emotional reactivity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofemotionalandreactivity
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emotional
adjective
uk/ɪˈməʊ.ʃən.əl/us/ɪˈmoʊ.ʃən.əl/
relating to ...
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reactivity
noun[U]
uk/ˌri.ækˈtɪv.ə.ti/us/ˌri.ækˈtɪv.ə.t̬i/
a measure of how much a substance reacts when it is mixed with ...
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Effects consistent with a reduction inemotionalreactivitywere not described with reboxetine.
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However, they did report a significant largeremotionalreactivitycompared to controls.
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Data such as this suggest that temperament is a key component ofemotionalreactivityand physiological arousal related to emotion.
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Resting frontal activation asymmetry predictsemotionalreactivityto film clips.
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Together, these behaviors were believed to capture the child'semotionalreactivityto the stress of maternal separation and the simultaneous introduction of a novel person.
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In general, children with greateremotionalreactivityand anxiety to novel people, places, and events would be expected to evidence greater physiological reactivity.
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Accordingly, a developmental goal for young children would be to maximize control and minimizeemotionalreactivity.
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In addition, children who experience extreme arousal oremotionalreactivitymay have difficulty regulating those experiences, regardless of the strategies they may attempt to use.
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This expressiveness can range from severe inhibition to very high levels ofemotionalreactivityand hyperresponsivity to the environment.
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One could argue that life events do not influence theemotionalreactivityto daily life stress, but rather increase the negative mood level.
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Although variations inemotionalreactivityare identifiable in early infancy, self-regulatory skills are proposed to come online in later infancy and function to modulate reactivity.
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In the first example, the social context may contribute to adaptive development of the neurobiological systems involved inemotionalreactivityand regulation.
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In children, much of the evidence of an association among anxiety and physiological andemotionalreactivity and regulation has emerged from the temperament literature.
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Therefore, it was argued thatemotionalreactivityconstitutes an underlying vulnerability marker for psychosis.
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Factor 1 was labelled ' cognitive empathy ', factor 2 'emotionalreactivity' and factor 3 ' social skills '.
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In contrast, preoccupied children displayed insecurity through heightenedemotionalreactivity, regulation of exposure to interparental difficulties, and hostile internal representations.
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Thirdly, emotional stress reactivity has been defined in terms ofemotionalreactivitytowards subjective stress.
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In contrast, the normal participants showed evidence ofemotionalreactivityon only one of the two speech measures, and the depressed patients showed no evidence on either measure.
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Docherty has argued thatemotionalreactivitymay be a feature specific to only some psychotic patients.
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