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The article discusses Peter E. Gordon's book, "A Precarious Happiness: Adorno and the Sources of Normativity," which challenges the prevailing interpretation of Theodor Adorno's philosophy as overly negative. Gordon argues that Adorno's work does contain a positive standard for social critique, specifically in the form of a demand for happiness or human flourishing. While Gordon acknowledges that Adorno rejected the idea of normative foundations, he believes that Adorno's concept of precarious happiness can align with a theory of intersubjectivist justification. The article also addresses different forms of negativism ascribed to Adorno and clarifies that negativism does not imply a lack of hope for a different social world. [Extracted from the article]

Firms can use a range of proactive impression management behaviors to reduce the impact of a negative event on firm outcomes. When a negative event is unpredictable, we theorize that firms can engage in ostentatious behaviors that display the firm's affluence and robust resource base. We term these behaviors "flaunting," and we present a two-part model that investigates how flaunting can reduce the impact of an unpredictable negative event on firm outcomes and why it is effective at doing so. In part one, we theorize how flaunting can generate net positive stakeholder group evaluations by enhancing distinctiveness among stakeholder groups. In part two, we theorize that the net positive stakeholder group evaluations can buffer the impact of an unpredictable negative event on firm outcomes. We also maintain that this buffering effect is amplified when the flaunting firm actively manages stakeholder group distinctiveness. Thus, while flaunting can be both off-putting and enticing to different stakeholder groups, we theorize that courting the love of some may be worth the cost of being disliked (or worse) by others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Monogamy is deeply rooted in most Western societies, shaping how people construe and behave in romantic relationships. These normative views facilitate the emergence of negative perceptions and evaluations when people choose not to adhere to mononormativity. Even though people in consensual non-monogamous (CNM) relationships are targets of stigmatization, research shows a dichotomy between these negative views and the relational experiences of CNM people. Indeed, people in CNM and monogamous relationships have comparable relationship functioning and quality and struggle with similar relationship problems. One of the differences is that CNM relationships afford people to explore their sexuality and fulfill their needs with multiple partners, without agreed-upon extradyadic behavior being perceived as infidelity or having deleterious consequences to relationship maintenance. These positive experiences notwithstanding, CNM people are continuously pressured by mononormativity and stigmatization, increasing the risk of internalized CNM negativity and worse personal and relational outcomes. One possible way to counteract CNM stigmatization and improve the lives of CNM people is by changing discourses surrounding non-monogamy and improving acceptance, not only in professional settings but also in the general population. Another strategy is to understand how the relationship beliefs and scripts of younger generations can help promote more inclusive and diverse societies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Interest in consensually non-monogamous (CNM) relationships has been increasing in the general population in recent years. However, given the cultural dominance of monogamy and the normative expectations often imposed through socialization (i.e., mononormativity), people in CNM relationships may experience negativity, which can become internalized and harm their individual and relationship health. The present study investigated if mononormativity beliefs and CNM relationship stigma were associated with more dehumanization and if internalized CNM negativity was an underlying mechanism for these associations. Results showed that participants who endorsed more mononormative beliefs and CNM relationship stigma also reported more internalized CNM negativity. In turn, participants who experienced more internalized CNM negativity attributed more negative (vs. positive) emotions to themselves and treated their partners as more immature, unrefined, exploitable, and emotionless. These results show that mononormativity and internalized negativity can shape the attitudes, perceptions, and behaviors of CNM individuals toward themselves and their partners. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the article, I focus on the pivotal points of Thomas Oehl’s book, Die Aktivität der Wahrnehmung und die Metaphysik des Geistes. Eine aktualisierende Lektüre von Hegels Philosophie des Geistes. I pay special attention to the author’s determinations in regards to contemporary analytical interpretations of Hegel’s philosophy, which have gained widespread attention, including in the Czech Republic. I read Oehl’s basic idea, according to which perception is an active performance grounded in the capacity for negativity and not a passive, natural process, against the background of the related insights of Simone Weil. I principally focus on the connection between attention and the possibility of breaking free from natural causality and social context.

