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Editorial Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2021-04-11 W. Gerrod Parrott
Starting with this issue, I become the sole Editor-in-Chief of Emotion Review. For the past 3 years I have shared this position with Yulia Chentsova-Dutton. I would like to express my gratitude for all that she has contributed to this journal as well as for the pleasure of our collaboration. For the first 2 of those years, our collaboration was extensive and face-to-face—there was no global pandemic
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Cultivating Disgust: Prospects and Moral Implications Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2021-04-11 Charlie Kurth
Is disgust morally valuable? The answer to that question turns, in large part, on what we can do to shape disgust for the better. But this cultivation question has received surprisingly little attention in philosophical debates. To address this deficiency, this article examines empirical work on disgust and emotion regulation. This research reveals that while we can exert some control over how we experience
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Comment: Moving (Further) Beyond Private Experience: On the Radicalization of the Social Approach to Emotions and the Emancipation of Verbal Emotional Expressions Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2021-04-11 Gerben A. van Kleef
Emotions have traditionally been viewed as intrapersonal phenomena. Over the past decades, theory and research have shifted toward a more social perspective that emphasizes the role of emotional expressions in coordinating social interaction. I provide a brief history of this ongoing paradigm shift, which reveals two critical developments. The first concerns a continuing shift in emphasis on the social-communicative
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Comment: Emotions as Relational Orientations: Accounting for Culture and Social Structure Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2021-04-11 Christian von Scheve
The present contribution provides a constructive criticism of Brian Parkinson’s “Heart to Heart: A Relation-Alignment Approach to Emotion’s Social Effects.” I outline a number of points in Parkinson’s approach that I find particularly useful from a sociological perspective on emotions and provide suggestions for further extending his account. In doing so, I concentrate on issues regarding the social
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Author Reply: Aligning Social Relations With Faces, Words, and Emotions Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2021-04-11 Brian Parkinson
How do facial movements and verbal statements relate to emotional processes? A familiar answer is that the primary phenomenon is an internally located emotion that may then get expressed on the face and represented in words. In this view, emotion’s social functions and effects are indirect consequences of prior intrapsychic states or events. By contrast, my target article argued that facial and verbal
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Can Less Ever Be More? A Model of Emotion Regulation Repertoire of Social Support (ERROSS) Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2021-03-11 Eva-Maria Stelzer, Mary-Frances O’Connor
Do people really fare better if they can rely on many social ties? Research suggests that benefits of interpersonal emotion regulation (ER) can be derived from both large and small social networks. Building on the intrapersonal regulatory flexibility model, we propose the emotion regulation repertoire of social support (ERROSS) model that views effective socioemotional support as the combination of
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Heart to Heart: A Relation-Alignment Approach to Emotion’s Social Effects Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2021-02-21 Brian Parkinson
This article integrates arguments and evidence from my 2019 monograph Heart to Heart: How Your Emotions Affect Other People. The central claim is that emotions operate as processes of relation alignment that produce convergence, complementarity, or conflict between two or more people’s orientations to objects. In some cases, relation alignment involves strategic presentation of emotional information
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Emotions as Overlapping Causal Networks of Emotion Components: Implications and Methodological Approaches Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2021-02-12 Jens Lange, Janis H. Zickfeld
A widespread perspective describes emotions as distinct categories bridged by fuzzy boundaries, indicating that emotions are distinct and dimensional at the same time. Theoretical and methodological approaches to this perspective still need further development. We conceptualize emotions as overlapping networks of causal relationships between emotion components—networks representing distinct emotions
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Comment: Advances in Studying the Vocal Expression of Emotion: Current Contributions and Further Options Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2021-01-14 Klaus R. Scherer
I consider the five contributions in this special section as evidence that the research area dealing with the vocal expression of emotion is advancing rapidly, both in terms of the number of pertinent empirical studies and with respect to an ever increasing sophistication of methodology. I provide some suggestions on promising areas for future interdisciplinary research, including work on emotion expression
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Comment: The Next Frontier: Prosody Research Gets Interpersonal Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2021-01-14 Marc D. Pell, Sonja A. Kotz
Neurocognitive models (e.g., Schirmer & Kotz, 2006) have helped to characterize how listeners incrementally derive meaning from vocal expressions of emotion in spoken language, what neural mechanisms are involved at different processing stages, and their relative time course. But how can these insights be applied to communicative situations in which prosody serves a predominantly interpersonal function
