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On the social signal function of emotional crying: Broadening the perspective to social interactions in daily life. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Michael Barthelmäs,Dominik Stöckle,Johannes Keller
Emotional crying is a potent signal that can influence how social interactions unfold. Although the social signal function of crying has been mostly studied in experimental approaches involving hypothetical scenarios with strangers as targets, we propose that daily social interactions should be considered to address aspects of external validity. We conducted three retrospective studies (total N = 2
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Touch me or touch me not: Emotion regulation by affective touch in human adults. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Valentina Silvestri,Michelle Giraud,Viola Macchi Cassia,Elena Nava
In mammals, including humans, affective touch (AT) supports the establishment and maintenance of social connections and mitigates the effects of social conflict and ostracism. AT is used to describe slowly moving, low-forced mechanical stimulation that is frequently perceived as pleasant. In humans, AT has been addressed particularly for its role in promoting bonding and emotional regulation during
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Emotional attention: Time course and effects of agonistic and antagonistic overlay of intrinsic and goal relevances. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Hippolyte Fournier,Olivier Koenig
Emotional attention can be explained within a goal-directed theory framework according to which attention is captured by the goal relevance of stimuli, that is, their conduciveness nature to a momentarily important goal. However, such an explanation does not consider the attentional impact of intrinsic relevance of stimuli, that is, their general pleasantness. This problem could be resolved by appraisal
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The role of trait reappraisal in response to emotional ambiguity: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Nicholas R Harp,James J Gross,Andero Uusberg,Maital Neta
Individuals exhibit a systematic valence bias-a specific form of interpretation bias-in response to emotional ambiguity. Accumulating evidence suggests most people initially respond to emotional ambiguity negatively and differ only in subsequent responses. We hypothesized that trait-level cognitive reappraisal-an emotion regulation strategy involving the reinterpretation of affective meaning of stimuli-might
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What a relief! The pleasure of threat avoidance. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Lu Leng,Tom Beckers,Bram Vervliet
Relief, a pleasurable experience, is often triggered by successful threat avoidance. Although relief is regarded as the positive reinforcer for avoidance behavior, its rewarding nature remains to be demonstrated. In our study, 50 participants responded to cues associated with different magnitudes of monetary values or electrical stimuli. Successful responses to those cues resulted in monetary gains
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Examining situational differences in momentary emotion differentiation and emotional clarity in everyday life. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Tabea Springstein,Renee J Thompson,Tammy English
People experience momentary fluctuations in how much they differentiate between emotions and how clear they are about what they are feeling. To better understand situational predictors of shifts in emotion differentiation and emotional clarity, we investigated whether individuals are more differentiated and clearer about their emotions in social situations (vs. alone) given that emotions fulfill important
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The effect of reward prediction errors on subjective affect depends on outcome valence and decision context. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Laura Forbes,Daniel Bennett
The valence of an individual's emotional response to an event is often thought to depend on their prior expectations for the event: better-than-expected outcomes produce positive affect and worse-than-expected outcomes produce negative affect. In recent years, this hypothesis has been instantiated within influential computational models of subjective affect that assume the valence of affect is driven
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Social dynamics and affect: Investigating within-person associations in daily life using experience sampling and mobile sensing. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Michael D Krämer,Yannick Roos,Ramona Schoedel,Cornelia Wrzus,David Richter
Social interactions are crucial to affective well-being. Still, people vary interindividually and intraindividually in their social needs. Social need regulation theories state that mismatches between momentary social desire and actual social contact result in lowered affect, yet empirical knowledge about this dynamic regulation is limited. In a gender- and age-heterogenous sample, German-speaking
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Perceived responses, capitalization, and daily gratitude: Do age and closeness matter? Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Alexandra M Gray,Claire M Growney,Tammy English
Successful capitalization and feelings of gratitude are both dependent upon perceived responsiveness of a social partner, but they are understudied in combination and have yet to be studied jointly in a daily context. Taking a new approach to studying capitalization, the current study examines the effect of daily capitalization on momentary gratitude and investigates the role of the capitalizer's typical