Background: Significant individual differences exist in the insight of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and the clinical characteristics of OCD patients with varying levels of insight are not entirely uniform. This study aims to investigate disparities in disease severity, anxiety, and depression status among OCD patients with differing levels of insight, with the goal of generating novel treatment strategies for OCD. Methods: A total of 114 patients diagnosed with OCD were recruited from the Department of Psychology at Affiliated Mental Health Center & Hangzhou Seventh People's Hospital to participate in this research. Based on their Total Insight and Treatment Attitude Questionnaire (ITAQ) scores, the patients were divided into two groups: Group OCD with high insight (referred to as Group OCD-HI, ITAQ score ≥20 points, n = 80) and Group OCD with low insight (referred to as Group OCD-LI, ITAQ score <20 points, n = 34). Subsequently, the Yale- Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS), Hamilton Anxiety Scale (HAMA), and Hamilton Depression Scale (HAMD) scores were compared between the two groups. All questionnaires for this study were completed by experienced psychiatrists. Results: The Y-BOCS scores for YB1, YB2, YB4, YB5, YB6, YB9, and the total Y-BOCS scores in Group OCD-HI were significantly higher than those in Group OCD-LI (p < 0.05). Conversely, Group OCD-HI exhibited significantly lower HAMA and HAMD scores compared to Group OCD-LI (p < 0.05). Furthermore, the total ITAQ score displayed a significant negative correlation with the total Y-BOCS, HAMA, and HAMD scores (p < 0.05). Conclusions: This study revealed that certain OCD patients exhibit incomplete insight, and this lack of insight is strongly associated with increased disease severity and heightened levels of anxiety and depression. It is hoped that by enhancing the insight of OCD patients, the goal of ameliorating disease symptoms and alleviating negative emotions can be attained. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: The present article aims to examine the issue of post-truth in the Colombian context, focusing specifically on the National Center for Historical Memory (NCHM). Emphasis will be placed on the practical consequences that arise from adopting theses such as relativism and negativism. Methodology: This article follows an analytical orientation, wherein the elements that justify the significance of objective facts (defined as independent of any opinion, belief, or ideology) are presented. These objective facts serve as benchmarks to counterbalance judgments, such as the assertion made by the former director of the NCHM, suggesting that a privileged point of view to determine what can be considered a fact is lacking and that, ultimately, facts are established by consensus. Results: In the analysis of the post-truth phenomenon in Colombia, one significant aspect of concern emerges: the peril of rejecting facts and pitting subjective perspectives against objective truth in the process of reconstructing Colombia's history. Conclusions: The key point to be drawn from this study is that negationist relativism, which plays a crucial role in the post-truth phenomenon explored by Acevedo, can be traced back to the postmodern school of thought. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Military spouses, particularly wives, require resilience given the various stressors they face, such as the absence of their husbands for support, the dual role of being both a mother and a father, and handling household tasks and childcare alone. Self-efficacy and negative emotionality or neuroticism are often associated with an individual's level of resilience, making them characteristics that can predict a person's resilience effectively. This study aims to test a model of the relationship between self-efficacy, negative emotionality, and resilience in Navy wives, utilizing a quantitative cross-sectional research design. Measurement tools include a modified Resilience Scale of Adult (RSA), the Indonesian version of the Self-Efficacy Scale, and a personality scale translated based on the BFI-2 Indonesian version. The data analysis method employed is Path Analysis using Amos-24. The research results indicate that there is an influence, both directly and indirectly, of the variable negative emotionality (p < 0.05) on resilience. There is a positive influence of self-efficacy (p < 0.05) on resilience, and self-efficacy plays a mediating role in the relationship between negative emotionality and resilience (p < 0.05). The findings suggest that the role of self-efficacy as a protective factor is highly dominant in determining an individual's resilience compared to the role of negative emotionality (a risk factor). Based on the research results, training for the development or enhancement of selfefficacy is recommended for Navy wives to improve their resilience and mental health. Future research is encouraged to explore other variables that enhance self-efficacy, as self-efficacy is a significant factor influencing resilience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research paper aims to reveal the intricate relationship between social anxiety and maladaptive schemas as delineated by Young. Specifically, it delves into the association that exists between the degree of social anxiety and 18 distinct maladaptive schemas which are grouped into five domains. The empirical findings from this research highlight the presence of a significant correlation between elevated levels of social anxiety and the negativity/pessimism schema, as well as the overvigilance/inhibition domain. Furthermore, this study establishes a statistically significant