Essays about: "affective state"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 28 essays containing the words affective state.

1. 11. Fear and Loathing in the Welfare State: Affective and semantic meaning-making in Generation Identitær

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Genusvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Josefine Wärnsberg Kjær; [2021]
   Keywords : Affect; Generation Identitær; propaganda; right-wing extremism; space-making; xenophobia; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates affective and semantic meaning-making in online audiovisual propaganda published by the Danish nationalist youth organization, Generation Identitær. Specifically, the study uses the notion of affective investments and relations in order to account for the ways in which the organization’s propaganda operates. READ MORE

3. 12. Exploring a simplified affective state test in the red junglefowl

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för fysik, kemi och biologi

   Author : Alessandra Munari; [2021]
   Keywords : Affective state; animal welfare; chicken; eyespot; Gallus gallus; judgement bias; optimism; pessimism;

   Abstract : Affective states of animals are emotions with positive or negative valance. Positive and negative affective states affect animal welfare, and can bias interpretation of information positively or negatively, respectively. READ MORE

4. 13. Cognitive bias and welfare of egg-laying chicks: Impacts of commercial hatchery procedures on cognition.

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Biologi

   Author : Tiphaine Palazon; [2020]
   Keywords : Cognition; Cognitive bias; Depression; Early life stress; Emotion; Memory; Optimistic; Pessimistic; Prenatal stress; Welfare; White leghorn.;

   Abstract : Egg-laying hens coming from commercial hatchery go through hatchery procedures considered as stressful and engaging prolonged stress response in adult chickens. The aim of our study was to evaluate the impact of commercial hatching procedure on the affective state of chicks, on their short- and long-term memory and on their need for social reinstatement. READ MORE

5. 14. Rubber hand illusion and affective touch : A systematic review

   University essay from Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för biovetenskap

   Author : Jesper Anell; [2020]
   Keywords : Rubber hand illusion; affective touch; cognitive neuroscience; body ownership; interoception;

   Abstract : The feeling of owning a body part is often investigated by conducting and manipulating the rubber hand illusion, a three-way integration of vision, touch, and proprioception. In the last decade, more research on the role of interoception, the sense of the body's’ internal state, in the illusion has been made. READ MORE

6. 15. Välfärd hos hundar (Canis lupus familiaris) och katter (Felis catus) av brakycefala raser

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Animal Environment and Health

   Author : Elin Kossmann Lindström; [2020]
   Keywords : Brakycefali; hund; Canis lupus familiaris; katt; Felis catus; välfärd; avel; brachycephaic obstructive airway syndrome;

   Abstract : Brachycephaly is a conformation in cats and dogs developed by man through breeding. It is characterised by a short muzzle and a flat skull. A breed standard describes the conformation for each breed. READ MORE