EmotionPub Date : 2025-07-28DOI: 10.1037/emo0001566
Tarren Leon, Gabrielle Weidemann, Ian I Kneebone, Phoebe E Bailey
{"title":"Age, affect, and social closeness: An experience sampling study of advice-taking across the adult lifespan.","authors":"Tarren Leon, Gabrielle Weidemann, Ian I Kneebone, Phoebe E Bailey","doi":"10.1037/emo0001566","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001566","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Little is known about the degree to which older adults rely on advice in their everyday decision-making, as well as predictors and outcomes of their advice-taking. The present study aimed to examine whether social closeness and momentary affect predict advice-taking across the adult lifespan using an experience sampling method in everyday life. Decision satisfaction with or without advice-taking was also examined. Participants (<i>N</i> = 117) were predominately Western, European aged 21-76 years. They reported on their advice-taking 3 times a day for 10 days. Data collected over 2023-2024 revealed that degree of social closeness did not influence the association between age and advice-taking. However, when affect was more positive, older age was associated with greater advice-taking. These findings suggest that affective state but not relationship goals and closeness to an advisor predict greater advice-taking with older age. In addition, greater advice-taking and more positive affect are associated with greater decision satisfaction, regardless of age. Overall, the current findings indicate that in their everyday decision-making, older adults are more likely to take advice when they are in a positive mood. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144734043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EmotionPub Date : 2025-07-21DOI: 10.1037/emo0001565
Qichen Wang, Yuran Qiao, Yanjie Su
{"title":"The function of regulator's empathy and social distance in adolescent interpersonal emotion regulation effectiveness: A dyadic approach.","authors":"Qichen Wang, Yuran Qiao, Yanjie Su","doi":"10.1037/emo0001565","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001565","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Previous studies have indicated that adolescents are susceptible to emotional cues and can benefit from peers' interpersonal emotion regulation (IER). However, it remains unclear how an adolescent regulator's personal traits shape an effective IER. The present study examined the role of regulator's trait empathy and social distance between the regulator and the target on IER effectiveness among adolescents and explored the underlying behavioral mechanism. A total of 420 adolescent dyads with ages ranging from 12 to 18 years participated (212 dyads of friends; 208 dyads of strangers). After reporting their empathy levels, each regulator inferred the emotional intensity of the target based on the given negative events the target had experienced and then wrote down regulation strategies. Targets rated their own emotions before and after reading regulation strategies and evaluated the suitability of the strategies for them. The results showed that regulators with higher cognitive empathy were better at accurately perceiving targets' negative emotions, which, in turn, enhanced their regulation effectiveness. Similarly, regulators' behavioral empathy was positively related to regulation effectiveness through target-perceived strategy suitability. Additionally, close social distance enhanced the role of regulator's cognitive empathy in emotion perception accuracy and strengthened the impact of the regulator's behavioral empathy on regulation effectiveness. In contrast, closer social distance weakened the positive effect of regulator's behavioral empathy on target-perceived strategy suitability. These findings first highlight how and when different components of an adolescent regulator's trait empathy are linked to IER effectiveness, emphasizing the importance of adopting a dyadic design in the field of IER. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144676199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EmotionPub Date : 2025-07-17DOI: 10.1037/emo0001564
Erin E Wood, Karen D Rudolph
{"title":"Emotional clarity and responses to peer victimization as predictors of youth aggression.","authors":"Erin E Wood, Karen D Rudolph","doi":"10.1037/emo0001564","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001564","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>During the transition to middle school, difficulties understanding and identifying emotions may place youth at risk for maladaptive responses to peer victimization. In turn, maladaptive responses to victimization may increase the likelihood of engaging in aggressive behaviors. In a prospective, multi-informant study of 636 youth (338 girls; <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> in fourth grade = 9.94 years; 66.7% White; 34.75% receiving subsidized lunch) from fourth to sixth grades (2008-2011), we examined the indirect pathways from emotional clarity to aggressive behavior via responses to peer victimization. Results revealed that poor emotional clarity predicted less effortful engagement and more involuntary disengagement responses to peer victimization, which predicted more aggressive behaviors. These results highlight the importance of promoting emotional understanding to enhance effective coping with victimization and reduce aggression. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12276832/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144650915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EmotionPub Date : 2025-07-17DOI: 10.1037/emo0001562
