Past work suggested that psychological stress, especially in the context of relationship stress, is associated with increased consumption of energy-dense food and when maintained for long periods of time, leads to adverse health consequences. Furthermore, this association is moderated by a variety of factors, including emotional over-eating style. That being said, few work utilized a dynamical system approach to understand the intraindividual and interindividual fluctuations within this process.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe ethic of care is a moral philosophy that has been used to describe and guide the work of educators, especially those working with students with special education needs (SEN). In this study, 36 principals and vice principals from four provinces in Canada were interviewed about their work with students with SEN during the pandemic. Responses were analyzed using the ethic of care framework.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGrowing work suggests that interoception, that is, representations of one's internal bodily changes, plays a role in shaping emotional experiences. Past studies primarily examine how behavioral accuracy in detecting interoceptive signals ) relates to emotional states, with less work examining self-reported interoceptive facets such as the characterizations of one's interoceptive abilities () or evaluative beliefs about the value versus danger of interoceptive signals ). However, existing studies rarely examine physiological reactivity, behavioral, and self-reported dimensions of interoception together in the same sample.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSocial judgments-that others are kind or cruel, well intentioned, or conniving-can ease or disrupt social interactions. And yet a person's internal state can alter these judgments-a phenomenon known as . We examined the factors that contribute to, and mitigate, affective realism during a stressful interview.
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