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Emotional Imagining and Our Responses to Fiction

Dorsch, Fabian

In: Enrahonar, 2011, vol. 46, p. 153-176

The aim of this article is to present the disagreement between Moran and Walton on the nature of our affective responses to fiction and to defend a view on the issue which is opposed to Moran’s account and improves on Walton’s. Moran takes imagination-based affective responses to be instances of genuine emotion and treats them as episodes with an emotional attitude towards their contents....

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Postnatal development of the amygdala: A stereological study in macaque monkeys

Chareyron, Loïc J. ; Banta Lavenex, Pamela A. ; Amaral, David G. ; Lavenex, Pierre

In: The Journal of Comparative Neurology, 2012, p. -

Abnormal development of the amygdala has been linked to several neurodevelopmental disorders, including schizophrenia and autism. However, the postnatal development of the amygdala is not easily explored at the cellular level in humans. Here, we performed a stereological analysis of the macaque monkey amygdala in order to characterize the cellular changes underlying its normal structural...

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Associations between measures of emotion and familial dynamics in normative families with adolescents

Vandeleur, Caroline L. ; Perrez, Meinrad ; Schoebi, Dominik

In: Swiss Journal of Psychology, 2007, vol. 66, no. 1, p. 5-16

The Family Life Scale (FLS), which includes the dimensions of Cohesion, Adaptability, Communication and Satisfaction, and two measures of emotion were applied to a German-speaking sample of adolescents and their parents in Switzerland. The main goal of the study was to assess the associations between the measures in order to increase our understanding of the dynamics involving emotional and...