{"title":"The influences of emotion on covert and overt retrieval practice effects.","authors":"Qi Zhang, Xiaofeng Ma, Xiuyun Qiang","doi":"10.1080/02699931.2025.2566297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2025.2566297","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Overt and covert retrieval represent two distinct response formats in retrieval practice. While prior research has demonstrated that negative emotion influences individuals' retrieval processing, it remains unclear how emotional valence affects covert and overt retrieval practice. Therefore, we manipulated two within-subjects factors (emotion and learning condition) in Experiments 1 and 2. In both experiments, we used a modified paradigm of retrieval practice. The paradigm included three phases: (a) an initial study phase, (b) a second phase with restudy, overt retrieval practice, or covert retrieval practice, and (c) a final recall test. The final recall test was administered within a short retention interval (5 min) in Experiment 1 and a long retention interval (2 days) in Experiment 2. We observed that overt retrieval led to a better final recall test performance than restudy under positive emotion in both experiments, suggesting the production effect of overt retrieval. Furthermore, these two experiments consistently showed absence of overt and covert retrieval practice effects under negative emotion, indicating the disruptive effects of negative emotion on both overt and covert retrieval practice. Our study contributes to the growing body of literature exploring the potential influencing factors for overt and covert retrieval practice effects.</p>","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145214224","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":"Development and validation of an audio corpus for inducing state shyness.","authors":"Liang Li, Hong Li","doi":"10.1080/02699931.2025.2551082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2025.2551082","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>State shyness refers to a transient emotional experience characterised by simultaneous approach and avoidance tendencies when individuals encounter novel stimuli or perceive social evaluations, representing a common phenomenon in daily social interactions. Current methods for eliciting state shyness, such as public speaking tasks, often involve complex indirect experimental designs and depend on post-hoc behavioural coding, making it difficult to precisely induce and synchronously measure state shyness, thus limiting their application in controlled experimental settings. To address this methodological limitation, this research developed and validated an audio-based corpus specifically designed for the direct induction of state shyness. The corpus consists of two subsets, each containing 25 standardised social scenarios. In Study 1, semi-structured interviews with 126 university students informed the creation of these scenarios, which were subsequently refined through thematic analysis. The efficacy of the corpus was then validated through self-reported state shyness ratings from 58 participants. Study 2 further validated the corpus's reliability by employing Electrodermal Activity as an objective physiological measure with 37 participants. This research offers a standardised and easily deployable tool for inducing state shyness in controlled experimental contexts, enabling direct and precise inducing state shyness.</p>","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145201761","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}
Maria Krajuškina, Annikki Remmelgas, Helen Uusberg, Andero Uusberg
{"title":"Unpacking reappraisal: different appraisal shifts underlie reappraisal effects on valence and activation.","authors":"Maria Krajuškina, Annikki Remmelgas, Helen Uusberg, Andero Uusberg","doi":"10.1080/02699931.2025.2566298","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2025.2566298","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Reappraisal is a common emotion regulation strategy that involves adjusting how a situation is appraised. According to the reAppraisal framework, different reappraisals operate by shifting values along appraisal dimensions, such as relevance, certainty, congruence, controllability, and accountability. We investigated which appraisal shifts, measured at broad and granular levels, are involved in reappraisal targeting different affective states with different affective outcomes. In an online study (<i>N</i> = 510), participants read four illustrated vignettes designed to elicit positive and negative affect with high and low activation. They rated their negative affect, positive affect, affective activation, and appraisals of each situation before and after using reappraisal. Latent change score models revealed that changes in affective outcomes were significantly associated with shifts in conceptually related appraisal dimensions. Specifically, changes in negative and positive affect were related to shifts in congruence, while changes in activation were associated with shifts in relevance and controllability. Some appraisal shifts targeting different affective states were universal, while others specific to a single vignette. Many findings involved specific aspects of broad appraisal dimensions, underscoring the value of granular measurement. These findings strengthen the case for considering appraisal shifts among key cognitive mechanisms of reappraisal.</p>","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145192985","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":"Mediators and moderators of the relation between social anxiety symptoms and positive emotions: a comparison of two reminiscence strategies.","authors":"Sarah E Dreyer-Oren, Elise M Clerkin","doi":"10.1080/02699931.2025.2562018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2025.2562018","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Social anxiety is associated with diminished ability to savour positive emotions. This study tested whether three constructs associated with social anxiety: experiential avoidance, fear of positive evaluation, and fear of positive emotion, mediated the relation between social anxiety and increases in positive emotions following a reminiscence savouring task. The study also tested whether visual perspective adopted during reminiscence moderated these relationships. 