which other events will influence our thoughts and feelings. Another is peop...

Cultural events are relevant attractions in contemporary cities that can be understood as celebrations, but also agents of urban change. The primary objective this study is to identify emerging themes the area cultural events, especially Night Museums, and highlight relationships among museums places learning aesthetic satisfaction. To reach goal, an exploratory descriptive was conducted. Multi...

There is much evidence for the adaptive value of positive affect. Empirical work examining different facets of positive affect and their consequences for psychological adaptation remains sparse, however. This study (young, middle-aged, and older adults; N = 293) investigated the links between two dimensions of positive affect (positive involvement and pleasant affect) and two lifestyles (hedoni...

People base many decisions on affective forecasts, predictions about their emotional reactions to future events. They often display an impact bias, overestimating the intensity and duration of their emotional reactions to such events. One cause of the impact bias is focalism, the tendency to underestimate the extent to which other events will influence our thoughts and feelings. Another is peop...

Valeri Petkov,1,* Yong Peng,1 Geoff Williams,2 Baohua Huang,3,* Donald Tomalia,3 and Yang Ren4 1Department of Physics, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan 48859, USA 2Department of Biology, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan 48859, USA 3Dendritic NanoTechnologies, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan 48858, USA 4Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Il...

Today, memorable experiences are the leading economic value proposition that tourism industry holds. This article aims to theoretically investigate relationship between senses, emotions and memories in tourist experience present a conceptual model about establishment. Based on literature review, we concluded construction of is result multi-sensory stimuli perception, positive emotions, high emo...