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Control your emotions: evidence for a shared mechanism of cognitive and emotional control Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Eldad Keha, Hadar Naftalovich, Ariel Shahaf, Eyal Kalanthroff
The current investigation examined the bidirectional effects of cognitive control and emotional control and the overlap between these two systems in regulating emotions. Based on recent neural and ...
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Can sequencing of articulation ease explain the in–out effect? A preregistered test Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Sascha Topolinski, Tobias Vogel, Moritz Ingendahl
Words whose consonantal articulation places move from the front of the mouth to the back (e.g. BADAKA; inward) receive more positive evaluations than words whose consonantal articulation places mov...
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Altered mechanisms of adaptation in social anxiety: differences in adapting to positive versus negative emotional faces Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Erinda Morina, Daniel A. Harris, Sarah A. Hayes-Skelton, Vivian M. Ciaramitaro
Social anxiety is characterised by fear of negative evaluation and negative perceptual biases; however, the cognitive mechanisms underlying these negative biases are not well understood. We investi...
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Filtering distractors is costly Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Brian A. Anderson
To find a target in visual search, it is often necessary to filter out task-irrelevant distractors. People find the process of distractor filtering effortful, exerting physical effort to reduce the...
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Associations between affect dynamics and eating regulation in daily life: a preliminary ecological momentary assessment study Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Alexandro Smith, Kathleen A. Page, Kathryn E. Smith
Disordered eating behaviors consistently associated with emotion regulation difficulties. However, most studies have focused on affect intensity without considering dynamic affective patterns. We e...
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Observational learning of threat-related attentional bias Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Laurent Grégoire, Mirela Dubravac, Kirsten Moore, Namgyun Kim, Brian A. Anderson
Attentional bias to threat has been almost exclusively examined after participants experienced repeated pairings between a conditioned stimulus (CS) and an aversive unconditioned stimulus (US). Thi...
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Illustrating the pathway from affect to somatic symptom: the Affective Picture Paradigm* Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Tara M. Petzke, Kathrin Weber, Omer Van den Bergh, Michael Witthöft
High levels of somatic symptom distress represent a core component of both mental and physical illness. The exact aetiology and pathogenesis of this transdiagnostic phenomenon remain largely unknow...
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The enhancement of temporal binding effect after negative social feedback Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Yunyun Chen, Xintong Zou, Yuying Wang, Hong He, Xuemin Zhang
The present study investigated the effect of social feedback on the experiences of our actions and the outcomes (e.g. temporal binding between an action and its outcome, reflecting individuals’ cau...
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Determinants for positive and negative experiences of interpersonal touch: context matters Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Uta Sailer, Yvonne Friedrich, Fatemeh Asgari, Marc Hassenzahl, Ilona Croy
The goal of the study was to determine which aspects of interpersonal touch interactions lead to a positive or negative experience. Previous research has focused primarily on physical characteristi...
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Associations of nature contact with emotional ill-being and well-being: the role of emotion regulation Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Gregory N. Bratman, Ashish Mehta, Hector Olvera-Alvarez, Katie Malloy Spink, Chaja Levy, Mathew P. White, Laura D. Kubzansky, James J. Gross
Nature contact has associations with emotional ill-being and well-being. However, the mechanisms underlying these associations are not fully understood. We hypothesised that increased adaptive and ...
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Emotion in motion: perceiving fear in the behaviour of individuals from minimal motion capture displays Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Matthew T. Crawford, Christopher Maymon, Nicola L. Miles, Katie Blackburne, Michael Tooley, Gina M. Grimshaw
The ability to quickly and accurately recognise emotional states is adaptive for numerous social functions. Although body movements are a potentially crucial cue for inferring emotions, few studies...
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Funny? Think About It! Selective effect of cognitive mechanisms of humour on insight problems Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Sergei Y. Korovkin, Ekaterina N. Morozova, Olga S. Nikiforova
The present study aims to elucidate whether insight problem solving could be facilitated by the cognitive component of humour. The authors take interest in whether the logical mechanisms of humour ...
