How we feel reflects a combination of recalled and recognized emotions. All existing self-report measures are based solely on recognized emotions. To understand the influence of recalled emotions, we developed a new method to recover human emotional states based on emotional free association, in a task we call the emotional fluency. The present work investigated the differences between recall a...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to investigate relationships between trait emotional intelligence and emotional state changes over the course of an ultra-endurance foot race covering a route of approximately 175 miles (282 km) and held in set stages over six days. DESIGN A repeated measures field design that sought to maintain ecological validity was used. Trait emotional intelligence wa...

A number of studies have shown that individuals often spontaneously mimic the facial expressions of others, a tendency known as facial mimicry. This tendency has generally been considered a reflex-like "automatic" response, but several recent studies have shown that the degree of mimicry may be moderated by contextual information. However, the cognitive and motivational factors underlying the c...

NOISE exists in many different forms [1], but in noise of human origin; in speech and in inarticulate cries, it can be defined as sound whose frequency lies above and below the frequency band 200 Hz-8kHz wherein lies most of the intelligibility of lettered speech [2]. This high frequency sound, from 8 kHz to 40 kHz is also found in the physical environment. Here, it is associated with sounds of...

Empathy allows us to simulate others' affective and cognitive mental states internally, and it has been proposed that the mirroring or motor representation systems play a key role in such simulation. As emotions are related to important adaptive events linked with benefit or danger, simulating others' emotional states might constitute of a special case of empathy. In this functional magnetic re...

BACKGROUND Diurnal emotional experiences seem to affect several characteristics of sleep architecture. However, this influence remains unclear, especially for positive emotions. In addition, electrodermal activity (EDA), a sympathetic robust indicator of emotional arousal, differs depending on the sleep stage. The present research has a double aim: to identify the specific effects of pre-sleep ...

Physicians are often disturbed and made angry by the seeming perverseness of patients who fail to get well under the best of treatment. Intractable pains of headaches, tic-douloureux, disc syndrome, bursitis, rheumatoid arthritis, reflex sympathetic dystrophy, phantom limb, and Raynaud's phenomenon are among the most frequent sources of therapeutic frustration. Neurosurgical attempts to relieve...

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In this paper, we report on classification results for emotional user states (4 classes, German database of children interacting with a pet robot). Starting with 5 emotion labels per word, we obtained chunks with different degrees of prototypicality. Six sites computed acoustic and linguistic features independently from each other. A total of 4232 features were pooled together and grouped into ...