Experimental emotion inductions provide the strongest causal evidence of the effects of
emotions on psychological and physiological outcomes. In the present qualitative review, we …

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 …

The present study investigated gender differences in both emotional experience and
expressivity. Heart rate (HR) was recorded as an indicator of emotional experience while the …

Researchers interested in emotion have long struggled with the problem of how to elicit
emotional responses in the laboratory. In this article, we summarise five years of work to …

Despite strong popular conceptions of gender differences in emotionality and striking
gender differences in the prevalence of disorders thought to involve emotion dysregulation …

This chapter explores the psychophysiological study of emotion primarily from a biphasic
motivational view. This view posits that human emotions are organized by neural systems of …

Gender differences in emotional functioning are widely documented, but are often
inconsistent across personality, social, cultural, and situational variables, as well as types of …

How do people effectively regulate their emotional reactions? Why are some people better
at this than others? Most prior research has addressed these questions by focusing on …

Empathy is a multidimensional construct and comprises the ability to perceive, understand
and feel the emotional states of others. Gender differences have been reported for various …

Effective emotion regulation is widely seen as vital for healthy adaptation. There remains
considerable uncertainty, however, as to what constitutes effective emotion regulation. One …