Cognitive Feelings Research Articles

Conducting a Literature Review in Political Science: Comments on Approaches, Functional Significance, Processes and Challenges in the Digital Age

Literature review is an unavoidable stage in scientific research and writing. It reflects both familiarity with the stock of knowledge in a subject/topic area and scientific maturity. Unfortunately, students of political science and social sciences tend to undermine, neglect, or take this research activity for granted. There are at least two possible explanations: unawareness about its significance and the practical ways of conducting a standard literature review. This paper attempts to bring back the seriousness of conducting a literature review. It examines the functional significance of conducting the literature review, some associated challenges and possible practical ways of overcoming them. The findings indicate that cognitive awareness about the academic and social significance/ function of the process is fundamental in getting students practically engaged in it. There is, therefore, a positive correlation between our capacity to conduct a literature review and our cognitive feelings of the necessity to do so. When students know that without a literature review, they may not be graded positively, they are more likely to become serious in this stage of research methodology.

The Spirit of Happiness: The Universal Manifestation of Life

Happiness is the manifestation of positive contemplation and consciousness. It is a way of demonstrating positive thinking and intuition. The spirit of happiness is a collaboration of life contentment, positive effect, and high thinking in the subjective nature. The study delves into the sources of happiness globally, revealing mental health, physical wellbeing, living conditions, behaviors, personal safety, and life expectancy. The feeling of life has the most delighted meaning, leading to the divine inspiration of happiness. The objective of the paper is to state the spirit of happiness, encompassing feelings of contentment, positive vibes, and supportive life. The paper covers the World Happiness Report since 2012 when it was started, its background, factors, reports, and findings. The emancipation of happiness is multifaceted, covering positive emotions and cognitive feelings. Social connection, natural attitude, fiscal support, socio-culture, pragmatic sign, and mental healing are key terms, creating a vibrant evolution of happiness, and leading to the contentment of consciousness and self-awareness. Happiness is not only a personal pursuit but also a societal measure of progress, manifesting emotional intelligence, individualism, idealism, and perfectionism.

The Current State of the Formation of Emotional Literacy of Older Preschool Children with Logopathology

The purpose of this study is to identify the current state of emotional literacy, which affects the speech readiness to study at school of older preschool children with logopathology. The main priority of older preschoolers is that they are already able to manage their emotions and feelings, which acquire stability and validity. During training, moral, aesthetic, motivational, cognitive feelings are built on their basis. Emotional readiness determines in children an adequate reaction to life situations, understanding of actions and consequences of emotional states (emotional prediction); awareness of one's experiences, the ability to explain one's condition (feelings become arbitrary, controlled), which is extremely important for a future student. This especially applies to children with speech pathology. The results of the experimental study give a clear idea that there are significant differences between the groups of children with logopathology and those with normotypical psychophysical development regarding the formation of the emotional component of the psychological component of speech readiness for school: insufficiently formed knowledge about schematic types of emotions, which reveals a low level of awareness and ideas about types of emotions and their properties; insufficiently developed ability to analyze the facial expressions of the close environment; not understanding what kind of emotion a person can feel in different life situations. Their knowledge is limited to a small number of emotions, so during mood swings it is difficult for them to explain their emotional state or identify it in others; during communication, negative emotions are inherent (stubbornness, behavioral negativism, anxiety, fear of something new, in particular, speech). The obtained research materials and statistical evidence allow us to conclude that the majority of older preschool children with logopathology have an insufficiently formed emotional regulation; more often than children with normotypical development, they experience negative emotions during communication both with peers and with adults. The research materials indicate the unformed readiness of this category of children to interact in the conditions of schooling.

Problematic Smartphone Use and Social Media Fatigue: The Mediating Role of Self-Control.

