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I Love Your Face: Attraction And Facial Expressions Of Emotion, Kendall Swinney
I Love Your Face: Attraction And Facial Expressions Of Emotion, Kendall Swinney
Murray State Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of two individual differences on ratings of attraction toward male facial expressions of emotion. Specifically, the influence of participants’ empathy and romantic attachment style on their attraction ratings of a target that displayed one of four emotions (i.e., sad, angry, happy, or neutral expression) was analyzed. This study found no relationship between empathy and participants’ attraction ratings; however, participant romantic attachment style did predict her attraction toward male emotional expressions. Specifically, individuals categorized as having an avoidant attachment style were less attracted to the happy expression than were those categorized …
Too Tired To Care: Religious Orientations’ Relationship With Ego-Depleted Empathy, Mark Handley
Too Tired To Care: Religious Orientations’ Relationship With Ego-Depleted Empathy, Mark Handley
Murray State Theses and Dissertations
Psychological research into various aspects of religiosity, empathy, and self-regulation has grown throughout the years. Using Wulff’s (1997) literal verses symbolic bipolar dimension of religiosity, Duriez (2004) found that participants who identified as tending to possess symbolic beliefs regarding religious symbols reported the ability to emphasize with others more than those adhering to increasingly literal interpretations of religious themes. Watterson and Giesler (2012) found that individuals who tended to have higher levels of religiosity appeared to engage longer in a self-regulatory task than those who showed lower levels of religiosity. Researchers interested in self-regulation have found individuals who had undergone …