The primary aim of this study was to test emotion-elicitation levels of widely used film clips in
a Turkish sample and to expand existing databases by adding several new film clips with the …

We tested the hypothesis that shared emotions, notably anger, influence the formation of
new self-categories. We first measured participants'(N= 89) emotional reactions to a …

Positive and negative affective states are respectively associated with optimistic and
pessimistic expectations regarding future reward. One mechanism that might underlie these …

Two experiments investigated the influence of mindfulness, meditation, and type of induction
(free will, determinism, or neutral) on affect and beliefs in free will/determinism. In …

Educators have daily experience with how students' emotional states influence their
behaviors and levels of motivation. What is more poorly understood and even …

Age-related deficits are seen across tasks where learning depends on asocial feedback
processing, however plasticity has been observed in some of the same tasks in social …

Positive and negative affective states are respectively associated with optimistic and
pessimistic expectations regarding future reward. One mechanism that might underlie these …

Participants completed several self-assessments that measured depressive symptoms,
hypomania, and mood. They were then asked to learn either a set of rule-based categories …

1. Abstract Die Wirkungen von Emotionen auf kognitive Prozesse sind vielfältig. Der Einfluss
negativer Emotionen auf ein Phänomen der selektiven Aufmerksamkeit, die sogenannte …

In this dissertation, two exemplar-based models of categorization, the General Context
Model (GCM) and the Exemplar Based Random Walk model (EBRW), were used to describe …