According to appraisal theories of emotion, cognitive reappraisal is a successful emotion regulation strategy because it involves cognitively changing our thoughts, which, in turn, change our emotions. However, recent evidence has challenged the importance of cognitive change and, instead, has suggested that attentional deployment may at least partly explain the emotion regulation success of co...

Respiration is an essential element in operatic singing performance, providing the singer support for the proper production of tone. However, respiration can also serve as an expressive element in the communication of dramatic ideas, creating an emotional subtext to the expressive intentionality of the piece. Previous research supports the relationship between respiration and dramatic intention...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The aim of this prospective longitudinal study was to identify factors relating to emotional distress in the first 6 months after stroke in a sample including patients with aphasia. METHODS One hundred patients who were in hospital at 1 month after stroke were recruited and assessed on measures of communication impairment (Sheffield Screening Test), personal activities ...

The present two-part study assesses how psychopathic traits affect individuals’ ability to process naturalistically elicited, dynamic emotional facial expressions. A new stimulus set of spontaneous, dynamic facial expressions was created by filming participants as they watched emotional video clips, and then validated using the program FaceReader. Faces from this set were then viewed by a secon...

Expressive performance characterization is traditionally based on the analysis of the main differences between performances, players, playing styles and emotional intentions. This work addresses the characterization of expressive bassoon ornaments by analyzing audio recordings played by a professional bassoonist. This characterization is then used to generate expressive ornaments from symbolic ...

Recent advances in crowd simulation models attempt to recreate realistic human behaviour by introducing psychological phenomena in virtual agents. In this direction, psychology studies on personality traits, emotions and emotional contagion attempt to cope with emerging behaviours such as panic spreading and fight picking. This work depicts a way to introduce a model of emotional contagion in t...

Personality traits and their relation with emotional intelligence and psychological ownership (PO) have to be considered in public-sector organizations, because employees who work in the public sector may have fewer mechanisms to increase their feelings of PO toward their organization. Thus, with regard to conditions of public organizations, more attention should be paid to structural and organ...

Both affective states and personality traits shape how we perceive the social world and interpret emotions. The literature on affective priming has mostly focused on brief influences of emotional stimuli and emotional states on perceptual and cognitive processes. Yet this approach does not fully capture more dynamic processes at the root of emotional states, with such states lingering beyond th...