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Emotion Pub Date : 2026-10-01 Epub Date: 2026-04-23 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001669

Taren Rohovit, Sara Weston, Ulrich Mayr

{"title":"Emotional tone distorts remembered durations of naturalistic activities.","authors":"Taren Rohovit, Sara Weston, Ulrich Mayr","doi":"10.1037/emo0001669","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001669","url":null,"abstract":"Plans for upcoming activities are likely to be affected by the remembered durations for the to-be-planned activities. Such duration estimates in turn might be influenced by the emotional experiences associated with each activity. In the current work, we aimed to characterize how emotions can affect duration judgments. Participants (N = 204, data collection 2023-2024) completed 10 different real-world activities that varied in duration and made judgments of each activity's valence and arousal. Three days later, participants completed an online follow-up survey where they estimated how long each activity lasted and how they remember feeling about each activity (again in terms of valence and arousal). Generally, our results indicated that both low and high levels (relative to moderate levels) of arousal or valence prolonged remembered duration judgments. Also, remembered emotional judgments tended to be more important for duration estimates than emotions experienced during the activities themselves. Individual differences in self-report measures of self-control affect duration estimates indirectly: Higher levels of self-control appeared to mute emotional effects on duration estimates. We interpret our results in line with known attentional effects of emotions on memory and effects of memory accuracy on duration judgments. Our results also suggest that emotions reconstructed during retrieval are generally more important for temporal memories than the initially encoded emotional experiences. Generalizability of conclusions is limited by the range of activities, evaluated durations, the delay between encoding and retrieval, and our use of a student population. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1783-1798"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147785881","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}

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Parents' emotion control beliefs: Links with responses to children's negative emotions, child well-being, and parent-child relationship quality. 父母情绪控制信念：与儿童消极情绪反应、儿童幸福感和亲子关系质量的联系。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2026-10-01 Epub Date: 2026-05-14 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001680

Regina N Ebo, Felicia K Zerwas, Brett Q Ford, Helena R Karnilowicz, Benjamin L Hankin, Iris B Mauss

{"title":"Parents' emotion control beliefs: Links with responses to children's negative emotions, child well-being, and parent-child relationship quality.","authors":"Regina N Ebo, Felicia K Zerwas, Brett Q Ford, Helena R Karnilowicz, Benjamin L Hankin, Iris B Mauss","doi":"10.1037/emo0001680","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001680","url":null,"abstract":"People hold strong beliefs about emotions. One particularly important belief is whether emotions should be controlled or emotion control beliefs. We examine these beliefs in parents, specifically, the role these beliefs play in their children's well-being and the parent-child relationship. We propose that parents with stronger emotion control beliefs respond less supportively and more disapprovingly to their children's negative emotions, which in turn could predict worse child well-being and lower parent-child relationship quality. In Study 1 (Nparent = 272), we found that parents' emotion control beliefs were cross-sectionally linked with worse child well-being. This relationship was accounted for by parents providing less supportive and more disapproving responses to their children's emotions. In Study 2 (preregistered analyses; Nparent = 272, Nadolescent = 275), we found that parents' emotion control beliefs were cross-sectionally, but not longitudinally (18 months later), linked with some, but not all, measures of parent- and adolescent-reported worse child well-being and lower parent-child relationship quality. In Study 3 (Nparent = 139), we found that parents' emotion control beliefs longitudinally (4 months later) predicted worse child well-being and lower parent-child relationship quality. These links were accounted for by parents providing less supportive and more disapproving responses to their children's emotions. Moreover, these links were relatively generalizable across parents' and children's gender and age (Studies 1-3) as well as parents' ethnicity (Study 3). Together, these findings suggest that parents' emotion control beliefs may influence how they respond to their children's emotions-often for the worse-subsequently shaping the child's well-being and the quality of the parent-child relationship. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1720-1733"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147943259","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}

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Affective intensity of enacted stigma events and emotion regulation strategy use among sexual and gender minorities. 性少数群体与性别少数群体发生的污名事件的情感强度与情绪调节策略的使用。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2026-10-01 Epub Date: 2026-06-01 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001697

