Pub Date : 2025-02-01Epub Date: 2024-08-29DOI: 10.1037/emo0001370
Kelley E Gunther, Audrey Edelman, Daniel Petrie, Hedy Kober, Dylan G Gee, Jutta Joormann, Reuma Gadassi-Polack
Social acceptance and rejection are salient experiences, especially during adolescence. Acceptance and rejection relate to changes in positive and negative affect, although directionality of the relation remains unclear. The ability to regulate affect following social experiences may be part of the etiology of social anxiety disorder. With the importance of social cues in adolescence, as well as adolescence as a key window for the onset of social anxiety, we used daily diary data collected in a sample ranging from 9 to 18 years to examine daily changes in acceptance, rejection, positive affect, and negative affect. Taking a person-centered approach, we constructed networks directionally linking social experiences and affect, which served as behaviors of interest ("nodes") in the network for each individual. From these networks, we extracted recovery times from different nodes, that is, the number of days it took for a node to return to baseline when (a) the node itself was perturbed and (b) when a connected node was perturbed. We examined associations between network metrics and social anxiety, age, gender, and their interaction. We found that the recovery time of positive affect when social acceptance was perturbed was inversely related with social anxiety and age, suggesting benefits of acceptance may be shorter lasting for those with more (vs. less) social anxiety symptoms and for older (vs. younger) adolescents. We conclude that positive affect may be a critical yet understudied piece in understanding why adolescence is a developmental period of increased risk for psychopathology and for understanding the etiology of social anxiety disorder. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).
社会接纳和拒绝是一种突出的经历,尤其是在青春期。接受和拒绝与积极和消极情绪的变化有关,但这种关系的方向性仍不明确。社交经历后的情绪调节能力可能是社交焦虑症的病因之一。鉴于社交线索在青春期的重要性,以及青春期是社交焦虑症发病的关键窗口期,我们利用从 9 岁到 18 岁的样本中收集的每日日记数据,研究了接受、拒绝、积极情绪和消极情绪的每日变化。我们采用以人为本的方法,构建了将社交经历和情感定向联系起来的网络,作为每个人在网络中感兴趣的行为("节点")。从这些网络中,我们提取了不同节点的恢复时间,即当(a)节点本身受到干扰和(b)连接节点受到干扰时,节点恢复到基线所需的天数。我们研究了网络指标与社交焦虑、年龄、性别及其交互作用之间的关联。我们发现,当社会接纳受到干扰时,积极情绪的恢复时间与社会焦虑和年龄成反比,这表明对于社会焦虑症状较多(与较少)的人和年龄较大(与较小)的青少年来说,接纳带来的益处可能持续时间较短。我们的结论是,积极情绪可能是理解青春期为何是心理病理学风险增加的发育期以及理解社交焦虑症病因的一个关键但未被充分研究的部分。(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA,保留所有权利)。
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Pub Date : 2025-02-01Epub Date: 2024-09-19DOI: 10.1037/emo0001417
Roza G Kamiloğlu, İnan Utku Türkmen, Taha Eren Sarnıç, Dana Landman, Disa A Sauter
What does it mean to feel good? Is our experience of gazing in awe at a majestic mountain fundamentally different than erupting with triumph when our favorite team wins the championship? Here, we use a semantic space approach to test which positive emotional experiences are distinct from each other based on in-depth personal narratives of experiences involving 22 positive emotions (n = 165; 3,592 emotional events). A bottom-up computational analysis was applied to the transcribed text, with unsupervised clustering employed to maximize internal granular consistency (i.e., the clusters being maximally different and maximally internally homogeneous). The analysis yielded four emotions that map onto distinct clusters of subjective experiences: amusement, interest, lust, and tenderness. The application of the semantic space approach to in-depth personal accounts yields a nuanced understanding of positive emotional experiences. Moreover, this analytical method allows for the bottom-up development of emotion taxonomies, showcasing its potential for broader applications in the study of subjective experiences. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).
