Emotion recognition based on physiological signals has been a hot topic and applied in
many areas such as safe driving, health care and social security. In this paper, we present a …

Background: The dominant perspective in society is that stress has negative consequences,
and not surprisingly, the vast majority of interventions for coping with stress focus on …

Background and objectives: Prior research suggests that altering situation-specific
evaluations of stress as challenging versus threatening can improve responses to stress …

We live in a changing world that can create uncertainty about who we are, and make
extremist groups, identities and ideologies attractive to us. This article invokes uncertainty …

Autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity is viewed as a major component of the emotion
response in many recent theories of emotion. Positions on the degree of specificity of ANS …

Public stigma robs people with mental illnesses from rightful opportunities related to work
and other important life goals. Advocates have developed anti-stigma programs meant to …

For students to thrive in the US educational system, they must successfully cope with
omnipresent demands of exams. Nearly all students experience testing situations as …

Uncertainty is ubiquitous, and its resolution is a fundamental motivation for human behavior.
People strive to reduce uncertainty, especially uncertainties that reflect on, or are directly …

The authors induced cross-group friendship between Latinos/as and Whites to test the
effects of cross-group friendship on anxiety in intergroup contexts. Cross-group friendship …

We propose a Theory of Challenge and Threat States in Athletes (TCTSA) which is an
amalgamation and extension of the biopsychosocial model of challenge and threat, the …