A growing body of research unveils the ubiquity of ambivalence—the simultaneous
experience of positive and negative emotional or cognitive orientations toward a person …

The first time you call at your friends' or colleagues' home, you often find yourself secretly
browsing through their bookshelves. While the hosts are getting drinks from the kitchen, we …

Narratives enable readers to vividly experience fictional and non-fictional contexts. Writers
use a variety of language features to control these experiences: they direct readers in how to …

We propose that the experience and expression of emotional complexity, including the
simultaneous and sequential experience of emotional complexity, can be beneficial for …

Increasingly, hate groups have used the Internet to express their viewpoints, sell their
paraphernalia, and recruit new members. This study explored the effectiveness of …

In this regard, only with the substantive implications foregrounded, the present argument
complements that ''Telling in Time''series. Here, as there, vested group interests come …

Previous studies suggested that the emotional connotation of single words automatically
recruits attention. We investigated the potential of words to induce emotional engagement …

Emotions are often understood in relation to conditioned responses. Narrative emotions,
however, cannot be reduced to a simple associative relationship between emotion words …

In two experiments, we investigated comprehension monitoring in 10–12 years old children
differing in reading comprehension skill. The children's self-paced reading times …

The mental representation of what one reads is called a" situation model" or a" mental
model." The process of reading causes an interaction of the new knowledge with what is …