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The Epistemic Significance of Emotional Experience Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2020-11-02 Brian Scott Ballard
Some philosophers claim that emotions are, at best, hindrances to the discovery of evaluative truths, while others omit them entirely from their epistemology of value. I argue, however, that this is a mistake. Drawing an evaluative parallel with Frank Jackson’s Mary case, I show there is a distinctive way in which emotions epistemically enhance evaluative judgment. This is, in fact, a conclusion philosophers
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Relational Goes Beyond Interpersonal: The Development of Empathy in the Context of Culture Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2020-10-27 Alexandra Main, Carmen Kho
It is clear a relational approach to the study of empathy is gaining traction across multiple disciplines. Both commentaries on “A Relational Framework for Integrating the Study of Empathy in Children and Adults” underscored the need to expand the relational framework of empathy to incorporate the broader social and cultural context in which children and adults live. In the present reply we outline
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Beyond Language in Infant Emotion Concept Development Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2020-10-27 Ashley L. Ruba, Betty M. Repacholi
The process by which emotion concepts are learned is largely unexplored. Hoemann, Devlin, and Barrett (2020) and Shablack, Stein, and Lindquist (2020) argue that emotion concepts are learned through emotion labels (e.g., “happy”), which cohere variable aspects of emotions into abstract, conceptual categories. While such labeling-dependent learning mechanisms (supervised learning) are plausible, we
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Comment: How Your Own Becoming Feels Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2020-10-27 Ezequiel A. Di Paolo
Mascolo (2020) successfully defends a relational, developmental approach to emotions. I draw parallels between his perspective and the enactive approach, in particular with the concept of participatory sense-making. I suggest that the need to understand emotions developmentally reveals a deeper link between affective life and human unfinishedness, namely, that emotions are collectively constituted
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Comment: Collective Epistemic Emotions and Individualized Learning: A Relational Account Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2020-10-27 David Sander
This comment considers some potential implications of both the appraisal approaches and the framework proposed by Mascolo in regard to a mechanism that is particularly important for development: learning. More specifically, I discuss Mascolo’s account of emotion with respect to how appraisal processes can be considered relational, automatic, social, as well as the drivers of learning amplification
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The Study of Prosocial Emotions in Early Childhood: Unique Opportunities and Insights Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2020-10-27 Robert Hepach, Amrisha Vaish
The study of young children’s prosocial emotions, especially as they regulate children’s social interactions toward cooperative ends, is burgeoning. We join Algoe (2020) and Tsang (2020) in their assessment that early ontogeny provides a unique window into the study of prosocial emotions, and that the behavioural methods developed to study prosocial emotions in young children could productively be
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Emotional Development: The View From Between Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2020-10-27 Michael Mascolo
It is an honor to be able to engage Ezequiel Di Paolo’s and David Sander’s reflections on relational conceptions of emotional development. In this reply, I elaborate on the role of emotion in the open-ended construction of self. Di Paolo suggests that emotions are “collectively constituted ways of regulating human becoming” (2020, p. 229); Sander (2020) maintains that as felt modes of engagement, emotions
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Developing Emotion Research: Insights From Emotional Development Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2020-10-27 Eric A. Walle
A full understanding of emotion necessitates the bridging of disciplinary perspectives and methodological approaches. This special section uses emotional development as a foil to illustrate how such a bridge may be constructed and how studying emotional development can benefit the field as a whole. In doing so, this collection of articles points to three key principles for the study of emotion, specifically
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The Hedonic Character of Nostalgia: An Integrative Data Analysis Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2020-08-30 Joost Leunissen, Tim Wildschut, Constantine Sedikides, Clay Routledge
We conducted an integrative data analysis to examine the hedonic character of nostalgia. We combined positive and negative affect measures from 41 experiments manipulating nostalgia (N = 4,659). Overall, nostalgia inductions increased positive and ambivalent affect, but did not significantly alter negative affect. The magnitude of nostalgia’s effects varied markedly across different experimental inductions
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Measuring Positive Emotion Outcomes in Positive Psychology Interventions: A Literature Review Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2020-08-30 Judith T. Moskowitz, Elaine O. Cheung, Melanie Freedman, Christa Fernando, Madelynn W. Zhang, Jeff C. Huffman, Elizabeth L. Addington