relationship between the increased levels of social anxiety and the defectiveness/shame schema. Individuals with high levels of social anxiety scored high/average on the Young's Schemas Questionnaire. By using the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale, it became feasible to identify the situations and interactions that are closely linked to elevated social anxiety levels. The study revealed that social scenarios characterized by formal interactions, such as public speaking or self-presentation in front of an audience, were the most anxietyinducing experiences for the surveyed participants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Afropessimism incites controversy within and without the academy for the provocation that modernity's ethical life, including its purportedly progressive facets, is entirely undergirded by a rejection of blackness. On this basis it squares a self-concept as a non-prescriptive theoretical framework with a negative prescription of "world-abolition." I reconstruct Afropessimism's conceptual apparatus in light of its criticism in academic philosophy. I then relate the theory's negativism with Theodor Adorno's view that "in wrong life there is no right life," to argue that Afropessimists should take up the implication that there is no right thinking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Internal identity asymmetry is the uncomfortable experience of having one's identity mistaken—feeling being misidentified—by others at work. Through two longitudinal field studies of working individuals, we investigate the consequences of internal identity asymmetry on individuals' attitudes and work performance. Importantly, we incorporate the stress and coping literature to examine how the individual's cognitive appraisal of the asymmetry (of negative affect and coping resources), together moderate the experience. Furthermore, our results also show that appraisals of negative affect and coping resources moderate the relationship between internal identity asymmetry and performance, such that identity asymmetry may also motivate increased performance at work, depending on this appraisal. Our findings shed light on the importance of cognitive appraisal for identity incongruent experiences at work, and how they might be harnessed for positive outcomes depending on appraisal, which can be developed and strengthened over time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research Summary: While prior research has generated meaningful insights into the antecedents of firms' corporate social responsibility (CSR), little attention has been devoted to examining the influence of CEO affectivity—a relatively stable tendency to experience positive or negative emotions. This study explores how CEO positive affectivity (PA) and negative affectivity (NA) may be related to firms' CSR activities. Specifically, we contend that CEO PA is positively related to CSR, whereas CEO NA is negatively related to CSR. We further investigate how CEO social capital may moderate the relationship between CEO affectivity and CSR. Our results support our hypotheses, suggesting the unique role of CEO emotions in CSR research. Managerial Summary: Does CEO emotion affect firms' CSR activities? Our study finds that CEO PA increases a firm's engagement in CSR, while CEO NA decreases a firm's engagement in CSR. The above relationships are also subject to the influence of CEO social capital. Our findings suggest that CEOs should be aware of how their affective tendencies can influence their firm's CSR strategy and consider avenues to utilize emotional influence advantageously while avoiding potential affective bias. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we look at negation from a developmental perspective. We propose that in the march toward the embodiment of the virtuous "Yes" of agency the "No" of childhood is different from the "No" of adolescence and young adulthood. In the former the "No" of negation reflects an epistemological strategy of obedience/disobedience and in the latter a strategy of wondering. How "No" is negotiated in development reflects an important interplay between the child/adolescent and their caregivers with the existential-relational position occupied most typically by the caregivers as central to whether the "No" can be one of negation or devolve into negativism. To illustrate our ideas we offer four vignettes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The cross-cultural factor invariance of the Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ) structure, and its relationships with the HEXACO personality model were analyzed in a large Spanish community sample. The effect of age, gender, and social position on the observed relationships was also investigated. The four-factor structure of the HSQ was largely invariant compared to the original one. Males and younger participants score higher on all four domains of the HSQ, but no relevant effect of social position is observed. The HEXACO-60 dimensions and facets predicted between 17% and 32% of the HSQ domains. Results and discussion broadly support that the HEXACO personality model can be used as an adequate personality framework for the research and understanding of humor styles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The 2019 Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic has caused various effects on many service sectors. This effect also involves the learning and teaching system at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). This has a significant impact on students' psychology, especially when it comes to their academic performance during the pendemic period when every student is required to adjust