Browsing Compassion by Subject "Emotions"
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Affiliative and prosocial motives and emotions in mental health.
(2015)This paper argues that studies of mental health and wellbeing can be contextualized within an evolutionary approach that highlights the coregulating processes of emotions and motives. In particular, it suggests that, ... -
An evolutionary approach to emotion in mental health with a focus on affiliative emotions
(2015)Emotions evolved to guide animals in pursuing specific motives and goals (e.g., to find food, avoid harm, seek out sexual partners, rear offspring). They function as short-term alertors and regulators of behaviour and can ... -
Facial expressions depicting compassionate and critical emotions: the development and validation of a new emotional face stimulus set
(2014)Attachment with altruistic others requires the ability to appropriately process affiliative and kind facial cues. Yet there is no stimulus set available to investigate such processes. Here, we developed a stimulus set ...
