• closedAccess   Stimulus appraisal modulates cardiac reactivity to briefly presented mutilation pictures 

      Perakakis, Pandelis; Mocaiber, Izabela; Garcia Pereira, Mirtes; Machado, Walter Pinheiro; Volchan, Eliane; De Oliveira, Letícia; Vila, Jaime Elsevier B.V. (2011-09)
      Emotional reactions to threatening situations can be either advantageous for human adaptation or unfavorable for physical and mental health if sustained over prolonged periods of time. These contrasting effects mostly ...
    • openAccess   Tired of Nice People? An Appraisal-based Approach to Trump’s Dichotomies 

      Breeze, Ruth Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I (2017)
      Political discourse is rich in dichotomies, but there is considerable variation in the way this rhetorical strategy is used. This article explores the dichotomies in two of Donald Trump’s high-profile pre-election speeches, ...