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Batja Mesquita is a Dutch social psychologist, a cultural psychologist and an affective scientist.She is a professor of psychology at the University of Leuven, Belgium, where she studies the role of culture in emotions, and of emotions in culture and society.
The Wheel of Fortune was a common allegorical symbol in European iconography. The four figures shown either climb, are at the summit, or fall, or at the bottom of a revolving wheel presided over by personified Fortuna. The card pictured is the Wheel Of Fortune card from the Rider–Waite tarot deck.
The theory of constructed emotion (formerly the conceptual act model of emotion [1]) is a theory in affective science proposed by Lisa Feldman Barrett to explain the experience and perception of emotion. [2] [3] The theory posits that instances of emotion are constructed predictively by the brain in the moment as needed.
The sociology of emotions applies sociological theorems and techniques to the study of human emotions.As sociology emerged primarily as a reaction to the negative effects of modernity, many normative theories deal in some sense with emotion without forming a part of any specific subdiscipline: Karl Marx described capitalism as detrimental to personal 'species-being', Georg Simmel wrote of the ...
The International Affective Picture System (IAPS) is a database of pictures designed to provide a standardized set of pictures for studying emotion and attention [1] that has been widely used in psychological research. [2] The IAPS was developed by the National Institute of Mental Health Center for Emotion and Attention at the University of ...
The Wheel of Time Companion (subtitled: The People, Places, and History of the Bestselling Series) is a reference book for The Wheel of Time epic fantasy series of novels by Robert Jordan. The book was released by Tor Books in hardback format on 3 November 2015.
Cognition and Emotion is a peer-reviewed scientific journal with a specific focus on the interplay between thinking and feeling, or cognition and emotion.Within Western thought, cognition and emotion have traditionally been conceived as adversaries.
Alexithymia (/ ə ˌ l ɛ k s ɪ ˈ θ aɪ m i ə / ə-LEK-sih-THY-mee-ə), also called emotional blindness, [1] is a neuropsychological phenomenon characterized by significant challenges in recognizing, expressing, sourcing, [2] and describing one's emotions.