Accumulating evidence for the unique social, behavioral, and physical health benefits of positive emotion and related well-being constructs has led to the development and testing of positive psychological interventions (PPIs) to increase emotional well-being and enhance health promotion and disease prevention. PPIs are specifically aimed at improving emotional well-being and consist of practices such
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Beyond Correlation: Acoustic Transformation Methods for the Experimental Study of Emotional Voice and Speech Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2020-07-24 Pablo Arias, Laura Rachman, Marco Liuni, Jean-Julien Aucouturier
While acoustic analysis methods have become a commodity in voice emotion research, experiments that attempt not only to describe but to computationally manipulate expressive cues in emotional voice and speech have remained relatively rare. We give here a nontechnical overview of voice-transformation techniques from the audio signal-processing community that we believe are ripe for adoption in this
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History Looks Forward: Interdisciplinarity and Critical Emotion Research Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2020-07-20 Rob Boddice
The history of emotions has become a thriving focus within the discipline of history, but it has in the process gained a critical purchase that makes it relevant for other disciplines concerned with emotion research. The history of emotions is entangled with the history of the body and brain, and with cultural and political history. It is interested in the how and why of emotion change; with the questions
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Emotional Pursuits and the American Revolution Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2020-07-03 Nicole Eustace
A major paradox of modern happiness gained wide public exposure in 1776 when Thomas Jefferson substituted the phrase “the pursuit of happiness” in place of Locke’s formulation: “life, liberty, and property.” In substituting happiness for property, Jefferson obscured the central hypocrisy of the Revolution, that—as contemporaries complained—the “loudest yelps for liberty” were made by those practicing
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A Relational Conception of Emotional Development Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Michael Mascolo
In this article, I outline a relational-developmental conception of emotion that situates emotional activity within a broader conception of persons as holistic, relational beings. In this model, emotions consist of felt forms of engagement with the world. As felt aspects of ongoing action, uninhibited emotional experiences are not private states that are inaccessible to other people; instead, they
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The Evolution of Human Vocal Emotion Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2020-06-24 Gregory A. Bryant
Vocal affect is a subcomponent of emotion programs that coordinate a variety of physiological and psychological systems. Emotional vocalizations comprise a suite of vocal behaviors shaped by evolution to solve adaptive social communication problems. The acoustic forms of vocal emotions are often explicable with reference to the communicative functions they serve. An adaptationist approach to vocal
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Darwin and the Situation of Emotion Research Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2020-06-20 Daniel M. Gross, Stephanie D. Preston
This article demonstrates how researchers from both the sciences and the humanities can learn from Charles Darwin’s mixed methodology. We identify two basic challenges that face emotion research in the sciences, namely a mismatch between experiment design and the complexity of life that we aim to explain, and problematic efforts to bridge the gap, including invalid inferences from constrained study
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Self-Esteem, Social Esteem, and Pride Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2020-06-19 Alessandro Salice
This article explores self-esteem as an episodic self-conscious emotion. Episodic self-esteem is first distinguished from trait self-esteem, which is described as an enduring state related to the subject’s sense of self-worth. Episodic self-esteem is further compared with pride by claiming that the two attitudes differ in crucial respects. Importantly, episodic self-esteem—but not pride—is a function
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Support Vector Machines and Affective Science Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2020-06-19 Chris H. Miller, Matthew D. Sacchet, Ian H. Gotlib
Support vector machines (SVMs) are being used increasingly in affective science as a data-driven classification method and feature reduction technique. Whereas traditional statistical methods typically compare group averages on selected variables, SVMs use a predictive algorithm to learn multivariate patterns that optimally discriminate between groups. In this review, we provide a framework for understanding
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The Unavoidable Intentionality of Affect: The History of Emotions and the Neurosciences of the Present Day Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2020-06-18 William M. Reddy
The “problem of emotions,” that is, that many of them are both meaningful and corporeal, has yet to be resolved. Western thinkers, from Augustine to Descartes to Zajonc, have handled this problem by employing various forms of mind–body dualism. Some psychologists and neuroscientists since the 1970s have avoided it by talking about cognitive and emotional “processing,” using a terminology borrowed from
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Comment: Historians in the Emotion Laboratory Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2020-06-10 Otniel E. Dror
In this comment, I indicate several challenges and opportunities—out of the many—for an integrated science–humanities approach to emotions, from the perspective of a historian of the modern sciences of emotions.
