To represent the emotional continua according to valence and arousal, seven morphed images were created for each pair of faces.
In this article, we use the definition of empathy supplied by Preston & de Waal [8], in which empathy is a term for a broad category of resonant emotional responses comprising a continuum from basic forms, such as emotional contagion, to complex forms, such as cognitive empathy.
Patients also strengthened the importance of sensitive communication, e.g. showing empathy en emotional support, throughout the continuum of cancer care.
However, there was a continuum of emotional responses recorded from 'feeling positive' and 'indifference' to 'contemplating suicide' and 'wishing to die'.
This results in a negative definition of health as the absence of disease, which fails to reflect the reality that health is a continuum, with emotional or social components and embedded in an extensive social context.
To verify the occurrence of categorical perception even in the presence of ratings based on continua in emotional space, we calculated the distance between facial stimuli differing by two steps on each continuum with respect to valence or arousal ratings.
But whether this seeming emotional fluency exists on the continuum of openness Rayner championed is doubtful.
From being an outgrowth of the historical situation of one people in one place and time, it has developed into the emotional conscience of the entire continuum of Western vernacular musical styles.
Emotional distress refers to a continuum of psychological symptoms varying in severity (Carlson and Bultz, 2003).