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Integrating mindfulness into the extended process model of emotion regulation: The dual-mode model of mindful emotion regulation. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Ian M Raugh,Gregory P Strauss
Extensive research has been conducted regarding how people manage their emotions. Within this research, there has been growing attention toward the role of mindfulness in emotion regulation. While prior reviews have discussed mindfulness in the context of emotion regulation, they have not provided a thorough integration using the prevailing models of emotion regulation or mindfulness. The present review
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Affective forecasting as an adaptive learning process. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Keisuke Takano,Thomas Ehring
Theories propose that human affective forecasting is an adaptive learning process guided by prediction errors. Although this learning process can be formally described by a Kalman filter, human forecasts are suggested to be biased and computationally suboptimal. We compared the accuracy of human affective forecasts to statistical forecasts made using a Kalman filter and explored the differences between
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Evaluating dynamics in affect structure with latent Markov factor analysis. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Leonie V D E Vogelsmeier,Leonie Cloos,Peter Kuppens,Eva Ceulemans
In intensive longitudinal research, researchers typically consider the structure of affect to be stable across individuals and contexts. Based on an assumed theoretical structure (e.g., one bipolar or two separate positive and negative affect constructs), researchers create affect scores from items (e.g., sum or factor scores) and use them to examine the dynamics therein. However, researchers usually
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Emotionally expressive interdependence in Latin America: Triangulating through a comparison of three cultural zones. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Cristina E Salvador,Sandra Idrovo Carlier,Keiko Ishii,Carolina Torres Castillo,Kevin Nanakdewa,Alvaro San Martin,Krishna Savani,Shinobu Kitayama
Evidence suggests that Latin Americans display elevated levels of emotional expressivity and positivity. Here, we tested whether Latin Americans possess a unique form of interdependence called expressive interdependence, characterized by the open expression of positive emotions related to social engagement (e.g., feelings of closeness to others). In Study 1, we compared Latin Americans from Chile and
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Emotion language use in narratives of the 9/11 attacks predicts long-term memory. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 M Alexandra Kredlow,Javiera P Oyarzún,Haoxue Fan,Robert Meksin,William Hirst,Elizabeth A Phelps
Despite considerable cognitive neuroscience research demonstrating that emotions can influence the encoding and consolidation of memory, research has failed to demonstrate a relationship between self-reported ratings of emotions collected soon after a traumatic event and memory for the event over time. This secondary analysis of data from a multisite longitudinal study of memories of the September
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Emotionally positive self-directed speech widens the cone of gaze. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Tingji Chen,Jari K Hietanen
The perception of another individual's gaze direction is not a low-level, stimulus-driven visual process but a higher-level process that can be top-down modulated, for example, by emotion and theory of mind. The present study investigated the influence of directed (self vs. other) and emotional (positive vs. negative) speech on judging whether another individual's gaze or an arrow is directed toward
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Feelings in words: Emotion word use and cardiovascular reactivity in marital interactions. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Tabea Meier,Jacquelyn E Stephens,Claudia M Haase
Putting feelings into words is often thought to be beneficial. Few studies, however, have examined associations between natural emotion word use and cardiovascular reactivity. This laboratory-based study examined emotion word use (i.e., from computerized text analysis) and cardiovascular reactivity (i.e., interbeat interval changes from baseline) across two interaction contexts (i.e., conflict and
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From memory to motivation: Probing the relationship between episodic simulation, empathy, and helping intentions. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Amy J P Gregory,Jennifer A Bartz,Brendan Bo O'Connor,Signy Sheldon
Research has documented a strong link between constructing episodic simulations-vivid imaginations of specific events-and empathy. To date, most studies have used episodic simulations of helping someone to facilitate affective empathy and promote helping intentions, but have not studied how episodic simulations of another's distressing situation affect empathy. Moreover, affective empathy encompasses
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What makes a word a good representative of the category of "emotion"? The role of feelings and interoception. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Pilar Ferré,Marc Guasch,Hans Stadthagen-González,José Antonio Hinojosa,Isabel Fraga,Javier Marín,Miguel Ángel Pérez-Sánchez
The words we use to describe emotions vary in terms of prototypicality; that is, some of these words may be more representative of the semantic category of emotion than others (e.g., anger refers more clearly to an emotion than boredom). Based on a multicomponential conception of emotions, the aim of the present study was to examine the contribution of several variables to emotion prototypicality.
