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Maternal symptoms of prenatal depression predict context-incongruent negative emotion in infants. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Katherine E Jennings,Madeleine E Piper,Jennifer L Kling,Amanda Bruner,Rebecca J Brooker
Prenatal symptoms of depression in mothers are associated with infants' emotional reactivity. Context-incongruent reactivity, comprising mismatches between the eliciting context and emotional reactions, predicts negative long-term socioemotional outcomes in children. However, the etiology of context-incongruent reactivity is largely unknown, obscuring a full understanding of its potential role as a
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Judging emotion in natural images of crowds. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Susan Hao,David Whitney,Sonia J Bishop
It has been suggested that humans use summary statistics such as the average of the emotion of individual faces when they rapidly judge group emotion. Previous studies have mainly used faces of actors posing basic emotions, and morphed versions of these faces, against a plain background. In the present study, photographs taken in real-world settings were used to investigate the influence of mean facial
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Dynamics between affect and social acceptance as a function of social anxiety: A person-specific network approach. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Kelley E Gunther,Audrey Edelman,Daniel Petrie,Hedy Kober,Dylan G Gee,Jutta Joormann,Reuma Gadassi-Polack
Social acceptance and rejection are salient experiences, especially during adolescence. Acceptance and rejection relate to changes in positive and negative affect, although directionality of the relation remains unclear. The ability to regulate affect following social experiences may be part of the etiology of social anxiety disorder. With the importance of social cues in adolescence, as well as adolescence
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Situation covariation and goal adaptiveness? The promoting effect of cognitive flexibility on emotion regulation in depression. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Wei Gao,Xinyu Yan,Yongqiang Chen,Jiemin Yang,JiaJin Yuan
Cognitive inflexibility as a generalized characteristic of depression has been closely implicated in maladaptive coping with changing situations and goals in daily life. The association between cognitive flexibility and depression can be elucidated by situation covariation and goal adaptiveness of emotion regulation flexibility (ERF), which facilitates adaptive responses to changing environments. However
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Is emotion perception altered by gaze direction, gender appearance, and gender identity of the perceived face? Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Robrecht P R D van der Wel,Yana Prodanova,Jason Snyder,Timothy N Welsh,Anne Böckler
The purpose of the present study was to examine how gaze and emotion processing may change due to differences in gender appearance and gender identity of the perceived face. We manipulated gender appearance (male or female), gender identity (cisgender or transgender), gaze direction (direct or averted), and expressed emotions (anger, fear, or neutral) of face models in an emotion rating task. We replicate
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Affective control in adolescence: The influence of age and depressive symptomatology on working memory. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Kirsty Griffiths,Darren L Dunning,Jenna Parker,Marc Bennett,Susanne Schweizer,Lucy Foulkes,Saz Ahmed,Jovita T Leung,Cait Griffin,Ashok Sakhardande,Willem Kuyken,J Mark G Williams,Sarah-Jayne Blakemore,Tim Dalgleish,Jason Stretton,
People exhibit marked individual variation in their ability to exercise cognitive control in affectively charged situations. Affective control is typically assessed in laboratory settings by comparing performance in carefully constructed executive tasks performed in both affectively neutral and affectively charged contexts. There is some evidence that affective control undergoes significant improvement
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The "memory-experience gap" for affect does not reflect a general memory bias to overestimate past affect. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Farid Anvari,Ella K Moeck,Vithor R Franco,Malte Elson,Iris K Schneider
Retrospective self-reports are widely used to measure affect and well-being. But researchers have long assumed that people overestimate affective experiences in retrospect and that retrospective self-reports are thus biased. This is because of the memory-experience gap, a phenomenon in which retrospective ratings for a longer timeframe are higher than the average of repeated ratings for shorter timeframes
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Individual differences in developmental trajectories of affective attention and relations with competence and social reticence with peers. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Alicia Vallorani,Kelley E Gunther,Lori B Reider,Jessica L Burris,Vanessa LoBue,Kristin A Buss,Koraly Pérez-Edgar
This study examined individual differences in affective attention trajectories in infancy and relations with competence and social reticence at 24 months. Data collection spanned 2017 to 2021. Infants (N = 297, 53% White, 49% reported as assigned male at birth) recruited in South Central and Central Pennsylvania and Northern New Jersey provided eye-tracking data at five assessments. Caregivers self-reported
