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Emotion Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2024-11-11 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001444

Yael Waizman, Anthony G Vaccaro, Phillip Newsome, Elizabeth C Aviv, Gabriel A León, Sara R Berzenski, Darby E Saxbe

{"title":"Behavioral and neural evidence for difficulty recognizing masked emotional faces.","authors":"Yael Waizman, Anthony G Vaccaro, Phillip Newsome, Elizabeth C Aviv, Gabriel A León, Sara R Berzenski, Darby E Saxbe","doi":"10.1037/emo0001444","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001444","url":null,"abstract":"Facial emotion recognition is vital for human social behavior. During the COVID-19 pandemic, face masks were widely adopted for viral mitigation and remain crucial public health tools. However, questions persist about their impact on emotion recognition and neural processing, especially in children, parents, and young adults. We developed the Masked Affective and Social Cognition task, featuring masked and unmasked faces displaying fear, sadness, and anger. We recruited three racial and ethnically diverse samples: 119 college students, 30 children who entered school age at the beginning of the pandemic, and 31 fathers of the aforementioned children. Of the latter two groups, 41 participants (n = 23 fathers, 18 children) did the Masked Affective and Social Cognition task during a neuroimaging scan, while the remaining 20 participants (n = 8 fathers, 12 children) who were not eligible for scanning completed the task during their lab visit. Behaviorally, we found that participants recognized emotions less accurately when viewing masked faces and also found an interaction of emotion by condition, such that accuracy was particularly compromised by sad masked faces. Neurally, masked faces elicited greater activation in the posterior cingulate, insula, and fusiform gyrus. Anterior insula and inferior frontal gyrus activation were driven by sad, masked faces. These results were consistent across age groups. Among fathers, activation to sad masked faces was associated with stress and depression. Overall, our findings did not depend on previous mask exposure or timing of participation during the pandemic. These results have implications for understanding face emotion recognition, empathy, and socioemotional neurodevelopment. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"706-724"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142630717","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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Momentary awareness of body sensations is associated with concurrent affective experience. 对身体感觉的瞬间感知与同时出现的情感体验有关。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2024-10-03 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001428

Alexandra MacVittie, Ewa Kochanowska, Julia W Y Kam, Laura Allen, Caitlin Mills, Jolie B Wormwood

{"title":"Momentary awareness of body sensations is associated with concurrent affective experience.","authors":"Alexandra MacVittie, Ewa Kochanowska, Julia W Y Kam, Laura Allen, Caitlin Mills, Jolie B Wormwood","doi":"10.1037/emo0001428","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001428","url":null,"abstract":"Affect is thought to be a low-dimensional representation of ongoing body activity. Recent studies have demonstrated that individual differences in the ability to objectively detect one's body activity are related to affective experience, particularly the experience of affective arousal. However, less is known about the role of subjective awareness of body sensations in affective experience, a facet of interoception that has been distinguished from objective detection on theoretical and empirical grounds. Moreover, there is a lack of evidence concerning how affective experience relates to the perception of body activity in the moment; that is, how awareness of sensations from the body may covary with affective and emotional experiences in real time. In the present studies, we examine within-person relationships between subjective awareness of body sensations and self-reported affect in real-world settings using ecological momentary assessment (EMA) paradigms. Across two EMA studies with international samples of adults, we found participants reported greater awareness of body sensations in moments where they also reported experiencing heightened arousal and more negatively valenced affect. In Study 1 (N = 109; data collected and analyzed 2022), we found that the associations held across a 4-week EMA protocol. In Study 2 (N = 116; data collected 2020, analyzed 2022), we also derived measures of affective valence from participants' freely generated descriptions of their ongoing thoughts, and we explored the consistency of this relationship with awareness of several individual body sensations (e.g., awareness of one's breathing, awareness of one's heart rate). We conclude that affective experience covaries moment to moment with subjective awareness of the body. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"571-587"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142367034","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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Disentangling three valence-related dimensions of emotion valuation: The good, the pleasant, and the desirable. 分解情绪估值中与情绪相关的三个维度：好的、令人愉快的和令人向往的。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2024-10-07 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001401

Suhjin Lee, Kieran McVeigh, Maxine Garcia, Vivian Carrillo, Jeanie Kim, Ajay B Satpute