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Aberrant cognitive empathy in individuals with elevated social anxiety and regulation with emotional working memory training Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Saif A. Kade, Simone A. du Toit, Craig T. Danielson, Susanne Schweizer, Amanda S. Morrison, Desmond C. Ong, Ashni Prasad, Lauren J. Holder, Jin Han, Michelle Torok, Quincy J. J. Wong
Social anxiety may disrupt the empathic process, and well-regulated empathy is critical for navigating the social world. Two studies aimed to further understand empathy in the context of social anx...
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The influence of dynamism and expression intensity on face emotion recognition in individuals with autistic traits Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Natalie Corluka, Robin Laycock
Face emotion recognition (FER) ability varies across the population, with autistic traits in the general population reported to contribute to this variation. Previous studies used photographs of po...
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Age-related disgust responses to signs of disease Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Jared Walters, Stefano Occhipinti, Amanda L. Duffy, Sharon Scrafton, Caley Tapp, Megan Oaten
Previous studies found similarities in adults’ disgust responses to benign (e.g. obesity) and actual disease signs (e.g. influenza). However, limited research has compared visual (i.e. benign and a...
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Buffering effect of fiction on negative emotions: engagement with negatively valenced fiction decreases the intensity of negative emotions Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Marina Iosifyan, Judith Wolfe
Previous research has investigated how the context of perception affects emotional response. This study investigated how engagement with perceived fictional content vs perceived everyday-life conte...
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Does cognitive load influence expressive flexibility? Comparing civilian and veteran populations Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Roland P. Hart, John A. Benzshawel, George A. Bonanno
Expressive flexibility (EF) is a component of emotion regulation flexibility repertoire that constitutes the ability to enhance or suppress the expression of emotion in accordance with a given situ...
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Affective dynamics in mother-adolescent dyads: links to mental health and relationship quality Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Chloe E. Allen, Jackie A. Nelson, Deyaun L. Villarreal
Current research in developmental psychopathology has emphasised how emotion dynamics, such as affective variability, relate to psychosocial functioning. In this brief article, we examined mean dif...
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An integrative analysis of potential mechanisms of reduced positive affect in daily life in depression: an ESM study Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Ana Mar Pacheco-Romero, Óscar Martín-García, Ricardo Rey-Sáez, Teresa Boemo, Iván Blanco, Carmelo Vázquez, Álvaro Sánchez-López
Decreased levels of positive affect (PA) are a hallmark of depression. Current models propose as potential main mechanisms a dysfunctional use of emotion regulation (ER) strategies (i.e. dampening,...
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Simultaneous maintenance of emotions in affective working memory Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Nour Kardosh, Christian Waugh, Joseph Mikels, Nilly Mor
Affective Working Memory (AWM) is the ability to maintain an emotion after the emotion-eliciting stimulus is no longer present. Emotions are dynamic, and emotion-eliciting stimuli are encountered s...
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When mind and body align: examining the role of cross-modal congruency in conscious representations of happy facial expressions Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Thomas Quettier, Elena Moro, Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Paola Sessa
This study explored how congruency between facial mimicry and observed expressions affects the stability of conscious facial expression representations. Focusing on the congruency effect between pr...
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The mindful gaze: trait mindful people under an instructed emotion regulation goal selectively attend to positive stimuli Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Hannah Raila, Annabel Bouwer, Cole A. Moran, Elizabeth T. Kneeland, Rhea Modi, Jutta Joormann
Trait mindfulness confers emotional benefits and encourages skillful emotion regulation, in part because it helps people more deliberately attend to internal experiences and external surroundings. ...