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Uncertainty moderates the emotional consequences of reappraisal, social sharing, and rumination in daily life. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Ella K Moeck,Katharine H Greenaway,Valentina Bianchi,James J Gross,Peter Koval,Elise K Kalokerinos
People must often wait for important but uncertain outcomes, like medical results or job offers. During such uncertain waiting periods, there is uncertainty around an outcome that people have minimal control over. Uncertainty makes these periods emotionally challenging, raising the possibility that emotion regulation strategies may have different effects while people wait for an uncertain outcome versus
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Intertemporal empathy decline: Feeling less distress for future others' suffering. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Matthew Coleman,David DeSteno
The present actions of individuals and society at large can cause outsized consequences on future generations' quality of life. Moral philosophers have explored how people should value the well-being of future generations. Yet, the question of how people actually feel when considering the plight of others in the future compared to the present remains understudied. In four experiments (N = 4,698), we
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Interpersonal emotion regulation during relationship conflict: Daily and longitudinal associations with couples' sexual well-being. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-15 Grace A Wang,Charlene F Belu,David B Allsop,Natalie O Rosen
Relationship conflicts, which are common among committed couples, provoke negative emotions with implications for sexual well-being (i.e., satisfaction, desire, low distress). Couples might manage these emotions through extrinsic interpersonal emotion regulation (IER; attempting to influence the emotions of a romantic partner). In a preregistered dyadic, daily diary, and longitudinal study, we examined
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Unpacking the pursuit of happiness: Being concerned about happiness but not aspiring to happiness is linked with negative meta-emotions and worse well-being. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Felicia K Zerwas,Brett Q Ford,Oliver P John,Iris B Mauss
Previous work suggests that sometimes the more people value happiness, the less happy they are. For whom and why is this the case? To answer these questions, we examined a model of happiness pursuit that disentangles two previously conflated individual differences related to valuing happiness. The first individual difference operates at the strength of the value itself and involves viewing happiness
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Information gathering: Dissociable effects of autistic and alexithymic traits in youths aged 6-25 years. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Ka Shu Lee,Emily L Long,Caroline Catmur,Tobias U Hauser,Geoffrey Bird
Autistic youths tend to react negatively to uncertain events. Little is known about the cognitive processes associated with this intolerance of uncertainty, most notably the tendency to actively gather information to minimize uncertainty. Past research has relied on self-report measures that may not allow investigation of the multifaceted processes associated with intolerance of uncertainty, including
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Tweeting under uncertainty: The relationship between uncertain language and negative emotions in the wild. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Marc-Lluís Vives,Daantje de Bruin,Jeroen M van Baar,Oriel FeldmanHall
Despite decades of research characterizing the relationship between uncertainty and emotion, little is known about how these constructs interact in the wild. Using naturalistic, large-scale language produced on Twitter, we ask whether increases in environmental uncertainty and associated aversive emotional reactions can be captured by the millions of digital traces of people sharing their thoughts
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Neural mechanisms for secondary suppression of emotional distractors: Evidence from concurrent electroencephalography-magnetoencephalography data. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Xiaofei Dong,Lixia Cui,Blake W Johnson
Distractor suppression allows us to remain on-task in the presence of distractions by filtering task-irrelevant information from ongoing cognitive processing and responding. Electrophysiological studies have revealed that this key feature of selective attention is a dynamic process that involves at least two distinct stages of processing. Two important aspects of these processing stages remain unclear:
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Daily profiles of parents' supportive extrinsic emotion regulation of adolescents' negative emotion. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Reout Arbel
Parental support for adolescent emotion regulation is critical for adolescents' health. Yet, little is known about parents' daily support of adolescents' emotion regulation. This study aimed to typify daily co-parent supportive extrinsic emotion regulation (EER) profiles directed toward adolescents' daily distress and anger. The sample comprised 153 adolescent-parent triads; adolescents' mean age,
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Emotional integration and reappraisal during goal pursuit: Testing within- and between-person differences. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Moti Benita,Hadar Azoulay Liberman,Reout Arbel,Christopher P Niemiec
Goal pursuit is rife with obstacles triggering negative emotions. To persist in goal pursuit, individuals need to regulate these emotions using adaptive emotion regulation strategies. Reappraisal and emotional integration are two such strategies. Reappraisal involves people's attempts to reframe how they are thinking about an emotional situation, whereas emotional integration involves taking an interest
