The emotional facial expression is an important element in human communication, along with other forms of non-verbal communication, such as gestures and postures. The human facial expression, with its cunning and moment movements, carries an amazing amount of information that can reflect emotional feelings. Observing people’s facial expressions can help a person understand their emotions. The n...

Children from mothers with HIV-related psychosis are frequently raised in challenging contexts, yet the extent to which these children grow up in insecure or disordered attachment relationships is unknown. Using the Strange Situation Procedure the distribution of attachment relationships of children from mothers with HIV and psychosis (n = 45) was compared with children from mothers with HIV wi...

Early adolescents' (11-14 years) responses to marital hostility were examined in a sample of 416 families. The cognitive-contextual perspective and emotional security hypothesis guided the study and 9 adolescent responses were identified. Prospective associations were examined in several structural equation models that included adolescent problems as outcomes. Self-blame and perceived threat un...

This study examined associations between interparental relationship dynamics and vagus system functioning in infancy. The functioning of the vagus system, part of the parasympathetic nervous system, indexes emotional reactivity and regulation. Interparental avoidance and dyadic adjustment constitute the focus of this study in order to bring attention to relationship dynamics not subsumed under ...

This study examined sex differences in money beliefs and behaviours. Over 100,000 British participants completed two measures online, one of which assessed "money pathology" (Forman in Mind over money, Doubleday, Toronto, 1987), and the other four "money types", based on the emotional associations of money (Furnham et al. in Personal Individ Differ, 52:707-711, 2012). Nearly all measures showed...

AIM To explore family members' supportive interactions in palliative care and the emotional experiences that they associate with these interactions. METHODS Qualitative individual interviews were performed with bereaved family members recruited from an urban palliative care service in Sweden. The interviews were analysed using inductive qualitative content analysis. RESULTS Five categories ...

Today, few companies would manage to continuously stay competitive without the proper utilization of information technology (IT). This has increased companies’ dependency of IT and created new threats that need to be addressed to mitigate risks to daily business operations. A large extent of these IT-related threats includes hackers attempting to gain unauthorized access to internal computer ne...

introduction: breastfeeding is one of the most effective ways to promote children's health. the purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between emotional intelligence and success of breastfeeding. materials and methods: in a cross-sectional study in referring of multiple health centers in shiraz, sample of 150 mothers with children aged one to three 3 years were selected usi...