Sentences with phrase «of emotional arousal»

In 145 emerging adults (54 % women) from the United States, we assessed angry and sad emotion words and vocal pitch (an index of emotional arousal) during romantic conflict narratives, and self - rated anger and sadness immediately following these narratives.

We suggest that the nature of emotional arousal which accompanies trauma alters the physical process by which the body regulates future affective stimuli in ways that are potentially detrimental to human relationships.

Developing self - regulation is further understood to reflect an emerging balance between processes of emotional arousal and cognitive regulation.

In this state of emotional arousal, validation of one's partner, essential to communicating effectively, becomes impossible.

Interestingly, erotic pictures can be sexually arousing for both men and women when the pictures contain an element of emotional arousal, such as with passionate love.3 In my case, I had not even met the Premature Sexter.

In 2006, a small study by Indiana University found that teenagers who played violent video games showed higher levels of emotional arousal, but less activity in the parts of the brain associated with the ability to plan, control and direct thoughts and behavior.

Before anyone intervenes in a physical confrontation between two cats, it's important to realize that fighting is a last resort in feline circles and the cats involved will be in a high state of emotional arousal.

Marking is a form of communication which can be associated with a heightened state of emotional arousal or stress in the cat.

According to the article by Jennifer Schuessler, «Over the past two weeks, Mr. Grunberg has spent several hours a day writing his novella, while a battery of sensors and cameras tracked his brain waves, heart rate, galvanic skin response (an electrical measure of emotional arousal) and facial expressions.

«Part of the emotional arousal we see when people lie is because of the conflict between how people see themselves and their actions,» Sharot said during a briefing discussing the results.

«Even if not examined in our study, it must however be kept in mind that utilizing electronic devices for the sake of checking your work e-mails or social network accounts before snoozing may lead to sleep disturbances as a result of emotional arousal,» Benedict added.

High energy diets prevent the enhancing effects of emotional arousal on memory.

Second languages used extensively in an immersion context are subjectively experienced as emotional and elicit autonomic responding consistent with the subjective report of emotional arousal.

Although abused and non-abused children both showed signs of emotional arousal in response to the heated argument, the physically abused chidlren «could not completely break their attention away from the argument next - door, even when it ended peacefully.»

With their five - month - olds, mothers typically played face - to - face and coordinated tiny, little interactions at a low - to - medium level of emotional arousal.

Not exact matches

They include the light from our screens interfering with our circadian rhythms, social media promoting «emotional or cognitive arousal» that keeps us up, or simply people putting off going to bed to play just one more round of that Facebook game or post another pic on Instagram.

It is probably true that the arousal of passion is more closely linked with emotional factors in many women than in many men.

This capacity for vicarious arousal plays a vital role in the development and modification of emotional reactivity.

The emotional arousal and reactivity can at times seem very out of proportion to the situation.

On one side, we have those who believe bedsharing allows for greater infant arousals, increases mom's awareness of her baby, helps babies by providing them with close comfort during the night, allows for easier breastfeeding, allows everyone in the family to sleep better, has long - term social and emotional benefits for baby, and can be done safely for baby.

«I was surprised by the specificity of the results, that the emotional memory improvement was specifically for the negative and high - arousal memories, and the ramifications of these results for people with anxiety disorders and PTSD,» Mednick said.

As well as the increase in emotional arousal, part of the reason why gruesome images have such an impact can be traced to what psychologists refer to as «mortality salience».

This novel study is the first to separate emotion from threat by controlling for the dimension of arousal, the emotional reaction provoked, whether positive or negative, in response to stimuli.

The crocodile created a state of «emotional arousal» in the gamblers, and whether that arousal was positive or negative determined how much they were willing to bet.

For balanced bilinguals, on the other hand, the skin conductance amplitudes were similar, I concluded that languages reliably elicit emotional arousal and the subjective experience of emotionality when they are learned and used in emotional contexts.

All were asked to self - report the severity of their insomnia, as well as their emotional distress, arousal and / or troubling nighttime thoughts.

That may be because lying triggers emotional arousal and activates the amygdala, but with each additional lie, the arousal and conflict of telling an untruth diminishes, making it easier to lie.

Using the neurochemical specificity of [11C] raclopride positron emission tomography scanning, combined with psychophysiological measures of autonomic nervous system activity, we found endogenous dopamine release in the striatum at peak emotional arousal during music listening.