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Comment: Developing and Maintaining High-Quality Relationships via Emotion Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2020-06-10 Sara B. Algoe
This comment addresses opportunities for understanding the social functions of emotion by taking a developmental perspective. I agree that understanding emotions and their development will meaningfully illuminate understanding of prosociality in everyday life. Taking Vaish and Hepach’s (2020) approach one step further, I suggest that rather than using the framing of questions about prosociality from
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A Review on Five Recent and Near-Future Developments in Computational Processing of Emotion in the Human Voice Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2020-04-03 Dagmar M. Schuller, Björn W. Schuller
We provide a short review on the recent and near-future developments of computational processing of emotion in the voice, highlighting (a) self-learning of representations moving continuously away ...
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Brain Networks of Emotional Prosody Processing Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2020-03-24 Didier Grandjean
The processing of emotional nonlinguistic information in speech is defined as emotional prosody. This auditory nonlinguistic information is essential in the decoding of social interactions and in o...
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A Collective Emotion in Medieval Italy: The Flagellant Movement of 1260 Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2020-03-09 Piroska Nagy, Xavier Biron-Ouellet
The purpose of this article is to open a dialogue between research in social sciences concerning collective emotion and historical investigation concerning a religious and political movement of the Middle Ages. The main idea is to consider the Flagellant movement of 1260 as a collective emotion which, beyond the affects pertaining to it, is also a social practice that finds its efficiency in the spiritual
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The Odor of Disgust: Contemplating the Dark Side of 20th-Century Cancer History Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2020-02-28 Bettina Hitzer
This article explores how historians of emotions and historians of the senses can collaborate to write a history of emotional experience that takes seriously the corporeality of emotions. It investigates how smell, feelings of disgust, and the moral judgments associated with these feelings were interrelated in 20th-century German cancer history. It demonstrates that this complex decisively shaped the
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Comment on “A Relational Framework for Integrating the Study of Empathy in Children and Adults”: A Conversation Analytic Perspective Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2020-02-19 Maxi Kupetz
This comment on Main and Kho’s suggestion for “a relational framework for integrating the study of empathy in children and adults” (2020) takes a conversation analytic perspective. First, I will summarize how empathy is conceptualized within conversation analysis (CA), an observational approach that aims at reconstructing naturally occurring social interaction. Second, Main and Kho’s suggestions for
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Cross-Cultural Emotion Recognition and In-Group Advantage in Vocal Expression: A Meta-Analysis Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2020-02-13 Petri Laukka, Hillary Anger Elfenbein
Most research on cross-cultural emotion recognition has focused on facial expressions. To integrate the body of evidence on vocal expression, we present a meta-analysis of 37 cross-cultural studies...
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Comment: A role of Language in Infant Emotion Concept Acquisition Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2020-02-10 Holly Shablack, Andrea G. Stein, Kristen A. Lindquist
Ruba and Repacholi (2020) review an important debate in the emotion development literature: whether infants can perceive and understand facial configurations as instances of discrete emotion categories. Consistent with a psychological constructionist account (Lindquist & Gendron, 2013; Shablack & Lindquist, 2019), they conclude that infants can perceive valence on faces, but argue the evidence is far
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Comment: Measuring Guilty and Grateful Behaviors in Children and Adults Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2020-02-07 Jo-Ann Tsang
This comment explores the use of behavioral measures in the developmental study of guilt and gratitude reviewed by Vaish and Hepach (2020). Although the use of behavioral measures in developmental emotion research might be seen as a limitation in that researchers cannot be sure that young children are actually experiencing guilt or gratitude, behavioral measures have several advantages over self-report
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Comment: Emotions Are Abstract, Conceptual Categories That Are Learned by a Predicting Brain Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2020-02-05 Katie Hoemann, Madeleine Devlin, Lisa Feldman Barrett
In their review, Ruba and Repacholi summarize the methods used to assess preverbal infants’ understanding of emotions, and analyze the existing evidence in light of classical and constructionist accounts of emotional development. They conclude that aspects of both accounts are plausible and propose a perceptual-to-conceptual shift in infants’ emotional development. In this comment, we clarify the nature
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Mapping Dynamic Interactions Among Cognitive Biases in Depression Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2020-01-28 Jonas Everaert, Amit Bernstein, Jutta Joormann, Ernst H. W. Koster