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Why do we engage in everyday interpersonal emotion regulation? Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Anh Tran,Katharine H Greenaway,Elise K Kalokerinos
Interpersonal emotion regulation occurs when people influence others' emotions (extrinsic regulation) or turn to others to influence their own emotions (intrinsic regulation). Research on interpersonal regulation has tended to focus on how people regulate emotions, with little interrogation of why people do it, despite the importance of motives in driving emotion regulation goals and strategy selection
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The development and validation of the Emotional Entitlement Questionnaire (EEQ). Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Roni Laslo-Roth,Sivan George-Levi
Beliefs about what one is entitled to emotionally may make a unique contribution to emotional and interpersonal experiences. In the present study, we introduce the concept of emotional entitlement, the degree to which people believe they have the right to experience different emotions (e.g., the right to feel happy, angry, sad, etc.). Our aim was to develop and validate the Emotional Entitlement Questionnaire
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Does empathy promote helping by activating altruistic motivation or concern about social evaluation? A direct replication of Fultz et al. (1986). Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Thomas G McCauley,William H B McAuliffe,Michael E McCullough
When people experience empathy for a needy stranger, efforts to help are often not far behind. But does empathy actually cause prosocial behavior? And if so, does it activate genuine concern or more self-interested motivations? To rule out the alternative hypothesis that empathy motivates prosocial behavior by generating fear of social disapproval for acting selfishly, Fultz et al. (1986) manipulated
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The mind wanders to dark places: Mind-wandering catalyzes rumination in the context of negative affect and impulsivity. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Ellie P Xu,Jiani Li,Sarah L Zapetis,Timothy J Trull,Jonathan P Stange
Spontaneous mind-wandering has been theorized to increase susceptibility for rumination, contributing to risk for major depressive disorder (MDD). Clarifying whether-and under what circumstances-mind-wandering leads to rumination could inform the development of targeted interventions to reduce risk for ruminative sequelae. Using intensively sampled data in 44 young adults with remitted MDD and 38 healthy
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The transfer of social threat learning to decision making is robust to extinction. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-20 Ida Selbing,David Sandberg,Andreas Olsson,Björn Lindström,Armita Golkar
Through traditional mass media and online social media, we are almost constantly exposed to second-hand experiences of trauma and violence, providing ample opportunities for us to learn about threats through social means. This social threat learning can influence instrumental decision making through a social learning to decision-making transfer process, resembling the so-called Pavlovian to instrumental
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A brief reappraisal intervention leads to durable affective benefits. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-20 Julia W Y Kam,Lauren Wan-Sai-Cheong,Alexandra A Ouellette Zuk,Ashish Mehta,Matthew L Dixon,James J Gross
People who report frequently using cognitive reappraisal to decrease the impact of potentially upsetting situations report better affective functioning than people who report using cognitive reappraisal less frequently. However, most work linking everyday reappraisal use to affective outcomes has been correlational, making causal inference difficult. In this study, we examined whether 2 weeks of daily
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Positive autobiographical memories to counteract low mood in remitted depression: A longitudinal daily-life investigation. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-20 Christina Haag,Melody So,Maris Vainre,Birgit Kleim,Tim Dalgleish,Caitlin Hitchcock
Positive autobiographical memories (AMs) have the potential to repair low mood, but previously depressed individuals have difficulty leveraging their positive AMs for emotion regulation purposes. We examined whether previously depressed individuals benefit from guided, deliberate recollection of preselected AMs to counteract low mood in daily life, utilizing individuals' smartphones to facilitate recollection
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How bad becomes good: A neurocomputational model of affect-informed choice. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-20 Ian D Roberts,Azadeh HajiHosseini,Cendri A Hutcherson
People often draw on their current affective experience to inform their decisions, yet little is known about the underlying mechanisms of this process. Understanding them has important implications for many big questions in both the affective and decision sciences. Do the same neural circuits that generate affect generate value? What differentiates people who have greater contextual flexibility in
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Emotion concordance is higher among immigrants from more individualist cultures: Implications for cultural differences in adherence to emotion norms. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-20 Allon Vishkin,Shinobu Kitayama