Excessive social media consumption leads to addiction and affects mental health. It is a phenomenon that is difficult to avoid. Previous research on the effects of excessive Internet use shows that people who engage in social media (SM) without restraint experience over-involvement, over-disclosure, technostress, and social media fatigue (SMF). SMF, conceptualized as an emotional and cognitive feeling of being overwhelmed, manifests itself in mindless browsing of content, limiting the amount of time spent on SM, or quitting SM altogether. Self-control, although present in the technology addiction literature and psychology research, has been rarely described in relation to both excessive SM use and SMF. Therefore, the main goal of the present study was to verify whether there is a direct relationship between problematic smartphone use and SMF, and whether this association is mediated by self-control. The study included 210 respondents (M = 25.85, SD = 9.84) living in different Polish cities. The survey was conducted online, and the respondents consented to participate in the study. They completed the following measures: the Mobile Phone Problematic Use, the Self-Control Scale, the Social Media Fatigue Scale, and a brief questionnaire with socio-demographic data. Statistical analysis was performed to verify the relationship between problematic mobile phone use, level of self-control, and SMF. The outcomes indicate that there are significant interrelationships between the three studied variables. The association between problematic smartphone use and SMF is mediated by self-control. A lack of impulse-inhibition skills, such as compulsive checking of notifications, can be a significant factor in SM exhaustion, fatigue, or frustration. SMF can also be understood as a natural defensive response, triggered in situations where individuals are overwhelmed, when the self-control is insufficient to stop the compulsion to use SM, and the use of a smartphone for this purpose is excessively engaging.

Research on the Relationship between Mental Accounting and Compensation Incentive

Mental accounting is one of the important contents of behavioral finance research, and there is a close connection mechanism between it and compensation incentive. As people's subconscious cognitive process of money classification, recording, management, and evaluation, mental accounting can affect employees' cognitive feelings of enterprise compensation. Whether it can play the role of compensation incentive needs to explore how to establish an effective employee mental accounting. The psychological law reflected by the cognitive process of mental accounting in this paper has its particularity. Studying the cognitive process of employees' compensation management from this perspective can provide effective support for the accurate implementation of enterprise compensation incentive.

Transparency Analysis of a Passive Heavy Load Comanipulation Arm

For collaborative robotics applications, many systems have addressed general handling issues in recent years. Depending on the industrial context, these systems bring physical and cognitive feelings that result in the acceptance of their users. Transparency qualifies the ability of a robot to follow the movements imposed by the operator without noting any resistant effort. The objective of this article is to develop a methodology that mixes the approach highlighting the human factors and their correlation to robotic criteria in the case of a passive manipulation arm with six degrees of freedom produced by the Neoditech company. An exploratory study was then conducted to measure criteria such as time, speed, and effort during manipulation along with criteria based on a technological level, personality and technology acceptance model-method questionnaires. From there, we uncovered a correlation between the user’s personality, particularly their lack of neuroticism, and their means of evaluating the device through its usefulness, comfort, and indicators of mechanical behavior. This study is a preliminary analysis of user behaviors and traits that affect technological acceptance when dealing with a comanipulation arm. This work offers a framework for similar future analyses and recommends mechanical adjustments to the arm for increased user acceptance.

Sheep and goat welfare in Croatia: Assessing veterinary student attitudes

Research into the veterinary perception of animal welfare is becoming ever more relevant. Following previous studies on Croatian veterinary students? attitudes and opinions towards farm animal and pet welfare, the present study assessed their attitudes towards sheep and goat welfare, focusing on the year of veterinary medicine study and area of student residence. The questionnaire survey involved students of all six years of the integrated undergraduate and graduate study programme at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia. First-year students filled out the questionnaire twice, before and after having attended the animal welfare subject. The questionnaire consisted of two sections. The first section included questions on student demographic and experiential characteristics, whereas the second section asked them to define the level of cognition, sentience and welfare compromise in sheep and goats through five-point Likert scale questions. Study results revealed that students agreed that sheep and goats have cognitive abilities and feelings, but they neither agreed nor disagreed about their welfare compromise. There was no significant difference in student responses according to years of study or between first-year student responses before and after having attended the animal welfare subject or according to areas of student residence. These results could suggest poor student interaction with small ruminants and, therefore, help expand the respective curriculum.

