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Boston College

EducationBoston, Massachusetts, United States
About: Boston College is a education organization based out in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 9749 authors who have published 25406 publications receiving 1105145 citations. The organization is also known as: BC.


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TL;DR: The independence of positive and negative affect has been heralded as a major and counterintuitive finding in the psychology of mood and emotion as mentioned in this paper, and a consensus on a descriptive structure of current affect is at hand, if we can only agree on what the structure is.
Abstract: The independence of positive and negative affect has been heralded as a major and counterintuitive finding in the psychology of mood and emotion. Still, other findings support the older view that positive and negative fall at opposite ends of a single bipolar continuum. Independence versus bipolarity can be reconciled by considering (a) the activation dimension of affect, (b) random and systematic measurement error, and (c) how items are selected to achieve an appropriate test of bipolarity. In 3 studies of self-reported current affect, random and systematic error were controlled through multiformat measurement and confirmatory factor analysis. Valence was found to be independent of activation, positive affect the bipolar opposite of negative affect, and deactivation the bipolar opposite of activation. The dimensions underlying D. Watson, L. A. Clark, and A. Tellegen's (1988) Positive and Negative Affect schedule were accounted for by the valence and activation dimensions. A consensus on a descriptive structure of current affect is at hand—if we can only agree on what the structure is. The psychology of mood, emotion, and affect needs a consensual structure and is tantalizingly close to achieving one. Among the remaining disagreements, the most puzzling and persistent is bipolarity versus independence. Is positive affect the bipolar opposite of, or is it independent of, negative affect? Are happiness and sadness two ends of one continuum, or separate entities, like apples and oranges? A resolution to this puzzle is needed to answer questions about the number of dimensions of affect, how affect should be measured, and the underlying processes involved. Despite repeated attempts, a solution to this puzzle remains elusive, and a long-simmering debate has recently flared up. Much is at stake in this debate, for important lines of research have arisen on these opposing assumptions. This article offers conceptual and empirical analyses aimed at resolving the dispute.

1,173 citations

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TL;DR: The Conformity to Masculine Norms Inventory (CMNI) as discussed by the authors is a self-reported measure of men's mental health and self-confidence, which measures the desire to be more muscular.
Abstract: This article describes the construction of the Conformity to Masculine Norms Inventory (CMNI), and 5 studies that examined its psychometric properties. Factor analysis indicated 11 distinct factors: Winning, Emotional Control, Risk-Taking, Violence, Dominance, Playboy, Self-Reliance, Primacy of Work, Power Over Women, Disdain for Homosexuals, and Pursuit of Status. Results from Studies 2-5 indicated that the CMNI had strong internal consistency estimates and good differential validity comparing men with women and groups of men on health-related questions; all of the CMNI subscales were significantly and positively related to other masculinity-related measures, with several subscales being related significantly and positively to psychological distress, social dominance, aggression, and the desire to be more muscular, and significantly and negatively to attitudes toward psychological help seeking and social desirability; and CMNI scores had high test-retest estimates for a 2-3 week period.

1,157 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the Japanese banking crisis provides a natural experiment to test whether a loan supply shock can affect real economic activity, and they exploit the variation across geographically distinct commercial real estate markets to establish conclusively that loan supply shocks emanating from Japan had real effects on economic activity in the United States.
Abstract: The Japanese banking crisis provides a natural experiment to test whether a loan supply shock can affect real economic activity. Because the shock was external to U.S. credit markets, yet connected through the Japanese bank penetration of U.S. markets, this event allows us to identify an exogenous loan supply shock and ultimately link that shock to construction activity in U.S. commercial real estate markets. We exploit the variation across geographically distinct commercial real estate markets to establish conclusively that loan supply shocks emanating from Japan had real effects on economic activity in the United States. (JEL E44, F36)

1,150 citations

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TL;DR: This chapter outlines an emerging scientific agenda for understanding what experiences of emotion feel like and how they arise, and the role of such experiences in the economy of the mind and behavior.
Abstract: Experiences of emotion are content-rich events that emerge at the level of psychological description, but must be causally constituted by neurobiological processes. This chapter outlines an emerging scientific agenda for understanding what these experiences feel like and how they arise. We review the available answers to what is felt (i.e., the content that makes up an experience of emotion) and how neurobiological processes instantiate these properties of experience. These answers are then integrated into a broad framework that describes, in psychological terms, how the experience of emotion emerges from more basic processes. We then discuss the role of such experiences in the economy of the mind and behavior.

1,140 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine whether managers delay disclosure of bad news relative to good news and find that the negative stock price reaction to bad news disclosures is greater than the magnitude of the positive stock price response to positive news disclosures.
Abstract: In this study, we examine whether managers delay disclosure of bad news relative to good news. If managers accumulate and withhold bad news up to a certain threshold, but leak and immediately reveal good news to investors, then we expect the magnitude of the negative stock price reaction to bad news disclosures to be greater than the magnitude of the positive stock price reaction to good news disclosures. We present evidence consistent with this prediction. Our analysis suggests that management, on average, delays the release of bad news to investors.

1,139 citations


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NameH-indexPapersCitations
Eric J. Topol1931373151025
Gang Chen1673372149819
Wei Li1581855124748
Daniel L. Schacter14959290148
Asli Demirguc-Kunt13742978166
Stephen G. Ellis12765565073
James A. Russell124102487929
Zhifeng Ren12269571212
Jeffrey J. Popma12170272455
Mike Clarke1131037164328
Kendall N. Houk11299754877
James M. Poterba10748744868
Gregory C. Fu10638132248
Myles Brown10534852423
Richard R. Schrock10372443919
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Performance
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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
202398
2022250
20211,282
20201,275
20191,082
20181,058