Scholars have started to research the effect of satisfaction on users' willingness continue using social media, such as Facebook, Instagram, Weibo. However, few studies focused effects these gratification users’ psychological responses, and emotional attachment. To bridge this knowledge gap, study, based uses Stimulus-Organism-Response theory, integrated a new model study influence response, re...

Fifty-eight 30-month-old children and their mothers were observed during a task in which the child was asked to refrain from touching an attractive toy. Child and maternal regulatory strategies were independently coded in 5-sec intervals. Consistent with past research, the ability to refrain from touching the toy was associated with less time orienting to the forbidden object and more time focu...

Frantz Fanon, a black psychiatrist, was both concerned with human liberation and committed to a cult of violence. His own life exemplified the lack of gratification in practicing a psychiatry focused on the individual in a social milieu where the glaring ills were not intrapsychic fantasies but real problems of poverty, racism, and colonialism. Fanon’s experience in denouncing a bourgeois psych...

Although it is widely believed that sex no longer matters after middle age, the opposite is true, and sex often becomes more and not less important as a person grows older. Because sex is among the last pleasure-giving biological processes to deteriorate, it is potentially an enduring source of gratification at a time when these are becoming fewer and fewer, and a link to the joys of youth.Thes...

Despite the increasing popularity of and interest in e-books, there has been little research that evaluates book consumers’ actual interest in and preferences for digital content, and the factors that influence reading habits. To help fill this void, this study examines users’ experience of e-books in order to identify the areas of development, using Uses and Gratifications Theory (UGT), Expect...

Evidence for time-dependent calculations about future rewards is scarce in non-human animals. In non-human primates, only great apes are comparable with humans. Still, some species wait for several minutes to obtain a better reward in delayed exchange tasks. Corvids have been shown to match with non-human primates in some time-related tasks. Here, we investigate a delay of gratification in two ...

The current study sought to answer three key questions about explaining the emotion of regret in the domain of casual sex: Are sex differences in sexual regret robust or attenuated in a highly egalitarian culture? What proximate psychological variables might explain sex differences in sexual regret? And what accounts for within-sex variation in experiences of sexual regret about casual sex. We ...

The delay of gratification (DoG) in children is widely investigated with an experimental procedure originally called the "marshmallow test," whereas the studies on self-regulation (SR) in adolescents and adults usually use self-report questionnaires. Delay discounting (DD) measures simplify the DoG procedure and focus on monetary rewards. The aim of this study was to investigate age differences...