Moral emotions represent a key element of our human moral apparatus, influencing the link between moral standards and moral behavior. This chapter reviews current theory and research on moral emotions. We first focus on a triad of negatively valenced "self-conscious" emotions-shame, guilt, and embarrassment. As in previous decades, much research remains focused on shame and guilt. We review cur...

This study sought to investigate the impacts of parenting styles on the symptoms of conduct disorder among high school students. In this descriptive research the statistical population was comprised of all parents of male high school students in Pakdasht in school year 2017-18. Purposive sampling was utilized and after diagnosing students with conduct disorder via the Child Symptom Inventory (C...

College students were administered the Imaginal Processes Inventory and were asked to record their nocturnal dreams in a diary. The dreams of students selected as representing extremely different styles of waking fantasy according to the Imaginal Processes Inventory were analyzed with regard to bizarreness, emotionality, emotional polarity, and variety of content. Significant differences in the...

Psychopathy is a disorder associated with antisocial behavior and deficits in responding to emotional stimuli, particularly fear-related stimuli. This research demonstrates that these deficits extend to judgments about behaviors that cause fear in others. We assessed whether psychopathy is associated with the ability to identify the emotional consequences of social behaviors and with judgments ...

This study pioneered the research on the role of university students’ thinking styles in their preferred teaching approaches. Three hundred and forty-eight (111 male and 237 female) students from a large comprehensive university in Beijing, P.R. China, responded to the Thinking Styles Inventory (Revised) and the Preferred Teaching Approach Inventory. Results indicated that regardless of age, ge...

The primary objective of this studywas to examine the predictive power of thinking styles for anxiety. Three hundred and seventy-eight university students from mainland China responded to the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory and the Thinking Styles Inventory-Revised II. Results showed that, in general, creativity-generating styles (also known as Type I styles) and the external style (a preference ...

background & aim: aggression is a phenomenon that causes irreversible damage to a community. psychodynamic theory suggests that aggression is rooted in early relationships with family members, especially mother. according to this theory, infant-mother relationship is a major predictor of an individual’s behavior from childhood to adulthood. this study aimed to investigate the correlation betwee...

Theories of dual cognition assume two distinguishable information processing styles: rational and intuitive. We discuss how the concepts of rationality and intuition are used in these theories, and the relations of these two thinking styles to personality characteristics. With the Rational-Experiential Inventory (REI; Pacini & Epstein, 1999), a questionnaire that assesses personal preferences f...

INTRODUCTION Temperament, defined as the formal characteristics of behavior, is a personality trait which can influence the clinical presentation and course of bronchial asthma. It determines susceptibility to stress as well as stress coping styles. AIM The aim of the study was to assess whether healthy subjects differ from bronchial asthma patients with regard to temperamental variables and ...

We conducted three experiments indicating that characteristically deontological judgments--here, disapproving of sacrificing one person for the greater good of others--are preferentially supported by visual imagery. Experiment 1 used two matched working memory tasks-one visual, one verbal-to identify individuals with relatively visual cognitive styles and individuals with relatively verbal cogn...