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Acceptance And Commitment Therapy For The Treatment Of Music Performance Anxiety: A Pilot Study With Student Vocalists, David G. Juncos, Glenn A. Heinrichs, Philip Towle, Kiera Duffy, Sebastian M. Grand, Matthew C. Morgan, Jordan D. Smith, Evan Kalkus
Acceptance And Commitment Therapy For The Treatment Of Music Performance Anxiety: A Pilot Study With Student Vocalists, David G. Juncos, Glenn A. Heinrichs, Philip Towle, Kiera Duffy, Sebastian M. Grand, Matthew C. Morgan, Jordan D. Smith, Evan Kalkus
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This study investigated the use of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) as a treatment for music performance anxiety (MPA) in an uncontrolled pilot design. ACT is a newer, “third-wave” therapy that differs from previous MPA treatments, because its goal is not to reduce symptoms of MPA. Rather, ACT aims to enhance psychological flexibility in the presence of unwanted symptoms through the promotion of six core processes collectively known as the ACT “Hexaflex.” A small group of student vocalists (N = 7) from an elite choral college were recruited using objective criteria for evaluating MPA. Participants received 12 ACT sessions, and …
Testing For Individual Differences In The Identification Of Chemosignals For Fear And Happy: Phenotypic Super-Detectors, Detectors And Non-Detectors, Jeannette M. Haviland-Jones, Terry R. Mcguire, Patricia Wilson
Testing For Individual Differences In The Identification Of Chemosignals For Fear And Happy: Phenotypic Super-Detectors, Detectors And Non-Detectors, Jeannette M. Haviland-Jones, Terry R. Mcguire, Patricia Wilson
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Mood odor identification, explicit awareness of mood odor, may be an important emotion skill and part of a complex dual processing system. It has already been shown that mood odors have significant implicit effects, effects that occur without awareness. This study applies methods for examining human individual differences in the identification of chemosignals for fear and happy, important in itself, and a key to understanding the dual processing of emotion in the olfactory system. Axillary mood odors had been collected from 14 male donors during a mood induction task. Pads were collected after 12 and 24 minutes, creating two doses. …