This study examined transportation effects of first- and third-person narratives as well as the role of transportation in the persuasion process. In particular, the authors evaluated the role of transportation in affecting cognitive and affective responses. Last, they addressed the relation between (a) cognitive and affective responses and (b) antidrug expectancies. Participants were 500 underg...

Social transmission is everywhere. Friends talk about restaurants , policy wonks rant about legislation, analysts trade stock tips, neighbors gossip, and teens chitchat. Further, such interpersonal communication affects everything from decision making and well-But although it is clear that social transmission is both frequent and important, what drives people to share, and why are some stories ...

Occupational stress has been the subject of numerous research studies conducted across globe due to its impact on our daily life. For instance, it can have a negative teachers’ psychological and normal functioning body at all levels as well their performance. It even adversely marriage social lives well. This study explored relationships between occupational marital contentment in COVID-19 era....

The understanding of the complexities human well-being (HWB) within ecosystem service (ES) context is fundamental to development management plans sustain flow services (ESs) for HWB. However, research on HWB in still underrepresented Africa’s coast. Primary data were collected from 794 household heads six communities Ghana’s eastern coastal zone. A sequential logistics regression model was used...

Researchers interested in emotion have long struggled with the problem of how to elicit emotional responses in the laboratory. In this article, we summarise five years of work to develop a set of films that reliably elicit each of eight emotional states (amusement, anger, contentment, disgust, fear, neutral, sadness, and surprise). After evaluating over 250 films, we showed selected film clips ...

This study examined 1) experiences of six discrete emotions ‒ joy, pride, contentment, worry, shame, hopelessness ‒ after solving a math problem of students aged 10e12 years, and 2) the contribution of self-concept, metacognitive experiences (feeling of difficulty and feeling of success) and performance on emotions experienced after the task, controlling for gender and emotions experienced befo...

Main results 11 randomised controlled trials (3814 patients, >60 y of age in 9 trials) met the selection criteria. Interventions included patient assessment and follow up by a multidisciplinary team (physician, nurse, physiotherapist, occupational therapist, social worker or support workers) (5 trials), patient assessment and follow up by a nurse (3 trials), help provided by a home aide or atte...