Katharine H Greenaway, Sylvia C Lin, Sarah T O'Brien, Paul M Garrett, Jessica Marris, Elise K Kalokerinos
{"title":"Do expressive suppression and cognitive reappraisal affect memory?","authors":"Katharine H Greenaway, Sylvia C Lin, Sarah T O'Brien, Paul M Garrett, Jessica Marris, Elise K Kalokerinos","doi":"10.1037/emo0001562","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001562","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A widely cited idea in the emotion regulation literature holds that expressive suppression impairs memory while cognitive reappraisal has no effect on or may enhance memory relative to control. However, empirical evidence for these effects has been inconsistent. To provide a definitive test, we conducted four well-powered experiments with more than 4,000 participants to examine the effects of reappraisal and suppression of negative emotion (Experiments 1 and 3) and positive emotion (Experiments 2 and 4) on verbal and nonverbal memory. Results showed no consistent evidence for an effect of reappraisal on either type of memory, though expressive suppression of negative emotion consistently impaired verbal memory relative to control. Obtained effect sizes were small given successful emotion regulation manipulations and adequate statistical power (<i>d</i>s < 0.11). Conclusions are constrained to English-speaking online samples, and may not generalize to other types of memory. These findings highlight the need to systematically test widely accepted assumptions as a field. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144650914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EmotionPub Date : 2025-07-14DOI: 10.1037/emo0001561
Anna Vannucci, Wangjing Yu, Nathan Martin, Sapna Patel, Nim Tottenham
{"title":"Affective schemas: Acquisition, updating, and inference.","authors":"Anna Vannucci, Wangjing Yu, Nathan Martin, Sapna Patel, Nim Tottenham","doi":"10.1037/emo0001561","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001561","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Schematized knowledge structures have been extensively studied in the cognitive domain, and yet the nature of affective schemas remains an uncharted area, with experimental work virtually nonexistent. Here, we examined how affective schemas are acquired, updated, and used for inference-making using three novel experimental paradigms. We show that affective schemas emerge by abstracting a common affective value from a distribution of unique affective associations. This common abstracted affective value semanticizes from the discrete exemplars into complex, valenced schemas (negative, positive, neutral), which consolidates across a 24-hr period. Valenced schemas (negative/positive) form faster than neutral schemas, resist affective reversals more strongly, and facilitate rapid learning and memory for related emotional information. Negative-valenced schemas, in particular, are most prioritized for learning, show greater resilience to change, and are more effective in supporting generalized (gist-based) inferences. This work defines key features of affective schemas, moving the study of emotional learning and memory systems from the conditioning of specific associations to the abstraction and consolidation of complex emotional knowledge. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12262173/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144638455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EmotionPub Date : 2025-07-10DOI: 10.1037/emo0001560
Chris R H Brown, Aleksandra M Herman
{"title":"Attending to body and mind: Does interoceptive attention compete with controlled and negative automatic thoughts?","authors":"Chris R H Brown, Aleksandra M Herman","doi":"10.1037/emo0001560","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001560","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Interoceptive attention refers to how an individual typically allocates their attentional resources to physiological signals. We do not, however, fully understand how interoceptive attention relates with other forms of internally focused attention, such as attention to internal thoughts (e.g., mind-wandering, reflection, worry), and whether these factors compete for limited attentional resources at the trait and state level. Across two studies (<i>n</i> = 222, <i>n</i> = 109; years data collected: 2021-2022, 2023-2024; from a U.K.