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Attentional bias towards happy faces in the dot-probe paradigm: it depends on which task is used Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Dirk Wentura, Liliann Messeh, Benedikt Emanuel Wirth
Two recent articles [Gronchi et al., 2018. Automatic and controlled attentional orienting in the elderly: A dual-process view of the positivity effect. Acta Psychologica, 185, 229–234; Wirth & Went...
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Interactive relationship between alexithymia, psychological distress and posttraumatic stress disorder symptomology across time Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Andrea Putica, Nicholas T. Van Dam, Kim Felmingham, Ellie Lawrence-Wood, Alexander McFarlane, Meaghan O’Donnell
Alexithymia, psychological distress, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are highly related constructs. The ongoing debate about the nature and relationship between these constructs is perpetu...
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Social anxiety and emotion regulation flexibility: a daily diary approach Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Germaine Y. Q. Tng, Hwajin Yang
Previous research suggests that social anxiety symptoms are maintained and intensified by inflexible emotion regulation (ER). Therefore, we examined whether trait-level social anxiety moderates ER ...
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Enhanced source memory for emotionally valenced sources: does an affective orienting task make the difference? Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Nikoletta Symeonidou, Beatrice G. Kuhlmann
Previous research on whether source memory is enhanced for emotionally valenced sources yielded inconclusive results. To identify potential boundary conditions, we tested whether encoding instructi...
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Effects of age on the interactions of attentional and emotional processes: a prefrontal fNIRS study Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Michael K. Yeung
The aging of attentional and emotional functions has been extensively studied but relatively independently. Therefore, the relationships between aging and the interactions of attentional and emotio...
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Fast habituation to semantic interference generated by taboo connotation in reading aloud Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Simone Sulpizio, Michele Scaltritti, Giacomo Spinelli
The recognition of taboo words – i.e. socially inappropriate words – has been repeatedly associated to semantic interference phenomena, with detrimental effects on the performance in the ongoing ta...
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“Anger? No, thank you. I don't mimic it”: how contextual modulation of facial display meaning impacts emotional mimicry Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Michal Olszanowski, Aleksandra Tołopiło
Research indicates that emotional mimicry predominantly occurs in response to affiliative displays, such as happiness, while the mimicry of antagonistic displays, like anger, is seldom observed in ...
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“I’m so dumb and worthless right now”: factors associated with heightened momentary self-criticism in daily life Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Jennifer C. Veilleux, Jeremy B. Clift, Katherine Hyde Brott, Elise A. Warner, Regina E. Schreiber, Hannah M. Henderson, Dylan K. Shelton
Self-criticism is a trait associated with increased psychopathology, but self-criticism is also a personality state reflecting an action that people do in moments of time. In the current study, we ...
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Real is the new sexy: the influence of perceived realness on self-reported arousal to sexual visual stimuli Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Marco Marini, Alessandro Ansani, Alessandro Demichelis, Giovanna Mancini, Fabio Paglieri, Marco Viola
As state-of-art technology can create artificial images that are indistinguishable from real ones, it is urgent to understand whether believing that a picture is real or not has some import over af...
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Effects of task switching and emotional stimuli on memory selectivity Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Mirela Dubravac, Katie E. Garrison, Brandon J. Schmeichel
It is not always easy to attend to task-relevant information and ignore task-irrelevant distractions. We investigated the impact of task switching and emotional stimuli on goal-oriented selective a...
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Higher sensory processing sensitivity: increased cautiousness in attentional processing in conflict contexts Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-01-07 Luchuan Xiao, Kris Baetens, Natacha Deroost
While interest grows in investigating sensory processing sensitivity (SPS), few studies have employed objective behavioural measures to directly explore the underlying attentional processing. The p...
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Effects of positive affect and positive emotions on executive functions: a systematic review and meta-analysis Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Franziska Lautenbach
Positive emotions (PEs) impact cognitive processes, including executive functions (EFs; i.e. inhibition, working memory, cognitive flexibility). However, previous reviews and meta-analyses report c...
