Anna Tapola, Anna Maria Rawlings, Riikka Mononen, Pinja Tähti, Johan Korhonen
{"title":"The interplay of cognition and affect in fourth graders' math performance: role of working memory in mediating the effects of math anxiety and math interest on arithmetic fluency.","authors":"Anna Tapola, Anna Maria Rawlings, Riikka Mononen, Pinja Tähti, Johan Korhonen","doi":"10.1080/02699931.2025.2516660","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2025.2516660","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Working memory (WM) capacity may influence students' math performance together with their affective experiences, such as math anxiety (MA) and math interest. It has also been suggested that the influence of affect on performance might go through WM. The negative relationship between MA and math performance is well-established, and some studies have found WM to mediate this association. However, little is known, first, about the relationship between WM and math interest, and second, about the potential mediating effect of WM between interest and math performance. This study examined the direct and mediated effects of MA and interest through WM on fourth graders' (N = 332) performance in arithmetic fluency while controlling for generalised anxiety. Findings from structural equation modelling showed MA to predict performance negatively, while the effects of WM and interest were positive. There was a negative indirect effect from MA through WM on performance indicating partial mediation, while a corresponding, but positive, effect was not found for interest. Our results suggest that while both negative and positive affective experiences are related to math performance, the role of WM in explaining this link may be more pronounced regarding MA than interest.</p>","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144318430","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 emotion to action: developmental differences in linking discrete emotions to behaviour.","authors":"Zeynep B Özden, Eric A Walle","doi":"10.1080/02699931.2025.2517361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2025.2517361","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Understanding how discrete emotional experiences correspond with their likely behavioural responses is essential for navigating social interactions. While emotion understanding is typically examined via emotion labels, appreciation for the behaviours associated with emotions remains understudied, particularly in early development. This study explored 4- and 5-year-old children's and college students' understanding of behavioural consequences associated with anger, disgust, fear, and sadness using a novel task with minimal verbal demands and no emotion labels. Participants viewed illustrated stories depicting emotion-eliciting events and selected a matching behavioural consequence. Each target behaviour was based on prior research (Frijda et al., 1989. Relations among emotion, appraisal, and emotional action readiness. <i>Journal of Personality and Social Psychology</i>, <i>57</i>(2), 212-228. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.57.2.212) examining action tendencies associated with discrete emotions. Results showed that older children and college students performed above chance for selecting the target behavioural response for disgust and sadness, whereas younger children did not. Additionally, younger and older children selected the target behaviour for anger above chance, but college students performed significantly below chance. No age group matched the target behaviour for fear above chance. These findings highlight age-related differences in associating behavioural consequences with emotions. Moreover, the visual measure limiting verbal demands and explicit emotion labels provides exciting possibilities to broaden our knowledge of the behavioural consequences of emotions in young populations.</p>","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144318429","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":"Retellings of emotional videos: the dynamics of gesture characteristics in diverse emotion categories.","authors":"Süleyman Can Ceylan, Demet Özer, Tilbe Göksun","doi":"10.1080/02699931.2025.2516659","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2025.2516659","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We express and ground our emotions through multiple channels. Across these channels, gestures play a critical role in emotion communication, yet how characteristics of gestures change across different emotion categories is still not well understood. We investigated the gesture characteristics (i.e. frequency, type, hand use, location, and direction) when individuals talk about emotional content. In a within-subject design, speakers (<i>n</i> = 36) described video clips representing happiness, anger, sadness, and neutral emotions. Our results showed that more representational gestures were produced while retelling videos for happiness and neutral than anger and sadness. Participants used both hands more frequently than their left hands for the retelling of happiness and used both hands more frequently than the left or right hands for the retelling of anger. Furthermore, gestures were predominantly performed at the centre of the body across happiness, anger, and neutral categories, with a notable preference for the vertical axis in the happiness category. Overall, these results suggest that specific gesture characteristics can be reflected in different emotion categories.