-based predominantly undergraduate population), we isolated two components from several established trait-level measures of attention to thoughts, these reflected negative automatic thoughts (worry, rumination) and controlled thoughts (deliberate mind-wandering, reflection). In subsequent regression analyses, negative automatic thoughts, but not controlled thoughts, were a significant positive predictor of interoceptive attention, even when controlling for perceived interoceptive accuracy. This significant relationship was, however, accounted for by trait anxiety when included in the model. To test this pattern at the state-level, a novel monotonous responding task with three-dimensional attention probes was developed, which measures the reported allocation of attention between thoughts, bodily sensations, and the task. In contrast to trait-level attention, reported priority of attention to thoughts and body signals was inversely correlated, despite both increasing across the task. The results suggest that in a single moment attention to bodily signals and internal thoughts may compete; but over time, individuals who report focusing more on their internal thoughts also report more time attending to their body, with some evidence showing that this positive correlation could be due to underlying trait anxiety. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144609999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EmotionPub Date : 2025-07-10DOI: 10.1037/emo0001557
Xia Zhang, Yanfang Li
{"title":"The ontogeny of children's group-based guilt and motivated reparative prosocial behaviors.","authors":"Xia Zhang, Yanfang Li","doi":"10.1037/emo0001557","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001557","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Group-based guilt is known for its role in mitigating intergroup conflict and facilitating reconciliation. Although extensive research has explored this emotion among adults, its development and reparative functions during childhood remain unclear. The present study investigated the emergence and development of group-based guilt and its reparative prosocial behaviors among children (Han Chinese aged 4-11 years, N = 268, 135 girls) in response to transgressions committed by in-group members. The results indicated that children began to report group-based guilt soon after they reached 5 years old, with the intensity of this feeling increasing with age. Between the ages of 5 and 6 years, children developed a tendency to engage in verbal prosocial expressions (e.g., apologizing, comforting, and helping) to repair the harm caused by their in-group. However, it was not until nearly 8 years of age that they began sacrificing their possessions to compensate the victim. Both forms of reparative behavior were strengthened with age. Group-based guilt mediated the relationships between harm illegitimacy, in-group responsibility, and reparative behaviors. Overall, these findings suggest that harm illegitimacy and in-group responsibility serve as cognitive antecedents to group-based guilt, which emerges in preschool and transforms into more sophisticated intergroup reparative behaviors as children grow older. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144610000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EmotionPub Date : 2025-07-03DOI: 10.1037/emo0001559
Isabella Kahhale, Leor Hackel, Jamil Zaki
{"title":"Balancing emotional scales: Empathy and dehumanization in legal contexts.","authors":"Isabella Kahhale, Leor Hackel, Jamil Zaki","doi":"10.1037/emo0001559","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001559","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Does emotional information have a place in court, or does it bias legal decisions? We address this longstanding question using real-world national sentencing patterns and laboratory-based mock jury decisions. Archival analysis of 918,152 observations reveals that the introduction of Victim Impact Statements, in which victims express the effect of crimes on their lives, did not change sentencing outcomes for violent crimes (Study 1). We hypothesized this may occur if observers empathize with victims over defendants by default. In two experimental studies (including a preregistered replication; data collected 2018 and 2019), exposure to the facts of a crime produced empathy for victims but dehumanization of defendants, a pattern not altered by Victim Impact Statements. Upon exposure to <i>both</i> the defendant's perspective <i>and</i> the victim's perspective, people express empathy for the victim and defendant, humanize defendants, and support more lenient sentencing. Internal meta-analyses of Study 2 and 3 found that the pooled effect of the defendant's perspective was much stronger than that of the victim, despite a content analysis demonstrating no significant difference in the emotionality or tone of the two statements. Taken together, the large and real-world sample of Study 1, combined with the experimental manipulation of Studies 2 and 3, suggests that \"empathic defaults\" are part of legal decision making and that introducing-rather than ignoring-multiple perspectives may balance the emotional scales. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144561583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EmotionPub Date : 2025-06-26DOI: 10.1037/emo0001553
