{"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}
Cognition & EmotionPub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2024-09-02DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2024.2398615
Thierry Kosinski, Vincent Leleu
{"title":"The influence of repetitive thoughts of CS-US pairing on expectancy learning and evaluative conditioning: a fundamental study.","authors":"Thierry Kosinski, Vincent Leleu","doi":"10.1080/02699931.2024.2398615","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699931.2024.2398615","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Repetitive thinking is a common phenomenon, also implicated in a variety of mental disorders. The content of repetitive thoughts can take the form of prediction of aversive events (in worry) or evoking negatively valenced information (in rumination), for instance. Investigating the influence of repetitive thinking through the lens of associative learning could help deepen our understanding of the mechanisms involved in its effects.In two experiments, non-clinical participants were exposed to CS-US pairings with the aim of creating non-threatening expectancy learning (Experiment 1) or evaluative conditioning (Experiment 2). After each conditioning trial, participants were instructed to initiate repetitive thoughts about the pairing (i.e. rehearse) or follow control instructions.Experiment 1 (N = 64) showed that such intervention strengthen the association between the mental representations of the CS and the US, leading to a stronger US expectancy in response to the CS. In Experiment 2 (N = 107), an evaluative conditioning effect was observed; however, it was not influenced by instructions.The study demonstrated that simulated repetitive thinking strengthens the CS-US association and leads to greater US expectancy in expectancy learning, despite appearing not to influence the evaluative conditioning effect. The potential implications of these findings on repetitive thinking are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"808-820"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142113500","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}
Cognition & EmotionPub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2024-08-19DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2024.2392614
Liangyu Xing, Wenyu Zhang, Yikuan Kan, Ning Hao
{"title":"The relationship between anger and creative performance: a three-level meta-analysis.","authors":"Liangyu Xing, Wenyu Zhang, Yikuan Kan, Ning Hao","doi":"10.1080/02699931.2024.2392614","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699931.2024.2392614","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A substantial body of empirical research has focused on the interaction between creativity and mood, yet the results regarding the impact of anger on creative performance are notably varied. To clarify the overall relationship between the two, a three-level meta-analysis employing a random effects model was conducted. This analysis reviewed 115 effect sizes from 2,413 participants, revealing that anger is significantly positively correlated with creative performance (<i>r</i> = 0.184, 95% <i>CI</i> [0.111, 0.254]). The strength of this correlation was found to be moderated by the general and malevolent facets of creativity, as well as the procedures used for mood induction. Specifically, anger appears to enhance creative performance, particularly when it is elicited through imaginative processes and directed towards malevolent facet of creativity. However, the link between anger and creative performance was not influenced by the type of creative task used, the reported creative outcome, or the time limitation of the task. These findings contribute to refining the theoretical frameworks of mood and creativity and highlight the practical implications of utilising anger to moderate creative performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"770-791"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142005595","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}
Cognition & EmotionPub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2024-11-06DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2024.2418445
Sercan Kahveci, Hannah van Alebeek, Jens Blechert
{"title":"The dual-feature approach-avoidance task: validity, training efficacy, and the role of contingency awareness in changing food preference.","authors":"Sercan Kahveci, Hannah van Alebeek, Jens Blechert","doi":"10.1080/02699931.2024.2418445","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699931.2024.2418445","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The approach-avoidance task (AAT) probes tendencies contributing to unwanted behaviours, like excessive snacking, by measuring RT differences between approach and avoidance responses to different stimuli. It retrains such tendencies using repeated avoidance of appetitive stimuli and approach of healthy alternatives. The most common paradigm, the irrelevant-feature AAT, conceals these stimulus-response contingencies by requiring approach or avoidance based on features irrelevant to the tendencies (e.g. frame colour). Unfortunately, it is an unreliable measure and not always successful as a training, likely because the stimuli can be ignored. In the novel dual-feature AAT, the <i>combination</i> of stimulus and irrelevant feature determines responses: participants approach foods and avoid objects surrounded by frame A, and vice versa given frame B. We trained 219 online participants to approach fruit and avoid chocolate using active (7:1 stimulus-to-frame contingency) and sham (1:1 stimulus-to-frame contingency) versions of these two trainings. Compared to sham, active irrelevant-feature training was associated with more selection and desire to eat fruit, and active dual-feature training increased approach bias for fruit. Participants' <i>perceived</i> rate of approaching fruit versus chocolate correlated with many outcome measures, suggesting contingency awareness plays a major role in AAT training effectiveness, challenging implicit accounts. While the dual-feature paradigm shows potential, its high error rates, RTs, and difficulty mandate improvement.</p>","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"876-898"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142592145","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}