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Physiological arousal underlies preferential access to visual awareness of fear-conditioned (and possibly disgust-conditioned) stimuli. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Piotr Litwin,Paweł Motyka,Surya Gayet
Fear and disgust have been associated with opposite influences on visual processing, even though both constitute negative emotions that motivate avoidance behavior and entail increased arousal. In the current study, we hypothesized that (a) homeostatic relevance modulates early stages of visual processing, (b) through widespread physiological responses, and that (c) the direction of these modulations
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Negative emotions disrupt intentional synchronization during group sensorimotor interaction. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Andrii Smykovskyi,Stefan Janaqi,Simon Pla,Pierre Jean,Marta M N Bieńkiewicz,Benoît G Bardy
Emotions play a fundamental role in human interactions and trigger responses in physiological, psychological, and behavioral modalities. Interpersonal coordination often entails attunement between individuals in various modalities. Previous research has elucidated the mechanisms of interpersonal synchronization and the emotions aroused by joint action: cardiac activity aligns in disputing marital couples
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Emotional context and predictability in naturalistic reading aloud. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Jessica M Alexander,George A Buzzell
A robust experimental literature has found that word frequency and lexical valence contribute to visual word processing at the level of the individual word. Extensions of this literature to simplified sentences have essentially corroborated single-word findings, albeit with important influences of the unfolding discourse context, which may strengthen or attenuate single-word effects. This study sought
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Elasticity of emotions to multiple interpersonal transgressions. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Evan Polman,Taly Reich,Sam J Maglio
After an interpersonal mishap-like blowing off plans with a friend, forgetting a spouse's birthday, or falling behind on a group project-wrongdoers typically feel guilty for their misbehavior, and victims feel angry. These emotions are believed to possess reparative functions; their expression prevents future mistakes from reiterating. However, little research has examined people's emotional reactions
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Mother-child dyadic responses to children facing challenges: An examination across ethnicities. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Phoebe T Pham,Zhaoying Chen,Sameen Boparai,Kajung Hong,Lucas Sohn,Patricia A Smiley,Jessica L Borelli
The current study (a) examined ethnic differences in mothers' and children's responses to children's performance in a challenging task, (b) tested the associations among children's desire for assistance, maternal control, and children's emotional responses to the challenge, and (c) explored whether these associations held across three ethnicities-Asian Americans (AA), Latinx Americans (LA), and European
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Empathic concern motivates willingness to help in the absence of interdependence. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Diego Guevara Beltran,Michelle N Shiota,Athena Aktipis
Previous research suggests that empathic concern selectively promotes motivation to help those with whom we typically have interdependent relationships, such as friends or siblings, rather than strangers or acquaintances. In a sample of U.S. participants (collected between 2018 and 2020), our studies not only confirmed the finding that empathic concern is directed somewhat more strongly toward interdependent
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How do people use reappraisal? An investigation of selection frequency and affective outcomes of reappraisal tactics. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Valeriia V Vlasenko,Ilana Hayutin,Chelsey Pan,Joseph Michael Vardakis,Christian E Waugh,Roee Admon,Kateri McRae
Although the effects of different emotion regulation strategies are well-documented, most studies to date have focused on the selection and implementation of broad strategies, while overlooking the selection and implementation of specific tactics to enact those strategies. The present research investigated the strategy of cognitive reappraisal and the differences in selection frequency and affective
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You changed my mind: Immediate and enduring impacts of social emotion regulation. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Razia S Sahi,Elizabeth M Gaines,Siyan G Nussbaum,Daniel Lee,Matthew D Lieberman,Naomi I Eisenberger,Jennifer A Silvers
As social creatures, our relationships with other people have tremendous downstream impacts on health and well-being. However, we still know surprisingly little about how our social interactions regulate how we think and feel through life's challenges. Getting help from other people to change how one thinks about emotional events-known as "social reappraisal"-can be more effective in downregulating
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Sensitivity to basic emotional expressions and the emotion perception space in the absence of facial mimicry: The case of individuals with congenital facial palsy. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Arianna Schiano Lomoriello,Giulio Caperna,Arturo Carta,Elisa De Stefani,Pier Francesco Ferrari,Paola Sessa
