It has been shown that variability in the shape of emotion intensity profiles can be described in terms of three functional features, namely steepness at onset, skewness and number of peaks. However, it remains unclear which factors account for variability in each of these features. In the present study participants were asked to report intensity profiles of positive and negative emotions on a ...

the importance of concerning happiness and happiness- making items in organizations and enterprises comes from the fact that it can positively affect productivity through increasing personnel positive emotions and decreasing their negative emotions. as such, the current research has been developed in order to evaluate the status of happiness in one of the research-oriented enterprises. in the c...

Most models of affect suggest either inverse or null associations between positivity and negativity. Recent work (e.g., Larsen, McGraw, & Cacioppo, 2001; Zautra, Reich, Davis, Potter, & Nicolson, 2000) has highlighted situations that sometimes lead to mixed positive-negative affect. Focusing on the counterpart to these situational factors, we explore the individual-difference tendency towards m...

as a culture-based phenomenon which involves both linguistic and social aspects, translation has beeninvestigated from various perspectives. the present critical discourse analysis (cda)-based study isan attempt to probe into the manipulation of ideologies in translations of political texts. a cda approach,based on fairclough (1989), van dijk (2004) and farahzad (2007), was adopted to conductth...

computer anxiety as a kind of state anxiety that refer to “the negative emotional and cognitive reactions in some people that occur during work with the computer” and maybe considered as a challenge to their capabilities. in the present study, computer anxiety and positive and negative attitudes to it were examinated among undergraduate students of kangavar payam-e-noor university. this descrip...

in the previous two parts of educational manuscript series in emergency, we explained some screening characteristics of diagnostic tests including accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values. in the 3rd  part we aimed to explain positive and negative likelihood ratio (lr) as one of the most reliable performance measures of a diagnostic test. to better underst...

as a culture-based phenomenon which involves both linguistic and social aspects, translation has beeninvestigated from various perspectives. the present critical discourse analysis (cda)-based study isan attempt to probe into the manipulation of ideologies in translations of political texts. a cda approach,based on fairclough (1989), van dijk (2004) and farahzad (2007), was adopted to conductth...

The broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions predicts that positive emotions broaden the scopes of attention and cognition, and, by consequence, initiate upward spirals toward increasing emotional well-being. The present study assessed this prediction by testing whether positive affect and broad-minded coping reciprocally and prospectively predict one another. One hundred thirty-eight coll...