Cognition & EmotionPub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2024-10-28DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2024.2421400
Mane Kara-Yakoubian, Julia Spaniol
{"title":"Emotional aftermath of the 2020 U.S. presidential election: a study of hindsight bias in younger and older adults.","authors":"Mane Kara-Yakoubian, Julia Spaniol","doi":"10.1080/02699931.2024.2421400","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699931.2024.2421400","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hindsight bias - also known as the knew-it-all-along effect - is a ubiquitous judgment error affecting decision makers. Hindsight bias has been shown to vary across age groups and as a function of contextual factors, such as the decision maker's emotional state. Despite theoretical reasons why emotions might have a stronger impact on hindsight bias in older than in younger adults, age differences in hindsight bias for emotional events remain relatively underexplored. We examined emotion and hindsight bias in younger and older adults (<i>N</i> = 272) against the backdrop of the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Participants predicted electoral college votes for the two presidential candidates before the election and were asked to remember their predictions approximately three weeks later, after the election results had been finalised. Republicans, for whom the electoral outcome was negatively tinged, exhibited greater hindsight bias for President Biden's result compared with Democrats, for whom the electoral outcome was positive. The asymmetry in hindsight bias between Republicans and Democrats was similar for younger and older participants. This study suggests that negative emotions may exacerbate hindsight bias, and that adult age differences in hindsight bias observed in laboratory settings may not translate to real-world contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"899-909"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142523388","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}
Cognition & EmotionPub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2024-08-22DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2024.2392615
Mohsen Joshanloo
{"title":"Level and stability of self-esteem mediate relationships between personality traits and life satisfaction: Bayesian multilevel modeling with annual data.","authors":"Mohsen Joshanloo","doi":"10.1080/02699931.2024.2392615","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699931.2024.2392615","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examined the relationships among the Big Five personality traits, self-esteem levels, self-esteem stability, and life satisfaction over a 15-year period. The primary objectives were to examine whether: (1) self-esteem stability contributed to the prediction of life satisfaction beyond self-esteem level, and (2) both self-esteem level and stability mediated the associations between personality traits and life satisfaction. Bayesian multilevel modelling was conducted on a sample of Dutch adults (<i>N</i> = 4,880), with self-esteem stability operationalised using within-person variance and mean square successive difference. Results indicated that higher levels of self-esteem and self-esteem stability were significantly associated with greater life satisfaction. All Big Five traits predicted higher self-esteem level, while emotional stability and conscientiousness emerged as robust predictors of self-esteem stability with both stability operationalizations. Self-esteem level mediated the relationship between all personality traits and life satisfaction. However, self-esteem stability only mediated the effects of emotional stability and conscientiousness on life satisfaction across both operationalizations of stability. This study provides new insights into the importance of self-esteem stability, in addition to self-esteem level, in shaping well-being. These findings underscore self-esteem levels and dynamics as a crucial mechanism linking personality dispositions to life evaluations.</p>","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"792-807"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142019127","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}
Cognition & EmotionPub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2024-10-21DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2024.2417840
Sandra J E Langeslag, Carissa L Philippi
{"title":"Mind wandering about the beloved: self-reported distraction, task performance, and enjoyment.","authors":"Sandra J E Langeslag, Carissa L Philippi","doi":"10.1080/02699931.2024.2417840","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699931.2024.2417840","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Romantic love is associated with mind wandering about the beloved. We tested associations between mind wandering about the beloved and infatuation, attachment, self-reported distraction, task performance, and enjoyment. Participants who were in love completed self-report measures and a sustained attention response task with thought probes. Participants reported thinking about their beloved for 67% of the time in general and up to 42% of the time during task performance. Thinking about the beloved in general was positively associated with infatuation (passionate love) but not with attachment (companionate love). The more time participants reported thinking about their beloved in general, the more distracting they found it and the less they could withhold a response to no go stimuli. The more participants thought about their beloved during the task, the slower their responses to go stimuli were. In contrast to the negative terminology typically used to describe frequent thoughts about the beloved, such as intrusive or obsessive thinking, participants overwhelmingly enjoyed thinking about their beloved. The findings suggest that romantic love impairs cognitive task performance because people are thinking about their beloved instead, which may negatively impact performance at school and work. Nevertheless, people seem to greatly enjoy thinking about their beloved.</p>","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"920-927"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142477998","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}