According to sensorimotor simulation models, recognition of another person's emotion is achieved by recreating the motor production of the perceived facial expression in oneself. Therefore, congenital difficulties in the production of facial expressions may affect emotion processing. The present study assessed a sample (N = 11) of Moebius syndrome (MBS) patients and a matched control group (N = 33)
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Contextual variations in emotion polyregulation: How do regulatory goals shape the use and success of emotion regulation strategies in everyday life? Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Steffen Hartmann,Luise Pruessner,Sven Barnow
Emotion regulation strategies are frequently combined within one emotional episode, a phenomenon labeled emotion polyregulation. Nevertheless, there is a scarcity of studies examining which regulatory strategies are commonly combined across different contexts and how effective these combinations are in everyday life. Targeting this research gap, the present ecological momentary assessment study modeled
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The interplay between music engagement and affect: A random-intercept cross-lagged panel analysis. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Friederike Koehler,Sarah K Schäfer,Klaus Lieb,Michèle Wessa
Engagement with music has the capacity to influence and be influenced by affective experiences. Although cross-sectional and experimental research provides evidence that music engagement is related to higher positive and lower negative affect, few studies have investigated the bidirectional nature of this relationship over time. The present longitudinal study, therefore, examined the interplay between
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Shining our humanity: The benefits of awe on self-humanity. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Lei Cheng,Xijing Wang
Attributing humanness to oneself (i.e., self-humanity) can be malleable and can lead to various crucial outcomes. Researchers have not investigated whether and how awe as a self-related emotion affects people's perception of their own humanness. We proposed two competing hypotheses: awe impairs self-humanity via self-smallness, and awe promotes self-humanity via authentic-self pursuit. Across seven
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Working life as a double-edged sword: Opposing changes in subjective well-being surrounding the transition to work and retirement. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Eva Asselmann,Jule Specht
The work role is crucial for one's identity and subjective well-being. From a role enhancement perspective, subjective well-being might increase after the transition to work and decrease after retirement. From a role strain perspective, the opposite might be true. Thus, entering and leaving working life might have benefits and costs, leading to improvements in some but impairments in other well-being
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Pathogens or promiscuity? Testing two accounts of the relation between disgust sensitivity and binding moral values. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Michael R Donner,Fabrício H Chagas-Bastos,Richard W Jeremiah,Simon M Laham
A recurrent observation in the field of moral psychology is that disgust sensitivity is associated with greater moralization of the binding (and particularly sanctity) moral domains. It is generally assumed that these effects are the result of disgust's role as an emotion that motivates pathogen avoidance (i.e., the pathogen avoidance account), yet alternative disgust-based accounts of moralization
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Does interpersonal emotion regulation effort pay off? Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Anh Tran,Katharine H Greenaway,Joanne Kostopoulos,Maya Tamir,Tony Gutentag,Elise K Kalokerinos
Interpersonal emotion regulation shapes people's emotional and relational experiences. Yet, researchers know little about the regulation processes that influence these outcomes. Recent works in the intrapersonal emotion regulation space suggest that motivational strength, or effort, people invest in regulation might be the answer. We applied this motivated approach for the first time in the interpersonal
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Valence explains how and why positive affects and negative affects correlate: A conceptual replication and extension of Diener et al.'s (1995) the personality structure of affect. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Jason W Payne,Ulrich Schimmack
Diener et al. (1995) used a multimethod approach to test a hierarchical model of trait affect. The model suggests that specific trait affects are related to each other by two, distinct, but negatively correlated factors. We report the results of a conceptual replication study that addressed several limitations of Diener et al.'s (1995) study. We used three ethnically diverse samples which included
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Instructional learning of threat-related attentional capture is modulated by state anxiety. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Laurent Grégoire,Brian A Anderson
The present study aimed to determine whether persistent threat-related attentional capture can result from instructional learning, when participants acquire knowledge of the aversive qualities of a stimulus through verbal instruction. Fifty-four nonclinical adults first performed a visual search task in which a green or red circle was presented as a target. They were instructed that one of these two