{"title":"Disentangling three valence-related dimensions of emotion valuation: The good, the pleasant, and the desirable.","authors":"Suhjin Lee, Kieran McVeigh, Maxine Garcia, Vivian Carrillo, Jeanie Kim, Ajay B Satpute","doi":"10.1037/emo0001401","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001401","url":null,"abstract":"People place value on emotion categories that inform which emotions to cultivate and which to regulate in life. Here, we examined how people's beliefs about emotion categories varied along three valence-related dimensions: evaluation (good, bad), hedonic feeling (pleasure, displeasure), and desirability (want to feel, do not want to feel). In Studies 1A and 1B, we found that evaluative (good/bad) and hedonic (pleasant/unpleasant) ratings were distinct for certain emotions including lust, anger, shame, fear, and guilt. In Study 2, we found that emotion valuation depended on cultural background in a sample of Asian Americans and Caucasian Americans. Overall, Asian American participants evaluated certain emotions (including, but not limited to, anger, sadness, guilt, and shame) more positively than Caucasian American participants, and this difference was more pronounced on the evaluative rating dimension. Finally, in Study 3, we examined how evaluative and hedonic dimensions further relate with the desire to experience certain emotions and the emotions that people believe they feel in everyday life. Our findings support a model in which evaluative and hedonic dimensions of emotion valuation predict desired emotional states, which in turn predicts beliefs about the reported frequency of emotions experienced in everyday life. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"601-620"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142394337","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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Empathic concern promotes social support-seeking: A cross-cultural study. 移情关怀促进寻求社会支持：一项跨文化研究。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2024-10-14 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001451

Shaofeng Zheng, Rina Tanaka, Keiko Ishii

{"title":"Empathic concern promotes social support-seeking: A cross-cultural study.","authors":"Shaofeng Zheng, Rina Tanaka, Keiko Ishii","doi":"10.1037/emo0001451","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001451","url":null,"abstract":"Previous research has suggested that empathic concern may affect cultural differences in social support-seeking. However, neither the mechanisms through which empathic concern promotes support-seeking nor the explanations for cultural differences in empathic concern are clear. This study attempted to address these questions by conducting three studies in Japan and the United States. The results showed that Japanese participants reported having lower trait-empathic concern and seeking less social support in dealing with stress than European Americans. Study 1 found that trait-empathic concern mediated the cultural differences in support-seeking by increasing beliefs about others' prosocial willingness. Using a controlled set of stressful scenarios, Study 2 replicated the results of Study 1. Additionally, Study 2 showed that Japanese participants reported greater endorsement of the causal repressive suffering construal than European Americans, partly accounting for cultural differences in trait-empathic concern. Using an experimental design, Study 3 showed that primed empathic concern increased support-seeking in coping with follow-up stress across cultures. These findings contribute to our understanding of the role of empathic concern in support-seeking and cultural differences in empathic concern. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"644-656"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142478013","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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Visual experience shapes bodily representation of emotion. 视觉体验塑造了身体的情绪表征。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2024-10-17 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001440

Giada Lettieri, Roberta P Calce, Eléonore Giraudet, Olivier Collignon

{"title":"Visual experience shapes bodily representation of emotion.","authors":"Giada Lettieri, Roberta P Calce, Eléonore Giraudet, Olivier Collignon","doi":"10.1037/emo0001440","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001440","url":null,"abstract":"Philosophers and experimentalists have long debated whether bodily representation of emotion is grounded in our sensory experience. Indeed, we are used to observe emotional reactions expressed through the bodies of others, yet it is still unknown whether this observation influences how we experience affective states in our own bodies. To delve into this question, we developed a naturalistic haptic task and asked a group of early (n = 20) and late (n = 20) blind, as well as sighted individuals (n = 20) to indicate where in the body they perceive changes associated with affective states. Our results show that visual experience shapes bodily representation of emotion. Blind and sighted individuals attribute different importance to body regions in relation to specific emotional states, as sighted people focus more on visceral sensations, while blind report as more relevant the mouth and the hand areas. We also observe differences in the coherence of bodily maps of specific emotions, such as aggressiveness, for which early and late blind are homogenous in reporting the mouth, while sighted subjects demonstrate a scattered pattern of activation across the body. Finally, our findings show that blind people rely on a different organization of affect, as only sighted categorize bodily maps of emotion through the valence and arousal dimensions. In summary, we demonstrate that sensory experience impacts the bodily representation of affect by modulating the relevance that different body parts have in emotional reactions, modifying the weights attributed to interoceptive and exteroceptive signals, and changing how emotions are conceptualized in the body. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"657-670"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142478016","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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Do parents show interpersonally oriented socialization practices for adolescents' negative emotions? Through the lens of Chinese families. 父母是否对青少年的负面情绪采取人际导向的社会化做法？通过中国家庭的视角。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2024-10-03 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001430