A study published in the journal Neurobiology of Learning and Memory in 2002, for one, suggested that the amygdala is indeed the part of the brain involved in mediating emotional arousal — and it has a strong impact on learning.

Teenagers who play violent video games may display increased activity in areas of the brain associated with emotional arousal, according to research from the Indiana University School of Medicine, located in Indianapolis.

However, there is an important difference between associative behaviour, such as learning to respond appropriately to an angry voice, and recognizing a range of very different cues that go together to indicate emotional arousal in another.

This study was aimed at comparing the general arousal underpinning emotional distress in single housed cats and in cats from multi-cat households (2 and 3 - 4 cats) on the basis of fecal glucocorticoid metabolites (GCM) measured via enzyme immunoassay (EIA).

The above team made a game about «impotence» using a two - part graph that plotted (what they defined as) fertility and a progression through three - stages of emotional and physical arousal to try and explore how it might feel to struggle to conceive a child under the pressures that can build up in a family relationship over time.

The reason for the long - lasting effects of maltreatment is this: our brains are wired to create a memory in proportion to the emotional arousal of the situation.

Three common patterns she identifies in these couples include the tendency to experience: 1) chronically high levels of emotional hyperarousal; 2) chronically low level of arousal (hypo); or 3) one partner experiences hyperarousal, while the other is withdrawn or emotionally inaccessible (hypo).

Anxiety disorders are characterized by emotional arousal associated with fear, worry, or nervousness that is out of proportion to the situation.

Question: In children and adolescents with mood or anxiety disorders, is antidepressant use associated with symptoms of excessive emotional arousal or behavioural activation?

Surprise is an emotional arousal based on the experience of an unexpected event.

Men are more likely to rehearse distress - maintaining thoughts than women, which may prolong their physiological arousal and hyper - vigilance, often causing their partners to flare up in response, until both are brought to a point of emotional detachment and avoidance.

Men are more likely to rehearse distress - maintaining thoughts than women, which may prologue their physiological arousal and hypervigilance, often causing their partners to flare up in response, until one by one, each partner is brought to a point of emotional detachment and avoidance.

So it's really about helping the child in a high state of arousal to kind of modulate their emotional experience by sensory means.

I would also suggest that your next article about the female orgasm should certainly, as Clea mentions, include some discussion of the fact that one of the major differences between the male and female orgasm (and in fact, between male and female readiness for sex, or degree of arousal, in general) is that emotional states seem to be much more important (which is not at all the same as saying that women don't like casual sex or can't be aroused by one - night stands, if that happens to be the emotional situation they are comfortable with).

Trait anxiety refers to stable individual differences in propensity for anxiety proneness whereas state anxiety is a transitory emotional reaction that is characterized by subjective feelings of tension, apprehension, nervousness, and worry; and is associated with physiological arousal.

Although the existing research suggests diverse outcomes, scholars have documented that young children exposed to trauma (for example, maltreatment and other forms of violence) are more likely than children who have not been exposed to trauma to experience physiologic changes at the neurotransmitter and hormonal levels (and perhaps even at the level of brain structure) that render them susceptible to heightened arousal and an incapacity to adapt emotions to an appropriate level.21 This emotional state increases their sensitivity to subsequent experiences of trauma and impairs their capacity to focus, remember, learn, and engage in self - control.22

The thematic analysis revealed one main theme: Sensing an unconscious and conscious state of mind, and two themes: A sudden emotional awareness and reflection, and arousal of conscious thought processes.

The mind is known to be a factor in stress and stress - related disorders, and meditation has been shown to positively effect a range of autonomic physiological processes, such as lowering blood pressure and reducing overall arousal and emotional reactivity.

Although the cognitive functioning of most adolescents approaches that of adults, the real - world circumstances under which they make decisions about whether to commit criminal acts are often shaped by emotional arousal and group pressure.

In contrast areas of the right hemisphere associated with emotional states and autonomic arousal, especially the amygdala, which is the centre for detecting threat light up.

The emotional arousal and reactivity can at times seem very out of proportion to the situation.

API advocates for practices that are dedicated to the physical and emotional safety of infants as well as long term health of all children; that empower parents to be educated on infant sleep, arousal, and breathing; and for decisions that are based in accurate data and compatible with biological needs.