Similarity increases collaborative cheating

We report two experimental studies testing how a cognitive feeling of similarity affects dishonesty in individual and collaborative tasks when cheating hurts others. By employing a novel die-in-the-box paradigm with a total of 1080 subjects, we find that a sense of similarity (vs. dissimilarity) tends to increase dishonesty in settings highlighting the relationship with a collaborator, but tends to decrease dishonesty in settings highlighting the relationship with others who suffer from cheating. Corroborating these results, a code of conduct highlighting similarity towards the firm’s employees leads to higher levels of cheating than a code of conduct highlighting similarity towards other members of the society. The results provide insights into how to craft effective organizational codes of ethical conduct.

CONSUMERS’ KNOWLEDGE, MAXIMIZING TENDENCIES, AND POST-DECISION INFORMATION SEARCH

ABSTRACT Nowadays consumers have more previous knowledge about products and services before making decisions. This study sheds light on the effects of consumers’ previous knowledge on post-decision information search. Previous studies argue that cognitive dissonance and feelings of regret or dissatisfaction elicit this search. However, we show through one experimental and two correlational studies that this view is incomplete. Our findings indicate that knowledgeable consumers search for more information at the post-decision stage, even when the decision cannot be modified. This main effect is stronger (weaker) for maximizers (satisficers). Also, cognitive dissonance affects the post-decision information search behavior. Therefore, we suggest a new variable, consumers’ previous knowledge, for consideration in the post-decision information search model.

Even when it feels difficult to think why I like you, I still do: The role of content, cognitive feelings and thinking systems on the evaluation of close and prominent brands

Purpose: The purpose of the present investigation was to examine the influence of recalling many versus few brand attributes on brand evaluations, the mediating role of ease of recall and whether this mediated effect was moderated by thinking styles across two brands of cellphones: iPhone and Galaxy. Design/methodology/approach: We used a between subjects experimental design to manipulate the amount of information brought to mind of the cellphone brands participants currently own. Findings/results: Results for iPhone™ showed a positive influence of bringing to mind many brand qualities on brand evaluations. This effect was partially mediated by ease of recall. Results for Galaxy™ not only showed a non-significant direct effect but also a significant indirect effect mediated by ease of recall. Lastly, the mediated effect of bringing to mind more information on brand evaluations of iPhone™ was moderated by experiential and rational thinking. Practical implications: Results showed the importance of metacognitive experiences for understanding the evaluation of brands. Originality/value: Our findings have important implications for understanding how consumers evaluate close and prominent brands.

The perception of time is dynamically interlocked with the facial muscle activity

Time perception relies on the motor system. Involves core brain regions of this system, including those associated with feelings generated from sensorimotor states. Perceptual timing is also distorted when movement occurs during timing tasks, possibly by interfering with sensorimotor afferent feedback. However, it is unknown if the perception of time is an active process associated with specific patterns of muscle activity. We explored this idea based on the phenomenon of electromyographic gradients, which consists of the dynamic increase of muscle activity during cognitive tasks that require sustained attention, a critical function in perceptual timing. We aimed to determine whether facial muscle dynamic activity indexes the subjective representation of time. We asked participants to judge stimuli durations (varying in familiarity) while we monitored the time course of the activity of the zygomaticus-major and corrugator-supercilii muscles, both associated with cognitive and affective feelings. The dynamic electromyographic activity in corrugator-supercilii over time reflected objective time and this relationship predicted subjective judgments of duration. Furthermore, the zygomaticus-major muscle signaled the bias that familiarity introduces in duration judgments. This suggests that subjective duration could be an embodiment process based in motor information changing over time and their associated feelings.

