Sökning: "emotional awareness"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 101 avhandlingar innehållade orden emotional awareness.
1. Guided by Fear : Effects on attention and awareness
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
2. Children's Social Emotional Competence : Advances in assessment and practice
Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this dissertation was to examine associations between different facets of children’s social emotional competence in culturally diverse samples. Specifically, I explored associations between relationship skills (i.e., cooperation, listening skills, turn-taking, seeking help), social awareness (i. LÄS MER
3. Investigations of neural attractor dynamics in human visual awareness
Sammanfattning : What we see, how we see it and what emotions may arise from stimuli has long been studied by philosophers, psychologists, medical doctors and neuroscientists. This thesis work investigates a particular view on the possible dynamics, utilizing computational models of spiking neural attractor networks. LÄS MER
4. Does the way in which we perceive the world make us susceptible to anxiety?
Sammanfattning : One major focus of anxiety research in recent years has been the identification of cognitive factors that promote increased vulnerability to anxiety. Cognitive formulations propose that anxiety is characterised by an increased tendency to attend to negatively valenced emotional information, and that this bias may play a causal role in the development and maintenance of clinical anxiety. LÄS MER
5. Anorexia Nervosa : Emotion, Cognition, and Treatment
Sammanfattning : Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a serious disorder with long-term consequences for those afflicted. No evidence-based care is available for adults with full or subthreshold AN. The thesis research investigated aspects of emotion and cognition relevant to the maintenance of AN that might inform psychological treatment. LÄS MER