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Emotion Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-16 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001599

Yunsu Kim, Çağla Akkurt, Sunkyung Yoon

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Not just for tough times: The efficacy and mechanisms of positive goal reappraisal in negative, neutral, and positive contexts. 不只是在困难时期：在消极、中性和积极的背景下，积极目标重新评估的功效和机制。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-13 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001613

Maria Krajuškina, Richard Naar, Andero Uusberg, James J Gross, Helen Uusberg

{"title":"Not just for tough times: The efficacy and mechanisms of positive goal reappraisal in negative, neutral, and positive contexts.","authors":"Maria Krajuškina, Richard Naar, Andero Uusberg, James J Gross, Helen Uusberg","doi":"10.1037/emo0001613","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001613","url":null,"abstract":"Reappraisal is a common emotion regulation strategy that involves adjusting how a situation is appraised. While much is known about its use to reduce negative affect in negative situations, less is known about its use across negative, neutral, and positive contexts to increase positive affect (i.e., positive goal reappraisal). To fill this gap, we investigated the efficacy and mechanisms of positive goal reappraisal across three valence categories in two complementary studies. In Study 1, 158 participants rated their subjective affect and reported how they appraised depicted situations on key appraisal dimensions with and without using reappraisal. In Study 2, 70 participants completed the same task, while their electromyographic and electroencephalographic responses were recorded. We found that reappraisal was effective across all valence categories, as it increased subjective positive affect and decreased subjective negative affect in response to negative, neutral, and positive pictures. Reappraisal also increased zygomaticus major reactivity for neutral and positive pictures and decreased corrugator supercilii reactivity for negative and neutral pictures. Regarding cognitive mechanisms, we found that the effects of reappraisal were related to appraisal shifts, particularly changes in congruence and relevance. A broader range of appraisal shifts were involved in neutral and positive contexts than in negative ones, suggesting that reappraisal mechanisms may be context-dependent. Finally, reappraisal amplified the late positive potential across all picture types within a relatively early time window (263-1,013 ms), indicating sustained attentional engagement. We conclude that positive goal reappraisal may be effective irrespective of stimulus valence by producing appraisal shifts. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"739-756"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145514640","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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Haunted attraction: The effects of recreational fear on interpersonal bonding. 闹鬼的吸引力：娱乐恐惧对人际关系的影响。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-20 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001615

Jane K Wiley, Alexa A Rivers, Otho Garrett Johnson, Cristina S Negraru, Jake T Watson, Tara M Perreault, Rebecca Martin, Sara C Slayton, Steffano I Segovia-Palacios, Benjamin R Stanisky, Kate E Doherty, Lawton K Swan

{"title":"Haunted attraction: The effects of recreational fear on interpersonal bonding.","authors":"Jane K Wiley, Alexa A Rivers, Otho Garrett Johnson, Cristina S Negraru, Jake T Watson, Tara M Perreault, Rebecca Martin, Sara C Slayton, Steffano I Segovia-Palacios, Benjamin R Stanisky, Kate E Doherty, Lawton K Swan","doi":"10.1037/emo0001615","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001615","url":null,"abstract":"Recreational fear experiences, such as haunted attractions, paradoxically attract millions of patrons annually; despite fear being a generally negative emotion, people will pay money to experience it. Some have stipulated that part of the appeal is interpersonal-anecdotally, such experiences appear to bring people closer together. We put this idea to the test in five studies conducted at three commercial haunted attractions. In Studies 1-4, feeling more fear and making physical contact with other attraction guests were strong predictors of perceiving that the experience brought participants closer together. However, we consistently observed tiny or null results when measuring pre-to-post changes in participants' interpersonal closeness ratings (Studies 2 and 4), highlighting the nuanced nature of these relational dynamics. To further investigate these complexities, we employed a final qualitative interview study (Study 5), which found that postexperience processing (time to talk about the experience before quantifying one's feelings) may be critical to bonding. These findings suggest that while fear reliably fosters a subjective sense of connection, its relational impact may depend on how the experience is processed and contextualized. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"519-532"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145565303","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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Now you see it, now you don't: The age-related positivity effect to faces disappears in naturalistic settings. 现在你看到了，现在你没有看到：与年龄相关的对面孔的积极影响在自然环境中消失了。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-06 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001608

Sarah A Grainger, Ellie Ward, Sarah J Barber, Benjamin W Tatler, Louise H Phillips

