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Sad but true: how emotions and political ideology shape perceptions of information. 悲伤但真实：情感和政治意识形态如何塑造对信息的感知。

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Cognition & Emotion Pub Date : 2026-05-06 DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2026.2662478

Marja-Liisa Halko, Juho Halonen, Marita Laukkanen, Henri Nyberg, Mikko Salmela

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Navigating mundane moral dilemmas: how negative emotion and emotion regulation influence ethical decision-making. 引导世俗道德困境：消极情绪和情绪调节如何影响伦理决策。

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Cognition & Emotion Pub Date : 2026-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2026.2667777

Justin N Wahlers, Katie E Garrison, William Z Elmore, Elizabeth Ennis Gremillion

{"title":"Navigating mundane moral dilemmas: how negative emotion and emotion regulation influence ethical decision-making.","authors":"Justin N Wahlers, Katie E Garrison, William Z Elmore, Elizabeth Ennis Gremillion","doi":"10.1080/02699931.2026.2667777","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2026.2667777","url":null,"abstract":"Based in a dual-process model of moral judgment, we tested how negative emotion influences unethical decision-making in moral dilemmas and how emotion regulation may attenuate this effect. Study 1 manipulated reappraisal whereas Study 2 measured the spontaneous use of various emotion regulation strategies. Participants read one mundane moral dilemma and rated their emotions (combined N = 980). In Study 1, participants were instructed to downregulate or upregulate negative emotion through reappraisal (vs. control). In Study 2, participants self-reported their use of emotion regulation in response to the same moral dilemmas. After each moral dilemma, participants self-reported their likelihood of making an unethical decision. Results from both studies revealed negative emotion was associated with less unethical decision-making, and in Study 1, positive emotion was associated with greater unethical decision-making. Participants instructed to downregulate their negative emotions exhibited an increased likelihood of unethical decision-making (vs. control), and this effect was mediated by moral disengagement (Study 1). Moreover, higher (vs. lower) applied mindfulness processes and emotion regulation strategies like reappraisal and emotional expression were associated with a weaker negative emotion-unethical decision-making relationship (Study 2). These findings suggest that regulating negative emotion can attenuate its moral deterrent function, thereby increasing unethical choices.","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1-19"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147844704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Correction. 修正。

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Cognition & Emotion Pub Date : 2026-05-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-22 DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2025.2577499

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Measuring emotion beliefs: a systematic review. 测量情绪信念：系统回顾。

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Cognition & Emotion Pub Date : 2026-05-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-11 DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2025.2526676

Susanne Peter, Bonamy R Oliver, Harriet R Kabo, Anna V Raynaud, Marthe Wiggers, Matthew P Somerville

{"title":"Measuring emotion beliefs: a systematic review.","authors":"Susanne Peter, Bonamy R Oliver, Harriet R Kabo, Anna V Raynaud, Marthe Wiggers, Matthew P Somerville","doi":"10.1080/02699931.2025.2526676","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699931.2025.2526676","url":null,"abstract":"People hold different beliefs about the nature of emotions: some view emotions as valuable and controllable, while others see them as harmful and unchangeable. Evidence suggests that these emotion beliefs are associated with mental health symptoms via their influence on emotion regulation. To explore these beliefs, it is essential to employ valid and reliable measures. This systematic review provides a comprehensive overview of existing measures of emotion beliefs and an evaluation of their quality (validity, reliability). A search of seven online databases yielded a total of 5276 citations (after duplicate removal), of which 69 met inclusion criteria and were assessed using the Quality Assessment with Diverse Studies (QuADS) and modified criteria outlined by Halle and Darling-Churchill. The findings of this review serve as a resource for researchers and clinicians seeking emotion belief measures. However, it also identified several areas for advancement in the field, including a need to develop more consistent theoretical frameworks, measures using alternative assessment approaches beyond self-report questionnaires (e.g., vignettes), and measures specifically designed for children and adolescents. There is also an opportunity for more qualitative studies to explore emotion beliefs.","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"517-547"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144612343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Impaired pattern of cognitive control moderates attentional bias in individuals with social anxiety. 认知控制模式受损可调节社交焦虑个体的注意偏倚。

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Cognition & Emotion Pub Date : 2026-05-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-03 DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2025.2530653

Xiaobin Ding, Xuemei Lang, Jibao Deng, Qiuyan Yao, Guangyue Deng, Xiaoning Huo, Tiejun Kang