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Pub Date : 2025-02-01Epub Date: 2024-09-30DOI: 10.1037/emo0001414
Michaela Rohr, Timea Folyi, Dirk Wentura
The present study investigated the involvement of facial muscle responses in the indirect and direct processing of emotional facial expressions. Five discrete emotion categories were used, and we assessed both facial muscle and behavioral responses on a trial-by-trial basis. Experiment 1 tested facial muscle activation of clearly visible stimuli in an emotion categorization task. We observed emotion-specific facial muscle responses and corresponding behavioral categorization effects, providing evidence for the specificity of facial muscle activation. By contrast, under masked indirect presentation conditions in which emotional facial expressions were presented as primes in an emotion misattribution procedure, a specific pattern of emotion-congruent and cross-category behavioral misattributions was observed (in line with Rohr et al., 2015, 2018). Multilevel analyses in Study 2 suggest that an emotional reaction feeds into the behavioral decision, as indicated by differential activation of the frontalis lateralis in response to angry faces. Thus, the present study provides evidence that facial muscle responses contribute to behavioral decisions under masked indirect processing conditions. The different pattern of effects in both studies suggests that facial muscle responses index different processes, depending on the processing conditions: sensorimotor simulation in direct processing conditions and emotional reactions in masked indirect processing conditions. We discuss the implications for models that aim to account for facial muscle activity in response to emotional facial expressions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).
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Pub Date : 2025-02-01Epub Date: 2024-09-26DOI: 10.1037/emo0001409
Tian Yuan, Li Wang, Yi Jiang
Emotions in interpersonal interactions can be communicated simultaneously via various social signals such as face and biological motion (BM). Here, we demonstrate that even though BM and face are very different in visual properties, emotions conveyed by these two types of social signals involve dedicated and common processing mechanisms (N = 168, college students, 2020-2024). By utilizing the visual adaptation paradigm, we found that prolonged exposure to the happy BM biased the emotion perception of the subsequently presented morphed BM toward sad, and vice versus. The observed aftereffect disappeared when the BM adaptors were shown inverted, indicating that it arose from emotional information processing rather than being a result of adaptation to constitutive low-level features. Besides, such an aftereffect was also found for facial expressions and similarly vanished when the face adaptors were inverted. Critically, preexposure to emotional faces also exerted an adaptation aftereffect on the emotion perception of BMs. Furthermore, this cross-channel effect could not only happen from faces to BMs but also from BMs to faces, suggesting that emotion perception from face and BM are potentially driven by common underlying neural substrates. Overall, these findings highlighted a close coupling of BM and face emotion perception and suggested the existence of a dedicated emotional representation that can be shared across these two different types of social signals. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).
人际交往中的情绪可以通过脸部和生物动作(BM)等各种社交信号同时传达。在这里,我们证明了尽管生物运动和人脸在视觉特性上有很大不同,但这两类社交信号所传达的情绪涉及到专门的和共同的处理机制(N = 168,大学生,2020-2024 年)。通过使用视觉适应范式,我们发现长时间接触快乐的BM会使随后出现的变形BM的情绪感知偏向悲伤,反之亦然。当BM适配器倒置显示时,观察到的后效应消失了,这表明后效应产生于情绪信息处理,而不是对构成性低级特征的适应结果。此外,在面部表情中也发现了这种后效,当面部适配器倒置时,这种后效也同样消失了。重要的是,预先暴露于情绪化的面孔也会对BM的情绪感知产生适应后效。此外,这种跨通道效应不仅发生在人脸到生物标记物之间,也发生在生物标记物到人脸之间,这表明人脸和生物标记物的情绪感知可能是由共同的潜在神经基质驱动的。总之,这些发现凸显了BM和人脸情绪感知的密切联系,并表明存在一种专用的情绪表征,可以在这两种不同类型的社会信号中共享。(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, 版权所有)。
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Pub Date : 2025-02-01Epub Date: 2024-09-30DOI: 10.1037/emo0001426
Tobias Kube, Christoph Korn
When people receive feedback from others, this is an opportunity for them to update their self-views. People with mental health problems (e.g., depression), however, often have difficulty using social feedback to update negative beliefs about themselves. To better understand when and how difficulties with integrating social feedback manifest, we investigated how current affect influences social feedback processing. Our preregistered hypothesis was that negative affect hinders change in participants' self-views in response to social feedback. In a nonclinical sample of little diversity (N = 117) in 2023, participants were invited to a laboratory examination in groups of three-five people. After indicating how they thought about themselves in terms of a number of personality traits (e.g., friendly), participants played a popular parlor game together for 45 min. Subsequently, they indicated how they perceived the other players in terms of their personality. Before receiving anonymous feedback, suggesting that the others perceived them as a highly likeable person, participants underwent the induction of negative versus positive affect versus a neutral control procedure. The results show that the induction of negative affect before receiving social feedback hindered its integration into participants' self-views, relative to the induction of positive affect. Changes in participants' self-views remained relatively stable also 1 day later, except for the control group, in which it slightly declined. These findings confirm that negative affect can indeed hamper the integration of (positive) social feedback. Since negative affect is prevalent in many mental disorders, this might contribute to their problems with social feedback processing. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).