Recent findings show that in more individualist cultures, people's emotions are more homogenous and more concordant with the emotions of others in their culture. These findings have been interpreted as evidence that adherence to emotion norms is greater in more individualist cultures. This investigation examined a consequence of this to the acquisition of emotion norms. If immigrants from more individualist
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Individual differences in emotion prediction and implications for social success. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-20 Elyssa M Barrick,Mark A Thornton,Zidong Zhao,Diana I Tamir
The social world requires people to predict others' thoughts, feelings, and actions. People who successfully predict others' emotions experience significant social advantages. What makes a person good at predicting emotions? To predict others' future emotional states, a person must know how one emotion transitions to the next. People learn how emotions transition from at least two sources: (a) internal
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Examining demand effects on direct and indirect affect measures in affect induction procedures. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-20 Mario Wenzel,Matthias Winkler,Jonathan Lasi,Zarah Rowland
Affect induction procedures are effectively implemented in psychological research. However, because participants are typically asked to self-report their affect immediately after viewing emotional stimuli, the goal of eliciting affect is relatively easy for participants to infer, making their responses susceptible to demand effects. To examine this demand effect, research has used an unrelated-studies
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Interpersonal emotion regulation as a source of positive relationship perceptions: The role of emotion regulation dependence. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-20 Edward P Lemay,Nadya Teneva,Zizhong Xiao
The current research unveils a novel mechanism through which interpersonal emotion regulation enhances romantic relationship quality and affective experience. Across three studies, we tested the hypothesis that depending on interactions with a romantic partner for emotion regulation (emotion regulation dependence [ERD]) motivates people to see their partner as more supportive and responsive, and evaluate
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The dynamics of interpersonal emotion regulation: How sharers elicit desired (but not necessarily helpful) support. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-17 Lisanne S Pauw,Disa A Sauter,Gerben A Van Kleef,Laura Sels,Agneta H Fischer
When in distress, people often seek help in regulating their emotions by sharing them with others. Paradoxically, although people perceive such social sharing as beneficial, it often fails to promote emotional recovery. This may be explained by people seeking-and eliciting-emotional support, which offers only momentary relief. We hypothesized that (1) the type of support sharers seek shapes corresponding
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The role of executive function in cognitive reappraisal: A meta-analytic review. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-13 Wei Xing Toh,Jun Sheng Keh,James J Gross,Laura L Carstensen
Cognitive reappraisal refers to the reinterpretation of a situation to alter its emotional meaning. Theoretically, executive functions (EFs), such as inhibition, updating, and shifting, are core elements of reappraisal processes. However, empirical studies have yielded inconsistent evidence as to whether and to what extent EFs are associated with reappraisal. To address this issue, we conducted a meta-analysis
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Couple conflict observed: Emotions in Belgium and Japan. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-13 Anna Schouten,Michael Boiger,Atsuhiko Uchida,Alice Verstaen,Camille Paillé,Yukiko Uchida,Batja Mesquita
In the present study, we examined cultural variation in couples' emotions during disagreement. We coded the emotions of 58 Belgian and 80 Japanese couples using the Specific Affect Coding System. We observed more anger and domineering, but less fear/tension and other-validation in Belgian than in Japanese couples. Moreover, in Japanese couples, culturally typical emotions were associated with higher
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Go with your gut! The beneficial mood effects of intuitive decisions. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-13 Carina Remmers,Sascha Topolinski,Christine Knaevelsrud,Thea Zander-Schellenberg,Sebastian Unger,Albert Anoschin,Johannes Zimmermann
People make countless decisions every day. We explored the self-regulatory function of decisions and assumed that the very act of making a decision in everyday life enhances people's mood. We expected that this decision-related mood change would be more pronounced for intuitive decisions than for analytical ones. The ease of making a decision and the feeling of rightness were expected to mediate the
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Emotional scenes as context in emotional expression recognition: The role of emotion or valence match. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-13 Lachlan Bryce,Georgia Mika,Belinda M Craig,Ursula Hess,Ottmar V Lipp
Emotion recognition is influenced by contextual information such as social category cues or background scenes. However, past studies yielded mixed findings regarding whether broad valence or specific emotion matches drive context effects and how multiple sources of contextual information may influence emotion recognition. To address these questions, participants were asked to categorize expressions
