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Beyond Gendered/Sexed Sexual Response: Debunking Essentialism, Revisiting Experience, and Centering Women’s Sexual Pleasure
The experience of sexual pleasure is foundational to sexual arousal and desire. Despite a universal potential for experiencing sexual pleasure, sex...
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The effect of self-congruity on tourists’ emotions and sharing cultural tourism experiences on social networking platforms: a case study of Lingnan Impression Park
This study attempts to investigate how self-congruity motivates tourists’ intention to share their cultural destination travel experiences on social...
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Are You Distracted by Pleasure? Practice Mindfulness Meditation
Mindfulness improves attentional control and regulates emotion. In the current study, two experiments were conducted to examine the role of sustained...
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Castration for Pleasure: Exploring Extreme Castration Ideations in Fiction
The Eunuch Archive (EA) is an online community which includes individuals who read and write sexual fantasies with themes related to castration and...
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Increasing Anticipatory Pleasure in Major Depression through Enhancing Episodic Future Thinking: a Randomized Single-Case Series Trial
Individuals with depression have difficulty anticipating pleasure, which can negatively impact motivation and functioning. One factor in this may be...
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Is happier music groovier? The influence of emotional characteristics of musical chord progressions on groove
Specific rhythmic patterns in music have been reported to induce an urge to move with feelings of pleasure or enjoyment, called “groove.” However, it...
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The impact of the cuteness of service robots on consumers’ interaction willingness
With the advancement of artificial intelligence technology, service robots have become increasingly prevalent in various consumption scenarios. While...
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Music and Neuropsychological Rehabilitation: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
This chapter discusses the importance of musical interventions in neurodevelopment, highlighting the therapeutic effects of music in different brain...
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Unpleasant Pictures Exposure Evokes Different Repercussion on Emotional State and Heart Rate Response in Healthy Women and Men
To evaluate the heart rate response, emotion and changes in anxiety and anger levels after exposure to unpleasant pictures from the International...
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A three-factor benefits framework for understanding consumer preference for scented household products: psychological interactions and implications for future development
Humans have deliberately scented their environment for purpose or pleasure for millennia. In the contemporary marketplace most consumers prefer and...
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Changes in Heterosexual Couples’ Sexuality During the First Two Years After Breast Cancer Surgery: A Longitudinal Descriptive Study
The study aims to describe couples’ changes in sexuality after non-metastatic breast cancer from a longitudinal perspective. Our research question...
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Implementation and Effects of the Broad-Minded Affective Co** (BMAC) Technique: a Pilot Study
This study aims to develop and test a 3-session version of the Broad-Minded Affective Co** (BMAC) technique and to explore the relationship between...
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Effects of cognitive reappraisal on directed forgetting of negative emotional memory: an ERP study
This study aimed to adopt the item-method directed forgetting (DF) paradigm to explore the effects of cognitive reappraisal on intentional forgetting...
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A Study on the Characteristics and Interventions of Interpretation Bias in College Students with Depression Tendency Under Different Emotional Priming Conditions
This study aims to examine the characteristics of interpretation bias among students with depressive tendencies under emotional priming conditions...
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Regulating test anxiety by aesthetic musical emotions: based on the mutual promotion and mutual counteraction (MPMC) theory of affect
The aim of the study was to explore whether there are differences in the effects of temporary and short-term interventions for test anxiety (TA)...
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Interpersonal relationships modulate outcome evaluation in a social comparison context: The pain and pleasure of intimacy
Previous research has revealed that interpersonal relationships and social comparisons play important roles in evaluating outcomes. To our knowledge,...
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Temporal Unfolding of Micro-valences in Facial Expression Evoked by Visual, Auditory, and Olfactory Stimuli
Appraisal theories suggest that valence appraisal should be differentiated into micro-valences, such as intrinsic pleasantness and goal-/need-related...
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The effects of color and saturation on the enjoyment of real-life images
This study investigated the effects of color presence and saturation on the affective judgment of real-life images, as functions of the image’s...
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Being Moved: A Meaningful but Enigmatic Emotional Experience
The emotion often labelled as “being moved” is a commonly felt but somewhat mysterious experience in which joy and sadness are combined in a specific...
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Theoretical and empirical advances in understanding musical rhythm, beat and metre
The rhythmic elements of music are integral to experiences such as singing, musical emotions, the urge to dance and playing a musical instrument....