{"title":"Impaired pattern of cognitive control moderates attentional bias in individuals with social anxiety.","authors":"Xiaobin Ding, Xuemei Lang, Jibao Deng, Qiuyan Yao, Guangyue Deng, Xiaoning Huo, Tiejun Kang","doi":"10.1080/02699931.2025.2530653","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699931.2025.2530653","url":null,"abstract":"The potential relationship between cognitive control pattern and attentional bias in individuals with high social anxiety (HSAs) remains unclear. This study uses the Dual Mechanisms of Control framework to investigate the impact of cognitive control patterns on attentional bias in HSAs. 55 individuals with low social anxiety (LSAs) and 67 HSAs completed the AX-continuous performance task and dot-probe task. Compared to LSAs, HSAs demonstrated lower accuracy on BX and AY trial and a reduced discrimination index, indicating deficits in both proactive and reactive control. Notably, moderation analyses revealed that for those with higher proactive control, higher LSAS scores were associated with faster disengagement from threat-related social cues, while for those with lower proactive control, LSAS scores were unrelated to disengagement. Similarly, higher LSAS scores were associated with stronger attentional engagement with threat cues among individuals with higher reactive control. However, this association was eliminated among individuals with lower reactive control. This study is the first to reveal a pattern of co-impairment in both proactive and reactive control systems, alongside an independent moderation of attentional bias in HSAs, providing a more refined theoretical framework for targeted interventions.","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"653-666"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144993878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Me, us, and others: exploring the role of familiarity and emotional expressions in face visual awareness. 我，我们和其他人：探索熟悉度和情感表达在面部视觉意识中的作用。

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Cognition & Emotion Pub Date : 2026-05-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-28 DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2025.2536524

Tommaso Ciorli, Alessandro Mazza, Gabriele Volpara, Daniele Petracchini, Olga Dal Monte, Lorenzo Pia

{"title":"Me, us, and others: exploring the role of familiarity and emotional expressions in face visual awareness.","authors":"Tommaso Ciorli, Alessandro Mazza, Gabriele Volpara, Daniele Petracchini, Olga Dal Monte, Lorenzo Pia","doi":"10.1080/02699931.2025.2536524","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699931.2025.2536524","url":null,"abstract":"Faces play a pivotal role in human interaction, and the rapid processing of face identity and emotional expressions is essential for effective social behaviour. Here, we investigated whether and how face identity and emotional expressions jointly affect face visual awareness. We manipulated three levels of identity (Self, Friend, Stranger) and emotional expressions (Happy, Neutral, Angry) in a Binocular Rivalry (BR) paradigm. Results show that Neutral faces dominated longer visual perception as a function of familiarity (i.e. progressing from Stranger to Friend to Self). Happy emotion led to prioritising faces belonging to the social ingroup (i.e. Self and Friend). In contrast, we did not observe any effect of identity on angry emotion. These findings suggest that the visual system prioritises ingroup faces when they express positive emotional contents, whereas it inhibits such an advantage with negative contents. These data suggest that the interaction between identity and emotional content may already occur at the initial stages of perceptual processing through bottom-up sensory modulation.","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"684-694"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144734042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Negative emotion differentiation in adolescents: unpacking linkages with emotion regulation traits and behaviours, rumination, and depression. 青少年的负性情绪分化：与情绪调节特征和行为、反刍和抑郁的关联。

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Cognition & Emotion Pub Date : 2026-05-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-30 DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2025.2523812

Amy E Carolus, Lisa R Starr

{"title":"Negative emotion differentiation in adolescents: unpacking linkages with emotion regulation traits and behaviours, rumination, and depression.","authors":"Amy E Carolus, Lisa R Starr","doi":"10.1080/02699931.2025.2523812","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699931.2025.2523812","url":null,"abstract":"Negative emotion differentiation (NED), or the ability to parse negative emotions (NEs) with precision, is theorised to facilitate emotion regulation (ER), but research examining the link between NED and the development of ER skills in adolescence has been surprisingly sparse and inconsistent. Brooding rumination may help explain heterogeneity in the relationship between NED and ER, as high brooders may continue to negatively perseverate on their NEs even if they are well-differentiated. In this preregistered longitudinal study of adolescents (N = 241, ages 14-17), participants completed self-report measures, interviews, and a seven-day ecological momentary assessment (EMA), with a longitudinal follow up 1.5-years later. NED was linked to lower global emotion dysregulation but not to momentary reappraisal use. NED predicted decreased global emotion dysregulation over time. Brooding predicted stronger associations between low NED and concurrent depression but did not moderate associations between NED and other outcomes (i.e. momentary reappraisal use, concurrent/longitudinal global emotion dysregulation, or longitudinal depression). Results support a complex relationship between NED, brooding, and mental health, and suggest that poor differentiation in youth may contribute to the consolidation of maladaptive regulatory habits.","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"738-744"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144530447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Higher loneliness is associated with greater positive and negative emotion instability in everyday life. 更高的孤独感与日常生活中更大的积极和消极情绪不稳定有关。

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Cognition & Emotion Pub Date : 2026-05-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-14 DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2025.2527854