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The face pareidolia illusion drives a happy face advantage that is dependent on perceived gender. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Ottmar V Lipp,Jessica Taubert
The happy face advantage, the faster recognition of happy than of negative, angry or fearful, emotional expressions, has been reliably found and is modulated by social category cues, such as perceived gender, that is, is larger on female than on male faces. In this study, we tested whether this pattern of results is unique to human faces by investigating whether ambient examples of face pareidolia
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Differentiating anticipated and anticipatory emotions and their sensitivity to depressive symptoms. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 J Helgi Clayton McClure,Kevin J Riggs,Stephen A Dewhurst,Rachel J Anderson
Anticipated emotions are the feelings one expects if a hypothetical future event were to occur, whereas anticipatory emotions are those one experiences right now while imagining the event. There has been little direct comparison of these two forms of future-oriented emotion, and authors have typically focused on positive emotions (e.g., pleasure). Besides, their sensitivity to depressive symptoms-which
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Emotional clarity in daily life is associated with reduced indecisiveness and greater goal pursuit. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Nathaniel S Eckland,Rebecca L Feldman,Haijing Wu Hallenbeck,Renee J Thompson
Affect-as-information theory posits that understanding of one's emotions (i.e., emotional clarity) can be leveraged to make decisions and attain goals. Furthermore, recent work has emphasized the dynamic nature of emotional clarity and its fluctuations in daily life. Therefore, we sought to test how momentary emotional clarity, experienced in everyday life, would be associated with levels of indecisiveness
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Holiday or hell? Emotion regulation and memory of depressive symptoms during lockdown. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Valerie T Chang,Nickola C Overall
The ongoing repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic provide an unparalleled context to examine how distressing events are remembered. Prior theory and research suggest that (a) distress during lockdowns may fade and be remembered as less distressing, or remain salient and be remembered as more distressing, than initially experienced and (b) emotional suppression and cognitive reappraisal may predict
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Types of social media use are differentially associated with trait and momentary affect. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Alison B Tuck,Renee J Thompson
Research on how social media use (SMU) is associated with emotion is equivocal, possibly because the factor structure of SMU had not been adequately identified. Prior research has found support for four SMU types: belief-based (e.g., sharing opinions), comparison-based (e.g., body comparison), image-based (e.g., monitoring likes), and consumption-based (e.g., watching videos). In this study, we examined
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Longitudinal associations between changes in peer victimization and emotion dysregulation across adolescence. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Toria Herd,Celina Meyer,Brooks Casas,Jungmeen Kim-Spoon
Emotion dysregulation emerges from an interaction between individual factors and environmental factors. Changes in biological, cognitive, and social systems that characterize adolescence create a complex array of environmental factors contributing to emotion dysregulation during this developmental period. In particular, peer victimization (PV) has long-term consequences for emotion dysregulation. Yet
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The development of a novel scale to assess intra- and interpersonal emotion regulation strategies: The Emotion Regulation Strategy Scale (ERSS). Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Elizabeth T Kneeland,Aleena Hay,Joshua Curtiss,Anah Hennessey,W Michael Vanderlind,Jutta Joormann,Margaret S Clark
Existing emotion regulation research focuses on how individuals use different strategies to manage their own emotions-also called intra-personal emotion regulation. However, people often leverage connections with others to regulate their own emotions-interpersonal emotion regulation. The goal of the present studies was to develop a comprehensive and efficient scale-the Emotion Regulation Strategies
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Age-related changes of interoceptive brain networks: Implications for interoception and alexithymia. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Olga R Dobrushina,Larisa A Dobrynina,Galina A Arina,Ekaterina V Pechenkova,Elena I Kremneva,Mariia V Gubanova,Evgenia S Novikova,Daria A Kazantseva,Anastasia D Suslina,Marina V Krotenkova
Aging is known to be associated with a decline in interoceptive abilities and changes in emotional processing, including alexithymia. As the brain areas supporting interoceptive awareness participate in the perception of emotion, we suggested that interoceptive decline and alexithymia in older adults may share common neural ground. To test this hypothesis, we administered functional magnetic resonance
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Facing discomfort: Avoided negative affect shapes the acknowledgment of systemic racism. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Kara Murray,Birgit Koopmann-Holm