</p>","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144286886","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":"The effect of emotion on prospective memory: a three-level meta-analytic review.","authors":"Zixuan Zhao, Xinyuan Zhang","doi":"10.1080/02699931.2025.2508391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2025.2508391","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Prospective memory (PM), or the ability to remember to perform planned actions in the future, is fundamental in daily life. As a potential influencing factor of prospective memory, emotion has garnered significant attention. However, prior studies examining the impact of emotion on PM yield mixed findings. This study systematically reviewed 37 studies examining the effects of emotion on prospective memory, extracting a total of 171 effect sizes. The main effect analysis from the three-level meta-analysis revealed that positive emotions enhance prospective memory performance, supporting the positive effect theory. However, the facilitating effect of emotion varied depending on factors such as prospective memory task type, participant age, emotion induction method, study design, and the ecological validity of the experiment. The current study represents the first comprehensive review and meta-analysis of emotion's impact on PM and proposes directions for future research on emotional effects on PM.</p>","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144259147","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":"The role of motivation in delayed disengagement from threat in anxiety.","authors":"Agnes Musikoyo, Andrew E Rayment, Poppy Watson","doi":"10.1080/02699931.2025.2514625","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2025.2514625","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The idea that highly anxious individuals have difficulty disengaging attention from threat is widely accepted, yet empirical support is limited. The term \"difficulty\" implies an involuntary delay in disengagement, but this has not been rigorously tested. Across three pre-registered experiments, we examined disengagement using different stimuli and protocols. Emotional and neutral images appeared at fixation, and healthy participants varying in self-reported anxiety were required to respond to a target elsewhere on the screen. Disengagement time was measured using eye-tracking (Experiment 1) and manual response times (Experiments 2 and 3). Motivation to disengage was manipulated by punishing slow responses (Exp. 1) or rewarding fast responses (Exp. 2 and 3). In Experiment 1, participants were slower to move their eyes away from a stimulus predicting punishment, regardless of anxiety level, even when delay resulted in an aversive noise. In Experiments 2 and 3, spider and snake images (but not emotional faces) slowed disengagement, but this effect was unrelated to anxiety or motivation. Disengagement bias scores showed poor reliability across all studies. These findings cast doubt on the idea that anxiety is reliably associated with impaired attentional disengagement from threat.</p>","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1-24"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144235576","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":"Pupil responses to emotion regulation strategies: the role of attachment orientations.","authors":"Marcos Domic-Siede, Mónica Guzmán-González, Andrea Sánchez-Corzo, Leydi Granillo, Constanza Salazar, Millaray Silva, Romina Ortiz, Tomás Ossandón","doi":"10.1080/02699931.2025.2512886","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2025.2512886","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Attachment theory posits that early relationships shape emotional development through Internal Working Models of self and others, reflected in attachment dimensions (anxiety and avoidance). These dimensions influence emotion regulation (ER) and the strategies used to manage emotions, with physiological manifestations, such as pupil dilation. This study investigates how attachment anxiety and avoidance interact with perceived ER success (PERCS) and emotional arousal to influence pupil size during cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression. Eighty-five adults (ages 18-58) viewed emotional images from the <i>International Affective Picture System</i>, including both negative and neutral stimuli, while implementing these two ER strategies. Pupil diameter was recorded continuously from stimulus onset (0 ms) to 4,000 ms. Linear mixed-effects modelling revealed that reappraisal, compared to suppression, elicited greater pupil dilation, particularly between 500 and 4,000 ms post-stimulus. Attachment anxiety exhibited increased pupil dilation during reappraisal, reflecting heightened cognitive effort and hypervigilance, while attachment avoidance showed the opposite pattern, with reduced pupil dilation. Emotional arousal significantly predicted larger pupil size across conditions. Additionally, higher PERCS were associated with smaller pupil dilation during reappraisal. These findings emphasize the role of attachment dimensions in shaping physiological responses during emotional challenges.</p>","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1-18"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144235575","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":"Everything is going to be okay: emotion regulation and immune neglect in affective forecasting.","authors":"Prsni Patel, Heather L Urry","doi":"10.1080/02699931.2025.2511974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2025.2511974","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>People make errors when forecasting future negative affect possibly due to immune neglect, the failure to account for the activity of the psychological immune system that regulates negative affect. This study examined the effect of emotion regulation (ER) on affective forecasting (AF) errors due to immune neglect during an everyday, navigation task. Participants (<i>N</i> = 173) were randomly assigned to use ER strategies that typically vary in their effectiveness (cognitive reappraisal, suppression, or no strategy) prior to forecasting. We reasoned that if we found smaller AF errors for participants who were assigned to use ER strategies versus those who were not, this would indicate that the underlying mechanism of forecasting errors was immune neglect in a control condition. Presumably, participants in the reappraisal and suppression conditions would not ignore their psychological immune systems and, thus, make smaller forecasting errors than those in the control condition. Contrary to the hypothesis, participants showed similar levels of AF errors across all three ER conditions. Overall, this study suggests that ER does not always contribute to AF errors via immune neglect in everyday situations.