Christina Dyar

{"title":"Affective intensity of enacted stigma events and emotion regulation strategy use among sexual and gender minorities.","authors":"Christina Dyar","doi":"10.1037/emo0001697","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001697","url":null,"abstract":"The emotion regulation choice framework (Sheppes, 2020) proposes that the affective intensity of a stressor (i.e., how distressing a stressor is) influences the selection of emotion regulation strategies. The present study aimed to test this hypothesis in the context of enacted stigma to determine whether more distressing enacted stigma experiences differentially predict the use of different emotion regulation strategies. We also aimed to determine if enacted stigma experiences that are more distressing have larger and longer term effects on affect and to examine daily factors that may increase the affective intensity of an enacted stigma event. We used data from an ecological momentary assessment study of enacted stigma from a sample of 109 older adult sexual and gender minorities, a group that is largely underrepresented in research on enacted stigma. More distressing enacted stigma events were associated with more pronounced rumination and coping self-efficacy above and beyond the effect of simply experiencing any enacted stigma. More distressing enacted stigma events also had stronger and longer lasting associations with negative affect than less distressing events. Higher stressor burden and lower coping self-efficacy also prospectively predicted higher affective intensity for subsequent enacted stigma events. The present study demonstrated partial support for the emotion regulation choice framework in the context of enacted stigma. This highlights the role of elevated stressor burden and coping self-efficacy in influencing emotional reactions to enacted stigma events and regulation of emotions following these experiences. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1818-1830"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148139594","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}

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Fluid and crystallized cognitive abilities differentially predict successful regulation of positive versus negative emotion. 流动和结晶的认知能力不同地预测了积极情绪和消极情绪的成功调节。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2026-10-01 Epub Date: 2026-04-06 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001675

Claire M Growney, David A Balota, Tammy English

{"title":"Fluid and crystallized cognitive abilities differentially predict successful regulation of positive versus negative emotion.","authors":"Claire M Growney, David A Balota, Tammy English","doi":"10.1037/emo0001675","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001675","url":null,"abstract":"Emotion regulation (ER) is thought to rely on cognitive resources, with prior work identifying positive associations between both fluid and crystallized cognitive ability and successful ER. While emotional well-being tends to improve with age throughout adulthood, it is less clear whether ER improves, particularly in contexts involving unavoidable negative stimuli. In the present study, age-diverse community participants (N = 286, age 25-85) completed the National Institutes of Health Toolbox Cognitive Battery to assess their fluid and crystallized cognitive ability. They completed an ER task involving prohedonic regulation with instructions to regulate using any strategy while viewing film clips eliciting target emotions varying by valence and arousal: disgust, sadness, amusement, and contentment. ER success was assessed both through self-reports of experience of the target emotion and automated coding of facial expression of the target emotion. We examined associations among age, cognitive performance, and ER success. Individuals who scored higher on crystallized cognition showed greater ER success regardless of emotion type, and this effect was robust across both success indices (emotional experience and expression). Age was associated with reduced ability to decrease negative emotional experience, while fluid cognition was associated with heightened ability to decrease negative emotional experience. Both age and fluid cognition were unassociated with the ability to increase positive emotional experience. Findings suggest that older individuals and those with limited fluid cognitive resources may experience ER difficulties specifically when encountering negative situations. Findings also provide additional evidence supporting the potential role of crystallized cognitive ability or life experience in successfully regulating emotions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1587-1598"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13055792/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147624419","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}

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Enhanced autonomic fear conditioning at age 3 in successful adult criminal offenders. 成功的成年罪犯在3岁时增强自主恐惧条件反射。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2026-10-01 Epub Date: 2026-05-07 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001686

Adrian Raine, Yu Gao, Olivia Choy

{"title":"Enhanced autonomic fear conditioning at age 3 in successful adult criminal offenders.","authors":"Adrian Raine, Yu Gao, Olivia Choy","doi":"10.1037/emo0001686","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001686","url":null,"abstract":"There is a dearth of data on \"successful\" criminal offenders who escape detection and no research on emotion processes characterizing this group. This study examines whether autonomic fear conditioning at age 3 years is associated with adult successful and unsuccessful (caught) criminal offending. Participants (N = 940) were drawn from a birth cohort on the island of Mauritius. Autonomic fear conditioning was assessed at age 3, with skin conductance recorded to reinforced (CS+) and unreinforced (CS-) auditory stimuli. Self-report criminal offending was assessed at age 39. Offenders were divided into successful and unsuccessful groups based on detection/conviction at ages 23 and 39 and compared with noncriminal controls. There was a significant Group × Conditional Stimulus interaction (p = .019). A breakdown of this interaction indicated that successful criminals showed significantly greater responding to the CS+ than both unsuccessful criminals (p = .003) and controls (p < .001), with no group differences on CS-, indicating superior conditioning in successful criminals. Three sensitivity analyses confirmed these findings. We hypothesize that enhanced fear conditioning in successful offenders results in an enhanced ability to detect environmental cues associated with punishment, resulting in escape from law enforcement agencies. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1841-1846"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13155374/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147844828","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}

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Examining daily affect variability by individual differences among a diverse community sample. 在不同的社区样本中，通过个体差异检查日常影响变异性。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2026-10-01 Epub Date: 2026-05-25 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001691

