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Early studies showed evidence that there may be an interhemispheric transfer deficit among people with alexithymia; that is, the emotional information from the right hemisphere of the brain is not being properly transferred to the language regions in the left hemisphere, as can be caused by a decreased corpus callosum, often present in ...
Anhedonia is a diverse array of deficits in hedonic function, including reduced motivation or ability to experience pleasure. [1] While earlier definitions emphasized the inability to experience pleasure, anhedonia is currently used by researchers to refer to reduced motivation, reduced anticipatory pleasure (wanting), reduced consummatory pleasure (liking), and deficits in reinforcement learning.
The word [clarification needed] comes from the German Gefühl, meaning "feeling". [4] A number of experiments have been conducted in the study of social and psychological affective preferences (i.e., what people like or dislike).
Many people complain of low mental energy, which can interfere with work and daily activities. [1] Low mental energy and fatigue are major public health concerns. [1] People may pursue remedies or treatment for low mental energy. [1] Seeking to improve mental energy is a common reason that people take dietary supplements. [6]
This model uses hope, positive affect, meaningfulness, and manageability as a measure of eustress, and negative psychological states, negative affect, anxiety, and anger as a measure of distress. Objective measures have also been used and include blood pressure rate, muscle tension, and absenteeism rates. [11]
Concentrating on a task, one aspect of flow. Flow in positive psychology, also known colloquially as being in the zone or locked in, is the mental state in which a person performing some activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity.
Emotions have been described as consisting of a coordinated set of responses, which may include verbal, physiological, behavioral, and neural mechanisms. [28] Emotions have been categorized, with some relationships existing between emotions and some direct opposites existing. Graham differentiates emotions as functional or dysfunctional and ...
The "psychic staring effect" has been reported in crowded classrooms and lectures. The psychic staring effect (sometimes called scopaesthesia) is the claimed extrasensory ability of a person to detect being stared at.