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Rebecca A Ferrer, Ph.D.

Background:

Researchers are testing new methods for research projects. They want to see how people respond to different types of communication, including videos. They also want to learn how people respond to life events and how they pay attention to computer tasks. They want to learn about how various risks and threats affect the way people make decisions.

Objectives:

To learn how different stimuli and events affect the way people make decisions.

Eligibility:

Adults ages 18 and older with a U.S. computer address

Design:

Participants will be recruited online.

Participants will take one of three studies online. Each study will take about a half hour.

Participants in Study 1 will watch a short video from a popular movie then answer questions. They will also complete 2 questionnaires. One will be about how likely they think it is that they will experience different risks and threats. The other will be about goals for behavior change.

Participants in Study 2 will write in detail about a life event. Then they will answer questions. They will also complete the same 2 questionnaires as Study 1.

Participants in Study 3 will pay close attention to words and images on a computer. They will answer questions about attitudes toward different behaviors, products, and experiences.

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Despite evidence that both integral (i.e., related to the decision) and incidental (i.e., unrelated to the decision) emotions influence cancer-related decision making, no research has systematically examined whether these two types of emotion generate similar patterns of influence, as predicted by decision-making models. This is important because incidental emotions are often used experimentally to draw causal conclusions about how emotions influence cancer-related decisions with the notion that results will generalize to produce knowledge about integral emotions as well. Across three studies, we plan to directly compare integral and incidental emotional influences on judgments and decisions related to cancer control. We plan to examine whether effects are contingent on the type of emotional influence (the discrete emotions anger and fear, or general positive affect) or type of emotion induction (video, autobiographical induction, or evaluative conditioning). Across experiments, we predict that emotion will influence both judgment and decision-making outcomes when the induced emotion is integral as well as when it is incidental. However, we predict that the magnitude of the effect of emotion on these types of responses will be significantly greater when emotions are integral to a judgment or decision, compared to when emotions are incidental.

Differential Influences of Integral and Incidental Emotion on Cancer-related Judgments and Decision Making

Differential Influences of Integral and Incidental Emotion on Cancer-Related Judgments and Decision Making

Perceived susceptibility to cancer and other threats (self-report)

Intentions to engage in cancer and other threat-preventive behavior (self-report)

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Caregivers are asked to talk about their deepest thoughts and feelings regarding the patient's transplant and their role as caregiver, in the presence of the patient (one session).

Caregivers are asked to talk about their deepest thoughts and feelings regarding the patient's transplant and their role as caregiver, in the absence of the patient (3 sessions).

Caregivers are asked to talk about their plans for the upcoming week (time management, sessions 1 and 3) and positive aspects of their life (session 2).

Caregivers are given the opportunity to express their thoughts and feelings regarding the patient's transplant and their role as caregiver

Emotional expression

Shelby Langer, PhD

This study seeks to test a brief psychological intervention for spousal caregivers of cancer patients (specifically, hematopoietic stem cell transplant patients), persons known to experience emotional distress.

This project focuses on spousal caregivers (CGs) of hematopoietic stem cell transplant survivors - persons known to report elevated levels of distress as compared to both norms and their patient counterparts. Specific Aims are to: (1) Determine, via experimental manipulation, whether or not CGs of hematopoietic stem cell transplant patients engage in protective buffering, a coping mechanism whereby partners shield patients from illness-related concerns or worries, (2) Examine synchrony or lack thereof, desynchrony, among subjective, expressive and biologic indicators of emotion among spousal CGs, and (3) Test the feasibility and implementation of an emotional expression (EE) exercise designed to enhance psychological and immune functioning among spousal CGs.

Study title	NCT ID	Conditions	Interventions	Eligibility	Organization
Differential Influences of Integral and Incidental Emotion on Cancer-related Judgments and Decision Making	NCT02829554	Cancer Overweight Obesity		18 Years - 99 Years	National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC)
Spouses/Partners Expressing Their Thoughts After Transplant	NCT01061801	Cancer Hematopoietic S...	Emotional expre...	21 Years -	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Spouses/Partners Expressing Their Thoughts After Transplant	NCT01061801	Cancer Hematopoietic S...	Emotional expre...	21 Years -	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Spouses/Partners Expressing Their Thoughts After Transplant	NCT01061801	Cancer Hematopoietic S...	Emotional expre...	21 Years -	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

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Every month we try and update this database with for emotion cancer trials from around the world to help patients and their families find trials that might be right for them. We offer this 100% free of charge and do not endorse any of the trials listed here, we hope it helps you or a loved one.

Every month we try and update this database with for emotion cancer trials from around the world to help patients and their families find trials that might be right for them.
We offer this 100% free of charge and do not endorse any of the trials listed here, we hope it helps you or a loved one.