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Emotional experiences and psychological well-being in 51 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Rui Sun,Alisa Balabanova,Claude Julien Bajada,Yang Liu,Mariia Kriuchok,Silja-Riin Voolma,Mirna Đurić,Claude-Hélène Mayer,Maria Constantinou,Mariam Chichua,Chengcheng Li,Ashley Foster-Estwick,Kurt Borg,Carin Hill,Rishabh Kaushal,Ketaki Diwan,Valeria Vitale,Tiarah Engels,Rabiah Aminudin,Irina Ursu,Tengku Nila Fadhlia,Yi-Jung Wu,Lusanda Sekaja,Milad Hadchity,Anita Deak,Shahira Sharaf,Pau Figueras,Anthony
The COVID-19 pandemic presents challenges to psychological well-being, but how can we predict when people suffer or cope during sustained stress? Here, we test the prediction that specific types of momentary emotional experiences are differently linked to psychological well-being during the pandemic. Study 1 used survey data collected from 24,221 participants in 51 countries during the COVID-19 outbreak
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Gratitude improves parents' well-being and family functioning. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 S Katherine Nelson-Coffey,John K Coffey
Parents are inundated with suggestions to improve their relationships with their children and promote child development, but improving caregiver well-being is often overlooked despite being considered one of the most important methods to promote healthy child development. Drawing on the robust literature on the emotional and relationship benefits of gratitude, we present two studies demonstrating the
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The importance of differentiating between cold and hot response inhibition in the parenting context, when examining associations with harsh parenting. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Sofie Rousseau,Tahl I Frenkel
Harsh parenting (HP) entails physical and verbal expressions of anger and aggression toward children, usually observed as response to child negative emotionality. Abundant previous research has indicated the detrimental negative impacts of HP on children's developing behavioral, cognitive social, and emotional capacities, highlighting the need for examining its determinants. Among other determinants
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Fear-related psychophysiological patterns are situation and individual dependent: A Bayesian model comparison approach. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Kieran McVeigh,Ian R Kleckner,Karen S Quigley,Ajay B Satpute
Is there a universal mapping of physiology to emotion, or do these mappings vary substantially by person or situation? Psychologists, philosophers, and neuroscientists have debated this question for decades. Most previous studies have focused on differentiating emotions on the basis of accompanying autonomic responses using analytical approaches that often assume within-category homogeneity. In the
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See no evil: Attentional bias toward threat is diminished in aged monkeys. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Anthony C Santistevan,Olivia Fiske,Gilda Moadab,Joey A Charbonneau,Derek M Isaacowitz,Eliza Bliss-Moreau
Prior evidence demonstrates that relative to younger adults, older human adults exhibit attentional biases toward positive and/or away from negative socioaffective stimuli (i.e., the age-related positivity effect). Whether or not the effect is phylogenetically conserved is currently unknown and its biopsychosocial origins are debated. To address this gap, we evaluated how visual processing of socioaffective
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The influence of interactions with pet dogs on psychological distress. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Angela Matijczak,Morgan S Yates,Molly C Ruiz,Laurie R Santos,Alan E Kazdin,Hannah Raila
Many people, including nearly half of American households, own a pet dog. Previous work has found that therapy dog interactions reduce distress, but little work to date has empirically established the mood-enhancing effects of interaction with one's own pet dog. In this study, dog owners (N = 73; 86.3% female, 13.7% male; age 25-77 years) underwent a stress-inducing task followed by random assignment
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How can I help?: Specific strategies used in interpersonal emotion regulation in a relationship context. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Yan Ruan,Jenny Diem Van Le,Harry T Reis
Most emotion regulation research investigates how individuals manage their own emotions but in everyday life, emotion regulation often takes place in an interpersonal context-that is, through the intervention of others, especially close relationship partners. In this manuscript, we describe a 2-week daily diary study of 197 couples, in which we examined the nature and effectiveness of partners' attempts
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Genetic algorithms reveal identity independent representation of emotional expressions. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Thomas Murray,Nicola Binetti,Christina Carlisi,Vinay Namboodiri,Darren Cosker,Essi Viding,Isabelle Mareschal
People readily and automatically process facial emotion and identity, and it has been reported that these cues are processed both dependently and independently. However, this question of identity independent encoding of emotions has only been examined using posed, often exaggerated expressions of emotion, that do not account for the substantial individual differences in emotion recognition. In this
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Facial emotion recognition in refugee children with a history of war trauma. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Julia Michalek,Matteo Lisi,Rana Dajani,Kristin Hadfield,Isabelle Mareschal
