Sökning: "Disgust"

Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 19 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Disgust.

  1. 6. Guided by Fear : Effects on attention and awareness

    Författare :Nathalie Peira; Stefan Wiens; Nazanin Derakhshan; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Emotion; fear; attention; awareness; affective processing; heart rate; skin conductance; Psychology; Psykologi; Psychology; psykologi;

    Sammanfattning : Because the visual system has limited capacity, emotions such as fear may play an important role in guiding the selection of relevant input (LeDoux, 2000; Öhman & Mineka, 2001). The aim of the current thesis was to investigate how fear can guide the organism by influencing:  (I) attentional processes, (II) awareness of the visual input, and (III) affective processing independent of awareness. LÄS MER

  3. 7. A behavioral defense against disease

    Författare :Georgia Sarolidou; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Sammanfattning : Animals, including humans, have evolved under the continuous selection pressure posed by pathogens. As a result, we have developed a set of physiological mechanisms to combat pathogens – the immune system. However, engaging the immune system in this battle can be costly, unnecessarily so in cases when pathogens can be avoided. LÄS MER

  4. 8. The Making of Us : How affects shape collective bodies resisting gentrification

    Författare :Maíra Magalhães Lopes; Jacob Östberg; Joel Hietanen; Robin Canniford; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; collective bodies; multiplicities; packs; crowds; gentrification; affect; spatial injustice; wider consumption ideology; företagsekonomi; Business Administration;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis explores how we can think of collective bodies as amalgamations of interplaying affects (i.e., multiplicities), rather than compositions of individuals. Using ethnography as my main method, I study urban activism collectives resisting gentrification in the city center of São Paulo, Brazil. LÄS MER

  5. 9. The pill and the will : pharmacological and psychological modulation of cognitive and affective processes

    Författare :Myrto Sklivanioti Greenfield; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Sammanfattning : Background: Impairments in cognition are components of practically all psychiatric disorders and in that sense transdiagnostic factors. In both clinical and non-clinical populations, ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ cognitive control, i.e. LÄS MER

  7. 10. Vocal Expression of Emotion : Discrete-emotions and Dimensional Accounts

    Författare :Petri Laukka; Patrik N. Juslin; Erik Börjesson; Roddy Cowie; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Psychology; speech; emotion; vocal expression; emotion dimensions; acoustic cues; categorical perception; nonverbal communication; speech synthesis; cross-cultural communication; decoding accuracy; emotion intensity; meta-analysis; discrete emotions; Psykologi; Psychology; Psykologi;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis investigated whether vocal emotion expressions are conveyed as discrete emotions or as continuous dimensions. Study I consisted of a meta-analysis of decoding accuracy of discrete emotions (anger, fear, happiness, love-tenderness, sadness) within and across cultures. LÄS MER