JAPANESE JOURNAL OF RESEARCH ON EMOTIONS
Online ISSN : 1882-8949
Print ISSN : 1882-8817
ISSN-L : 1882-8817
Volume 13, Issue 2
Displaying 1-5 of 5 articles from this issue
  • Yoshihisa Fujii
    2006 Volume 13 Issue 2 Pages 39-48
    Published: November 30, 2006
    Released on J-STAGE: April 07, 2009
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    The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship between school-phobia and anger among junior high school students. In a pilot test, 30 items were identified as being related to school phobia, and the School Phobia Feelings Scale was constructed using these items. Results of Study I using this scale indicated that school phobia could be explained by three factors: laziness, inferiority complex, and peer relationships (n=442). Moreover, feelings related to school phobia in girls were unrelated to grade level. In Study 2, an Anger Scale measuring anger in junior high school students in the areas of hostility, excitement, and physiological reactions was developed. The relationship between school phobia and anger was explored using these two scales. The results indicated (1) an increase in school phobia resulted in parents becoming an object of anger, and (2) problems with peer relationships increased levels of reported anger.
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  • Ayumu Arakawa, Takuma Takehara, Naoto Suzuki
    2006 Volume 13 Issue 2 Pages 49-55
    Published: November 30, 2006
    Released on J-STAGE: April 07, 2009
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    This research investigated the effects of various kinds of receiver's emotions on (1) incompatibility when people attached emoticons to cellular phone email messages, (2) the kind of emoticon, and (3) the relationship between the sender's message and the kind of emoticon utilized. Forty-two Japanese university students (27 female, 15 male) sent messages with an emoticon to an imaginary friend who felt an emotion (happy, sad, anxiety, anger). Results suggested that receivers attached an emoticon to an email when they felt anxious. When receivers felt anxiety, senders tended to attach a smiley emoticon. This suggests that an emoticon was not just used as an expressive message, but was also sent to manipulate a receiver's emotion.
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  • Tomomi Fujimura, Naoto Suzuki
    2006 Volume 13 Issue 2 Pages 56-64
    Published: November 30, 2006
    Released on J-STAGE: April 07, 2009
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    The purpose of this study was to compare recognition processing of dynamic and static facial expressions evaluated through dimensional and categorical judgments. Facial stimuli were comprised of eight emotions (excitement, happy, calm, surprise, sleepy, fear, anger and sadness) based on dimensional perspectives. Participants evaluated each facial stimuli with three methods, Affect Grid (Russell, Weiss, & Mendelsohn, 1989), forced choice task, and on a seven-point Likert scale. For dynamic expressions, the results from the forced choice task and Likert scale were as follows: slow facial expressions (e. g., sleepy) were more easily identifiable, while unpleasant facial expressions (fear, anger and sadness) were often confused with each other. Results suggest that recognition of facial expressions differs between dynamic and static expressions.
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  • Greg Siegle
    2006 Volume 13 Issue 2 Pages 65-82
    Published: November 30, 2006
    Released on J-STAGE: April 07, 2009
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    Depressed individuals often engage in prolonged, elaborative negative thinking. This pattern is hypothesized to result from increased and uninhibited feedback between brain structures responsible for recognizing emotional features of information. This article reviews a variety of behavioral, physiological, and neuroimaging data supporting this formulation. Data suggest that depression is characterized by increased and sustained behavioral, peripheral physiological, and limbic reactivity to emotional information, as well as decreased prefrontal control, which has been implicated in inhibiting limbic regions. Neuroimaging data increasingly supports the notion that these phenomena are related: amygdala and prefrontal activity vary inversely, and this connectivity is decreased in depression. To the extent that these mechanisms are important for maintaining depression, addressing them in treatment could be useful. Thus initial efforts are reviewed examining how basic science regarding disruptions in emotional reactivity in depression can be translated to the clinic. In particular, a novel "neurobehavioral" intervention that targets brain mechanisms underlying disruptions of emotional reactivity in unipolar depression via "cognitive control training" is described.
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  • 2006 Volume 13 Issue 2 Pages 83-106
    Published: November 30, 2006
    Released on J-STAGE: April 07, 2009
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