Nevertheless, in contrast to LR children, HR children exhibited a moderate and significant positive correlation between self-report anxiety and errors recognizing fearful affect, suggesting that viewing this emotion evoked heightened emotional reactivity in these children.
Opera regularly traffics in primal and heightened emotional states — grief, despair, rage, ecstasy — that would challenge the greatest stage actors to bring to life even in artfully wrought drama.
In the 20 years since Myerson sent her debut novel, Sleepwalking, to four agents and secured her first contract, she has made a speciality of writing about heightened emotional states.
The subjects who had read literary fiction either reported heightened emotional intelligence or demonstrated, in the various tests administered to them, that their empathy levels had soared beyond their popular- and non-fiction-reading counterparts.
Mr. Halpern's settings of the text also lean toward dramatic exaggeration, keeping the mood at a consistently heightened emotional pitch of (literal) melodrama that quickly comes to seem wearing, and artificial.
These findings suggest that the main characteristic of BPD might be negative emotional intensity rather than heightened emotional reactivity.
Students are also engaged when given the opportunity to strategize and make decisions, as well as when they experience heightened emotional states during gameplay.
"We have a heightened emotional environment right now with the election.
My most heightened emotional scenes have always snuck up on me.
Patients usually experience a steep decline in cognitive abilities as well as heightened emotional states like fear, anger and depression.
Identifying where this heightened emotional reaction is coming from can help you differentiate the past from the present and feel more calm and centered in the moment.