Why can some Americans acknowledge the deeply rooted racism in the United States while others cannot? Past research suggests that the more people want to avoid feeling negative ("avoided negative affect; ANA"), the less likely they focus on and even perceive someone's suffering. Because acknowledging racism is one specific instance of noticing and acknowledging that people are suffering, the present
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Ensemble perception of emotion: Incidental effects of social identity. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Spencer Dobbs,Max Weisbuch
Research in vision science suggests that people possess a perceptual mechanism-ensemble perception-which enables them to rapidly identify the characteristics of groups (e.g., emotion, sex-ratio, race-ratio). This work examined whether ensemble perceptions of groups are driven by the characteristics of group members whose behavior is most likely to impact the perceiver. Specifically, we predicted that
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Correction to "Emotional context and predictability in naturalistic reading aloud" by Alexander and Buzzell (2023). Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-01
Reports an error in "Emotional context and predictability in naturalistic reading aloud" by Jessica M. Alexander and George A. Buzzell (Emotion, Advanced Online Publication, Sep 14, 2023, np). In the article (https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001298), Table 1 as originally reported contained an error with respect to participant demographics. Specifically, participants who had selected multiple categories
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Multidimensional signal detection modeling reveals Gestalt-like perceptual integration of face emotion and identity. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 S Sanaz Hosseini,Fabian A Soto
Numerous studies have tested the hypothesis that facial identity and emotional expression are independently processed, but a solid conclusion has been difficult to reach, with the literature showing contradictory results. We argue that this is partly due to different researchers using different definitions of perceptual integration and independence, usually vague and/or simply operational, and also
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Is it better to be happy or right? Examining the relative role of the pragmatic and epistemic imperatives in momentary affective evaluations. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Inon Raz,Niv Reggev,Michael Gilead
According to research highlighting the importance of predictions, the confirmation of expectations may be a positively-laden experience. A strong test of this principle is the case of the "doomsayer's delight": the possibility that belief confirmation can be rewarding even when negative expectations are realized. In order to investigate this idea, we conducted two high-powered experiments examining
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Negative (but not positive) affective episodic future thinking enhances proactive behavior in 5-year-old children. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Felix Schreiber,Silvia Schneider,Albert Newen,Babett Voigt
Envisioning the future and how you may feel (affective episodic future thinking [EFT]) helps adults to act in favor for their future self, according to manifold experiments. The current study tested whether and how affective EFT also helps children to behave more proactively, that is, to self-initially prepare for an upcoming event. Five-year-old (N = 90) children (data collected from 2021 to 2022)
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Is all anger created equal? A meta-analytic assessment of anger elicitation in persuasion research. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Stefanie Z Demetriades,Callie S Kalny,Monique M Turner,Nathan Walter
Although veritable libraries have been written about anger, the practical and theoretical understanding of its effects has been somewhat hampered by the difficulty of experimentally manipulating this emotion. Thus, key questions related to methodological precision and theoretical clarity remain, specifically with regard to whether and how anger induction techniques may interact with various moderators
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Inhibiting orofacial mimicry affects authenticity perception in vocal emotions. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Ricardo F Vilaverde,Oleksandr V Horchak,Ana P Pinheiro,Sophie K Scott,Sebastian Korb,César F Lima
Although emotional mimicry is ubiquitous in social interactions, its mechanisms and roles remain disputed. A prevalent view is that imitating others' expressions facilitates emotional understanding, but the evidence is mixed and almost entirely based on facial emotions. In a preregistered study, we asked whether inhibiting orofacial mimicry affects authenticity perception in vocal emotions. Participants
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People in Ecuador and the United States conceptualize compassion differently: The role of avoided negative affect. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Sofía Sandoval Larco,María Gabriela Romo,María Sol Garcés,Birgit Koopmann-Holm
Even people from frequently studied cultural contexts differ in how they conceptualize compassion, partly because of differences in how much they want to avoid feeling negative. To broaden this past work, we include participants from an understudied cultural context and start to examine the process through which culture shapes compassion. Based on ethnographic and empirical studies that include Ecuadorians
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Emotional content reduces the cognitive effort invested in processing the credibility of social (mis)information. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Julia Baum,Romy Frömer,Rasha Abdel Rahman
