Emotional response measurement importance

This chapter begins with a general definition of emotion and discussion of the importance of measuring emotion in sensory and consumer research. General approaches that are used to measure emotions are briefly laid out. Some of the verbal self-report emotion lexicons described in the current literature, and their applications in the sensory and consumer fields, are reviewed. The aufhors will also discuss how consumer emotional responses can be related to the output of sensory descriptive analysis. Finally, some unresolved issues in verbal self-report emotion measurement and topics for future research are discussed. 

Perhaps most important, Chemical Risk provided the basis for a call for scientific collective action and increased public awareness. Future Nobel laureate Joshua Lederberg (1969) noted in one of his regular Science and Man columns that we [biologists] all have a basic responsibility to go beyond an emotional expression of concern to use it to energize the search for authentic scientific measures of potential hazards and for means to neutralize them. We have a great deal of taxing work ahead in trying to set up scientifically valid and politically useful criteria from laboratory studies for these elusive but all-important hazards. ... 

ABSTRACT This study contributes to identification of psychosocial risk factors in non-teaching staff. The study is exploratory and descriptive. It consists in descriptive statistics of responses to a questionnaire for identification of psychosocial risk factors (translated and adapted from F-PSICO), as well as in content analysis of responses to semi-structured interviews. The results show that the non-teaching staff needs to hide emotions and feelings and also that some of the situations that affect psychologically relate to relationships with co-workers. It is stated that there is no team spirit and that these relations are not satisfactory. With the day-to-day workload, these workers are forced to interrupt work and perform various tasks at the same time, dealing with a day-by-day of ((breakneck pace , ((intense and ((very full journey. Psychological demands, time autonomy, workload, relationships and social support are psychosocial risk factors that play an important role in the performance of these workers. Finally, some measures to control these risks were recommended. 

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