OBJECTIVE Our study aimed to further elucidate the mediating role of presleep arousal in the relationship between daily stress and sleep by investigating subjective sleep quality and actigraphy-assessed sleep efficiency (SE) on both within- and between-participant levels in a sample of healthy young women. METHODS Multilevel modeling was applied on electronically assessed data comprising 14 c...

Whether emotion is universal or social is a recurrent issue in the history of emotion study among psychologists. Some researchers view emotion as a universal construct, and that a large part of emotional experience is biologically based. However, emotion is not only biologically determined, but is also influenced by the environment. Therefore, cultural differences exist in some aspects of emoti...

Background Reduced sexual desire leaves serious impacts on women's life. The current study aims to investigate the perceptions and concerns of Iranian women of reproductive age with female sexual interest and arousal disorder (FSIAD). Methods This qualitative research was conducted using content analysis approach. Data were collected through seventeen in-depth interviews from October 2015 to ...

the aim of this study was to predict expert archers’ performance on the basis of psychological factors such as arousal, activation, anxiety, motivation and personality characteristics with an emphasis on extraversion / introversion dimension. in this predictive correlation study, 34 expert archers were randomly selected as the sample of the study out of the archers of national team (statistical...

INTRODUCTION The role of nipple/breast stimulation in influencing sexual arousal in men and women during lovemaking has only been the subject of opinion-based comment rather than evidence-based study. No attempt to question people about such sexual behavior has ever been undertaken. AIM The study was designed to ascertain the effects of nipple/breast manipulation in young men and women on the...

In this paper we present a new approach for the generation of multi-instrument symbolic music driven by musical emotion. The principal novelty our centres on conditioning state-of-the-art transformer based continuous-valued valence and arousal labels. addition, provide large-scale dataset paired with emotion labels in terms arousal. We evaluate quantitative manner two ways, first measuring its ...

This study investigates the influence of online news and clickbait headlines on online users’ emotional arousal and behavior. An experiment was conducted to examine the level of arousal in three online news headline groups—news headlines, clickbait headlines, and control headlines. Arousal was measured by two different measurement approaches—pupillary response recorded by an eye-tracking device...