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The paradigmatic behaviorism theory of emotions: Basis for unification☆

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In this article, a multilevel framework theory of emotions is presented, which includes theory bridges by which to unify the various concepts and mini-theories across a diverse literature.
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This article is published in Clinical Psychology Review.The article was published on 1990-01-01. It has received 76 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Theory-theory & Simulation theory of empathy.

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Preliminary evidence for an emotion dysregulation model of generalized anxiety disorder.

TL;DR: Preliminary support for an emotion dysregulation model of generalized anxiety disorder is provided and students with GAD, but not controls, displayed greater increases in self-reported physiological symptoms after listening to emotion-inducing music than after neutral mood induction.
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The personality structure of affect.

TL;DR: The authors examined the organization of individual differences in pleasant affect, unpleasant affect, and six discrete emotions and found strong convergence between the two pleasant emotions (love and joy) and between the four unpleasant emotions (fear, anger, sadness, and shame).
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Using Neuroscience to Help Understand Fear and Anxiety: A Two-System Framework.

TL;DR: It is argued that failure to recognize and consistently emphasize a distinction between circuits underlying two classes of responses elicited by threats has impeded progress in understanding fear and anxiety disorders and hindered attempts to develop more effective pharmaceutical and psychological treatments.
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Predicting emotions from social relations

TL;DR: In this article, a model of social relations in two dimensions, called power and status, is proposed to predict emotions. But, there is little agreement about how to characterize the social environnement productively in order to predict emotion.
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Emotional numbing in combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder: A critical review and reformulation

TL;DR: In this paper, a theoretical framework based on Levanthal's (1984) perceptual-motor theory of emotion is proposed to account for the parameters of emotional processing in PTSD, and specific hypotheses concerning selective or differential emotional processing deficits in PTSD are described in order to clarify empirical issues about the development and maintenance of emotions in PTSD and to stimulate future research in this underexplored, yet clinically important area.
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Social learning theory

TL;DR: In this article, an exploración de the avances contemporaneos en la teoria del aprendizaje social, con especial enfasis en los importantes roles que cumplen los procesos cognitivos, indirectos, and autoregulatorios.
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The Measurement of Meaning

TL;DR: In this article, the authors deal with the nature and theory of meaning and present a new, objective method for its measurement which they call the semantic differential, which can be adapted to a wide variety of problems in such areas as clinical psychology, social psychology, linguistics, mass communications, esthetics, and political science.
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Science and human behavior

TL;DR: The psychology classic "Walden Two" as mentioned in this paper is a detailed study of scientific theories of human nature and the possible ways in which human behavior can be predicted and controlled from one of the most influential behaviorists of the twentieth century.
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Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders

Aaron T. Beck
TL;DR: In cognitive therapy, a person's psychological difficulties stem from his own erroneous assumptions and faulty concepts of himself and the world as mentioned in this paper, and such a person can be helped to recognize and correct distortions in thinking that cause his emotional disturbance.