Veronica M Kraft, Dusti R Jones, Joshua M Smyth, Timothy W Smith, Bert N Uchino, Daniel J Taylor, John M Ruiz

{"title":"Examining daily affect variability by individual differences among a diverse community sample.","authors":"Veronica M Kraft, Dusti R Jones, Joshua M Smyth, Timothy W Smith, Bert N Uchino, Daniel J Taylor, John M Ruiz","doi":"10.1037/emo0001691","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001691","url":null,"abstract":"Variability in daily emotional experiences may be important for both mental and physical health and may be influenced by individual differences such as age, gender, race, and ethnicity. Research on individual differences in affect variability is limited, and what is available does not encompass diverse, multilayered identities. Therefore, the present study aims to provide more inclusive evidence of the role of individual differences in affect variability. We assessed momentary positive and negative affect in a diverse community sample of adults. A sample of 300 adults (age 18-80; 50% women; 19% Hispanic, 15% Black) completed 2 days of ecological momentary assessment sampling randomly within 45-min blocks during waking hours. Using individual standard deviation for positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA) variability, independent samples t tests were conducted to assess individual differences in PA and NA variability. General linear models were used to assess interaction effects between individual differences in PA and NA variability. Correlation analyses demonstrate that older age was correlated with lower PA and NA variability. Independent sample t tests demonstrate that being female was associated with greater PA variability, and identifying as White was associated with lower PA and NA variability. Two-way and three-way interactions between age, gender, and race/ethnicity showed no significant association with PA or NA variability. Although the observed effects were not uniform across all demographics, together they highlight the relevance of individual differences in affect dynamics and underscore the value of incorporating them into research on affect variability. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1808-1817"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13215141/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148036506","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}

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Ideal affect outside the head: Popular song lyrics emphasize low-arousal positive affect in Japan and high-arousal positive affect in the United States. 头脑之外的理想影响：流行歌曲的歌词强调低唤醒的积极影响在日本和高唤醒的积极影响在美国。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2026-10-01 Epub Date: 2026-05-14 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001688

Beth Morling, Hiroki Masui, Yuri Miyamoto

{"title":"Ideal affect outside the head: Popular song lyrics emphasize low-arousal positive affect in Japan and high-arousal positive affect in the United States.","authors":"Beth Morling, Hiroki Masui, Yuri Miyamoto","doi":"10.1037/emo0001688","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001688","url":null,"abstract":"According to affect valuation theory (Tsai et al., 2006), culture shapes the emotions people ideally want to feel. In middle-class European-American settings, people usually report that they would ideally like to feel high-arousal positive (HAP) emotions (enthusiastic, excited, and elated). In Asian American and East-Asian settings, people are more likely to report ideally wanting to feel low-arousal positive (LAP) emotions (calm, relaxed, and peaceful). We tested whether popular song lyrics in the United States and Japan reflect these values. We collected the lyrics of the 100 most popular songs from each year between 1968 and 2015 from the United States and Japan (N = 7,464). A natural language processing tool called Contextualized Construct Representation (Chen et al., 2024) estimated HAP and LAP content in each song. Lyrics were higher on ideal than actual positive emotions. U.S. American popular songs scored higher on ideal and actual HAP, and Japanese popular songs scored higher on ideal and actual LAP. Longitudinal analyses showed that both HAP and LAP increased slightly over time in Japan, while HAP declined slightly in the United States. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1836-1840"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147943298","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}

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Thank you, whatever you are: Gratitude for nonhuman entities through anthropomorphism. 谢谢你，不管你是什么：通过拟人化对非人类实体的感激。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2026-10-01 Epub Date: 2026-05-14 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001682

Yen-Ping Chang, Gao-Xian Lin, Xu Peng, Tzu-Yun Kung, Chen-Ya Liu, Chieh Lu, Hui-Tzu Lin

{"title":"Thank you, whatever you are: Gratitude for nonhuman entities through anthropomorphism.","authors":"Yen-Ping Chang, Gao-Xian Lin, Xu Peng, Tzu-Yun Kung, Chen-Ya Liu, Chieh Lu, Hui-Tzu Lin","doi":"10.1037/emo0001682","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001682","url":null,"abstract":"We propose that anthropomorphism plays a central role in producing gratitude for nonhuman entities from humans. Colloquially called personification, anthropomorphism occurs when humans attribute agency to nonhumans, enabling the latter to act upon the environment and humans alike. Humans then attribute any subsequently received benefits to a perceived intentionality of nonhumans, finding them well-intentioned and appreciable. Our five studies (N = 2019) support this hypothesis. First, we establish that individuals' trait anthropomorphism correlates with their experienced gratitude in recent encounters with both natural and artificial nonhumans (Study 1). Examining causality, we report that anthropomorphizing computers (Study 2), forests (Study 3), artificial intelligence (Study 4), and oceanic currents (Study 5) in experiments evokes gratitude for these nonhuman entities by eliciting a perception of them as responsive benefactors. Receiving increased imagined (Study 5) or actual (Study 4) benefits in the studies further strengthens the effect. In turn, the thankful feeling enhances humans' trust for anthropomorphized nonhumans (artificial intelligence; Study 4) and the former's urges to protect the latter (nature; Studies 3 and 5). Overall, since the generation of gratitude for nonhumans rests on assigning human characteristics to them, the present research implies a mechanism to evoke gratitude from humans for other humans as well. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1750-1770"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147943305","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}