to the teaching and learning (PdP) via online platform rather than existing conventional method. Thus, this study was conducted to see the psychological effects on students at the Faculty of Information Science and Technology, UKM, during the pandemic and its connection with virtual learning. A total of 128 second year students from the Network Technology course were involved in this study. Through the descriptive findings that were conducted, it was found that they were in the medium category of agreeing on the aspect of online learning, and the learning materials provided. But from the aspect of acceptance, as many as 50.8% moderately agreed to attend classes online. In addition, as many as 47.5% moderately agreed with the aspect of not being able to understand what was taught during the online learning session fully. The findings of this study, show that there are psychological factors that involve emotions and cognitive factors that become a learning challenge for those who can give results against academic pressure, especially in their fields of study that require a lot of practical training through face-to-face learning. Therefore, this study can be a platform and a new source of reference especially for educational institutions in this country, especially for certain fields of study to ensure that the online learning system can be implemented steadily without any negativity towards the psychology of students in Malaysia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study evaluates the efficacy of psychological counseling (PC) and exercise therapy (ET) in public health pragmatics classrooms. Using a questionnaire, physical exercise scale, and psychological resilience scale, the author divided students with varying mental health (MH) issues into three experimental groups: PC, ET, and control. The findings revealed a significant correlation between the amount of physical activity and the five dimensions of depression, anxiety, tension, self- efficacy, and psychological resilience (r=0.217-0.413, PcO.Ol). This study found that as college students increased their physical activity, their negative emotional symptoms decreased. It also revealed that the results of the anxiety factor test administered to college seniors after PC and ET differ significantly. Based on a scientific comparison and analysis of experimental data, it has been determined that PC combined with ET can generate significant effects in reducing college students' employment anxiety (EA) and improving their mental health (MH) and that these effects are superior to those of PC intervention alone. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Feedback is a ubiquitous management tool. Employing it to enhance team creativity raises an important question of whether positive or negative feedback is more effective. Unfortunately, prior research on feedback valence and creativity is limited to the individual level, neglecting team creativity's interdependent and knowledge-intensive nature. We address this issue and advance the team-information-processing perspective on team creativity by integrating two heretofore separate research streams to develop a team-specific model about how negative and positive feedback enhance creativity via two alternative information processing routes, contingent on teams' informational diversity. Negative feedback fuels teams' systematic effort and attention to external, novel information. In informationally diverse teams, in which members hold different information and perspectives, these efforts promote team creativity through information elaboration. Conversely, positive feedback propels members to flexibly use their information and contribute the resultant divergent insights to the team. In informationally homogeneous teams, wherein these insights relate to others' information and perspectives, these divergent insights trigger teams' generative processing and in turn creativity. Results from a team experiment support the predicted feedback valence by informational diversity interaction on team creativity through elaboration and generative processing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article I argue that Nietzsche resorts to a typical, ambitious Young Hegelian dialectical grand narrative to dramatically frame Modernity, elevate his own critical theory to unmatchable heights and find for himself a superior, unique position as Critic and Destiny, having as his main enemy the philistines (common human beings), and that which politically corresponds to them: civil society and democracy. Nietzsche's epochal narrative exhibits a classical dialectical progression from Error/Negation, through Escalation, to Crisis, then Negation of Negation (Inversion), and promised New Age, all of which entails the unwelcome consequences of self-aggrandizing exaggerations, determinism, negativism, binarism, otherworldliness, transhuman idealizations, and racial-caste-hierarchism that compromise the otherwise interesting side of his critical suggestions, once deflated, on culture and morality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims at conceptualising the notion of embarrassment as a negativistic figure of thought that takes the experience of one's own non-sovereignty as a starting point and emphasises an engagement with situations of not-knowing. This consideration is clarified in discussion with the figure of Socrates or with the philosophical attitude of Socrates. Because the negativistic thrust of the conceptualisation undertaken is reminiscent of irony, the paper then addresses the question of what distinguishes embarrassment understood as a figure of thought from irony. For this purpose, Kierkegaard's reading of Socratic irony