The amygdala has repeatedly been involved in the processing of emotional reactions and conditioning. This paper presents a neurobiologically inspired computational model of the emotional memory in aversive behaviors. This artificial neural network aims at partially reproduce the same characteristics as the amygdala when it induces the aversive state experienced by individuals with a withdrawal ...

BACKGROUND The most important factor which predisposes young people to suicide is depression, although protective factors such as self-esteem, emotional adaptation and social support may reduce the probability of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts. Several studies have indicated an elevated risk of suicide for health-related professions. Little is known, however, about the relationship betw...

Abstract Background and Purposes: Behavioral emotional disorders are the result of a variety of psychological problems during the developmental period, especially early childhood, which lead to antisocial behaviors, dysfunction of academic and social performance at later ages. Interaction patterns of families with children are among the factors affecting the process of development and menta...

Although earlier studies have related positive emotions to attentional broadening, recent findings point out the complexity of this relation and show that these broadening effects interact with factors such as characteristics of the information that is presented. Besides stimuli characteristics, individual characteristics such as the presence of depressive symptoms could also influence the broa...

CONTEXT Conflicts over treatment decisions have been linked to physicians' emotional states. OBJECTIVE To measure the prevalence of emotional exhaustion and conflicts over treatment decisions among US obstetrician/gynaecologists (ob/gyns), and to examine the relationship between the two and the physician characteristics that predict each. METHODS Mailed survey of a stratified random sample ...

OBJECTIVE Personality dispositions may influence perceptions of work stress. The paper examines the relationship between temperament in terms of Strelau’s Regulative Theory of Temperament and the effort-reward imbalance and its components. MATERIAL AND METHODS There were 890 participants (360 men) aged 37.9 years on average. Temperament traits of briskness and perseveration (temporal characte...

The emotional competence can be regarded as an important personal resource in service work because it moderates the relationships between work characteristics, emotional dissonance, and outcome variables like job satisfaction and Attrition. The objective of this research was to explore the antecedents and consequences of emotional dissonance leading to attrition among the knowledge workers in t...