Although central to human development and functioning, emotions have, until recently, had somewhat marginal status in scientific disciplines in general and have been largely ignored in the more applied settings such as human factors. Over the past 10 years however, research in emotion in both psychology and neuroscience has established that emotion is intricately linked with what has been tradi...

This paper develops a behavioral model in food consumption choices that illuminates observed patterns of weight gain and dieting. Particularly it addresses the important role of willpower and mood stability in dieting behavior and hence consumption decisions. Built on previous research of the “dual-process” model (see Jonathan, 2005 and Loewenstein & O’Donoghue, 2005) in which a person’s behavi...

Although current psychiatric nosology separates bipolar disorder and schizophrenia into non-overlapping categories, there is growing evidence of a partial aetiological overlap between them from linkage, genetic epidemiology and molecular genetics studies. Thus, it is important to determine whether genes implicated in the aetiology of schizophrenia play a role in bipolar disorder, and vice versa...

In college classrooms, large quantities of digital-media data showing students’ affective behaviors are continuously captured by cameras on a daily basis. To provide a bench mark for affect recognition using these big data collections, in this paper we propose the first large-scale spontaneous and multimodal student affect database. All videos in our database were selected from daily big data r...

Asymmetrical activity over the frontal cortex has been implicated in the experience and expression of emotions and motivations. Explanations of the research have suggested that relatively greater left frontal activity is associated with positive affect and/or approach motivation, and that relatively greater right frontal activity is associated with negative affect and/or withdrawal motivation. ...

Affective forecasts are people's predictions of their future feelings in response to events. In this study, based on the self-determination theory (SDT), we examined whether satisfying basic psychological needs influence undergraduates' affective forecasting and moderating role subjective socioeconomic status (SES). With a total 423 undergraduate participants (177 males, 246 females), through o...

One of the assumptions underlying recent physical activity recommendations is that lower doses of activity (i.e. intensity and duration) are more enjoyable for the average person, thus leading to higher involvement and adherence rates. However, the veracity of this hypothesis can be questioned, since little is actually known regarding the association between activity doses and affective respons...