Depression is theorized to be caused in part by biased cognitive processing of emotional information. Yet, prior research has adopted a reductionist approach that does not characterize how biases in cognitive processes such as attention and memory work together to confer risk for this complex multifactorial disorder. Grounded in affective and cognitive science, we highlight four mechanisms to understand
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Using Models to Predict Cultural Evolution From Emotional Selection Mechanisms Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2019-12-27 Kimmo Eriksson, Pontus Strimling
Cultural variants may spread by being more appealing, more memorable, or less offensive than other cultural variants. Empirical studies suggest that such “emotional selection” is a force to be reckoned with in cultural evolution. We present a research paradigm that is suitable for the study of emotional selection. It guides empirical research by directing attention to the circumstances under which
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Why Do People With Depression Use Faulty Emotion Regulation Strategies? Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2019-12-19 Sunkyung Yoon, Jonathan Rottenberg
Why do people with psychopathology use less adaptive and more maladaptive strategies for negative emotions if such usage has self-destructive consequences? Although researchers have examined the reasons for people’s engagement in maladaptive “behaviors,” such as nonsuicidal self-injury, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the reasons why people might endorse maladaptive emotion regulation
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Comment: A Relational Framework for Integrating the Study of Empathy in Children and Adults Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2019-12-19 Douglas Hollan
I strongly agree with Main and Kho’s primary contention that a relational approach can provide clarity regarding how empathy-related processes become increasingly coordinated over the lifespan. However, I go further to suggest that their “relational approach” should be expanded to include the larger social, cultural, economic, political, and moral contexts that shape and influence more intimate interpersonal
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The Development of Prosocial Emotions Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2019-11-28 Amrisha Vaish, Robert Hepach
Humans rely heavily on their prosocial relationships. We propose that the experience and display of prosocial emotions evolved to regulate such relationships through inhibiting individual selfishness in service of others. Two emotions in particular serve to meet two central requirements for upholding prosociality: gratitude motivates maintenance of ongoing prosocial interactions, and guilt motivates
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Capitalizing on Appraisal Processes to Improve Affective Responses to Social Stress. Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Jeremy P Jamieson,Emily J Hangen,Hae Yeon Lee,David S Yeager
Regulating affective responses to acute stress has the potential to improve health, performance, and well-being outcomes. Using the biopsychosocial (BPS) model of challenge and threat as an organizing framework, we review how appraisals inform affective responses and highlight research that demonstrates how appraisals can be used as regulatory tools. Arousal reappraisal, specifically, instructs individuals
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Envy: An Adversarial Review and Comparison of Two Competing Views Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2019-10-14 Jan Crusius, Manuel F. Gonzalez, Jens Lange, Yochi Cohen-Charash
The nature of envy has recently been the subject of a heated debate. Some researchers see envy as a complex, yet unitary construct that despite being hostile in nature can lead to both hostile and nonhostile reactions. Others offer a dual approach to envy, in which envy’s outcomes reflect two types of envy: benign envy, involving upward motivation, and malicious envy, involving hostility against superior
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A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Association Between Complexity of Emotion Experience and Behavioral Adaptation Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2019-10-03 Mia S. O’Toole, Megan. E. Renna, Emma Elkjær, Mai B. Mikkelsen, Douglas S. Mennin
This article systematically reviews studies investigating the effect of three operationalizations of complexity in emotion experience (i.e., differentiation, covariation, and variability) on situational behavioral adaptation (i.e., physiological, cognitive, and overt action responses), and quantifies the results with meta-analyses. Twenty-seven studies of emotion complexity were identified and divided
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Emotions at the Service of Cultural Construction Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2019-10-03 Bernard Rimé
Emotions signal flaws in the person’s anticipation systems, or in other words, in aspects of models of how the world works. As these models are essentially shared in society, emotional challenges experienced by any individual are of relevance to the community of others. Emotions emerge at the heart of the individual experience, the only place where collective knowledge can be tested against the world
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Mapping Neutrality Within the Affective Landscape: A Response to Yih, Uusberg, Qian, and Gross Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2019-10-03 Karen Gasper, Danfei Hu
Yih, Uusberg, Qian, and Gross (2019) proposed an appraisal approach to help conceptualize five different states that researchers have used as neutral control conditions. This approach has the potential to enrich our understanding of these states and how they function. Here, we discuss four points to keep in mind while implementing this approach with the hope that these ideas will further assist researchers