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Retrieval-induced forgetting of emotional memories Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Crystal Reeck, Kevin S. LaBar
Long-term memory manages its contents to facilitate adaptive behaviour, amplifying representations of information relevant to current goals and expediting forgetting of information that competes wi...
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Investigating the relationship between self-reported interoceptive experience and risk propensity Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Arran T. Reader, Gerardo Salvato
Risky behaviour may be associated with visceral experiences, such as increased heart rate. Previous studies examining the relationship between perception of such signals (interoception) and risk-ta...
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Remember walking in their shoes? The relation of self-referential source memory and emotion recognition Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Chui-De Chiu, Alfred Pak-Kwan Lo, Frankie Ka-Lun Mak, Kam-Hei Hui, Steven Jay Lynn, Shih-kuen Cheng
Deficits in the ability to read the emotions of others have been demonstrated in mental disorders, such as dissociation and schizophrenia, which involve a distorted sense of self. This study examin...
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The role of self-compassion in loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic: a group-based trajectory modelling approach Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Robin Wollast, David A. Preece, Mathias Schmitz, Alix Bigot, James J. Gross, Olivier Luminet
Research has suggested an increase in loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic, but much of this work has been cross-sectional, making causal inferences difficult. In the present research, we employ...
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Two social minds in one brain? error-related negativity provides evidence for parallel processing pathways during social evaluation Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Nassim Elimari, Gilles Lafargue
Several authors assume that evaluative conditioning (EC) relies on high-level propositional thinking. In contrast, the dual-process perspective proposes two processing pathways, one associative and...
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Think positive! Resolving human motion ambiguity in the presence of disease threat Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Ana C. Magalhães, Fábio Silva, Inês Lameirinha, Mariana Rodrigues, Sandra C. Soares
Recently, approach-avoidance tendencies and visual perception biases have been increasingly studied using bistable point-light walkers (PLWs). Prior studies have found a facing-the-viewer bias when...
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Sadness facilitates “deeper” reading comprehension: a behavioural and eye tracking study Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Caitlin Mills, Rosy Southwell, Sidney K. D’Mello
Reading is one of the most common everyday activities, yet research elucidating how affective influence reading processes and outcomes is sparse with inconsistent results. To investigate this quest...
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Young children experience both regret and relief in a gain-or-loss context Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Alicia K. Jones, Shalini Gautam, Jonathan Redshaw
Recent research has provided compelling evidence that children experience the negative counterfactual emotion of regret, by manipulating the presence of a counterfactual action that would have led ...
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Physical cleansing reduces the mindset effect in problem-solving Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Fengying Li, Shan Ma, Yan Zhang, Lin Bai, Weijian Li
The present study investigated whether physical cleansing can reduce the mindset effect in problem-solving in two experiments. Both experiments followed the same procedure. In the first stage, part...
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Face your fears: direct and indirect measurement of responses to looming threats Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Lana Mulier, Hendrik Slabbinck, Iris Vermeir
This study investigated the emotional and behavioural effects of looming threats using both recalled (self-reported valence) and real-time response measurements (facial expressions). The looming bi...
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The interpersonal effects of emotional expressions with both and single valences on work-related satisfaction: an examination of emotions and perceived openness as mediators Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Ming-Hong Tsai
Work-related satisfaction has critical benefits. To predict work-related satisfaction, we investigated how a counterpart’s expressions of emotional complexity (both positive and negative emotions),...
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Electrophysiological representations of multivariate human emotion experience Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Jin Liu, Xin Hu, Xinke Shen, Sen Song, Dan Zhang
Despite the fact that human daily emotions are co-occurring by nature, most neuroscience studies have primarily adopted a univariate approach to identify the neural representation of emotion (emoti...
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A Bayesian model of the jumping-to-conclusions bias and its relationship to psychopathology Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Nicole Tan, Yiyun Shou, Junwen Chen, Bruce K. Christensen
The mechanisms by which delusion and anxiety affect the tendency to make hasty decisions (Jumping-to-Conclusions bias) remain unclear. This paper proposes a Bayesian computational model that explor...