Over 36 million children are currently displaced due to war, yet we know little about how these experiences of war and displacement affect their socioemotional development-notably how they perceive facial expressions. Across three different experiments, we investigated the effects of war trauma exposure on facial emotion recognition in Syrian refugee (n = 130, Mage = 9.3 years, 63 female) and Jordanian
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Three facets of emotion regulation in old and very old age: Strategy use, effectiveness, and variability. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Ute Kunzmann,Steffen Nestler,Anna J Lücke,Martin Katzorreck,Christiane A Hoppmann,Hans-Werner Wahl,Oliver Schilling,Denis Gerstorf
The ability to regulate emotions in stressful situations is an important building block for high well-being across the lifespan. Yet, very little is known about how old and very old adults regulate their emotions. In this study, 123 young old adults (Mage = 67.18, SD = 0.94) and 47 very old adults (Mage = 86.70, SD = 1.46) were prompted 6 times a day for 7 consecutive days to report both their stressors
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How and when awe improves meaning in life: The role of authentic-self pursuit and trait authenticity. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Wenying Yuan,Yuhui Du,Tonglin Jiang
Awe is theoretically proposed as a meaning-making emotion. However, empirical evidence has shown that awe has mixed effects on meaning in life. The explanations for such complicated results have been limited. To fill this gap, in this research, we aimed to clarify how and when awe contributes to meaning in life. In six studies (N = 1,115), we examined the indirect effect of awe on meaning in life through
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The influence of sleep on subjective well-being: An experience sampling study. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Anita Lenneis,Ahuti Das-Friebel,Nicole K Y Tang,Adam N Sanborn,Sakari Lemola,Henrik Singmann,Dieter Wolke,Adrian von Mühlenen,Anu Realo
Previous research has associated sleep with subjective well-being (SWB), but less is known about the underlying within-person processes. In the current study, we investigated how self-reported and actigraphy-measured sleep parameters (sleep onset latency, sleep duration, sleep satisfaction, social jetlag, and sleep efficiency) influence SWB (positive affect [PA], negative affect [NA], and life satisfaction
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Improvements in mindfulness, interoceptive and emotional awareness, emotion regulation, and interpersonal emotion management following completion of an online emotional skills training program. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Ryan Smith,Michelle R Persich,Anne E Chuning,Sara Cloonan,Rebecca Woods-Lubert,Jeff Skalamera,Sarah M Berryhill,Karen L Weihs,Richard D Lane,John J B Allen,Natalie S Dailey,Anna Alkozei,John R Vanuk,William D S Killgore
Socioemotional skills, such as the ability to recognize, understand, and regulate the emotions of self and others, are associated with both physical and emotional health. The present study tested the effectiveness of a recently validated online training program for increasing these emotional skills in adults. In this study, 448 participants (323 female) were randomly assigned to complete this training
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Investigating psychiatric symptoms as predictors of the reasons people do not regulate their emotions in daily life. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Katharine E Daniel,Matthew W Southward,Bethany A Teachman
Investigations into emotion dysregulation predominantly focus on ineffective strategy selection and implementation. However, little empirical attention has been given to the possibility that failure to engage in emotion regulation (ER) may also indicate emotion dysregulation, especially when the reason for not regulating suggests skill or motivational deficits. We randomly sampled ER strategy use up
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Hidden feelings: Expressive suppression in middle childhood and links with physiology and negative emotion. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Jacquelyn T Gross,Jude Cassidy
A commonly used strategy for regulating emotions, expressive suppression (ES), involves attempts to conceal emotion-expressive behavior. The present study investigated the effects of two types of ES (trait and state) in middle childhood on two domains of functioning-subjective negative emotion (measured by self-report of sadness) and stress physiology (measured by skin conductance level [SCL], an indication
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Emotion regulation efficacy beliefs: The outsized impact of base rates. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Kit S Double,Rebecca T Pinkus,James J Gross,Carolyn MacCann
To regulate others' emotions effectively we must learn about the efficacy of our regulation attempts. Deciding whether we made someone else feel better involves a causal judgment about the effect of our intervention on their emotional state. The current study examined whether, like other causal judgments, beliefs about emotion regulation efficacy are disproportionately affected by base rates. In two
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Interoceptive beliefs moderate the link between physiological and emotional arousal during an acute stressor. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Jennifer K MacCormack,Adrienne S Bonar,Kristen A Lindquist