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Affective and Semantic Representations of Valence: A Conceptual Framework Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2019-09-27 Oksana Itkes, Assaf Kron
The current article discusses the distinction between affective valence—the degree to which an affective response represents pleasure or displeasure—and semantic valence, the degree to which an object or event is considered positive or negative. To date, measures that reflect positivity and negativity are usually placed under the same conceptual umbrella (e.g., valence, affective, emotional), with
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What Evokes Being Moved? Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2019-09-27 Eric Cullhed
Recent attempts to define being moved have difficulties agreeing on its eliciting conditions. The status quaestionis is often summarized as a question of whether the emotion is evoked by exemplifications of a wide range of positive core values or a more restricted set of values associated with attachment. This conclusion is premature. Study participants associate being moved with interactions with
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Emotion in Cultural Dynamics Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2019-09-27 Yoshihisa Kashima, Alin Coman, Janet V. T. Pauketat, Vincent Yzerbyt
Emotion is critical for cultural dynamics, that is, for the formation, maintenance, and transformation of culture over time. We outline the component micro- and macro-level processes of cultural dynamics, and argue that emotion not only facilitates the transmission and retention of cultural information, but also is shaped and crafted by cultural dynamics. Central to this argument is our understanding
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Do Preverbal Infants Understand Discrete Facial Expressions of Emotion? Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2019-09-19 Ashley L. Ruba, Betty M. Repacholi
An ongoing debate in affective science concerns whether certain discrete, “basic” emotions have evolutionarily based signals (facial expressions) that are easily, universally, and (perhaps) innately identified. Studies with preverbal infants (younger than 24 months) have the potential to shed light on this debate. This review summarizes what is known about preverbal infants’ understanding of discrete
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Does Blocking Facial Feedback Via Botulinum Toxin Injections Decrease Depression? A Critical Review and Meta-Analysis Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2019-09-16 Nicholas A. Coles, Jeff T. Larsen, Joyce Kuribayashi, Ashley Kuelz
Researchers have proposed that blocking facial feedback via glabellar-region botulinum toxin injections (GBTX) can reduce depression. Random-effects meta-analyses of studies that administered GBTX to individuals with depression indicate that, 6 weeks postintervention, GBTX groups were significantly less depressed compared to placebo groups (d = 0.83) and pretreatment levels (d = 1.57). However, we
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A Relational Framework for Integrating the Study of Empathy in Children and Adults Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2019-08-30 Alexandra Main, Carmen Kho
The development of empathy is central to positive social adjustment. However, issues remain with integrating empathy research conducted with children, adolescents, and adults. The current article (a) provides an overview of how empathy is typically conceptualized and measured in child development and adult research, (b) describes outstanding issues concerning child development and adult research on
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Comment: An Appraisal Perspective on Neutral Affective States Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2019-08-28 Jennifer Yih, Andero Uusberg, Weiqiang Qian, James J. Gross
We applaud Gasper (2018) for reviewing five approaches to operationalizing neutral states. To supplement Gasper’s important contribution, we express the five neutral conditions at the appraisal level with the hope of clarifying their defining features and helping researchers to generate suitable neutral conditions.
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Reappraising Reappraisal Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2019-08-20 Andero Uusberg, Jamie L. Taxer, Jennifer Yih, Helen Uusberg, James J. Gross
What psychological mechanisms enable people to reappraise a situation to change its emotional impact? We propose that reappraisal works by shifting appraisal outcomes—abstract representations of how a situational construal compares to goals—either by changing the construal (reconstrual) or by changing the goal set (repurposing). Instances of reappraisal can therefore be characterized as change vectors
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The Role of Empathy and Compassion in Conflict Resolution Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2019-07-02 Olga M. Klimecki
Empathy and empathy-related processes, such as compassion and personal distress, are recognized to play a key role in social relations. This review examines the role of empathy in interpersonal and intergroup relations, including intractable conflicts. Despite the limitations of empathy, there is growing evidence that empathy and compassion are associated with more prosocial behavior in interpersonal
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Author Reply: More About When Bad News Arrives and Good News Strikes Emotion Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2019-07-01 Wilco W. van Dijk, Richard H. Smith
We address the differences between schadenfreude and happiness and those between gluckschmerz and anger. We argue that these emotions are largely elicited by distinct interactions of appraisals that trigger distinct emotional responses. Moreover, we discuss both schadenfreude and gluckschmerz in relation to the emotional lexicon of several languages and conclude that these emotions help us to better
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