Dictionary
Animal Emotionality: Evolutionary Roots and Affect
An exhaustive academic analysis of animal emotionality, exploring its evolutionary roots, affective neuroscience frameworks, behavioral...
Affective Neuroscience
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Dictionary
Anhedonia: Understanding the Loss of Pleasure
Anhedonia is the diminished capacity to experience or anticipate pleasure, reflecting disruptions in cortico-striatal-limbic reward...
October 16, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
Theorists
Barbara Fredrickson – 1964 Present
A comprehensive academic analysis of Barbara Fredrickson's life, the Broaden-and-Build theory, positivity resonance, and empirical...
October 7, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
Dictionary
Affect Regulation: Mastering Emotional Life
An in-depth academic exploration of affect regulation, detailing its neurobiological foundations, theoretical models, assessment tools,...
October 6, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
Dictionary
Activation Theory of Emotion: Brainstem Arousal
Explore the activation theory of emotion: Donald Lindsley's landmark neurobiological model linking reticular arousal, cortical...
October 5, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
Dictionary
Action Unit: Decoding the Human Face
Explore the definition, history, and applications of action units within the Facial Action Coding System,...
October 5, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
Dictionary
Acoustic Emotion: How Sound Carries Affect
Explore the acoustics of emotion: how pitch, timbre, and frequency patterns encode human affect across...
October 5, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
Scales
Behavioral Avoidance-Inhibition Scales (BIS-BAS)
A comprehensive academic and psychometric overview of the Behavioral Avoidance-Inhibition Scales (BIS/BAS Scales) by Carver...
October 1, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
Scales
Behavioral Approach System
A comprehensive psychometric analysis of Carver and White's Behavioral Approach System (BAS) scales, exploring reinforcement...
September 24, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
Experiments
The Broaden-and-Build Theory Experiments – Barbara Fredrickson
A comprehensive academic analysis of Barbara Fredrickson's Broaden-and-Build theory experiments, evaluating empirical tests of human...
September 18, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
Experiments
The Broaden-and-Build Theory Experiments – Barbara Fredrickson
A comprehensive academic analysis of Barbara Fredrickson's broaden-and-build theory, detailing laboratory experiments, cognitive paradigms, and...
September 18, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti
Experiments
The Conditioned Emotional Response in Rats (Amygdala Fear) – Joseph LeDoux
A comprehensive academic analysis of Joseph LeDoux's seminal research on Pavlovian fear conditioning, amygdala microcircuitry,...
September 16, 2026
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Dr. Mohammed Looti