Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 1998. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 367-375). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1943. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 121-126).

Thesis (M.Phil.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 68-71). Also available in electronic version.

Thesis (M.A.) -- Central Connecticut State University, 2006. / Thesis advisor: Rebecca M. Wood. "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Psychology." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 50-57). Also available via the World Wide Web.

Inaug.-Diss.--Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg. / At head of title: Aus dem Seminar für Geschichte der Medizin der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.

The present study investigates developmental trends in the perception of emotions from vocal cues. Subjects included 20 children from each of Grades 3, 5, and 7, and 20 college undergraduates, with equal numbers of males and females at each age level. They heard a tape containing 16 brief speech samples, selected from dramatic recordings of both male and female voices, to represent happiness, sadness, anger, or fear. The samples had been rendered unintelligible by means of randomized splicing. Subjects identified the emotion portrayed in each sample, from a list containing the four possible emotions. Results indicated that recognition accuracy was affected by age of judges, with college students doing better than schoolchildren. Significant effects on recognition accuracy were also found for type of emotion, and sex of speaker. The Sex of Judges X Sex of Speaker interaction was significant, with female judges performing better than male judges when the speaker was female, and male judges performing better than female judges when the speaker was male. The Type of Emotion X Sex of Speaker interaction was also significant, with happiness being more often identified correctly with a female speaker than with a male speaker. Evidence of response bias was found. The relative frequencies of specific types of error were found to differ significantly from those predicted on the basis of response bias and differential response accuracy for each emotion. The pattern of errors varied significantly with age. Grade 7 judges deviated most from their predicted pattern, and college students deviated least. Sex of speaker also affected the pattern of errors, with several types of error, including stimulus 'sadness'-response 'fear', being more common with female speakers, and others including stimulus 'happiness'-response 'anger', being more common with male speakers. The limitations of studies like the present one were discussed, particularly as regards the nature of the speech samples used. / Arts, Faculty of / Psychology, Department of / Graduate

The theory of affections has seen a renewed conceptual interest both in the role played in the formulation of power structures in modernity, which remains important in understanding the present form of Nation State, and in the possibility to formulate a new interpretation of the social relationship useful to surpass the classical psychological lectures. We aim here to reconsider an affect which in contemporary language is tinged with theological nuances: the affect of fides. We can translate the word using the modern terms of trust and belief, but also loyalty. The choice of this particular affect is due to the centrality that, in our view, it occupies in modern contract theories, and to its ability to reflect, with its multiple conceptual stratification, different perspectives and political proposals. In order to clarify the terms of this discussion, we will henceforth use the term fides, alongside with different meanings which overlap within it, to illustrate two different and divergent proposals that have emerged during the seventeenth century. We consider, in particular, the thought of Spinoza opposed to the social contract theories by Hobbes in order to understand the modern theoretical break with previous political concepts; in particular, we will briefly analyze the different conceptions of Societas civilis that emerge from this division. The background of these considerations is the analysis of modern philosophy‘s use of the theory of affections. The XVII century witnessed the rise of social contract theory. It draws on the concept of the individual, conceived as isolated from others, located in the original state of nature (pre-social), unable to develop its rational part. It is therefore a victim of its own passions, but even more so those of others. The dominant sentiments emerging in Hobbes‘ Leviathan are therefore those of awe and fear. They derive from the constant uncertainty of one‘s power and strength; the uncertainty of being able to maintain everyone‘s domination over others and thus to suffer in turn the others‘ power. From the necessity to control these emotions in a rational way emerges the contractual proposal to transfer the power to an authority (singular or plural) whom all subjects must obey. Philosophical movements such as neostoicism and philosophical works such as Les passions de l‘ame by Descartes, testify in their „rationalist“ proposal the need to keep a constant control over the passions. They open the way for the famous dialectics of reason and passion, a central theme throughout the Enlightenment. This need to dominate the passions arouses from the complex Cartesian metaphysical theory and from its conception of the individual always split between body and soul, reason and instinct. These two models are the ones which have prevailed; this conception of individual and society and this approach to the passions still dominate common sense when we talk about human affections. The paper follows an itinerary across three authors of the modern age. At first we try to delineate the theory of affection by Descartes, and the birth of the dichotomy of body and soul through the focus of two of the most important works by Descartes: Méditations métaphysiques and Traité sur les passions de l‘âme. Then, by analyzing the works of Hobbes (Leviathan), and Spinoza (Ethic and Political treatise) we will describe in which terms the subject carrying his affective baggage interacts in a political space.

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This thesis sought to identify and evaluate the effects of suppressing anger on cognition and behaviour from both naturalistic and laboratory approaches.  It was predicted that anger suppression places demands on valuable cognitive resources and it was predicted that this form of emotion regulation would have detrimental effects on thinking and reasoning abilities.  A naturalistic study examined records of everyday anger experiences (as documented in daily diaries) and showed that anger suppression had negative effects on participants’ self-reports of concentration, critical thinking, decision-making and accuracy in the formation of judgements.  The first laboratory experiment explored the effects of anger suppression on critical thinking and reasoning abilities through tests of analysis, evaluation and assumption.  The second laboratory experiment investigated performance on social reasoning skills utilising theory of mind tasks to assess interpersonal perception and inference abilities.  The results of the laboratory experiments showed that relative to expression, suppression was associated with superior cognitive performance on specific measures of critical and social reasoning.  Overall, the findings were inconsistent and did not provide full support for the proposal that regulating anger through suppression has detrimental cognitive effects, particularly with respect to critical thinking and reasoning abilities.  The implications of these findings and future directions for anger research are discussed.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Delaware, 2006. / Principal faculty advisor: Robert F. Simons, Dept. of Psychology. Includes bibliographical references.