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Pub Date : 2025-02-01Epub Date: 2024-08-29DOI: 10.1037/emo0001358
Susan Hao, David Whitney, Sonia J Bishop
It has been suggested that humans use summary statistics such as the average of the emotion of individual faces when they rapidly judge group emotion. Previous studies have mainly used faces of actors posing basic emotions, and morphed versions of these faces, against a plain background. In the present study, photographs taken in real-world settings were used to investigate the influence of mean facial emotion, maximal facial emotion, and background context on judgments of group emotion, assessed using dimensional ratings of valence, arousal, and dominance. Background context explained a significant amount of unique variance in group ratings for each dimension. Mean emotion explained additional unique variance for valence ratings, whereas maximal emotion explained additional unique variance for arousal, with dominance showing more mixed results. Removing background context and disrupting the contextual and spatial relationship between faces by randomly replacing faces with ones from other images within the stimulus set increased reliance on mean emotion. However, under all conditions, the maximally arousing face continued to exert an influence on ratings of group arousal, in line with theoretical accounts arguing for a unique bottom-up effect of emotional arousal on attentional competition and postattentive perceptual processing. Together these findings suggest that individuals' reliance on average emotion when judging crowd scenes differs as a function of the dimension of affect. In addition, the presence of background context both directly impacts judgments of crowd emotion and modulates the relative influence of maximal versus mean emotion on these judgments. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).
有人认为,人类在快速判断群体情绪时,会使用诸如单个人脸情绪平均值之类的汇总统计数据。以前的研究主要使用的是演员在普通背景下摆出基本情绪的脸部表情和这些脸部表情的变形版本。在本研究中,我们使用在真实世界环境中拍摄的照片来研究平均面部情绪、最大面部情绪和背景环境对群体情绪判断的影响。在每个维度的群体评分中,背景情境都能解释大量的独特变异。平均情绪解释了情绪评分的额外独特方差,而最大情绪解释了唤醒评分的额外独特方差,主导地位的结果则较为复杂。通过随机替换刺激集中其他图像中的人脸来移除背景并破坏人脸之间的上下文和空间关系,会增加对平均情绪的依赖。然而,在所有条件下,唤醒程度最高的面孔都会继续影响对群体唤醒程度的评价,这与情绪唤醒对注意竞争和注意后知觉加工的独特自下而上效应的理论观点是一致的。这些研究结果共同表明,个体在判断人群场景时对平均情绪的依赖因情绪维度的不同而不同。此外,背景情境的存在既会直接影响对人群情绪的判断,也会调节最大情绪与平均情绪对这些判断的相对影响。(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, 版权所有)。
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Pub Date : 2025-02-01Epub Date: 2024-09-30DOI: 10.1037/emo0001442
Juan Carlos Oliveros, Idalmis Santiesteban, José Luis Ulloa
Navigating our social environment requires the ability to distinguish ourselves from others. Previous research suggests that training interventions have the potential to enhance the capacity for self-other distinction (SOD), which then may impact various sociocognitive domains, including imitation-inhibition, visual perspective taking, and empathy. Importantly, empirical research on the role of SOD in emotion regulation remains scarce. In this study, we aim to investigate the impact of training SOD on emotion regulation and also replicate findings on empathy and the attribution of mental states to others. Using a pre-post design, participants (N = 104) were assigned to either the imitation-inhibition or general inhibitory control training. Compared to general inhibitory control training, participants trained to inhibit imitation displayed a significant increase in posttest emotion regulation levels compared to pretest levels, indicating that imitation-inhibition training increased self-reported emotion regulation. Notably, emotional interference remained unaffected by either form of training. Both training interventions resulted in diminished self-reported empathic concern, while only general inhibitory control training led to a reduction in personal distress. Moreover, neither type of training had an impact on self-reported perspective taking or theory of mind performance. This study provides novel empirical evidence of the positive impact of imitation-inhibition training on emotion regulation. Furthermore, our findings make significant contributions to the advancement of research in this area and offer further support for the advantages of behavioral training as a methodological approach to studying sociocognitive abilities. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).