Jiyoung Park, Yue Li, Yoonseok Choi, Jinkyung Na, Yiyi Zhu, Adrianna Martin
{"title":"Cultural shaping of emotion differentiation: Socially engaging and disengaging emotions.","authors":"Jiyoung Park, Yue Li, Yoonseok Choi, Jinkyung Na, Yiyi Zhu, Adrianna Martin","doi":"10.1037/emo0001553","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001553","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There is a growing consensus that emotion differentiation-the ability to discern specific emotions-is healthy. To assess this ability, studies so far have exclusively relied on the dimension of emotion pleasantness by lumping together various types of emotions that fall within the same valence category. However, this approach neglects the possibility that individuals may represent certain types of emotions in a more differentiated fashion, if these emotions are functionally adaptive and therefore are more frequently experienced in their cultural environments. Here, we propose social orientation as another dimension to analyze emotion differentiation and test a hypothesis that the ability to differentiate socially engaging (vs. disengaging) emotions is reinforced more and is associated with better health in interdependent (vs. independent) cultural contexts. In a longitudinal daily diary study conducted in the United States and Korea between 2019 and 2020, we assessed the extent to which participants differentiated engaging or disengaging emotions based on 2 weeks of daily affective reports. For both positive and negative emotions, Koreans differentiated engaging emotions more than European Americans did. Conversely, European Americans differentiated disengaging emotions more than Koreans did. Moreover, for both cultural groups, the extent to which they differentiated emotions that are valued more in their respective culture-engaging for Koreans and disengaging for European Americans-predicted better health 2 months later, indirectly via reducing their tendency to ruminate over time. These results suggest that culture shapes how we represent emotions, and doing so in a culturally preferred way has a potential to bring health benefits. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144508907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EmotionPub Date : 2025-06-26DOI: 10.1037/emo0001554
Christiana Westlin, Kieran McVeigh, Ilana Korogodsky, Gabriella Fernando-McKinley, Deniz Erdogmus, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Ajay B Satpute
{"title":"The inadequacy of normative ratings for building stimulus sets in affective science.","authors":"Christiana Westlin, Kieran McVeigh, Ilana Korogodsky, Gabriella Fernando-McKinley, Deniz Erdogmus, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Ajay B Satpute","doi":"10.1037/emo0001554","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001554","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>When investigating the brain, bodily, or behavioral correlates of emotional experience, researchers often present participants with stimuli that are assumed to reliably and exclusively evoke an instance of one, and only one, emotion category across participants (e.g., a <i>fear</i> stimulus<i>,</i> a <i>joy</i> stimulus, and so on). These assumptions are driven by a typological view. Here, we tested the extent to which they are met. Across three studies (total <i>N</i> = 453), participants reported their experiences as they viewed silent video clips or static images that were curated from published studies and from online search engines. Two different response formats were used. Overall, the proportion of stimulus-evoked emotion experiences that met even lenient benchmarks for validity and reliability for labeling a stimulus as pertaining to a single emotion category label was exceedingly low. Furthermore, participants frequently used more than one label for a given instance. The findings suggest that typological assumptions, and the nomothetic approach they align with, rely on assumptions that are rarely, if ever, met in stimulus-evoked paradigms. Correspondingly, the use of group-averaged normative ratings masks tremendous variation that is potentially meaningful. An overreliance on these norms may lead to conclusions that emotions are organized as discrete categories, yet these theory-laden conclusions may have limited generalizability regarding the emotional experiences of individual people during these tasks. Rather, emotional experiences evoked by visual stimuli are multifaceted (i.e., involve multiple labels per instance) and vary tremendously across individuals. Future work may benefit from multifaceted measurement of emotion and idiographic, data-driven modeling approaches. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12221224/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144508908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}