Autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity is viewed as a major component of the emotion
response in many recent theories of emotion. Positions on the degree of specificity of ANS …

Affect is basic to many if not all psychological phenomena. This article examines 2 of the
most fundamental properties of affective experience—valence and arousal—asking how …

This textbook provides a complete overview of motivation and emotion, using an
overarching organizational scheme of how biological, psychological, and environmental …

Responses to fear‐and sadness‐inducing films were assessed using a broad range of
cardiovascular (heart rate, T‐wave amplitude, low‐and high‐frequency heart rate variability …

This study aimed to classify different emotional states by means of EEG-based functional
connectivity patterns. Forty young participants viewed film clips that evoked the following …

Men and women seem to process emotions and react to them differently. Yet, few
neurophysiological studies have systematically investigated gender differences in emotional …

Pictures and film clips are widely used and accepted stimuli to elicit emotions. Based on
theoretical arguments it is often assumed that the emotional effects of films exceed those of …

This study investigates the joint impact of façade geometry and associated sunlight patterns
on occupant subjective perception and physiological responses through a novel …

In this sophisticated overview of human emotions, a widely respected psychologist and
author addresses the ambiguities and embraces the controversies that surround this …

In empirical aesthetics, choosing stimuli, especially artworks, is a persistent challenge.
Artworks differ largely in terms of style, complexity, formal features, and valence, as well as …