Much emotion research has focused on the end result of the emotion process, categorical
emotions, as reported by the protagonist or diagnosed by the researcher, with the aim of …

Brehm's motivational intensity theory has been a fruitful conceptual framework for research
on effort during the last three decades. Researchers have used the theory to address …

Why does performing certain tasks cause the aversive experience of mental effort and
concomitant deterioration in task performance? One explanation posits a physical resource …

Influential theories in psychology, neuroscience, and economics assume that the exertion of
mental effort should feel aversive. Yet, this assumption is usually untested, and it is …

It has been shown that in certain situations losses exert a stronger effect on behavior than
respective gains, and this has been commonly explained by the argument that losses are …

Various models have been proposed for the estimation of blood pressure (BP) from pulse
transit time (PTT). PTT is defined as the time delay of the pressure wave, produced by left …

When someone asks,“How do you feel?”, your answer includes your bodily feelings as well
as your emotional feelings. Influential models of emotion view the embodiment of emotions …

This chapter deals with the psychological process that determines effort intensity in
instrumental behavior. According to motivation intensity theory, effort should be proportional …

Objective: To evaluate measures of cardiac activity and reactivity as prospective biomarkers
of treatment response to an empirically supported behavioral intervention for attention …

Background Despite the increasing interest in cardiac autonomic nervous activity, the
normal development is not fully understood. The main aim was to determine the maturation …