Growing work suggests that interoception, that is, representations of one's internal bodily changes, plays a role in shaping emotional experiences. Past studies primarily examine how behavioral accuracy in detecting interoceptive signals (interoceptive ability) relates to emotional states, with less work examining self-reported interoceptive facets such as the characterizations of one's interoceptive
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Emotional consequences of social debt sharing in communal relationships. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Cong Peng,Rob M A Nelissen,Marcel Zeelenberg
Whereas previous research has often struggled to disentangle the behavioral effects of gratitude and indebtedness felt in response to favors received by individuals, the present article clearly manifests their unique functions by investigating what happens if not just the individual but also their romantic partner is involved in a mutual exchange of favors. We propose that people in communal relationships
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Influencing a nation: How a leader's interpersonal emotion regulation influences citizen compliance via trust and emotions during a global pandemic. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Bernadette Naughton,Deirdre O'Shea,Lisa van der Werff,Finian Buckley
During crises like the COVID-19 pandemic, it was necessary for political leaders to influence citizens to comply with public health measures and restrictions. These health measures (e.g., physical distancing, staying at home) had substantial negative effects on individuals' lives and thus were sometimes met with defensive, noncooperative responses. To influence citizens' compliance with public health
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COVID-19 on mind: Daily worry about the coronavirus is linked to negative affect experienced during mind-wandering and dreaming. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Pilleriin Sikka,Jarno Tuominen,Alejandro Ezquerro Nassar,Manuela Kirberg,Ville Loukola,Antti Revonsuo,Katja Valli,Jennifer Windt,Tristan A Bekinschtein,Valdas Noreika
Despite a surge of studies on the effects of COVID-19 on our well-being, we know little about how the pandemic is reflected in people's spontaneous thoughts and experiences, such as mind-wandering (or daydreaming) during wakefulness and dreaming during sleep. We investigated whether and how COVID-19-related general concern, anxiety, and daily worry are associated with the daily fluctuation of the affective
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Emotion dysregulation modulates visual perspective taking and spontaneous facial mimicry. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Nicholas M Thompson,Carien M van Reekum,Bhismadev Chakrabarti
Understanding and sharing others' emotions (i.e., empathy) requires the ability to manage one's own emotions (i.e., emotion regulation). Indeed, empirical evidence suggests that empathy and emotion regulation are related. This evidence is largely based on self-report measures of both constructs. The current study examined how task measures that assess processes related to empathy are associated with
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Effects of working memory training on different goals of cognitive reappraisal. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Fangfang Long,Weiyi Zhou,Ting Zhang,Ziyuan Zhang,Renlai Zhou
Working memory training (WMT) has shown potential benefits in emotion regulation (ER), mainly in terms of improved ability to downregulate negative emotions in cognitive reappraisal. However, the goal of cognitive reappraisal can be not only to reduce negative emotion but also to increase negative emotion. It is not clear what effect WMT has on the upregulation of negative emotion. In the current study
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Facial disgust in response to touches, smells, and tastes. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Supreet Saluja,Ilona Croy,Anne Gruhl,Alexander Croy,Majid Kanbaty,Andreas Hellmann,Richard J Stevenson
Disgust serves to defend the body from the entry of toxins and disease. Central to this function is a strong relationship with the proximate senses of smell, taste, and touch. Theory suggests that distinct and reflexive facial movements should be evoked by gustatory and olfactory disgusts, serving to impede bodily entry. While this hypothesis has received some support from facial recognition studies
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Biden or Trump? Working memory for emotion predicts the ability to forecast future feelings. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Colleen C Frank,Alexandru D Iordan,Patricia A Reuter-Lorenz
Affective forecasting-the ability to predict how different outcomes will make us feel-is a crucial aspect of making optimal decisions. Recent laboratory evidence suggests that working memory for emotion is a basic psychological mechanism underlying forecasting ability: Individual differences in affective working memory predict how accurately people can forecast their future feelings whereas measures
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Social support and adaptive emotion regulation: Links between social network measures, emotion regulation strategy use, and health. Emotion (IF 5.564) Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Richard B Lopez,Andrea L Courtney,David Liang,Anya Swinchoski,Pauline Goodson,Bryan T Denny
Social support, as perceived and experienced within one's social network, has been associated with greater well-being and favorable health outcomes. The transition to college marks a critical time in which social support not only strengthens interpersonal bonds, but also may help an individual discover and utilize various coping strategies to lower risks associated with negative emotions, which may