Jee Eun Kang, Dusti R Jones, Joshua M Smyth, Martin J Sliwinski

{"title":"Higher loneliness is associated with greater positive and negative emotion instability in everyday life.","authors":"Jee Eun Kang, Dusti R Jones, Joshua M Smyth, Martin J Sliwinski","doi":"10.1080/02699931.2025.2527854","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699931.2025.2527854","url":null,"abstract":"Loneliness is linked to a wide range of negative outcomes, including worse emotional well-being. Although prior research has demonstrated the relationship between loneliness and typical levels of negative and positive emotions, the degree to which loneliness is associated with emotional instability, a potential indicator of unhealthy patterns of emotional experiences, is unknown. We evaluated whether individual differences in loneliness were related to instability across days in positive emotions (PE) and negative emotions (NE) in daily life. A diverse community sample of 252 adults (age 25-65) completed a baseline assessment of loneliness followed by 14 days of ecological momentary assessments, during which participants reported PE and NE five times each day. Loneliness was significantly associated with greater instability in both PE and NE, after adjusting for demographic characteristics, objective social isolation, and person-mean emotion levels. Notably, the association with PE instability remained significant even after controlling for depressive symptoms, whereas the association with NE instability was attenuated and no longer significant. These findings suggest that loneliness is characterised not only by differences in average emotional states but also by greater emotional variability, particularly in PE, which may be a key feature linking loneliness to broader health and well-being outcomes.","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"745-751"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12339758/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144638453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Positivity effects in self-defining memories in men and women across adulthood: different patterns between self-rated affect and content-coded meaning. 成年期男性和女性自我定义记忆的积极效应：自评情感和内容编码意义之间的不同模式。

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Cognition & Emotion Pub Date : 2026-05-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-11 DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2025.2525475

Hsiao-Wen Liao, Gerben J Westerhof

{"title":"Positivity effects in self-defining memories in men and women across adulthood: different patterns between self-rated affect and content-coded meaning.","authors":"Hsiao-Wen Liao, Gerben J Westerhof","doi":"10.1080/02699931.2025.2525475","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699931.2025.2525475","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThe positivity effect (PE) refers to older adults' selective attention and memory to positive over negative information. Older adults often rate their personal memories more positively and less negatively than younger people. However, findings are mixed when memory content is analysed. This study examined the PE using self-report and content-coded measures in self-defining memories (SDMs) and the role of gender in moderating the PE. A representative sample (N = 1985; 18-92 years) reported three SDMs and rated positive and negative affect toward each memory on three occasions within the one-year interval. Each memory was coded for positive and negative meaning-making. Memory valence was also coded to determine positive and negative SDMs. Multilevel analyses showed that age predicted greater positive and lower negative affect. Mixed findings emerged when meaning-making was featured. Age predicted lower positive and lower negative meaning-making in negative SDMs. Gender moderated the PE. Women showed greater age-related negativity reduction than men in negative SDMs assessed by self-rated affect. While women presented greater negative meaning-making in negative SDMs than men, the gap converged in older age. These findings were controlled for mental health symptoms. Together, this study suggests that how SDMs are felt and narrated may be two distinct processes.","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"584-599"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144612345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Eliciting social approach-avoidance conflict within a novel experimental paradigm: psychometric and computational evidence with a successful pre-registered replication. 在一个新的实验范式中引出社会方法-避免冲突：心理测量和计算证据与成功的预注册复制。

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Cognition & Emotion Pub Date : 2026-05-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-05 DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2025.2533382

Travis C Evans, Mikael Rubin, Jiya Arora, Sam Agnoli, Audreyana Jagger-Rickels, Brian Albanese, Joseph DeGutis, Jennifer C Britton, Michael Esterman

{"title":"Eliciting social approach-avoidance conflict within a novel experimental paradigm: psychometric and computational evidence with a successful pre-registered replication.","authors":"Travis C Evans, Mikael Rubin, Jiya Arora, Sam Agnoli, Audreyana Jagger-Rickels, Brian Albanese, Joseph DeGutis, Jennifer C Britton, Michael Esterman","doi":"10.1080/02699931.2025.2533382","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699931.2025.2533382","url":null,"abstract":"Affective facial expressions elicit approach-avoidance motivational responses that shape social behavior. Qualitatively, individuals report frequently experiencing competing motivations to approach and avoid other individuals in social contexts (i.e. social approach-avoidance conflict; AAC). Moreover, theoretical frameworks propose that successful navigation of social AAC plays a critical role in adaptive social behavior. However, despite an extensive array of well-validated, non-social AAC paradigms, no research has developed a paradigm that experimentally elicits and reliably quantifies social AAC in humans. To address this issue, we developed and validated a novel social AAC (SAAC) paradigm with an independent replication across two samples. In the SAAC paradigm, morphed facial expressions are used to parametrically modulate the intensity of social reward (happiness), social threat (anger), or social reward-threat conflict (co-occurring happiness and anger). Demonstrating robust AAC effects, social reward-threat conflict uniquely elicited more intermediate approach-avoidance choice selection and slower reaction times compared to social reward and social threat. Furthermore, computational drift diffusion models demonstrated that social AAC was driven by noisier evidence accumulation processes. Together, these findings demonstrated and replicated that our novel SAAC paradigm reliably elicits social AAC, which may provide a more mechanistic understanding of social behavior and its dysregulation in psychopathology.","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"667-683"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13085876/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144790424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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