is drawn upon. It is shown that irony is inherently a negativism, which in the last consequence aims at a retention of rights; but this is exactly what embarrassment avoids, because, as the article shows, it is not a negativism of strength, but of weakness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Le terme de Gegenhalten a été créé par Karl Kleist pour définir une forme d'hypertonie qui reste souvent confondue avec le négativisme. Malheureusement, de nombreux référentiels de psychiatrie continuent à faire l'amalgame entre ces deux concepts. L'intérêt grandissant porté aux anomalies motrices dans les psychoses endogènes nous invite à retrouver cette finesse séméiologique, et cette revue est un premier pas dans ce sens. Le Gegenhalten classique est réactionnel : il n'y a pas d'augmentation de tonus au repos. Il oppose une résistance involontaire à la mobilisation passive dont l'apparition est parfois retardée. En l'absence de manœuvre de sensibilisation, il est possible que des formes mineures de Gegenhalten ne soit pas dépistées. Le Gegenhalten présente une résistance variable dans l'espace et dans le temps. Ainsi les articulations qui présentaient un Mitmachen , une réaction d'adaptation plastique aux changements de position, peuvent présenter un Gegenhalten l'instant d'après. En plus d'apparaître progressivement, il dépend, entre autres, de l'éveil émotionnel et de la position du corps et de la tête par rapport à la gravité. Le Gegenhalten peut s'accompagner d'un phénomène d'anticipation des mouvements passifs et avoir alors un aspect très irrégulier et erratique. Le Gegenhalten devrait être séparé du négativisme qui correspond à des comportements psychomoteurs plus élaborés. Enfin le Gegenhalten doit être distingué de la rigidité parkinsonienne, induite (ou révélée) par les antipsychotiques. L'absence de spécificité des échelles d'évaluation fait qu'un Gegenhalten soit pris pour un « parkinsonisme spontané », c'est-à-dire survenant chez des sujets psychotiques, naïfs de toute prise d'antipsychotiques. Better known in neurology by the expression paratonia coined by Ernest Dupré in 1907, the term Gegenhalten has remained dominant in psychiatry. While the term was created by Karl Kleist in 1927 to define a form of hypertonia in order to distinguish it from negativism, many current references continue to conflate the two concepts. Gegenhalten is the most frequent kind of hypertonia, and if its differential diagnosis with spasticity is generally easy, it is more difficult to distinguish it from parkinsonian rigidity, especially in psychiatric settings where antipsychotic-induced (or revealed) parkinsonism is frequent. Problematically, the most used evaluation scale for it, i.e., the Simpson-Angus scale does not allow for the distinction of Gegenhalten from parkinsonism. This could explain some of what is currently referred to as "spontaneous parkinsonism", i.e., a hypertonia reported to occur in psychotic patients who are not taking any antipsychotic medication. Classical Gegenhalten is reactive, i.e., it occurs in the absence of an increase in resting tonus. It opposes an involuntary resistance during passive mobilization, the appearance of which is often delayed, or may only be perceptible after frequent repetitions. Thus, in the absence of a sensitization maneuver, minor forms of Gegenhalten may go undetected. Gegenhalten opposes a variable resistance. For instance, it depends on position (enhanced by gravitation) or emotional arousal. It can also be masked by a Mitmachen , a form of automatic assistance which is also of locomotor origin (like the Gegenhalten). While the French school of psychiatry saw Gegenhalten as a lack of voluntary control of muscle relaxation, Karl Kleist viewed it as an exacerbation of postural fixation reactions. For him, Gegenhalten could also occur "spontaneously" under the simple effect of gravity. Kleist hypothesized that spontaneous Gegenhalten was a kind of hypersensitive postural fixation reaction that could account for catatonic rigidity. These hypotheses were hotly debated at the beginning of the 20th century and stimulated considerable research. The growing interest in motor abnormalities in endogenous psychoses invites us to reconsider them. Unfortunately, they cannot be understood without a return to a refined semiology which has since been forgotten. This review is a first step in this direction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of the study is to determine the impact of systemic psychotherapy in working with military families. The methodology of studying emotional burnout by V. Boyko and the methodology of diagnosing mental states such as anxiety, frustration, aggression and rigidity by H. Eysenck were used in the empirical research. Pearson correlation coefficient was used for finding correlations between authoritarian hypersocialization and feelings of guilt, negativism, depression, anxiety, irritability among the military families. A comparative analysis of the emotional sphere indicators of military families raising children after psychological training in systemic psychotherapy revealed statistically significant differences in such indicators as guilt, irritability, suspicion, frustration, anxiety, depression, and significantly higher mood indicators. Thus, after undergoing psychological training in systemic psychotherapy, the families of servicemen and women experienced a decrease in guilt, irritability, suspicion, and frustration, and an increase in positive well-being and mood. It has been discovered that in military families, difficulties in relationships with children are associated with negativism, irritability, increased anxiety, rigidity, and emotional burnout. It has been proven that an increase in anxiety in military families increases the level of irritability, emotional burnout, and guilt. