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":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2025.2526676","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>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.</p>","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1-31"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-11","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}
{"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":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2025.2525475","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>ABSTRACT</b>The 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 (<i>N</i> = 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.</p>","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-11","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}
Anca Lazar, Marine Rougier, Marco Perugini, Florin A Sava
{"title":"Moderating effect of stimulus presentation type, contingency awareness and anxiety on evaluative conditioning: an attentional perspective.","authors":"Anca Lazar, Marine Rougier, Marco Perugini, Florin A Sava","doi":"10.1080/02699931.2025.2528924","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2025.2528924","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The present study explored how evaluative conditioning (EC) is impacted by the type of stimulus presentation (sequential versus simultaneous), considering also other possible attention- and memory-related moderators at both procedural (contingency awareness, ambivalence) and individual levels (anxiety). A sample of 537 adult participants completed either a simultaneous or sequential conditioning procedure using positive, negative, neutral, and ambivalent unconditioned stimuli (US) paired with neutral conditioned stimuli (CS). Participants evaluated the CS both before and after conditioning and completed a memory task assessing their contingency awareness (memory of the US valence paired with each CS). Results indicated that the EC effect was significantly larger in simultaneous conditioning and in the presence of contingency awareness. Participant's anxiety level did not moderate the effect in either monovalent EC (positive versus negative) or ambivalent EC (ambivalent versus neutral). Findings are discussed in terms of theoretical and practical implications.</p>","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144612344","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}
Mehmet Necip Tunç, Mark J Brandt, Marcel Zeelenberg
{"title":"Are regret and disappointment differentially associated with norm compliant and norm deviant failures?","authors":"Mehmet Necip Tunç, Mark J Brandt, Marcel Zeelenberg","doi":"10.1080/02699931.2025.2524870","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2025.2524870","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>People compare actual decision outcomes with what might, could, or should have been, and they experience negative emotions when the foregone outcomes are better. We hypothesised that the normativity of a decision, whether it is norm-compliant or norm-deviant, also shapes emotional experiences to the outcomes. We expected that norm-deviant decisions would result in more regret than disappointment, because there would be more blame associated with norm-deviant decisions. We expected that norm-compliant decisions would result in more disappointment than regret, because norm-compliant decisions would be associated with higher expectancies. In five pre-registered experiments (<i>N<sub>1</sub></i> = 332, <i>N<sub>2</sub></i> = 334, <i>N<sub>3</sub></i> = 338, <i>N<sub>4</sub></i> = 1284, <i>N<sub>5</sub></i> = 347), participants read about norm-compliant or norm-deviant investment decisions, and were asked to rate how much regret and disappointment the person in the vignette (or they themselves in Experiment 5) would feel. Consistent with the hypotheses, norm compliance was associated with more disappointment than regret and norm deviance was associated with more regret than disappointment, though the effect sizes were small (<i>M<sub>r</sub></i> = 0.14). We also found evidence for that norm-deviant failures in general engender more negative emotional reactions than their norm-compliant counterparts.</p>","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144592639","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}
{"title":"Comparing animal and human emotions - how theory can help (and which one to choose).","authors":"Klaus R Scherer, Klaus Rothermund","doi":"10.1080/02699931.2025.2518724","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2025.2518724","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144565413","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}
Carli Mastronardi, Rachel Smail-Crevier, Josephine H Shih, Lance M Rappaport
{"title":"Manifestation of emotion regulation difficulties in intraindividual emotion dynamics.","authors":"Carli Mastronardi, Rachel Smail-Crevier, Josephine H Shih, Lance M Rappaport","doi":"10.1080/02699931.2025.2525481","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699931.2025.2525481","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Emotion dynamics, which describe affective patterns over time, may illustrate how specific emotion regulation difficulties manifest in daily life. However, limited research links emotion regulation with emotion dynamics assessed naturalistically. In two samples, 62 and 304 university students completed the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale then completed ecological momentary assessments of positive and negative affect thrice daily for seven and 14 days, respectively, to examine mean positive and negative affect, affective variability, affective instability, and emotional inertia. Self-reported emotion regulation difficulties broadly correlated with elevated mean negative affect and lower positive affect. However, no specific association of an emotion regulation difficulty with affective variability, instability, or inertia replicated across samples. Further research is needed with diverse methodologies to explore how in situ emotion dynamics reflect emotion regulation difficulties.</p>","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1-18"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12233195/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144565414","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}