{"title":"Now you see it, now you don't: The age-related positivity effect to faces disappears in naturalistic settings.","authors":"Sarah A Grainger, Ellie Ward, Sarah J Barber, Benjamin W Tatler, Louise H Phillips","doi":"10.1037/emo0001608","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001608","url":null,"abstract":"There is an age-related positivity effect in attention to emotional faces. However, all of these studies have relied on computer tasks where people are directed to look at faces on a screen. The primary aim of this study was to test whether the age-related positivity effect to emotional faces emerges under more naturalistic settings. The secondary aim was to test whether an own-age bias exists in attention to emotional faces and whether task ecological validity moderates any observed effect. Younger and older adults completed a naturalistic positivity effect task where they sat in a waiting room with emotional faces on the walls while their eye-gaze behavior was monitored with a mobile eye-tracker. They also completed a computer-based task that involved viewing pairs of emotional faces on a screen while wearing a mobile eye-tracker. As predicted, a positivity effect emerged in the computer-based task where older adults looked less at negative faces compared to younger adults, but no age-related positivity bias emerged in the naturalistic task. In addition, younger adults showed an own-age bias in attention to faces, and this was strongest in the naturalistic task. There was no evidence of an own-age bias in older adults for either task. These findings highlight the importance of considering ecological validity in studies of attention and emotional aging. Implications and future directions are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"707-716"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145460361","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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Associations of emotion regulation and distress with altruistic and egoistic prosociality during COVID-19. COVID-19期间情绪调节和痛苦与利他主义和利己主义亲社会的关系

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Emotion Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-27 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001604

Ryan T Hodge, Lindsey C Partington, Michael E Knapp, Elisa Ugarte, Paul D Hastings

{"title":"Associations of emotion regulation and distress with altruistic and egoistic prosociality during COVID-19.","authors":"Ryan T Hodge, Lindsey C Partington, Michael E Knapp, Elisa Ugarte, Paul D Hastings","doi":"10.1037/emo0001604","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001604","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic presents a unique context to explore prosociality during times of distress. Indicative of social proficiency and adaptive functioning, prosociality refers to dispositions to allocate one's attention and energy to the needs of others. Emotion regulation strategies, such as cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression, may have affected how individuals responded to their distress during the pandemic through varying forms of prosociality. In two samples, we examined how pandemic distress was associated with altruistic (i.e., goals of increasing another's welfare) and egoistic (i.e., goals of increasing one's welfare) prosociality, and whether emotion regulation strategies moderated these associations. Study 1 included 326 adults (Mage = 38.66 years, SD = 14.29; 72.91% White) who responded to an online survey in the first month of the pandemic and showed that pandemic distress was positively associated with egoistic prosociality, and cognitive reappraisal was positively associated with both egoistic and altruistic prosociality. Study 2 included 1,489 undergraduate students (Mage = 19.92 years, SD = 2.28; 53.6% Asian, 33.7% White, 2.0% Native/Indigenous American, 1.8% Black, 5.7% multiracial) who completed the same measures 5-12 months after the start of the pandemic. In addition to direct associations of both pandemic distress and regulation with prosociality, moderation analyses demonstrated that individuals who used more cognitive reappraisal were more likely to engage in egoistic prosociality when experiencing greater pandemic distress. These results demonstrate that pandemic distress is associated with certain forms of prosociality, depending on which emotion regulation strategies are employed during these times of distress. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"602-621"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145373269","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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State and trait late positive potential predict maternal mental health. 状态和性状晚期阳性电位对产妇心理健康状况有预测作用。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-03 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001603

JungWon Choi, Jennifer L Kling, Elizabeth J Kiel, Louis A Schmidt, Rebecca J Brooker

{"title":"State and trait late positive potential predict maternal mental health.","authors":"JungWon Choi, Jennifer L Kling, Elizabeth J Kiel, Louis A Schmidt, Rebecca J Brooker","doi":"10.1037/emo0001603","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001603","url":null,"abstract":"Neural processes of emotional reactivity are putative mechanisms of risk for psychopathology in children and adults. Individual differences in neural processes of emotion in adults are linked to poor adult mental health and to developing emotion in offspring. At the level of observed and self-reported behavior, both state and trait-level variations in emotional reactivity are associated with symptoms of anxiety and depression. However, whether state and trait-level variations are visible at the level of neural activity remains unknown. Pregnancy is a time of heightened state-level variability in maternal emotion and a sensitive period of risk for psychopathology in mothers and infants. As such, pregnancy may be a particularly useful period for understanding independent links between state and trait-level processing and mother and infant outcomes. Using a longitudinal design, we measured the late positive potential (LPP), a neural marker of emotional reactivity, and symptoms of anxiety and depression in 92 (Mage = 30.49) women between 2015 and 2017 during laboratory visits in the second trimester of pregnancy and at 4-month postpartum. Infant temperamental negativity was observed at 4-month postpartum. Lower trait-level LPP predicted greater maternal depressive symptoms, while higher state-level LPP predicted both maternal anxiety and depressive symptoms. Neither trait nor state-level LPP predicted infant negative emotional reactivity. Findings suggest that trait and state level of maternal emotion reactivity may be differentially related to specific maternal health outcomes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"695-706"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12614628/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145439130","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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The resolution of affective reactivity to stressful events. 对压力事件的情感反应的解决。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-16 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001598