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Teachers' inability to comply with the rules of the organization and conduct of the training process leads to a negative attitude of their students towards learning. The evidence that specialists from this field have been able to record to this day attests that, as a rule, the appearance of the targeted type of negativism is linked to cases where the inappropriate professional behavior of the teaching staff aims at disseminating phobia-induced states in the classroom, classroom-induced anxiety, classroom-induced frustration, classroom-induced depression and/or classroom-induced neurosis. As soon as they appear, the states in question impose themselves as factors affecting the working disposition and resistance to effort. In such a case, students will find it extremely difficult - or even impossible - to perform a rewarding, fast and high quality activity. Their attitude towards learning will degrade significantly, turning into a sort of position that will minimize - or even exclude - the idea that things aimed at acquiring knowledge, skills and abilities should be done with selflessness and pleasure, out of conviction and on one's own initiative, conscientiously and diligently. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With common unhappiness as its curative horizon, psychoanalysis deserves—indeed, it requires—the hysteric's famous challenge to Freud: what, and whom, is analysis for? Motivated by the hysteric's desire for a better life and Freud's commitment to the social dimension of the psyche, this special issue considers psychoanalysis—theory and clinic—as the grounds for solidarity and political community, from the consulting room to the picket line. This extended introduction elaborates on the curative limitations and social dimensions of psychoanalysis by digging into a term—overdetermination—that has structured the psychoanalytic social bond from the origins of the talking cure. In putting the subject to grips with the disorienting effects of intersubjectivity, psychoanalysis constructs an ethical relation grounded in the illocutionary enactment of the subject's negativity, sustaining a bond of care between divided subjects and between their overdetermined desires. This essay considers what the psychoanalytic commitment to our unhappiness in common might generate or foreclose for political bonds of solidarity beyond the consulting room. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• Catatonia may occur in the ictal, postictal or interictal periods. • EEG abnormalities are common in catatonia. • Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and benzodiazepines are effective treatments for catatonia and seizures. • It is likely that seizures are unrecognised in some cases of catatonia. Catatonia is currently conceived in the major diagnostic manuals as a syndrome with a range of possible psychiatric and general medical underlying conditions. It features diverse clinical signs, spanning motor, verbal and behavioural domains and including stupor, catalepsy, mutism, echolalia, negativism and withdrawal. The existing literature suggests that seizure activity may underlie catatonia in approximately 2% of cases. There are three possible temporal relationships between catatonia and seizure activity: (1) ictal catatonia, in which catatonia is a presentation of non-convulsive status epilepticus; (2) postictal catatonia, in which catatonia follows a seizure, and (3) interictal catatonia, in which catatonia and seizures occur in the same individual without any clear temporal relationship between them. Electroencephalographic (EEG) abnormalities are common in catatonia, even in those cases with a presumed primary psychiatric origin, and often consist of generalised background slowing. Paradoxically, electroconvulsive therapy is an effective treatment for catatonia. There are several converging pieces of evidence suggesting that there may be underlying seizure activity in more cases of catatonia than has hitherto been recognised, though identification of these seizures may require intracranial EEG recording. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examined the moderating effects of different aspects of trait impulsivity on trajectories of negative affect prior to and following body checking in the natural environment in women with anorexia nervosa (AN). Body checking is a compulsive behavior that may maintain the cycle of eating disordered behavior through negative reinforcement. Previous studies regarding the relationship of negative affect to body checking have been inconsistent, making it unclear how negative affect functions as an antecedent to this behavior in the natural environment. We hypothesized that individual differences in trait impulsivity may influence body checking in response to negative affect. Negative urgency (NU) (the tendency to act rashly under distress) and (lack of) perseverance (the tendency to give up on goal directed behavior) may be unique facets of impulsivity that play a role in body checking. Women with AN (n = 82) completed a self-report measure of impulsivity and used ecological momentary assessment (EMA) to record negative affect and body checking for two weeks. Results indicated that women with low (lack of) perseverance experienced a greater increase in negative affect than those with high (lack of) perseverance prior to and following body checking. Overall, results indicate that individual differences in trait impulsivity moderated the relationship of negative affect to body checking in women with AN.