Analysis of Problem of Perceiving and Understanding Literary Texts by Philology Students

Introduction. The article discloses the importance of conducting psycholinguistic analysis of perceiving and understanding voluminous literary texts by philology students; the issue is relevant as there is a lack of research that concerns revealing the essential aspects of these processes, as well as the influence of conducting psycholinguistic analysis on effective performance in philology students’ professional activities is highlighted. The goal of the article is to conduct a theoretical analysis of the problem of perceiving and understanding literary texts by philology students and identify the level of development of future teachers of language and literature individual practical skills on decoding the content of a large prose fictional text.
 Methods. To achieve the goal, the authors used theoretical and empirical research methods. Empirical methods included methodology for determining semantic kernels of a text and its probabilistic connection, and methodology for determining the subtext, motives of the author and characters.
 Results. Theoretical analysis of the problem led the authors to conclusion that the processes of perceiving and understanding large literary text by philology students are based on two main components: cognitive skills and personal emotional feelings. The process of a literary text perceiving includes such structural elements as the reader’s orientation and the type of student’s work with a literary text, depends on students’ personal professional neoformations (reading competence, speech-cognitive competence), and is also influenced with philology student’s psychological type. The results of empirical study conducted by the authors indicate that future teachers of language have following developed reproductive skills with voluminous literary texts: they at a high level reproduce factual information of a text, can accurately convey an emotional load of a literary work, determine its theme, main idea, etc.
 Conclusions. The productive types of voluminous literary texts understanding associated with the definition of subtext, motives of the author and characters are mastered by philological students in a rather limited degree and this fact necessitates following studying underlying mechanisms of these processes functioning and developing tools for its targeted progress.

Why Adolescents Attempt Suicide: A Qualitative Study of the Transition from Ideation to Action

To ameliorate the public health problem of adolescent suicide, it is imperative to go beyond simply establishing which factors increase risk. Multiple factors often interact in such a way that escalates suicide risk, and some combinations may be particularly perilous. Therefore, it is essential to examine the sequence and interplay of these various contributors to understand how they interact to confer risk. To enhance our understanding of this process, we used qualitative in-depth interviews with 20 psychiatrically hospitalized adolescents who had recently made a suicide attempt to investigate the factors that contributed to their attempts. In this qualitative analysis we 1) identified 16 separate factors that contributed to their suicide attempts, and 2) focused on the sequence and interplay between these factors in order to better understand why adolescents attempt suicide, with specific attention to which factors facilitated the transition from suicide ideation to action. Findings demonstrated that the strain caused by historical, sociocultural, and interpersonal factors alone was not enough to result in adolescents attempting suicide. For all but two participants, it was the interaction of intrapersonal factors that appeared to distort cognitions and/or elevate emotions to the point where they became intolerable and suicide became a viable option. These intrapersonal factors appeared to be the catalyst in the process from suicide ideation to action. Our findings suggest the need for specific strategies that address cognitive distortions, emotion dysregulation, and feelings of invalidation and entrapment as potential targets for interventions and prevention practices with adolescents at risk for suicide.

The role of cognitive feelings and content information in the evaluations of sport brands

ABSTRACTPurpose: The purpose of this investigation was twofold. First, we examined the influence of cognitive feelings and content information on evaluations of sports brands coming from sports goods manufacturing. Second, we examined if the hypothesized mediation effect of cognitive feelings was moderated by experiential thinking style.Methodology: We randomly assigned sport consumers from Mexico to two experimental conditions: recalling two versus six brand attributes of their favorite brand and completed a set of questionnaires assessing brand quality, ease of recall, demographic questions, and thinking style (study 2).Findings: Results from study 1 and study 2, a conceptual replication, showed the hypothesized mediation effect of cognitive feelings on recalling fewer brand attributes and brand evaluations. This mediated effect was replicated in study 2; hence it was not conditioned by experiential thinking style.Practical implications: Our findings have implications for sport market research and brand managers.Research contribution: Our findings served to illustrate the importance of conducting experiments to understand some aspects of sport consumer behavior and to shade light on how brand evaluations were informed by cognitive feelings.

