Although emotions and ideology are important factors guiding policy support in conflict, their interactive influence remains unclear. Based on prior findings that ideological leftists’ beliefs are more susceptible to change than rightists’ beliefs, we tested a somewhat counterintuitive extension that leftists would be more susceptible to influence by their emotional reactions than rightists. In...

The aim was to determine the satisfaction with life together with positive and negative emotions in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients, and correlate them with clinical manifestations of the disease and method of treatment. The study included 83 SLE patients. Satisfaction with life was measured using the Satisfaction with Life Scale. Positive and negative aspects were assessed using th...

Negative emotions involve right hemisphere activation, while positive emotions involve left hemisphere activation (Borod, 1992). Researchers (e.g., Galin, 1974) have further hypothesized that emotional regulation is associated with lefthemisphere activation. Thus, regulation of negative emotion would require interhemispheric communication. These studies examined whether individual differences i...

This article discusses a study into gender-related differences in the experience, display and perception of positive and negative emotions. The problem is addressed by a combination of a production and a perception experiment. The production study makes use of a mood induction procedure which aims to elicit positive and negative emotions in subjects by letting them view different kinds of movie...

a r t i c l e i n f o Decades of emotion research have demonstrated the unique influences of many specific emotions on consumer behaviors. These countless numbers of emotion effects can make it difficult to understand the role of emotions in consumer behavior. The current research introduces a parsimonious framework that can predict the effects of emotions on the consumer behavior of gift givin...

A host of negative emotions such as anxiety, frustration, and boredom inevitably occur during computerized learning. These emotions can have serious negative consequences on students’ metacognitive and cognitive processes and learning outcomes. Thus, students should be equipped with the ability to regulate these negative emotions in order to achieve positive learning outcomes. Building on previ...

Objectives The current study examined the factor structure of emotional experience across adults 34-50, 51-65, and 66-84 year olds. Method Participants (N = 2,022) were asked about 14 negative and 13 positive emotions across 8 days in the National Study of Daily Experiences II study. Factor analysis computed both inter-individual factors (between-person structure of emotional experience) and ...

Social media are used as main discussion channels by millions of individuals every day. The content individuals produce in daily social-media-based micro-communications, and the emotions therein expressed, may impact the emotional states of others. A recent experiment performed on Facebook hypothesized that emotions spread online, even in absence of non-verbal cues typical of in-person interact...

Although several theorists posit the existence of multiple discrete positive emotion states,1–4 much empirical research on the nature and consequences of emotion considers only one: happiness.5–8 Studies of the facial display of emotion have documented universally recognized expressions of sadness, anger, fear, and other negative emotions, but have not differentiated among positive emotions.6 T...