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Adult age differences in the response to and regulation of recent versus long-term regrets. 成年人对近期和长期后悔的反应和调节的年龄差异。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2026-10-01 Epub Date: 2026-05-07 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001672

Julia Nolte, Justine L Lewis, Corinna E Löckenhoff

{"title":"Adult age differences in the response to and regulation of recent versus long-term regrets.","authors":"Julia Nolte, Justine L Lewis, Corinna E Löckenhoff","doi":"10.1037/emo0001672","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001672","url":null,"abstract":"Past research on age-related differences in regrets and their regulation has failed to separate the effects of age versus recency (i.e., time since the regret originated). To address this gap, we collected data from N = 90 U.S. adults (Mage = 49.81, SDage = 18.71, 63% women) who reported their most severe recent and long-time regrets. Present- and future-oriented regret regulation strategies were assessed with respect to decision avoidance, decision alteration, and affect-based strategies. In addition, we accounted for demographic, socioemotional, health, personality, and cognitive covariates, including perceived control and future time perspective. For recent regrets, older age was associated with reporting fewer, more omission-based, and fewer interpersonal regrets. Reliance on affect-based strategies (present-oriented) and decision alteration (future-oriented) was less common with age. For long-term regrets, older age was associated with reporting regrets that were more distant, less controllable, more omission-based, and less likely to be downregulated. Regarding covariates, older adults' lesser perceived control over long-term regrets was associated with age differences in omission-based regrets, and their more limited future time perspective was associated with age differences in interpersonal regrets. Several of the observed age effects, particularly those linked to long-term regrets, were associated with age differences in cognition and affect, whereas many effects concerning recent regrets were not associated with covariates. Overall, findings illustrate the necessity to distinguish between recent and long-term regrets when examining age-related differences. Given the limited diversity of the sample, the findings may not readily generalize to less well-educated or non-White populations. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1674-1687"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147844696","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}

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Attachment, oxytocin, and maternal recollections: Further evidence for the salience hypothesis. 依恋、催产素和母亲回忆：显著性假说的进一步证据。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2026-10-01 Epub Date: 2026-05-18 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001679

Melissa Shemirani, Willis Klein, Jonas P Nitschke, Sonia A Krol, Signy Sheldon, Jennifer A Bartz

{"title":"Attachment, oxytocin, and maternal recollections: Further evidence for the salience hypothesis.","authors":"Melissa Shemirani, Willis Klein, Jonas P Nitschke, Sonia A Krol, Signy Sheldon, Jennifer A Bartz","doi":"10.1037/emo0001679","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001679","url":null,"abstract":"Childhood memories featuring primary caregivers are the basis of attachment working models. Oxytocin plays a critical role in attachment bonding and social memory possibly by enhancing the emotional salience of social cues. Consistent with the salience hypothesis, prior work (in males) indicates that oxytocin administration positively biases recollections of maternal care and closeness for less anxious/more secure individuals but negatively biases such recollections for more anxiously attached individuals. We aimed to conceptually replicate and extend this work by probing oxytocin's effects on the emotional quality of attachment memories, and sampling males and females. Between 2013 and 2016, we recruited 77 participants and administered 24 international unit intranasal oxytocin/placebo (within-subject). Participants were presented with attachment-related cue words and, in response, recalled childhood memories of their mothers. We analyzed the emotionality of these memories using human raters and, in exploratory analyses, natural language processing software (Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count and Valence Aware Dictionary and Sentiment Reasoner). Replicating previous findings, human rater results revealed significant attachment anxiety by oxytocin interactions for negative emotionality (p = .031) and positive emotionality (p = .034), with more anxious participants reporting more negative and less positive emotional content following oxytocin (vs. placebo). The natural language processing analyses also showed significant attachment anxiety by oxytocin interactions for negative but not positive emotionality. Finally, we found no effect of attachment avoidance on emotionality, however, more avoidant individuals were less likely to emotionally self-disclose (p < .001), an effect that was potentiated by oxytocin (p = .05). This study supports the social-emotional salience hypothesis of oxytocin. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1734-1749"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147965149","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}

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