{"title":"The dissociable effects of humorous reappraisal on free recall and recognition/implicit memory.","authors":"Zheru Dai, Ruiqi Zhao, Yanming Hou, Jing Luo, Xiaofei Wu","doi":"10.1080/02699931.2025.2467079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2025.2467079","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Humour is regarded as an adaptive coping strategy which could effectively reduce negative emotions. To fundamentally evaluate the function of humour reappraisal, our study aimed to explore the emotion-regulatory advantage effect of humour reappraisal from the perspective of memory mechanisms. Using a learning-testing paradigm, we examined the memory effects of humour reappraisal: first presented humour (or non-humour) reappraisal interpretations of the negative pictures during the learning phase and tested the memory performance from three aspects: free recall, recognition, and implicit memory in the test phase. The results found a superior effect of humorous reappraisal in free recall performance but reduced memory performance for negative stimuli in the recognition and implicit tests. This may be due to the refined processing of humour reappraisal during encoding, the memory content being updated and transformed after cognitive reconstruction, and the original negative pictures no longer being familiar during recognition. The dissociable result in free recall and implicit/recognition of humorous reappraisal suggested that humour reappraisal was an optimal strategy for coping with negative stimuli by fundamentally regulating negative emotions through \"cognitive restructuring\" rather than \"forgetting.\" This provided advantageous evidence for the humour reappraisal as an adaptive emotion regulation strategy from a memory perspective.</p>","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144800654","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}
Ryan T Daley, Minjae J Kim, Liane Young, Elizabeth A Kensinger
{"title":"Breaching of the U.S. Capitol: memory and moral judgment.","authors":"Ryan T Daley, Minjae J Kim, Liane Young, Elizabeth A Kensinger","doi":"10.1080/02699931.2025.2544074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2025.2544074","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Collective memories play important social roles for individuals within society. Although other types of memory content (e.g. autobiographical and associative memory) appear to guide decision-making in social and moral contexts, it is unclear how or whether collective memories are associated with third-person moral evaluations. Also, updating third-person moral evaluations can be impacted by broader narrative contexts. The primary goal of the present study was to determine whether particular collective memory details (described here as prioritised details) associated with a specific event (i.e. the breaching of the U.S. Capitol building) or other related collective memories (described here as general event memories), are associated with evaluations of groups of U.S. Senators, based on whether they followed their intended voting behaviour, or changed their voting behaviour following the breaching. Liberal participants' prioritised memories included more details overall than conservatives', and the more details liberals retrieved, the more they differentiated evaluations of the Senator groups. Liberals and conservatives showed a positive correlation between prioritised memory details and the number of general event memories retrieved, but general event memories were not associated with subsequent evaluations of Senators. These findings point to a role for specific details from collective memories in third-person evaluations.</p>","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144795875","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":"Deep neural network models of emotion understanding.","authors":"Mark Allen Thornton","doi":"10.1080/02699931.2025.2543569","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2025.2543569","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Deep neural networks (DNNs) provide a useful computational framework for constructing cognitive models of emotion understanding. This paper provides a focused discussion of the use of DNNs in this context. It begins by defining three key components of emotion understanding - perception, prediction, and regulation - and discussing how each can be modelling using different deep learning architectures. It continues by positioning what DNN models can contribute to affective science in relation to important existing theoretical perspectives, including both domain-general frameworks like Bayesian cognitive modelling, and domain-specific frameworks, such as the theory of constructed emotion. The paper highlights both the strengths and limitations of DNNs as cognitive models and provides guidance for how to capitalise on the former while mitigating the latter.</p>","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144795876","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}
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":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2025.2533382","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>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, <i>non-social</i> 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.</p>","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","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":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tracking anger at self and others and non-suicidal self-injury cognitions and behavior: an ecological momentary assessment study in emerging adults.","authors":"Serafine Dierickx, Laurence Claes, Dirk Smits, Glenn Kiekens","doi":"10.1080/02699931.2025.2536523","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2025.2536523","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although anger is theorised to play a key role in the manifestation of non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI), prospective research in real-world settings is limited. Therefore, the present study examines (1) whether individuals with and without a history of NSSI differ in anger levels in their natural setting and (2) whether heightened self- or other-directed anger predicts NSSI cognitions (i.e. thoughts and self-efficacy to resist NSSI) and behaviour in daily life. Using ecological momentary assessment in 60 emerging adults (ages 18-22) with and without past-year NSSI, participants completed eight daily surveys over 12 days, yielding 4,587 assessments (median compliance = 83.3%; IQR = 71.9-91.7). Emerging adults who used NSSI in the past year reported higher anger at self and others than peers without NSSI history, with higher-than-usual anger at self, but not at others, predicting greater NSSI thought intensity and lower self-efficacy to resist NSSI 90 minutes later. Anger at self also signaled increased risk for NSSI behaviour, but this association became non-significant when controlling for NSSI thoughts. These findings highlight differences in the object of anger between individuals with and without past-year NSSI and underscore the clinical importance of interventions focused on reducing self-directed anger to decrease NSSI thoughts and ultimately prevent self-injury.