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Immediate emotions are considered true emotions which integrates cognition with somatic or bodily components of the autonomic nervous system to express the emotion externally. Emotion activates several areas of the brain inside the limbic system and varies per emotion: [9]
Hans Joachim Markowitsch (born 26 March 1949 in Singen, [1] Germany) is a physiological psychologist and neuropsychologist whose work centers on brain correlates of memory and memory disorders, stress, emotion, empathy, theory of mind, violent and anti-social behavior and consciousness.
Affective neuroscience is the study of how the brain processes emotions.This field combines neuroscience with the psychological study of personality, emotion, and mood. [1] The basis of emotions and what emotions are remains an issue of debate within the field of affective neuroscience.
Emotions, as defined by Damasio, are changes in both body and brain states in response to stimuli. [1] Physiological changes (such as muscle tone , heart rate , endocrine activity , posture , facial expression , and so forth) occur in the body and are relayed to the brain where they are transformed into an emotion that tells the individual ...
Perseverative cognition is involved with a “stress-disease link". [1] Further, it is the thinking about the stress, or rather the obsessing over it, that establishes a link between stress and disease. Perseverative cognition also focuses on the effects that worrying over anticipated events have on the physical body and mind. [2]
Compared to negative affect and positive affect, physiological hyperarousal has been studied less. [15] [1] Chorpita et al. (2000), proposed an affect and arousal scale in order to measure the tripartite factors of emotion in children and adolescents. In this study, physiological hyperarousal was positively correlated with negative affect but ...
Observers are sensitive to agents' emotions, and are capable of recognizing the messages these emotions convey. They react to and draw inferences from an agent's emotions. The emotion an agent displays may not be an authentic reflection of their actual state (See also Emotional labor). Agents' emotions can have effects on four broad sets of ...
Hans Selye defined stress as “the nonspecific (that is, common) result of any demand upon the body, be the effect mental or somatic.” [5] This includes the medical definition of stress as a physical demand and the colloquial definition of stress as a psychological demand. A stressor is inherently neutral meaning that the same stressor can ...