Aleksandra Kaurin, Colin E Vize, Aidan G C Wright

{"title":"The resolution of affective reactivity to stressful events.","authors":"Aleksandra Kaurin, Colin E Vize, Aidan G C Wright","doi":"10.1037/emo0001598","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001598","url":null,"abstract":"Repeated assessments in everyday life allow for ecologically valid data on dynamic, within-person stress processes. However, typical designs offer little information on the immediate shape of affective responses following daily stressors, including the influence of situational and person-level variables. In a combined clinical and community sample (N = 248; recruited between 2016 and 2018), we employed a high-density intensive-longitudinal protocol (observations N = 1,442) to capture the temporal dynamics of affect in response to daily stressful events using a microburst design. Specifically, we implemented an adaptive signal-contingent schedule, where an initial stressor report triggered an intense burst of prompts in 15-min increments over the course of 1 hr inquiring about momentary affect. To model affective microtrajectories, we used multilevel structural equation modeling. A piecewise linear growth model consistently showed the best fit across all indices for both negative and positive affect. Affective responses to momentarily experienced stressors were best captured by a model that allowed for changes in affect trajectories over time (an initial steep decline/increase followed by gradual change), with more stressful situations amplifying these trajectories. Moreover, extraversion significantly influenced the initial rise in positive affect, leading to more pronounced early changes in those with higher levels of extraversion. In contrast, neuroticism had an opposite effect on positive affect, dampening these early changes. Results offer a detailed understanding of daily stress dynamics by providing insights into the immediate and evolving nature of affective responses to stress, with implications for personalized stress management strategies. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"567-580"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12880575/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145309590","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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Latent profiles of intrinsic interpersonal emotion regulation in Chinese children: Links to psychological adjustment. 中国儿童内在人际情绪调节的潜在特征：与心理适应的联系。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-03 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001609

Longyue Liao, Na Hu, Amanda Bullock, Junsheng Liu, Biao Sang

{"title":"Latent profiles of intrinsic interpersonal emotion regulation in Chinese children: Links to psychological adjustment.","authors":"Longyue Liao, Na Hu, Amanda Bullock, Junsheng Liu, Biao Sang","doi":"10.1037/emo0001609","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001609","url":null,"abstract":"Children use interpersonal emotion regulation (IER) with parents and friends to manage their emotions, which impacts their psychological adjustment. However, the distinct patterns of IER with parents and friends and their effects on children's psychological adjustment are not well understood. The present study employs latent profile analysis to identify unique patterns of intrinsic IER with parents and friends among a cohort of Chinese children (N = 1,678, Mage = 10.42 years; SD = 1.2 years; 50.9% boys) and explores the associations of those subgroups with children's psychological adjustment (including depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, general self-worth, and life satisfaction). The findings revealed six distinct intrinsic IER profiles: extremely low IER (2.5%), low IER (16.2%), average IER (40.2%), high parent-low friend IER (4.2%), low parent-high friend IER (3.9%), and high IER (33.0%). Children in higher grades and girls were more likely to belong to the low parent-high friend IER profile compared to their counterparts. Children in high IER with both parents and friends reported the best psychological adjustment. In contrast, children categorized in the extremely low IER, low IER, and low parent-high friend IER profiles displayed poorer psychological adjustment relative to average IER and high IER profiles. These findings highlight the importance of examining the diversity of intrinsic IER patterns with parents and friends to gain a comprehensive understanding of children's psychological adjustment. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"652-665"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145439787","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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Relieve or aggravate? Impact of interpersonal and place attachment security priming on intrusive symptoms. 缓解还是加重？人际和场所依恋安全启动对侵入性症状的影响。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-03 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001602

Yingying Ye, Yichang Zha, Cuizhen Liu, Keyue Li, Jing Shu, Zhengyi Liu, Rui Zhen, Xiao Zhou

{"title":"Relieve or aggravate? Impact of interpersonal and place attachment security priming on intrusive symptoms.","authors":"Yingying Ye, Yichang Zha, Cuizhen Liu, Keyue Li, Jing Shu, Zhengyi Liu, Rui Zhen, Xiao Zhou","doi":"10.1037/emo0001602","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001602","url":null,"abstract":"Attachment security has the potential to be a protective factor against intrusive symptoms. However, its impact on intrusive symptoms across different types of trauma is not well understood. To address this, we explored how priming interpersonal and place attachment security affects intrusive symptoms in the context of man-made and natural traumatic events. One hundred sixty-five adult participants were randomly assigned to interpersonal or place attachment security priming or a control condition and subsequently watched man-made war or natural disaster films in a lab setting. For the following 7 days, they completed an intrusion diary each day. The results showed that although neither type of attachment security priming immediately alleviated distress following traumatic stimuli, both exerted mitigating effects during the subsequent week: Interpersonal attachment security reduced daily intrusion counts, and place attachment security decreased both intrusion counts and vividness. However, the interaction between man-made trauma and place attachment security priming was associated with worsened daily intrusion-related distress. Under natural disaster conditions, postpriming state attachment security and posttrauma reappraisal mediated the effects of attachment priming on intrusive and traumatic symptoms. This study reveals the varying effects of interpersonal or place attachment priming on intrusive memories in man-made war and natural disaster, demonstrating the impact of attachment security priming in the immediate and short term after viewing trauma films. These findings offer the potential for developing attachment-based interventions tailored to specific trauma types. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"680-694"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145439790","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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Human psychophysiology is influenced by physical touch with a "breathing" robot. 人类的心理生理受到与“呼吸”机器人的身体接触的影响。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-06 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001601

Zachary Witkower, Laura Cang, Paul Bucci, Karon MacLean, Jessica L Tracy

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