Yuka Ozaki

TL;DR: This article explored people's everyday practice of counteractive control and found that strong temptation prompted stronger resistance and restraint of behaviors, compared to those cases where no conflict was perceived, indicating that a strong desire toward temptation intensified perception of conflict, and perceived conflict bolstered the value of goals that were in disagreement with the temptation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate how individuals may shift the positivity of self-evaluations in order to sustain their chronic or momentary motivational concerns, and propose that more positive selfevaluations support eagerness that sustains promotion-focused concerns with advancement, whereas less positive self evaluations support vigilance that sustain prevention focused concerns with safety.

TL;DR: The Implicit Association Test (IAT) as mentioned in this paper ) is a test for implicit association testing, which requires participants to answer a series of implicit association test questions (i.e.

TL;DR: Investigating the relationships among curiosity, uncertainty, attention and duration of positive and negative emotional experiences showed that curiosity, but not uncertainty, prolonged the duration of emotional experiences and the process was completely mediated by attention both for positive andnegative emotions.