Mimicry and its presumed neurological underpinnings in the form of mirror neurons have become a trending topic in the social, behavioural, and neurosciences during the past decades (e.g. Hess & Fischer, 2013). The notion that minds can be shared by subtly imitating others is a challenging idea that sparks our imagination. For ages, philosophers and scientists have been intrigued by the question...

• We examined potentially enhanced emotional intelligence after social exclusion. • Excluded participants showed a heightened tendency to manage others' emotions. • Exclusion enhanced emotion-management strategies, but not non-social strategies. • This enhanced tendency to manage others' emotions may promote reconnection. • Excluded participants were rated as more likable by coders and interact...

background emotion regulation is a major and important incentive for substance abuse; in fact, substance abusers associate their abuse with the substance’s soothing nature. emotion regulation can be defined as the process, which enables individuals to regulate experiences and express emotions. objectives the goal of the current study was to evaluate the effectiveness of acceptance and commitmen...

objective: the main purpose of this study was to validate the short-form of the emotional skills and competence questionnaire (escq) scale among iranian undergraduate students.   method: a total of 250 nurse undergraduate students participated in this study. participants completed the escq in addition to measures of sheering emotional intelligence questionnaire and student's demographic questio...

We analyzed language use to examine age differences in people's representations of their own emotions as compared with those of others. Participants (N = 365, aged 18-85 years, M = 42.8, SD = 19.2) read hypothetical emotion-eliciting scenarios and described how they themselves and the social partners involved in the scenarios would feel. Compared with those of younger adults, older adults' desc...

BACKGROUND Lifetime co-occurrence of violence victimisation is common. A large proportion of victims report being exposed to multiple forms of violence (physical, sexual, emotional violence) and/or violence by multiple kinds of perpetrators (family members, intimate partners, acquaintances/strangers). Yet much research focuses on only one kind of victimisation. The aim of this study was to inve...

• Money-primed individuals see public emotional expressions as less appropriate. • Money-primed individuals show less emotional expressions themselves. • Money-primed individuals judge others' emotions to be more extreme. • Money-primed individuals avoid interacting with emotional others. • These effects disappear when emotional expressions are believed to be private. a b s t r a c t a r t i c ...