</p>","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144785683","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":"Emotion-enhanced source memory: effects of age and experimental setting.","authors":"Nikoletta Symeonidou","doi":"10.1080/02699931.2025.2541766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2025.2541766","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This preregistered research examined whether younger and older adults robustly show enhanced source memory for socio-emotional versus neutral sources in a lab- and online-based experimental setting. The Lab Experiment (<i>N</i> = 138) was conducted in a lab room with German-speaking younger and older adults, while the Online Experiment (<i>N</i> = 136) was run on Prolific with English-speaking younger and older samples. In both experiments, neutral faces (= items) were shown on positive, negative, or neutral scenes (= sources) and participants rated at encoding how (un)pleased the face appeared. All stimuli were selected based on valence and arousal norms, ensuring their intended socio-emotional character. Memory was measured with a multinomial model. Across experiments, participants rated faces as least pleased when paired with negative scenes, moderately pleased with neutral scenes, and most pleased with positive scenes. Lab-recruited older adults additionally exhibited a positivity bias, which, however, was absent online. Source memory results revealed that younger adults in both experiments did not benefit from emotional sources. In contrast, lab-recruited older adults showed better source memory for emotional, especially positive, sources; this benefit was, however, absent online. Lower compliance and distractibility in the Online Experiment are discussed as explanations for the diverging results.</p>","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144785682","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 : 2025-08-01Epub Date: 2024-11-20DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2024.2429736
Eline Belmans, Keisuke Takano, Patricia Bijttebier, Caroline Braet, Filip Raes
{"title":"Persistent negative self-referent thinking in the context of depression: examining the role of temperament and emotion regulation.","authors":"Eline Belmans, Keisuke Takano, Patricia Bijttebier, Caroline Braet, Filip Raes","doi":"10.1080/02699931.2024.2429736","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699931.2024.2429736","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cognitive models of depression posit that persistent negative self-referent thinking (PNSRT) is an important vulnerability factor for depressive symptoms. The mechanisms involved are still understudied, especially in adolescence. PNSRT has been assessed by a behavioural decision-making task, namely the emotional reversal learning task (ERLT). Within the ERLT, PNSRT is operationalised as the learning rate for negative self-reference. The first aim of the current study is to examine the association between PNSRT and depressive symptoms at baseline and follow-up. Second, the current study investigated associations of PNSRT with temperamental and emotion regulation variables. We found no significant effect between PNSRT and baseline depressive symptoms, although the small effect size pointed in the expected direction. No significant prospective effect was found. Additionally, adolescents with greater capacity for response inhibition and better attentional control exhibited less PNSRT. No other significant associations were found with other temperamental dimensions or emotion regulation variables. In conclusion, while the small effect size of the cross-sectional association between PNSRT and depressive symptoms points in the expected direction, no significant evidence was found that PNSRT acts as either a concomitant or precursor to depressive symptomatology. However, the current study did find a relation between low effortful control and PNSRT.</p>","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1093-1107"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142683101","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 : 2025-08-01Epub Date: 2024-12-02DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2024.2433516
Signy Sheldon, Luke Atack, Nguyet Ngo, Morris Moscovitch, David A Moscovitch
{"title":"Targeting schema change in social anxiety via autobiographical memory reconstruction.","authors":"Signy Sheldon, Luke Atack, Nguyet Ngo, Morris Moscovitch, David A Moscovitch","doi":"10.1080/02699931.2024.2433516","DOIUrl":"10.1080/02699931.2024.2433516","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Negative self-schemas are fundamental to social anxiety disorder and contribute to its persistence, thus understanding how to change schemas is of critical importance. Memory-based interventions and associated theories propose that reconstructing autobiographical memories tethered to schemas with conceptual details that challenge the associated expectations will lead to schema change. Here, we test this proposal in a between-subjects behavioural experiment with undergraduate participants with social anxiety. All participants were asked to recall aversive social memories, evaluated these memories on a series of scales, including estimates of reoccurrence, and provided ratings of negative and positive schema beliefs. Next, half the participants reconstructed (rescripted) these aversive memories with conceptual details that challenged the active schema (conceptual condition) and the other half reconstructed the memories with additional experiential details (perceptual condition). All participants provided again evaluations of the original memory and their schema beliefs. Our analysis revealed that the conceptual condition led to significant reductions in negative self-schemas, increases in positive self-schemas, and decreases in estimates of future negative event reoccurrence. Thus, effective schema-change, both a weakening of negative schemas and a strengthening of more positive, adaptive schemas, is dependent on altering the underlying meaning of associated autobiographical memories.</p>","PeriodicalId":48412,"journal":{"name":"Cognition & Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1176-1184"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142773802","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}