196 college student participants were asked to reminisce from an immersed, first-person visual perspective or a distanced, third-person visual perspective. In line with hypotheses, greater social anxiety predicted greater experiential avoidance, which predicted smaller increases in positive emotions in the immersed, but not distanced, condition. There was no moderated mediation effect for fear of positive emotion. Contrary to expectations, fear of positive evaluation was associated with greater increases in positive emotions in the immersed condition, but lower increases in the distanced condition. Findings suggest that social anxiety led to diminished reminiscence benefits through different mechanisms, which differentially interact with savouring strategies to influence positive emotions.</p>","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145151086","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 verbal cues in eliciting intrusive memories in a non-clinical population: a laboratory study.","authors":"Ben Plimpton, Lia Kvavilashvili","doi":"10.1080/02699931.2025.2558192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2025.2558192","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Diary and laboratory-based studies of Involuntary Autobiographical Memories (IAMs) have demonstrated the importance of verbal cues in bringing these memories to conscious awareness. These methods have been less frequently applied to the study of repetitive, unwanted Intrusive Memories (IMs), and less is known about the cues for this type of memory. The present studies represent the first investigation of verbal cueing for participants' own IMs under controlled laboratory conditions. The results of Study 1 showed that it was possible to elicit IMs, nominated by non-clinical participants before the study, by engaging them in a simple vigilance task with a steady stream of incidental verbal cues. Moreover, more IMs (and spontaneous thoughts including IAMs) were elicited in the condition with incidental verbal cues than in the control condition with less meaningful stimuli (maths calculations). The findings were replicated and extended in Study 2, which demonstrated more clearly the importance of personalised cues, overlapping with the contents of nominated IMs, in eliciting self-nominated IMs in the laboratory. The findings have implications for ongoing theoretical debates about the relationship of IMs to IAMs and suggest that real-life IMs experienced by the general population can be studied as analogue intrusions present in PTSD.</p>","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1-21"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145151253","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":"Emotional content affects the fidelity of visual working memory recall.","authors":"Zeinab Haghian, Abdol-Hossein Vahabie, Ehsan Rezayat","doi":"10.1080/02699931.2025.2563056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2025.2563056","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Our working memory (VWM) is susceptible to distortions influenced by various sources. This study investigates how the emotional valence of faces leads to systematic biases in VWM recall. To explore this, we implemented a delayed-reproduction task using a cued recall from a memory set of three faces. Thirty-one participants recalled the emotional valence of a target face, specified by its serial position (1, 2, or 3), by selecting a response from a continuous spectrum of 19 morphed faces. Data were analyzed using Generalized Linear Mixed-Effects Models (GLMMs) to account for trial-to-trial dependencies and individual differences. The findings demonstrate a robust \"diminished intensity\" bias: intensely emotional faces, both happy and sad, were consistently recalled as being more neutral than they were. This central tendency effect was the primary source of recall error. The magnitude of this bias was further modulated by cognitive load (cued serial position) and trial history. Emotional content systematically distorts VWM representations, largely driven by a regression toward the mean. This suggests that fundamental cognitive mechanisms, such as central tendency bias, are key drivers of how emotional information is maintained and recalled, with recall fidelity being shaped by an interplay between stimulus intensity, cognitive load, and temporal dynamics.</p>","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145132142","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":"Meta-emotion-regulation: a conceptual framework for influencing emotion regulation behaviour.","authors":"Lorenz Kraft, Jana Kizil, Katajun Lindenberg","doi":"10.1080/02699931.2025.2560687","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2025.2560687","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>If the short-term effectiveness or long-term adaptivity of emotion regulation (ER) depends on the specific ER (covert or overt) behaviours that are executed, it is important to know how to influence those behaviours. Whereas ER refers to influencing emotions, meta-emotion-regulation (MER) refers to influencing ER behaviours. Instead of trying to close the gap between desired and perceived emotion (like ER), MER tries to close the gap between intended and actual ER behaviour. We show how the concept of MER extends previous ideas by focusing on the determinants of ER choice and behaviour. Furthermore, we propose a first collection of potential MER strategies that may help increase desirable and decrease undesirable ER behaviour (e.g. deliberate practice or stimulus control). We also call for a research programme of identifying and testing MER strategies through experimental manipulations of probable ER choice determinants like ER beliefs or motivation. This could lead to new and refined clinical interventions and treatments in the context of ER, for example, by creating precise interventions aimed at reducing maladaptive avoidance, rumination, aggressive or addictive behaviour.</p>","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145126348","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}