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It has long been known that stress has detrimental effects on cognition (e.g., Alderson & Novack, 2002; Lupien & Lepage, 2001), most notably documented for memory functions (e.g., Schwabe & Wolf, 2013). Interestingly, less is known about the effects of stress on other cognitive functions including language processing. Here, we have examined the effects of self-reported prolonged stress on recognition of emotional language content with a particular emphasis on gender differences. We tested how well 399 participants with different perceived stress levels recognized emotional voice cues. Findings confirm previous results from the emotional prosody literature by demonstrating that women generally outperform men in the vocal emotion recognition task. Crucially, results also revealed that medium levels of perceived stress impair the ability to detect sadness from voice cues in men but not women. These findings were not modulated by task demands (e.g., speeded response) or better acoustic discrimination abilities in women. Results are in line with the idea that perceived stress has a different impact on men versus women and that women have a higher level of experience in voice sadness recognition, potentially due to their predominant role as primary caretakers. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).
{"title":"Perceived prolonged stress leads to difficulties in recognizing sadness from voice cues in men but not women.","authors":"Maren Schmidt-Kassow, Alessia-Nadia Günther, Martiel Salim-Latzel, Jochen Kaiser, Silke Paulmann","doi":"10.1037/emo0001393","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001393","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>It has long been known that stress has detrimental effects on cognition (e.g., Alderson & Novack, 2002; Lupien & Lepage, 2001), most notably documented for memory functions (e.g., Schwabe & Wolf, 2013). Interestingly, less is known about the effects of stress on other cognitive functions including language processing. Here, we have examined the effects of self-reported prolonged stress on recognition of emotional language content with a particular emphasis on gender differences. We tested how well 399 participants with different perceived stress levels recognized emotional voice cues. Findings confirm previous results from the emotional prosody literature by demonstrating that women generally outperform men in the vocal emotion recognition task. Crucially, results also revealed that medium levels of perceived stress impair the ability to detect sadness from voice cues in men but not women. These findings were not modulated by task demands (e.g., speeded response) or better acoustic discrimination abilities in women. Results are in line with the idea that perceived stress has a different impact on men versus women and that women have a higher level of experience in voice sadness recognition, potentially due to their predominant role as primary caretakers. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"259-270"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142337173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-02-01Epub Date: 2024-09-30DOI: 10.1037/emo0001422
José A Soto, Sara L Albrecht Soto, Christopher R Perez, Camilo Posada Rodríguez, Michelle G Newman
Positive reappraisal has been shown to be a generally effective emotion regulation strategy associated with multiple indices of greater psychological functioning. There are, however, some emotion-eliciting events, such as discrimination, that may not lend themselves to favorable alternative interpretations or which have relatively fewer affordances. In such instances, a reappraisal strategy could lose its effectiveness. We conducted an experimental test of this hypothesized ineffectiveness of positive reappraisal within a discriminatory context. Participants were 404 Black and Latine college students randomly assigned to imagine being the recipient of a rude or discriminatory comment and immediately afterward were asked to either ruminate about or positively reappraise the event. Overall, positive reappraisal was more effective than rumination in downregulating anxiety and anger. However, a single-df contrast test revealed that positive reappraisal in response to the rude comment was significantly more effective in reducing anxiety relative to the other three conditions (average of positive reappraisal of the discriminatory comment or rumination to either the rude or discriminatory comment). Additional analyses also showed that oppressed minority ideology (OMI) moderated the utility of anger regulation such that, for those lower on OMI, positive reappraisal was most effective in regulating anger in response to discrimination (compared to all other conditions), but among those higher on OMI, rumination and reappraisal to discrimination were equally effective. Results suggest that the effectiveness of positive reappraisal is lessened in a discrimination context and that more robust strategies may be needed to deal with the emotional fallout from this unique stressor. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).