Emotionality likely is a key factor affecting our susceptibility to misinformation. However, the mechanisms underlying this observation are not well understood. Specifically, when people derive social information from person-related news, they rely predominantly on emotional content, apparently unperturbed by the credibility of the source. To help explain this bias, we here contrast two hypotheses
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Daily stress encounters: Positive emotion upregulation and depressive symptoms. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Desirée Colombo,Rosa María Baños,Lorena Desdentado,Annet Kleiboer,Jean-Baptiste Pavani,Maja Wrzesien,Juana María Bretón López
When it comes to coping with stress, positive emotion upregulation is of utmost importance. Positive emotions have been suggested to be an important resource during stressful times since people try to create and upregulate pleasant emotional states when feeling stressed. Accordingly, individual differences in the ability to generate and savor positive emotional states could also affect one's skills
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An experimental paradigm for triggering a depressive syndrome. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Maxwell Altman,Lily W Martin,Candice Chiu,Stefanie B Northover,Siqi Huang,Sarah Goegan,Marta M Maslej,Steven D Hollon,Benoit H Mulsant,Paul W Andrews
Research investigating whether depression is an adaptation or a disorder has been hindered by the lack of an experimental paradigm that can test causal relationships. Moreover, studies attempting to induce the syndrome often fail to capture the suite of feelings, thoughts, and behaviors that characterize depression. An experimental paradigm for triggering depressive symptoms can improve our etiological
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Social class, schadenfreude, and children's prosocial behavior in moral contexts. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Zuo-Jun Wang,Ya-Meng Wang,Ying Wei,Ting-Ting Zhang,Fei Wang,Kai Qin Chan
Previous research has shown mixed results regarding the relationship between social class and children's prosocial behavior. The current study aims to further our understanding of these findings by exploring the relationship between social class and children's prosocial behavior in a moral context. Study 1 (N = 833) found that when a target child pursued a morally negative goal and subsequently experienced
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The relative difficulty of resolving motivational conflicts is affective context-dependent. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Maya Enisman,Tali Kleiman
According to Lewin's seminal motivational theory, conflicts between undesirable alternatives (avoidance-avoidance conflicts) are more difficult to resolve than conflicts between desirable alternatives (approach-approach conflicts). This difference in the difficulty of resolving approach-approach and avoidance-avoidance conflicts was suggested as a general law for human behavior, and subsequent research
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Supporting the willingness to express emotions in relationships: The role of perceived empathic effort and interpersonal accuracy. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Jenny Diem Van Le,Harry T Reis
Expressing emotions with others can be difficult as it puts individuals in a position of potential vulnerability. Research suggests that people are willing to express their emotions with communal partners; however, few studies have examined processes that might explain how this occurs. Using a cross-sectional design, we examined interpersonal accuracy and empathic effort as factors that support the
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Autistic traits are associated with differences in the perception of genuineness and approachability in emotional facial expressions, independently of alexithymia. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Ellen Bothe,Linda Jeffery,Amy Dawel,Bronte Donatti-Liddelow,Romina Palermo
People with autism and higher levels of autistic traits often have difficulty interpreting facial emotion. Research has commonly investigated the association between autistic traits and expression labeling ability. Here, we investigated the association between two relatively understudied abilities, namely, judging whether expressions reflect genuine emotion, and using expressions to make social approach
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Stuck with the foot on the pedal: Depression and motivated emotion regulation in daily life. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Danfei Hu,Shir Mizrahi Lakan,Elise K Kalokerinos,Maya Tamir
According to cybernetic approaches, emotion regulation is motivated by the desire to reduce discrepancies between experienced and desired emotions. Yet, this assumption has rarely been tested directly in healthy or unhealthy populations. In two ecological momentary assessment studies, we monitored motivated emotion regulation in daily life in participants who varied in the severity of their depressive
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A theory-informed emotion regulation variability index: Bray-Curtis dissimilarity. Emotion (IF 3.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Tak Tsun Lo,Caspar J Van Lissa,Maaike Verhagen,Katie Hoemann,Yasemin Erbaş,Dominique F Maciejewski
Emotion regulation (ER) variability refers to how individuals vary their use of ER strategies across time. It helps individuals to meet contextual needs, underscoring its importance in well-being. The theoretical foundation of ER variability recognizes two constituent processes: strategy switching (e.g., moving from distraction to social sharing) and endorsement change (e.g., decreasing the intensity