Conveners
Talk Session 9: Clinical & Health Psychology
- Ferenc Császár (University of Pécs Doctoral School of Neurosciences)
Capgrass delusion or syndrome is a specific form of delusional misidentification syndromes, which described by the assumption of the patient, that someone or somebody in their social sphere had been replaced by an identical impostor. The replacement usually happens in the case of friends, parnets and spouses, while in some cases pets are being involved. In our presentation we will introduce...
Keywords: morbid obesity, bariatric surgery, emotion misregulation, MMPI-2 Restructured Clinical Scales, behavioral addiction, recovery
Research findings suggest that individuals with substance use disorder (SUD) often exhibit challenges in regulating their emotions. However, there has been limited investigation into emotion regulation difficulties concerning behavioural addictions,...
Keywords: obesity, bariatric surgery, MMPI-2, addictive behaviour, recovery
Bariatric surgery emerges as a superior approach for managing morbid obesity and associated comorbidities compared to conservative therapy. A cohort of 16 morbidly obese individuals, identified by a BMI exceeding 40 or 35 in the presence of diabetes or prediabetes, underwent Pylorus-preserving single-anastomosis...
In a study with 449 (67% female) Croatian participants, individual differences in three dispositions toward ridicule and laughter (i.e., gelotophobia, gelotophilia and katagelasticism) were examined in relation to humiliation experiences, fear of humiliation, core self-evaluations and resilience. The aim of the study was to replicate and extend the findings of previous research on these...
The study presented in this paper examined the enjoyment of laughing at others (i.e., katagelasticism) in relation to the dark tetrad traits (DT), attitudes towards gossip and tendency to gossip. Katagelasticism has been described as including the active search for situations in which one can ridicule and make other people laugh, even at the expense of hurting others. In this study, it was...