This study attempted to uncover the paradoxical effects of an athlete's negative publicity based on the theories of negativity bias, fuzzy trace, and processing fluency. The researcher tested a boundary condition in which repeated claims about an athlete's negative publicity interacted with the temporal delay of consumers' evaluation, which, in turn, led to a decrease in the adverse effects of negative publicity. The results of two online experiments demonstrated that dividing attention and cognitive resources in order to encode and retrieve various types of information caused the detailed contextual memory of each account of the athlete's negative publicity to fade over time, leaving behind merely a gist memory of the celebrities. In the current study, infamy turned into fame, and the consumer's judgment of the athletes became more positive. The current study may help expand existing research paradigms by further developing our theoretical understanding of the negative publicity effects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Hermann Cohen's Logic of Pure Knowledge and G. W. F. Hegel's Science of Logic each use in their way the means of thought of negation and contradiction to unfold the philosophical dynamic: a fragile interplay between self-endangerment and self-preservation of thought. Here, the proximity and difference of the two authors are extended. The proximity lies in methodological negativism. The difference is in the significance of the principle of continuity. According to Cohen and Hegel as well, thinking proceeds exclusively, as Kant called it, synthetically. The exclusion of contradiction, limited to analytical judgments, has only marginal significance. But the commonality does not eliminate the differences. As Hegel puts it, contradiction is a principle of mediation and finally results in "self-dissolution"; it carries within itself a direction of logical "reconciliation." Per Cohen, contradiction is a principle of "annihilation" (annihilatio) of approaches to a determination that threatens any form of "identity." The turn Hegel put in contradiction itself, regarding in it a unity of positivity and negativity, has no direct counterpart in Cohen. Nevertheless, for him, too, the "judgment of contradiction" becomes the active basis of all cognitive thought. By exercising a contradiction-destroying "activity," the judgment of contradiction "protects," indeed "generates," the real possibility of cognition. The annihilation of the non-identical sets free the fundamental "judgment of origin" with which cognition finds its beginning. The principle of continuity taken over from Leibniz corresponds to it. Just this principle has now again no direct correspondence with Hegel.

Many studies have reported that bottom-up multisensory integration of visual, tactile, and proprioceptive information can distort our sense of body-ownership, producing rubber hand illusion (RHI). There is less evidence about when and how the body-ownership is distorted in the brain during RHI. To examine whether this illusion effect occurs preattentively at an early stage of processing, we monitored the visual mismatch negativity (vMMN) component (the index of automatic deviant detection) and N2 (the index for conflict monitoring). Participants first performed an RHI elicitation task in a synchronous or asynchronous setting and then finished a passive visual oddball task in which the deviant stimuli were unrelated to the explicit task. A significant interaction between Deviancy (deviant hand vs. standard hand) and Group (synchronous vs. asynchronous) was found. The asynchronous group showed clear mismatch effects in both vMMN and N2, while the synchronous group had such effect only in N2. The results indicate that after the elicitation of RHI bottom-up integration could be retrieved at the early stage of sensory processing before top-down processing, providing evidence for the priority of the bottom-up processes after the generation of RHI and revealing the mechanism of how the body-ownership is unconsciously distorted in the brain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

PurposeThe goal of this study was to determine whether sleep moderates the associations between family-related stress and depressive symptoms and negative affect outcomes during adolescence. We combined traditional survey measures of stress and depressive symptoms with daily assessments of stress and negative affect to examine whether sleep differentially impacts the link between chronic and acute experiences of stress and affect.MethodsParticipants were 316 adolescents from ethnically diverse backgrounds. Primary caregivers and adolescents reported on stressful family events during the past 12 and 3 months, respectively. Adolescents also reported on their daily experiences of family demands for 15 days and wore actigraph watches for the assessment of sleep during the first eight nights.ResultsRegression analyses revealed that more stressful family events were related to more depressive symptoms. This relation was stronger among adolescents with lower sleep efficiency. The same pattern emerged for the relation between daily family demands and negative affect aggregated across the 15 days. Daily-level analyses indicated that daily negative affect was related to daily family demands when sleep efficiency was higher than usual, but only among European American adolescents.ConclusionsThese findings suggest that chronic experiences of lower sleep efficiency, but not sleep duration, may render adolescents more vulnerable to the negative effects of family stress on emotional adjustment. A more complex picture emerged for the role of prior night's sleep in the day-to-day variation in negative affect reactivity to family stress.

The association between obsessive-compulsive (OC) symptomatology and smoking is poorly understood, particularly in African Americans-a group subject to smoking- and OC-related health disparities. In a non-clinical sample of 253 African American smokers, we tested the negative reinforcement model of OC-smoking comorbidity, purporting that smokers with higher OC symptoms experience greater negative affect (NA) and urge to smoke for NA suppression upon acute tobacco abstinence. Following a baseline visit involving OC assessment, participants completed two counterbalanced experimental visits (non-abstinent vs. 16-h tobacco abstinence) involving affect, smoking urge, and nicotine withdrawal assessment. OC symptom severity predicted larger abstinence-provoked increases in overall NA, anger, anxiety, depression, fatigue, urge to smoke to suppress NA, and composite nicotine withdrawal symptom index. African American smokers with elevated OC symptoms appear to be vulnerable to negative reinforcement-mediated smoking motivation and may benefit from cessation treatments that diminish NA or the urge to quell NA via smoking.

