9 Abstract Previous research demonstrates that European Americans judge excited 10 (vs. calm) smiles as more affiliative (warm, friendly, extraverted) than do Chinese, 11 and that these differences are in part due to European Americans valuing excite12 ment, enthusiasm, and other high arousal positive states (HAP) more than Chinese. 13 But what mechanisms underlie these differences? To answer t...

This article was acceptedfor publication October 1, 1990. Occupational therapy has greatly increased the medical profession's awareness of sensory in­ put and its effect on motor output, based on the foundation proVided by Rood (McCormack, 1990; Trombly, 1989) and Ayres (1973, 1985). From her person­ al experience, Grandin (1986) offered a unique perspec­ tive on the importance of deep pressure...

The ChatterBox generates and presents texts based on text material produced at a certain place, for instance at an office. The idea is to create an alternative view of what is being done, that might serve as inspiration to think about existing material in new ways, as an incitement for informal discussions, as a piece of art, or just as a kind of dynamic wallpaper. In order to fulfil these aims...

What makes something interesting? Appraisal research has proposed two appraisal structures for the emotion of interest. One model (Smith & Ellsworth, 1985) contends that appraised pleasantness is central to interest, whereas an alternative model (Silvia, 2005b) contends that pleasantness is unnecessary for interest. An experiment tested these competing predictions. Participants viewed calming a...

Recently, Cánovas et. al. [1] presented an interesting result: the argmin mapping of a linear semi-in nite program under canonical perturbations is calm if and only if some associated linear semi-in nite inequality system is calm. Using classical tools from parametric optimization, we show that the if-direction of this condition holds in a much more general framework of optimization models, whi...

Two dyadic studies investigated interpersonal worry regulation in heterosexual relationships. In Study 1, we video-recorded 40 romantic couples discussing shared concerns. Male partners' worry positively predicted female partners' interpersonal calming attempts, and negatively predicted female partners' interpersonal alerting attempts (i.e., attempts to make their partners appreciate the seriou...

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