Emotions are shor t-lived psycho logical-physiological phenomena tha t represent ef ® cient modes of adap ta tion to changing environmental demands. Psycho logically, emotions a lter a tten t ion , sh ift cer ta in behaviors upwa rd in response h iera rch ies, and act ivate relevan t associat ive netwo rks in m emory. Physiologically, emot ions rapidly organ ize the responses of d isparate b io...

in this study, the aim was to determine whether adding vitamin d to the standard therapeutic regimen of schizophrenic male patients with inadequate vitamin d status could improve some aspects of the symptom burden or not. this study was an open parallel label randomized clinical trial. eighty patients with chronic stable schizophrenia with residual symptoms and vitamin d deficiency were recruit...

Sidney J. Blatt's unique contribution to the study of internal representations of parental figures is delineated, and empirical research dealing with interpersonal and intrapersonal aspects of maternal representations in middle childhood is reviewed. Children's representations of mother and father, as well as of an unknown parent, provide evidence of the interconnected effects of actual interpe...

Emotion regulation is one of the major foci of study in the fields of emotion and emotional development. This article proposes that to properly study emotion regulation, one must consider not only an intrapersonal view of emotion, but a relational one as well. Defining properties of intrapersonal and relational approaches are spelled out, and implications drawn for how emotion regulation is con...

We describe using biographies in teaching a course about the intrapersonal and interpersonal dynamics of science, with an emphasis on the professional and personal experiences of women in science. In our course, Life of a Psychologist: Experiences of Women in Science, students examine biographies and scientific research written by female psychologists across the main research areas of psycholog...

This study examined whether social class moderated the relationship between empowering and disempowering processes and psychological empowerment (PE) in a sample of individuals from five community organizing initiatives (N5 490). Hierarchical regression analyses were used to test the relationship between community participation (CP) and alienation on the intrapersonal and interactional componen...

The purpose of the research was to integrate a multidimensional approach to fear of personal death with terror management theory. In Study 1, 190 students were divided according to the manipulation of death salience and the intrapersonal and interpersonal aspects of fear of death and were asked to judge transgressions that have either intrapersonal or interpersonal consequences. Study 2 was a c...