</p>","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144235574","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":"Do we see what we feel? A comparative study of spider size estimation among experts and people who are highly fearful of spiders.","authors":"Yahel Dror Ben-Baruch, Yoram Zvik, Noga Cohen","doi":"10.1080/02699931.2025.2510388","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2025.2510388","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The existence of fear-driven perceptual biases is well-established in the research literature and explained by survival mechanisms, whereas findings on perceptual biases among experts remain inconsistent. This study is the first to compare the impact of emotion and expertise on perception by examining spider size estimation among spider-fearful individuals (<i>N</i> = 58), spider experts (<i>N</i> = 59) and a control group (<i>N</i> = 52). Participants estimated the size of spiders, butterflies and wasps depicted in pictures. In line with prior findings, highly fearful individuals overestimated the size of spiders but not the size of butterflies, while control group members rated the two types of animals similarly. Spider experts demonstrated relatively accurate size estimation across all stimuli. These results highlight the dominant role of emotion over expertise in perceptual biases, with spider-fearful individuals exaggerating spider size and experts maintaining accuracy. This study bridges the gap between emotion-driven and expertise-driven perceptual biases, offering insights into the differential effects of fear and specialised knowledge on visual perception.</p>","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144183080","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":"Can participants authoritatively report on the emotional valence of their mind wandering?","authors":"Matthew S Welhaf, Jonathan B Banks","doi":"10.1080/02699931.2025.2507693","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2025.2507693","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Individuals might vary in their ability to accurately monitor their ongoing conscious experiences of mind wandering. Such findings have serious implications for understanding the accuracy of participants' ability to report their ongoing thoughts. We extend these previous findings to ask if individuals vary in the ability to accurately monitor and report on the emotional valence of their task-unrelated thoughts (TUTs). Participants completed a sustained attention task with periodic thought probes asking about emotional valence of their TUTs. Following these thought reports, they provided a confidence judgement. Participants were less confident in their TUTs compared to on-task reports. Among emotionally valenced TUTs, participants were more confident when reporting negatively valenced TUTs but less (and similarly) confident when reporting neutral and positive TUTs. Confidence moderated the within-subject relationship between positive TUTs and no-go accuracy. There was no moderating effect of confidence on more covert measures of mind wandering including mean response time or response time variability. We discuss the implications of these findings by suggesting that while people might vary in their ability to monitor and report on different aspects of their mind wandering, it is also possible that performance-induced confounds are introduced that could muddy the reliability of these reports.</p>","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144175437","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":"Measuring multiple automatic product appraisals simultaneously: introduction and examination of the implicit attribute classification task.","authors":"Daria Altenburg, Adriaan Spruyt","doi":"10.1080/02699931.2025.2508396","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699931.2025.2508396","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Past research has demonstrated that both carefully formed, contemplated attitudes, but also spontaneously elicited, automatic evaluations play a crucial role in motivating behaviour. However, the accurate measurement of automatic appraisals can be challenging because existing measures can assess automatic appraisals on single attribute dimensions only (e.g. \"pleasant\"/\"unpleasant\"). This limitation is particularly critical in consumer decision making because (a) products are never unidimensional, and (b) past research has demonstrated that the complex weighting of various product dimensions (e.g. price, taste, healthiness) often plays a crucial role in consumer decision making. Here, we present the Implicit Attribute Classification Task (\"IMPACT\"), a new measure of automatic product appraisals that, crucially, was designed specifically to reflect the multidimensionality of stimuli by assessing automatic appraisals of multiple facets simultaneously. Across six experiments, we systematically investigate the paradigm in a series of IMPACTS that examine different facets of automaticity. Our findings make a substantial contribution to research on implicit (consumer) cognition by introducing the IMPACT as a sophisticated new tool that, for the first time, facilitates the assessment of automatic appraisals of multiple facets at once.</p>","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1-29"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144175475","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}