积极的重新评价已被证明是一种普遍有效的情绪调节策略,它与多种心理功能指数相关联。然而,有些会引发情绪的事件,如歧视,可能并不适合进行有利的替代性解释,或者承受能力相对较低。在这种情况下,重新评价策略可能会失去其有效性。我们对积极的再评价在歧视背景下无效的假设进行了实验测试。参与者是 404 名黑人和拉丁裔大学生,他们被随机分配去想象自己是一个粗鲁或歧视性评论的接受者,之后被要求立即对该事件进行反思或积极的再评价。总体而言,在降低焦虑和愤怒方面,积极的重新评价比反刍更有效。然而,单因子对比测试表明,相对于其他三种情况(对歧视性评论的积极再评价或对粗鲁或歧视性评论的反刍的平均值),对粗鲁评论的积极再评价在降低焦虑方面明显更有效。其他分析还显示,受压迫的少数群体意识形态(OMI)调节了愤怒调节的效用,因此,对于 OMI 较低的人来说,积极的重新评价对调节因歧视而产生的愤怒最为有效(与所有其他条件相比),但对于 OMI 较高的人来说,反刍和对歧视的重新评价同样有效。研究结果表明,在歧视背景下,积极的重新评价的有效性会降低,因此可能需要更有力的策略来应对这种独特的压力所带来的情绪后果。(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA,保留所有权利)。
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Pub Date : 2025-02-01Epub Date: 2024-09-23DOI: 10.1037/emo0001403
Lisya Kaspi, Danfei Hu, Allon Vishkin, Yulia Chentsova-Dutton, Yuri Miyamoto, Jan Cieciuch, Akiva Cohen, Yukiko Uchida, Min Young Kim, Xiaoqin Wang, Jiang Qiu, Michaela Riediger, Antje Rauers, Yaniv Hanoch, Maya Tamir
Emotion regulation is linked to adaptive psychological outcomes. To engage in such regulation, people must be motivated to do it. Given that people in different countries vary in how they think about unpleasant emotions, we expected motivation to decrease unpleasant emotions to differ across countries. Furthermore, given that emotion regulation strategies operate in the service of motivation, we expected people who are less motivated to decrease unpleasant emotions to use emotion regulation strategies less across countries. To test these predictions, we conducted two studies during the COVID-19 pandemic: Study 1 in 2020 (N = 1,329) and Study 2 in 2021 (N = 1,279). We assessed the motivation to decrease unpleasant emotions and the use of emotion regulation strategies among members of East Asian countries (i.e., Japan, South Korea, and China) and Western countries (i.e., United States, United Kingdom, and Germany). Because we found substantial variation within these two broader cultural categories, we examined motivation and overall strategy use in emotion regulation at the country level. In both studies, motivation to decrease unpleasant emotions was the lowest in Japan and relatively high in the United States. As expected, across countries, weaker motivation to decrease unpleasant emotions was associated with using emotion regulation strategies less. We discuss implications of our findings for understanding cultural differences in motivated emotion regulation. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).
{"title":"Motivated to feel better and doing something about it: Cross-cultural differences in motivated emotion regulation during COVID-19.","authors":"Lisya Kaspi, Danfei Hu, Allon Vishkin, Yulia Chentsova-Dutton, Yuri Miyamoto, Jan Cieciuch, Akiva Cohen, Yukiko Uchida, Min Young Kim, Xiaoqin Wang, Jiang Qiu, Michaela Riediger, Antje Rauers, Yaniv Hanoch, Maya Tamir","doi":"10.1037/emo0001403","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001403","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Emotion regulation is linked to adaptive psychological outcomes. To engage in such regulation, people must be motivated to do it. Given that people in different countries vary in how they think about unpleasant emotions, we expected motivation to decrease unpleasant emotions to differ across countries. Furthermore, given that emotion regulation strategies operate in the service of motivation, we expected people who are less motivated to decrease unpleasant emotions to use emotion regulation strategies less across countries. To test these predictions, we conducted two studies during the COVID-19 pandemic: Study 1 in 2020 (<i>N</i> = 1,329) and Study 2 in 2021 (<i>N</i> = 1,279). We assessed the motivation to decrease unpleasant emotions and the use of emotion regulation strategies among members of East Asian countries (i.e., Japan, South Korea, and China) and Western countries (i.e., United States, United Kingdom, and Germany). Because we found substantial variation within these two broader cultural categories, we examined motivation and overall strategy use in emotion regulation at the country level. In both studies, motivation to decrease unpleasant emotions was the lowest in Japan and relatively high in the United States. As expected, across countries, weaker motivation to decrease unpleasant emotions was associated with using emotion regulation strategies less. We discuss implications of our findings for understanding cultural differences in motivated emotion regulation. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142298827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}