Negative mood invites psychotic false perception in dementia

BackgroundThere is increasing evidence for predictive coding theories of psychosis, which state that hallucinations arise from abnormal perceptual priors or biases. However, psychological processes that foster abnormal priors/biases in patients suffering hallucinations have been largely unexplored. The widely recognized relationship between affective disorders and psychosis suggests a role for mood and emotion.MethodsThirty-six patients with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), a representative condition associated with psychosis of neurological origin, and 12 patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) were enrolled. After an experimental mood induction, the participants underwent the pareidolia test, in which visual hallucination-like illusions were evoked and measured.ResultsIn DLB patients, the number of pareidolic illusions was doubled under negative mood compared to that under neutral mood. In AD patients, there was no significant difference in the number of pareidolic responses between negative and neutral mood conditions. A signal detection theory analysis demonstrated that the observed affective modulation of pareidolic illusions was mediated through heightened perceptual bias, not sensory deterioration.ConclusionsThe current findings demonstrated that abnormal perceptual priors in psychotic false perception have an affective nature, which we suggest are a type of cognitive feeling that arises in association with perception and cognition.

The Effects of Emotional Clarity on Burnout of Emotional Labor: Verification of the Mediating Effects of Non-Adaptive Cognitive Regulation and Feeling Expression

The Effects of Emotional Clarity on Burnout of Emotional Labor: Verification of the Mediating Effects of Non-Adaptive Cognitive Regulation and Feeling Expression

The Effects of Emotional Clarity on Burnout of Emotional Labor: Verification of the Mediating Effects of Non-Adaptive Cognitive Regulation and Feeling Expression

The Effects of Emotional Clarity on Burnout of Emotional Labor: Verification of the Mediating Effects of Non-Adaptive Cognitive Regulation and Feeling Expression

Distress Vs Eustress: A Survey based Analysis among the Employees of Magnesite industry, TamilNadu

The study aims to reveal the difference between Eustress and distress and its impact on the performance of the employees in magnesium industry, Tamil Nadu. Eustress is a positive cognitive response which will persuade the individuals to perform better in working environment where as distress is a negative cognitive response, having negative implications in the work performed. The objective of the study is to identify the effect of Eustress and distress among the employees. A survey conducted among 403 employees by using a stratified sampling technique, collected data were analyzed by applying One-way ANOVA to find whether differences among more than two groups means exist significantly in the dependent variable. Identified the homogeneous subsets of means from study that are not different from each other which is analyzed by Tukey B's Post hoc test. The majority of the employees' responses is stating that stress helps them to achieve work target, on time at the same time when the cognitive positive feeling comes down i.e when employees face the distress the performance of the same will be in a down trend.

Delusions, Acceptances, and Cognitive Feelings

Psychopathological delusions have a number of features that are curiously difficult to explain. Delusions are resistant to counterevidence and impervious to counterargument. Delusions are theoretically, affectively, and behaviorally circumscribed: delusional individuals often do not act on their delusions and often do not update beliefs on the basis of their delusions. Delusional individuals are occasionally able to distinguish their delusions from other beliefs, sometimes speaking of their “delusional reality.” To explain these features, I offer a model according to which, contrary to appearances, delusions are not beliefs at all. Delusions are acceptances that are generated by pathologically powerful cognitive feelings. This model has implications for the way that we should think about non‐pathological doxastic states and emotions.

The tie that blinds? Developing and validating a scale to measure emotional attachment to a sport team

The emotional bond between a fan and his/her favourite team is one of the most distinct attributes of spectator sport. Yet to this point, little has been done to empirically explore this unique phenomenon. The purpose of this study was to create and validate an emotional attachment to a sport team scale. Guided by attachment theory and following a well-established scale development framework, a two-factor, seven-item scale was found to be a valid and reliable instrument. The two distinct factors termed Investment (cognitive feelings put into the team) and Dividend (affective feelings derived from the team) represent a unique contribution to the field of sport management. In addition, a construct validity test provided quantitative verification of an apparent hierarchy of the emotional attachment dimensions where those with higher Investment scores appear to place a higher (somewhat irrational) value on team success compared to those with higher Dividend scores.