This paper develops the claim that epistemic feelings are affective experiences. To establish some diagnostic criteria, characteristic features of experiences outlined: valence and arousal. Then, in order to pave way for showing have said features, an initial challenge coming from introspection is addressed. Next, turns empirical findings we can observe physiological behavioural proxies arousal...

Previous research has demonstrated that consistency between people’s behavior and their dispositions has predictive validity for judgments of regret. Research has also shown that differences in the personality variable of action orientation can influence ability to regulate negative affect. The present set of studies was designed to investigate how both consistency factors and action-state pers...

The gut-brain axis is one of the new frontiers of neuroscience. Microbiota (the collective bacteria, viruses, fungi and other microorganisms that live in the digestive tract), sometimes referred to as the "second genome" or the "second brain," may influence our health in ways that scientists are just now beginning to understand. Scientists now believe that the microbiota and all that it involve...

This paper considers the possibility that a firm can invest not only in the true product quality, but also in activities such as merchandising and store atmosphere that create affect influencing consumer perception of the product quality. Consumers base their purchase decisions on the signal of quality they experience, where the signal is affected by both the true product quality valued by the ...

THE CLASSICAL METHODS for studying the inhibitory controls of food intake involve the manipulation of tissues hypothesized to signal sites in the brain which in turn remove or reduce excitatory influences on the muscles involved in eating (4). It is not yet possible to study all the links in this chain, from the stimuli in the periphery through to the central nervous system and back down to the...

This article reports 2 experiments that test whether both emotional and nonemotional feelings may be influenced by uninterpreted proprioceptive input. The logic of the procedure was adopted from studies by F. Strack, L. Martin, and S. Stepper (1988), who unobtrusively manipulated people's facial expressions. In the 1st experiment, a functionally equivalent technique was used to vary the posture...