GLOSSARY
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Narrative Identity
A person’s internalized and evolving life story, integrating the reconstructed past and imagined future to provide life with some degree of unity and purpose.
Narrative Transportation
An experience wherein an individual’s attention, imagery and feeling becomes immersed in a narrative world or work of fiction.
Need for Affect
The general motivation of people to approach or avoid situations and activities that are emotion-inducing for themselves and others.
Need to Belong
The need for frequent, nonaversive interactions within an ongoing relational bond.
Negative Affectivity (NA; Neuroticism)
Susceptibility to negative affect. Individuals high on trait neuroticism, relative to those low on trait neuroticism, are more likely to have an aversive motivation system that appears to inhibit behaviour through negative affect. As such, (...)
Negative Emotions (Unpleasant Emotions)
The valence (subjective experience, usually in terms in attractiveness or aversiveness) of emotions that is characterized by displeasure, unpleasantness and motivates avoidance-type behaviours
Negative Reciprocity
Occurrence of aversive behavior on the part of one partner given aversive behavior by the other.
Negativity Bias
The claim that, in most situations, a wide range of domains and in both humans and non-humans, negative events are more salient, potent, dominant in combinations, and generally efficacious than positive events.
Nikhedonia
The excitement or pleasure that comes from anticipating victory or success.
Non-Suicidal Self-Injury
The direct, deliberate destruction of one's own body tissue in the absence of suicidal intent.
Nonverbal Behaviour
Actions distinct from speech, which may include facial expressions, hand and arm gestures, postures, positions, and various movements of the body or the legs and feet.
Nonverbal Communication
Certain non-language behaviors, such as voice quality (paralanguage), body motion, touch, and use of personal space (proxemics), that appear to play a prominent role in communication. Communication and interpretation of information by any means other than language. Includes (...)
Nonviolent Communication
An approach to communication that aims to foster interpersonal understanding and connection through communication of judgment-free observations, recognition of people's feelings, needs and values, and requests for specific actions to meet those needs.
Noradrenaline
Also called norepinephrine. A chemical made by nerve cells and in the adrenal gland. Noradrenaline can act as both a neurotransmitter (a chemical messenger used by nerve cells) and a hormone (a chemical that travels in the blood and controls the actions of other cells or organs). (...)
Nostalgia
A sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past that is a predominantly positive and social emotion. Nostalgic experiences typically feature the self as a protagonist in interactions with close others or in momentous events.
