Neuroticism is considered a vulnerability factor for depression and anxiety but the mechanism by which this vulnerability is increased is unknown. Rumination is considered a psychological vulnerability for depression and anxiety. The current study sought to examine the mediational effects of different components of rumination (i.e., rumination on sadness, symptom-based rumination, rumination on...

Background.Nwadike et al. offered a comparison of affect measurements with PANAS-X, NOLDUS Face Reader and Microsoft Emotional Recognition under a neutral state and induced happiness and sadness in a within-subject pretest experiment. Aim. We investigate the correlation matrices of the measurement devices for happiness and sadness measurements. Method. A, the measurement scores are compared wit...

Do emotion regulation processes vary as a function of discrete emotions? Focusing on anger and sadness, this study examined: (a) the strategies that men and women use to regulate each emotion, (b) the extent to which strategies differ in their use and effectiveness, and (c) the relationship between effective regulation of these emotions and social functioning. One hundred ninety participants de...

When making decisions about a welfare case, it is reasonable for one’s thoughts and feelings about the potential welfare recipient to influence the decision. It is less reasonable for one’s “incidental” feelings (e.g., sadness or anger arising from an event in one’s personal life) to influence such decisions. In two studies, however, data reveal that incidental anger and sadness do in fact carr...

Using appraisal theory, this research examined targets’ emotional responses to workplace incivility, and how these responses impact targets’ behavioral responses. Targets who reported greater incivility reported greater anger, fear, and sadness. Targets’ anger was associated with more direct aggression against the instigators; targets’ fear was associated with indirect aggression against instig...

Rumination is considered a specific cognitive vulnerability factor that is thought to play a prominent role in the maintenance of depressive symptoms. The present study investigated the psychometric properties of two measures of rumination, the ruminative response scale (RRS) and the rumination on sadness scale (RSS) in undergraduates (N=331). A joint factor analysis yielded three factors, 'rum...

People often encounter one emotion-triggering event after another. To examine how an emotion experience affects those that follow, the current article draws on the appraisal-tendency framework and cognitive appraisal theories of emotion. The emotional blunting hypothesis predicts that a specific emotion can carry over to blunt the experience of a subsequent emotion when defined by contrasting a...

Why do we listen to sad music? One reason could be that it generates pleasant emotions as well as sadness. Accordingly, it is necessary to determine what kind of person experiences pleasant affect by listening to sad music. In the current study, we focused on empathy as a personal trait and examined the relationship between trait empathy and emotional response, including liking for the sad musi...

This paper studies the acoustic realization of anger, fear, joy and sadness in Chinese. An emotion database of total 288 sentences was collected from nine speakers. Four listeners were asked to judge the emotion type of each sentence, choosing from anger, fear, joy, sadness and neutral. The results suggest that there are two dimensions in the acoustic realization of anger, fear, joy and sadness...

We critically review evolutionary theories of major depressive disorder (MDD). Because most instances of MDD appear to be caused by adversity, evolutionary theories of MDD generally propose that sadness and low mood evolved as beneficial responses to adversity, and that MDD is dysfunctional sadness and low mood. If so, MDD research should focus much more heavily on understanding the healthy fun...