People approach pleasure and avoid pain. To discover the true nature of approach-avoidance motivation, psychologists need to move beyond this hedonic principle to the principles that underlie the different ways that it operates. One such principle is regulatory focus, which distinguishes self-regulation with a promotion focus (accomplishments and aspirations) from self-regulation with a prevent...

human emotions are in connection with his deeds on the one hand and his perceptions on the other, and this complicates the analysis of emotion. furthermore, any school of thought in search of presenting a comprehensive perspective on the human should clarify its stance with regard to emotion and the position it has in the structure of human cognition and deeds. this fact places the answer to th...

Bathing creates some of the highest levels of discomfort in the lives of individuals diagnosed with dementia. The present study measured the frequency of 14 agitated behaviors during bathing in 15 elderly residents with dementia residing in a continuing care center. Each resident was observed for four sessions of two different bathing methods, the conventional tub bath and a modification of the...

Though common sense suggests that positive thinking shelters people from depression, the four studies reported here showed that this intuition needs to be qualified: Positive thinking in the form of fantasies about the future did indeed relate to decreased symptoms of depression when measured concurrently; however, positive fantasies predicted more depressive symptoms when measured longitudinal...

We propose that aesthetic pleasure is a function of the perceiver's processing dynamics: The more fluently perceivers can process an object, the more positive their aesthetic response. We review variables known to influence aesthetic judgments, such as figural goodness, figure-ground contrast, stimulus repetition, symmetry, and prototypicality, and trace their effects to changes in processing f...

Recreating the service can lead to the innovation of new ones. One of the methods of creating or recreating the service is by using the systematic innovation method, such as TRIZ – the theory of inventive problem solving. TRIZ has a range of powerful tools to solve the problem and the most widely used method is to identify the contradictions in the system, and to use the 40 inventive principles...

(1) Background: In addition to verbalizations, facial expressions advertise one’s affective state. There is an ongoing debate concerning the communicative value of pain and pleasure, what extent humans can distinguish between these. We introduce a novel method analysis by replacing human ratings with outputs from image software. (2) Methods: use software extract feature vectors neutral, pain, p...