emotional supportonline health communitytext classificationOnline health communities (OHCs) play an important role in enabling patients to exchange information and obtain social support from each other. In this researchZhang, QingpengZhou, JiaqiZhou, Sijia...
Companionship:One of the most incredible benefits of having two dogs is that they provide each other with constant companionship. Dogs are social animals and thrive on interaction with other dogs. With another dog around, they always have a playmate, someone to snuggle with, and someone to keep...
“I’m a big kid when it comes to koalas.I think they’re lovely animals and I’d hate to see them disappear,”said Frend.“If I can help,well I get a certain amount of enjoyment out of that.Yeah,they’re a lovely species.” 【语篇解读】 本文是说明文。受气候变化的影响...
This may reflect a negatively biased processing of ambiguous information, as is found in depressed people29,30 rats exposed to chronic psychosocial stress31, and in a variety of other judgement bias studies involving animals in putative negative affective states25,26. The results support the ...
A sensitive, compassionate healer for both animals and people, Susan is a guide and a source of support when you’re inspired to make positive changes in your own life too. The human-animal relationship is at the heart of her work and serves as a portal to soul-level work that serves ...
Plants attract these animals by the beauty of color, pattern, form and/or scent of their flowers and fruit. But why do human beings so often find these flow- ers and fruit beautiful? Prum also argued persuasively from comparative evi- dence for the "civilizing" influence of female choice ...
Adoption beyond one’s own social group is extremely rare in other group-living animals, especially in non-human primates where most species form stable groups and identify group members from out-group individuals using visual, auditory, and olfactory cues26,27,28,29. There are only two ...
Guasch, Moldovan, and Sánchez-Casas (2012), reported ratings from 504 participants for valence and arousal (using the SAM), as well as for familiarity and concreteness (on a 9-point scale). Scores were collected for 380 words belonging to the semantic categories of animals, objects, and pe...
MSC is a specialized approach that addresses these emotional difficulties directly. Self-compassion, in addition to being a result of mindfulness, works as an effective mediator for a variety of psychological factors. Through self-compassion, one may cultivate a compassionate and understanding connection...
(1968)elaborated the two factor model and applied it specifically to the learning of avoidancebehavior. D’Amato and colleagues observed that animals learn to avoid both stimuli that elicitanticipatory anxietyas well as those that signal objective danger and that their avoidance behavior was associated...