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... We examine the relationship between investor mood and the demand for sustainable investments, proxied by inflows to sustainable mutual funds. We find that a worse mood is associated with greater inflows to sustainable funds. This finding is consistent with greater risk aversion pushing investors to favor sustainable funds that they perceive as less risky. ...
... In the current study, we provided participants with written information about emotional dimensions of a sound presented as a task-irrelevant sound in the context of a serial recall task. We were interested in whether this manipulation would influence sound perception and spontaneous use of emotion regulation strategies. Participants were informed that they would hear either an aversive and annoyin ...
... Background: Although emotional eating is associated with obesity in women, psychological correlates of their treatment-based weight-reduction behaviors are unclear. Aim: To test new model-based propositions of effects of mood on self-regulating physical activity and eating to inform interventions. Methods: Women in community-based obesity treatments with emphases on either self-regulation (n = 56) ...
... Mindful engagement interventions have been shown to improve psychological benefits of nature experiences but to date there has been little evaluation of their efficacy compared with other forms of engagement. An online experimental study was conducted to compare different forms of engagement with nature. Before and after a 20-min outdoor experience, participants (n = 215) completed surveys on stat ...
... Is it possible to develop urban spaces that address the different emotional and well-being needs of individuals? This work seeks to answer this question by focusing on the role of urban parks in helping users to relax and/or recharge their energy. Participants were presented with 15 images depicting three categories of urban parks, i.e., Green Parks with only natural greenery and water elements, C ...
emotions, etc ; alpha-amylase; biomarkers; cortisol; saliva; Show all 5 Subjects
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... The study aimed to determine how different baseline states of mind in each day (relaxed, ordinary, or stressful) affected the diurnal patterns of three commonly investigated salivary stress biomarkers: cortisol (sCort), alpha-amylase (sAA), and chromogranin A (sCgA). A total of 32 healthy volunteers collected saliva on three different mood days at six time points each day (awakening, 30 min after, ...
... People have an ancient and strong bond to flowers, which are known to have a positive effect on the mood. During the COVID-19 pandemic, sales of ornamental plants increased, and many turned to gardening, possibly as a way to cope with ubiquitous increases in negative mood following lockdowns and social isolation. The nature of the special bond between humans and flowers requires additional elucida ...
emotions, etc ; appetite; body dissatisfaction; questionnaires; risk; Show all 5 Subjects
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... With the recent proliferation of food delivery applications (‘apps’; FDAs), accessing a meal is more convenient and immediate than ever. These apps may potentially foster dysregulated eating behaviours, including maladaptive eating to cope with negative emotional states. Using ecological momentary assessment (EMA), the current study assessed whether FDA use at baseline predicted levels of EMA-asse ...
emotions, etc ; behavior disorders; cognition; questionnaires; research; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Mood-related behavioral display a daily rhythmic pattern. However, most clinical instruments do not assess mood rhythm aspects. The Mood Rhythm Instrument (MRhI) intends to contribute to filling this gap. We evaluated the psychometric properties and validated the MRhI in a Spanish sample (N = 457), exploring the relationship with chronotype and social jetlag through the reduced version of the Morn ...
emotions, etc ; beers; food quality; glass; questionnaires; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Collecting emotional response to products has been found to be more discriminating than liking alone, yet emotions are not static and are highly impacted by mood and our environment (or context). Therefore the question rises whether a consumer’s emotional response to a product is consistent within different contexts, both throughout consumption of a product and with repeated exposure. This study i ...
emotions, etc ; COVID-19 infection; appetite; public health; Show all 4 Subjects
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... This study aimed to evaluate the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on food parenting practices used by parents of young children. Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) was used to evaluate parents’ use of coercive, indulgent, structured, and autonomy supportive food parenting practices before and during the COVID-19 pandemic among a diverse racial/ethnic sample (n = 72) of parents of preschool-ag ...
emotions, etc ; climate change; life history; phenology; statistics; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Proposed in 1849 by Charles Morren to depict periodical phenomena governed by seasons, the term ‘phenology' has spread in many fields of biology. With the wide adoption of the concept of phenology flourished a large number of metrics with different meaning and interpretation. Here, we first a priori classified 52 previously published metrics used to characterise the phenology of births in large he ...
emotions, etc ; appetite; binging; ingestion; men; overeating; sampling; women; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Momentary positive and negative emotions have shown to affect eating behaviour. In this study, we used experience sampling method (ESM) to assess how momentary positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA) relate to overeating (OE) and binge eating (BE) episodes among men and women compared to no OE/BE episodes. We additionally looked at how situational and social context moderate these relationsh ...
emotions, etc ; consumer information; evolution; foods; objectives; sensory evaluation; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Sensory science provides objective information about the consumer understanding of a product, the acceptance or rejection of stimuli, and the description of the emotions evoked. It is possible to answer how consumers perceive a product through discriminative and descriptive techniques. However, perception can change over time, and these fluctuations can be measured with time-intensity methods. Ins ...
emotions, etc ; electrocardiography; etiology; radio waves; time series analysis; Show all 5 Subjects
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... IEI-EMF refers to a self-reported sensitivity characterized by attribution of non-specific physical symptoms to exposure to weak EMFs. The majority of empirical results do not support the existence of a causal relationship between EMF and IEI-EMF. However, this conclusion was drawn from environmental and experimental studies that are not without methodological limitations. In the current study, as ...
emotions, etc ; dimensions; food choices; food quality; questionnaires; sampling; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Product-focused emotion research has been in ascendency for more than a decade, but methodological research into questionnaires, the most popular tool for measuring emotional associations is still needed. The present research was situated in this context and pertained to the valence × arousal circumplex-inspired emotion questionnaire (CEQ) which includes 12 pairs of emotion words. Variants of the ...
emotions, etc ; flavor; food consumption; gastronomy; odors; restaurants; taste; Show all 7 Subjects
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... In recent years, a number of modernist chefs have started to pay more attention to the potential role of food or drink-extrinsic scents in enhancing their guest’s multisensory gastronomic experiences. This narrative review highlights the wide range of uses for such ambient, and/or food-extrinsic, aromas. Oftentimes, in a gastronomic setting, ambient scents have been introduced by chefs in order to ...
emotions, etc ; autonomic nervous system; behavior; cognition; electrocardiography; heart rate; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Higher negative affectivity has an association with decreased executive function and cognitive control. Heart rate variability (HRV) serves as an index of cardiac vagal regulation differences in the autonomic nervous system for both cognition and emotion. The current study investigates this association using a classic as well as emotional antisaccade paradigm to study inhibitory control performanc ...
emotions, etc ; age; appetite; college students; ingestion; testing; theoretical models; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Eating in response or to cope with negative emotions has been shown to be problematic in undergraduate students. Dispositional mindfulness and self-compassion have been associated with less eating in response or to cope with negative emotions; however, specific mechanisms underlying these relationships have never been tested. The aim of the present study is to test whether lower levels of specific ...