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Broad attention does not buffer the impact of emotionally salient stimuli on performance Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Stephanie C. Goodhew, Mark Edwards
It has been claimed that a broad attentional breadth buffers the impact of negative stimuli on human perception and cognition. Here we identify issues with the research on which this claim is based...
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Valence and perceived control in personal and collective future thinking: the relation to psychological well-being Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Nazike Mert, Qi Wang
Prior studies have shown that people imagine their personal future to be more positive than their country’s collective future. The present research extends the nascent literature by examining the v...
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Reduction of anxiety symptoms during systemic family therapy results in a concurrent improvement of cognitive performance: a study on people with high anxiety Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Delila Lisica, Maida Koso-Drljević, Birgit Stürmer, Christian Valt
Difficulties in various cognitive functions are common observations in people experiencing anxiety. However, limited research has investigated the effects of psychotherapy on abnormal cognitive fun...
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A nervous wait: Instagram’s sensitive-content screens cause anticipatory anxiety but do not mitigate reactions to negative content Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Melanie K. T. Takarangi, Victoria M. E. Bridgland, Erin T. Simister
Online platforms like Instagram cover potentially distressing imagery with a sensitive-content screen (blurred imagery plus a content warning). Previous research suggests people typically choose to...
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He must be mad; she might be sad: perceptual and decisional aspects of emotion recognition in ambiguous faces Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Amandine Guillin, Laurence Chaby, Dorine Vergilino-Perez
While the recognition of ambiguous emotions is crucial for successful social interactions, previous work has shown that they are perceived differently depending on whether they are viewed on male o...
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Agency influences vicarious approach/avoidance effects Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Cristina Zogmaister, Michela Vezzoli, Karoline Bading, Marco Perugini
Social learning plays a prominent role in shaping individual preferences. The vicarious approach-avoidance effect consists of developing a preference for attitudinal objects that have been approach...
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Sometimes you just can’t: within-person variation in working memory capacity moderates negative affect reactivity to stressor exposure Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Lizbeth Benson, Allison R. Fleming, Jonathan G. Hakun
The executive hypothesis of self-regulation places cognitive information processing at the center of self-regulatory success/failure. While the hypothesis is well supported by cross-sectional studi...
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Sounds like a fight: listeners can infer behavioural contexts from spontaneous nonverbal vocalisations Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Roza G. Kamiloğlu, Disa A. Sauter
When we hear another person laugh or scream, can we tell the kind of situation they are in – for example, whether they are playing or fighting? Nonverbal expressions are theorised to vary systemati...
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Emotion processes and perceptual control of action choice Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Klaus R. Scherer
This editorial introduces an invited article by Andreas Eder on a new perceptual control theory of action choice, based on the comparison of real and simulated interoceptive signals generated by ac...
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A perceptual control theory of emotional action Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Andreas B. Eder
A theory is proposed that views emotional feelings as pivotal for action control. Feelings of emotions are valued interoceptive signals from the body that become multimodally integrated with percep...
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Varieties of instrumental theories of emotional action: commentary on “a perceptual control theory of emotional action” Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Agnes Moors
Eder proposes a theory of action causation based on Powers’ control theory and Hommel’s theory of event coding in which emotional feelings play a crucial role. After presenting a rough description ...
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Perceptual control or action-selection? Comment on: a perceptual control theory of emotional action Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Bob Bramson, Karin Roelofs
The Perceptual Control Theory of Emotional Action provides a compelling view of the synergy between action and perception in the context of emotion. In this invited response, we outline three sugge...
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The reciprocal relationship between smiles and situational contexts Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Samuel E. Day, Eva G. Krumhuber, Danielle M. Shore
Smiles provide information about a social partner’s affect and intentions during social interaction. Although always encountered within a specific situation, the influence of contextual information...