Responding to the paucity of institutional literature meaningfully distinguishing between emotional displays and the experience of emotions, I describe the process by which display rules are codified into the logics governing an institutional regime. I then theorize the role of feigning behaviors—emotional displays that are decoupled from the physiological experience of emotion either in intensity or valence (positive/negative)—in the higher-order dynamics of institutional logics. Specifically, I suggest that the two categories of feigning behavior (valence congruous feigning and diametric feigning) can play different roles in catalyzing the coexistence, blending, and contestation of logics. This research aids institutional theorists in understanding the local affairs and “on-the-ground” lived experiences of logics by highlighting the role of feigned emotional display as the ubiquitous mechanism through which persons navigate and cope with institutional mandates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although the experience of negative emotions is generally associated with negative behaviors and outcomes, researchers have largely overlooked the possibility that negative emotions can lead to proactive behavior. For instance, emotions such as anger and fear can spark proactive behavior by signaling a need to change the status quo. Whereas theory and research on the topic have produced conflicting arguments and inconsistent results, I integrate a discrete emotions perspective with theories of proactivity to determine the conditions under which anger and fear prompt proactive behavior. In doing so I provide a conceptual framework that enables understanding of specific factors that determine when anger is directed away from fight that harms others and toward fight that benefits others, and when fear is directed away from flight and toward increased protective effort (fight). This article contributes to theory with a contingent model that specifies when and why anger and fear spark proactive behavior and generate functional outcomes. It also offers practical advice for organizations to effectively manage emotional experiences and thereby increase proactive behavior resulting from experienced anger or fear. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The performance of students and educational institutions would be negatively impacted by teachers' negative emotions, requiring an urgent response. To discover a solution to this problem, the present study examines the influence of teaching quality and sports activities on the negative feelings of Vietnam's teachers. In addition, the article investigates the moderating effect of psychological dependency on teaching quality, sports activities, and negative emotions among Vietnam's teachers. Using questionnaires, the study collected data from the selected teachers. The report also used PLS-SEM using smart-PLS to examine the relationship between the study's variables. The data demonstrated a negative relationship between the teaching quality and sports activities and teachers' negative feelings in Vietnam. The results also revealed that psychological dependency strongly mediates the relationship between teaching quality, sports activities, and negative feelings among Vietnam's teachers. The study aids policymakers in formulating strategies to improve teachers' moods through good teaching qualities and athletic activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The cycle of negativism is a spiral which leads to outcomes which impact negatively on the child's life. It helps parents learn how to use a system of rewards and consequences to change a child’s behavior. ADHD symptoms can appear as early as between the ages of 3 and 6 and can continue through adolescence and adulthood. The doctor will also ensure that any ADHD symptoms are not due to another medical or psychiatric condition. Researcher has studied a girl child in urban city area having identified Attention Deficit Hyperactivity disorder whose motivation to become involved in a task or to complete a task is inconsistent. It is found also that child’s impulsive nature made it difficult for her to await her turn in games. Researcher used ADHD rating scale, SSQ-R, WISC-R tools which seek information on the child's ability to pay attention or concentrate in eight situations in school. Finally interventions of parents, teachers and counselors to the overcome the problems faced by the ADHD child were studied. It is finally found that such child having ADHD should always be provided with mental and emotional support and other necessary needs and always be encouraged. This type of problem child must never be kept alone and isolated and then only this type of problem child can be mainstreamed. The cycle of negativism is a spiral which leads to outcomes which impact negatively on the child's life. It helps parents learn how to use a system of rewards and consequences to change a child’s behavior. ADHD symptoms can appear as early as between the ages of 3 and 6 and can continue through adolescence and adulthood. The doctor will also ensure that any ADHD symptoms are not due to another medical or psychiatric condition. Researcher has studied a girl child in urban city area having identified Attention Deficit Hyperactivity disorder whose motivation to become involved in a task or to complete a task is inconsistent. It is found also that child’s impulsive nature made it difficult for her to await her turn in games. Researcher used ADHD rating scale, SSQ-R, WISC-R tools which seek information on the child's ability to pay attention or concentrate in eight situations in school. Finally interventions of parents, teachers and counselors to the overcome the problems faced by the ADHD child were studied. It is finally found that such child having ADHD should always be provided with mental and emotional support and other necessary needs and always be encouraged. This type of problem child must never be kept alone and isolated and then only this type of problem child can be mainstreamed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]