Thinking with a Mountain: A Narratological and Rhetorical Analysis of the Haptic Sublime in Jon Krakauer’s Mountaineerin...
edition: 1st edition / status: published
Trust in the police and affective evaluation of police faces: a preliminary study
Published in Frontiers in Psychology
Introduction A study was conducted to investigate if an individual’s trust in law enforcement affects their perception of the emotional facial expressions displayed by police officers. Methods The study invited 77 participants to rate the valence of 360 face images. Images featured individuals without headgear (condition 1), or with a baseball cap ...
“They Think We’re Foul-Mouthed Sluts”: Discomfort, Bourgeois Spectatorship, and Fellow Feelings of Feminism in Patricia ...
Published in Journal of Contemporary Drama in English
The question of how spectators engage emotionally with what they see on stage has always been of interest to theatre scholars and performance-makers. This article offers a small-scale analysis of audience responses to Patricia Cornelius’s SHIT (2015) that was performed by Dublin theatre collective THISISPOPBABY at the Project Arts Centre in March 2...
Immersion Through Ruins: Entanglement, Pleasure, and Struggle in Celeste
Published in Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies
This article argues that the 2D side-scrolling adventure platformer video game Celeste (2018) mobilizes the tradition of ruin-gazing to provide a metaphor for selfexploration and then crucially transforms the psychoanalytic “cure” into a gamified experience. Video games that contain ruins inherit the tradition of “ruin-gazing” from the eighteenth c...
A comparison of dimensional and discrete models for the representation of perceived and induced affect in response to sh...
Published in Frontiers in Psychology
Introduction In musical affect research, there is considerable discussion on the best method to represent affective response. This discussion mainly revolves around the dimensional (valence, tension arousal, energy arousal) and discrete (anger, fear, sadness, happiness, tenderness) models of affect. Here, we compared these models' ability to captur...
A pilot exploration of the relationships between optimism, affect, and cardiovascular reactivity
Published in Frontiers in Psychology
Introduction Cardiovascular reactivity refers to changes in blood pressure and heart rate in response to internal or external stimuli. Previous research has shown that excessively high and low cardiovascular reactivity are associated with an increased risk of cardiac problems. Dispositional optimism has been associated with numerous health benefits...
The modulation of emotional memory consolidation by dream affect
Published in Frontiers in Sleep
Introduction Research in the field of cognitive neuroscience has focused on the role of sleep in various neurocognitive processes such as memory consolidation. However, an area that has not been adequately researched is the role of dreaming in this memory process. This study aimed to determine the relationship between affect experienced in dreams a...
For an Equi-vocal Becoming: Danielle Schlomit Sofer's Sex Sounds and Affective Politics: (Danielle Schlomit Sofer, Sex S...
Ready for the worst? Negative affect in anticipation of a stressor does not protect against affective reactivity.
Published in Journal of personality
Lay wisdom suggests feeling negative while awaiting an upcoming stressor-anticipatory negative affect-shields against the blow of the subsequent stressor. However, evidence is mixed, with different lines of research and theory indirectly suggesting that anticipatory negative affect is helpful, harmful, or has no effect on emotional outcomes. In two...
Meta-analytic evidence that attachment insecurity is associated with less frequent experiences of discrete positive emot...
...Published in Journal of personality
Individual differences in attachment insecurity can have important implications for experiences of positive emotions. However, existing research on the link between attachment insecurity and positive emotional experiences has typically used a composite measure of positive emotions, overlooking the potential importance of differentiating discrete em...