Mariola Laguna, Natalia Łukawska, Michał Kędra, Emilia Mielniczuk
{"title":"Do negative emotional experiences facilitate or hinder prosocial behaviour?","authors":"Mariola Laguna, Natalia Łukawska, Michał Kędra, Emilia Mielniczuk","doi":"10.1080/02699931.2025.2557365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2025.2557365","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>While positive emotions are widely believed to drive prosocial behaviour, the role of negative emotions remains unclear. This research investigates the relationships between negative emotional experiences - anger, guilt, sadness, fear, and negative affect - and prosocial behaviour across three complementary studies. Study 1 examined the associations of anger, guilt, sadness, and fear with helping Ukrainian refugees in Poland (<i>N</i> = 365) during the early weeks of Russia's invasion but found no significant effect. Study 2 used a laboratory experiment (<i>N</i> = 203) to test the impact of anger, sadness, fear, and guilt on two prosocial actions - financial donations and helping the experimenter. Despite successful emotion induction, negative emotions had no effect. Study 3 employed a diary methodology, collecting 943 observations from 148 participants over seven days, to examine daily negative affect and prosocial behaviour. Multilevel modelling revealed no statistically significant associations between negative affect on a given or previous day and daily prosocial behaviour. Across all three studies, negative emotions and negative affect consistently showed no statistically significant relationships with prosocial behaviour. These findings challenge the theories emphasising the motivational role of negative emotions in helping actions, suggesting that trait prosocialness may shape helping behaviour more than transient emotional experiences.</p>","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145065880","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}
Jana Sophie Kesenheimer, Verena Aignesberger, Tobias Greitemeyer
{"title":"The ecological bad is stronger than good: emotions toward harmful behaviour shape attitudes and actions more.","authors":"Jana Sophie Kesenheimer, Verena Aignesberger, Tobias Greitemeyer","doi":"10.1080/02699931.2025.2554698","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2025.2554698","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Two studies highlighted the crucial role of emotions towards harmful vs. friendly behaviours in environmental decision-making. Study 1 (<i>N</i> = 687) explored the link between pro-environmental attitudes, anticipated emotions, and choices in hypothetical scenarios. Study 2, an experience sampling study (<i>N</i> = 233), analyzed 2005 real-life behaviours to examine the relationship between experienced emotions and environmental attitudes. Results indicated that pro-environmental attitudes were particularly related to emotional anticipations and experiences regarding environmentally harmful (vs. environmentally friendly) behaviour. Importantly, the anticipated emotions regarding harmful actions significantly influenced behavioural decisions more than those related to pro-environmental actions, mediating the relationship between pro-environmental attitudes and eventual behavioural decisions. The findings support the \"bad is stronger than good\" principle, regardless of the valence of people`s emotional experience.</p>","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145024473","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":"Moderators of emotion regulation abnormalities at the identification, selection, and implementation stages in schizophrenia.","authors":"Ian M Raugh, Gregory P Strauss","doi":"10.1080/02699931.2025.2551079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2025.2551079","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Individuals with schizophrenia (SZ) experience difficulties across stages of emotion regulation. However, moderators of abnormalities at each stage have not been systematically examined, limiting the development of mechanism-based treatment approaches. In the current study, outpatients with SZ (n = 52) and healthy controls (CN) (n = 55) completed six days of ecological momentary assessment (EMA) assessing emotional experience, emotion regulation, and moderators including: arousal, emotional awareness, ability to describe emotions, interoception, acceptance, emotion regulation knowledge, and cognitive ability. For identification, emotional awareness and the ability to describe emotions moderated the initiation of emotion regulation in the CN group but not SZ. For selection, interoceptive awareness moderated the frequency of selecting individual strategies in CN only. For implementation, arousal, emotional awareness, and ability to describe emotions improved the effectiveness of down-regulating negative affect in CN but not SZ. Findings suggest that arousal, interoception, emotional awareness, and the ability to describe emotions facilitate emotion regulation processes at the three stages among CN but not SZ. This is consistent with theories positing that SZ engage in contextually insensitive emotion regulation. Findings are discussed in relation to selecting intervention targets tailored to mechanisms underlying abnormalities at each stage of emotion regulation.</p>","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145001761","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}