The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of 2 different measures of personal control on mortality in late life. The 1st reflects control over the 3 roles that are most important to elderly study participants. The 2nd is a global measure that assesses control over life as a whole. Data provided by a nationwide survey of older adults (N = 884) indicate that feelings of control over the ...

In many theories of emotions the representations of bodily responses play an important role for subjective feelings. We tested the hypothesis that the perception of bodily states is positively related to the experienced intensity of feelings as well as to the activity of first-order and second-order brain structures involved in the processing of feelings. Using a heartbeat perception task, subj...

The announcement about the handicap of a child is communicated to parents by gynecologists or ultrasonographists, in the prenatal period. Often, these professionals are not prepared to communicate this news to the parents, and they have some limitations that lead them to act inappropriately. Therefore, the aims of this research were to identify and to describe the feelings of professionals faci...

Data from the Gallup World Poll highlighted the differential relations between perceived stress, well-being, and wealth at the individualversus nation-level. At the nation level, stress was a distinct concept from negative affect (NA). It correlated positively with well-being (positive affect, life satisfaction, and domain satisfaction) and wealth (as measured by income, gross domestic product,...

i Some two decades ago, I wrote: There is a convergence between earlier biological theories of emotion and a current, The current presentation stems from two apparfar more comprehensive view. The medieval humeral theoent paradoxes that must still be addressed by any ries find a berth in current endocrine research. Lange's viscomprehensive theory of emotion. One concerns ceral theory is confirme...