{"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":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2025.2523812","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>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 (<i>N</i> = 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.</p>","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1-7"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-30","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}
Karolina Dyduch-Hazar, Vanessa Mitschke, Andreas B Eder
{"title":"Smiling after witnessing provocateur's suffering: a facial electromyography study.","authors":"Karolina Dyduch-Hazar, Vanessa Mitschke, Andreas B Eder","doi":"10.1080/02699931.2025.2515235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2025.2515235","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Previous research has shown that people derive pleasure from witnessing a provocateur suffer from retaliatory punishment, as indicated by increased activation of the zygomaticus major (ZM) and orbicularis oculi (OO) muscles, along with decreased activation of the corrugator supercilii (CS) muscle. This study examined whether participants (<i>N</i> = 43) would exhibit similar facial reactions when observing a competitor's suffering from punishments administered by a computer rather than by themselves. Results showed that participants smiled (increased ZM and OO activity, decreased CS activity relative to baseline) when observing a provocative competitor in pain compared to when he was not in pain, indicating a pleasurable response. In contrast, they frowned (decreased ZM and OO activity, increased CS activity relative to baseline) when observing a non-provocative competitor in pain, indicating an empathetic concern. These findings suggest that the perception of harm-doing is a critical determinant of schadenfreude in vengeful social interactions.</p>","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144508906","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}
{"title":"From Mozart to Fleetwood Mac: music listening is not detrimental to reading comprehension in university students.","authors":"Dianna Vidas, Nicole L Nelson, Genevieve A Dingle","doi":"10.1080/02699931.2025.2517810","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2025.2517810","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Most university students choose to study with music, yet whether this is detrimental or beneficial for studying remains unclear. We investigated the impact of music listening with 279 participants who \"often listen to music while studying\", using a reading comprehension task as an indicator of study performance. Students were randomly assigned to one of 3 conditions (participant-selected music, background noise, or silence) during reading. We measured reading comprehension test scores, and ratings of emotional positivity and energy before reading, after reading, and post-test. There was no effect of music listening on reading comprehension - participants performed equally well whether they listened to music, background noise, or silence. Music listening did impact emotion - participants in the noise and silence conditions reported decreased positivity after reading, while those in the music condition maintained their positivity. Participants in the music and noise conditions experienced no change in energy, while those who heard silence felt less energised after reading. Analysis of chosen music from participants in the music condition revealed no relationships between audio features and reading scores. These findings indicate that listening to self-selected music has no detrimental impact on reading comprehension and may protect against the decrease in positivity students experience during study.</p>","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144477362","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}
{"title":"What does appraisal theory suggest about animal emotions?","authors":"Rainer Reisenzein","doi":"10.1080/02699931.2025.2520391","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699931.2025.2520391","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In my commentary I expand on the theory-based approach to animal emotions by examining what appraisal theories of emotions suggest about them. I argue that if we assume that core appraisal mechanisms of humans - I focus on the appraisals of motive-congruence and unexpectedness - plus the mechanism underlying the generation of adaptive action goals by appraisals, are innate, then we are implicitly committed to assuming a much larger set of innate components of the human mind. These components include a propositional belief-desire representation system, complete with a basic vocabulary and likely a basic set of beliefs, as well as mechanisms for desire-derivation, action selection and action execution, and a set of basic motives. Because these innate components of the mind are candidates for trans-species continuity, appraisal theory suggests that at least closely related species, and possibly all mammals, share a subset of emotions with humans. Other animal species likely possess nonpropositional analogues of appraisal mechanisms that generate emotion-analogue states. At the same time, even shared \"propositional\" emotions are expected to show substantial differences between humans and nonhuman animals due to several uniquely human adaptations. These include a far greater number and much more complex concepts, the existence of natural language, and cultural transmission.</p>","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144340493","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}