Ruyi Ding, Yingying Yang, Qian Wang

{"title":"Do parents show interpersonally oriented socialization practices for adolescents' negative emotions? Through the lens of Chinese families.","authors":"Ruyi Ding, Yingying Yang, Qian Wang","doi":"10.1037/emo0001430","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001430","url":null,"abstract":"This research proposes a new framework called interpersonally oriented parental emotion socialization (inter-PES) practices to address parental socialization of adolescents' interpersonal emotional processing. This framework captures parents' interpersonal perspectives when their adolescent children experience negative emotions resulting from social interactions. In Study 1, parents (n = 925; 84.54% females; Mage = 39.86 years, SD = 4.37) recalled their PES practices. Content analysis of parents' narratives showed four components of inter-PES: perspective-taking, positive attributions to others, negative attributions to others, and concern for others. In Study 2, parents (n = 536; 57.98% females; Mage = 42.84 years, SD = 4.01) evaluated their own parenting behaviors on a newly developed scale to measure the four components mentioned above. Factor analysis supported the four-factor structure. Moreover, the four subscales demonstrated good reliabilities. In Study 3, adolescents (n = 864; 45.97% females; Mage = 14.50 years, SD = 0.77) reported their perceived maternal inter-PES using the same scale, and factor analysis again confirmed the four-factor structure. Study 3 also showed that the four components of inter-PES reported by adolescents were related to their perceptions of other commonly assessed maternal parenting variables and self-reported socioemotional development. Overall, this research develops a new tool for studying inter-PES and reveals new avenues for future research on how parents' interpersonal perspectives during emotional socialization may relate to adolescents' socioemotional outcomes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"556-570"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142366988","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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A replication and development of the Short Cognitive Mediation Beliefs Questionnaire (CMBQ-S). 认知调解信念简明问卷（CMBQ-S）的复制与发展。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2024-10-21 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001447

Martin J Turner, Katia C Vione, Boban Simonovic, Edward Stupple, Matthew Brooks, David Sheffield

{"title":"A replication and development of the Short Cognitive Mediation Beliefs Questionnaire (CMBQ-S).","authors":"Martin J Turner, Katia C Vione, Boban Simonovic, Edward Stupple, Matthew Brooks, David Sheffield","doi":"10.1037/emo0001447","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001447","url":null,"abstract":"The Cognitive Mediation Beliefs Questionnaire is a 15-item tool that assesses individuals' emotion beliefs about the cognitive mediation of emotions. It measures two emotion beliefs: stimulus-response generation beliefs and cognitive mediation change beliefs. This study aimed to reduce the number of items and test the validity of a briefer version of the Cognitive Mediation Beliefs Questionnaire. We combined data from 13 unpublished data sets collected between 2019 and 2023 and reached a final sample of 2,872 participants. While this data set is relatively large and diverse (e.g., participants from 53 nationalities), most were from developed countries, and the data were not fully representative across demographic characteristics, such as age and ethnicity. The data were randomly split by 50%/25%/25% (60%/40% female/male) to conduct one exploratory factor analysis and two confirmatory factor analyses. Using an iterative process in the exploratory factor analysis, seven items were deleted for failing to meet item retention criteria, resulting in an eight-item solution across two factors. Across two confirmatory factor analyses with independent samples, the eight-item and the 15-item solutions were tested. The eight-item model was superior in terms of model fit in both samples. These results were in line with our hypothesis in that an eight-item Short Cognitive Mediation Beliefs Questionnaire confirmed the validity of the two-factor structure. The present study offers a valid and efficient measure of emotion beliefs that can be used to make a rapid assessment of beliefs about emotions and to support clinical interventions, particularly cognitive behavioral therapy approaches, where cognitive change is fundamental. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"683-692"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142478011","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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Loneliness and emotion regulation: A meta-analytic review. 孤独与情绪调节：荟萃分析综述

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Emotion Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2024-11-14 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001438

Andrei Patrichi, Raluca Rîmbu, Andrei C Miu, Aurora Szentágotai-Tătar

{"title":"Loneliness and emotion regulation: A meta-analytic review.","authors":"Andrei Patrichi, Raluca Rîmbu, Andrei C Miu, Aurora Szentágotai-Tătar","doi":"10.1037/emo0001438","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001438","url":null,"abstract":"Chronic loneliness has been associated with increased risk for multiple mental disorders. Multiple lines of evidence suggest that problems with emotion regulation (ER) may underlie the course and costs of loneliness, but evidence on the associations between loneliness and ER has not been systematically analyzed until now. The present meta-analysis examined the relations between loneliness and multiple dimensions of ER including the habitual use of common strategies (i.e., rumination, cognitive reappraisal, expressive suppression, distraction), ER difficulties, and ER abilities. A systematic search across four databases returned 4,454 articles, out of which 61 articles (total N = 40,641) were eligible for inclusion. The analyses indicated that there were consistent positive relations between loneliness and rumination (r = 0.38), suppression (r = 0.31), and ER difficulties (r = 0.49). Loneliness was also negatively associated with reappraisal (r = -0.23), distraction (r = -0.21), and ER abilities (r = -0.28). The latter two effects were significantly larger in studies on adults compared to adolescents, as indicated by subgroup analyses, and corroborated by metaregressions. Furthermore, the percentage of women in the sample was a negative predictor of the association between loneliness and ER difficulties, and the country cultural individualism was a positive predictor of the association between loneliness and suppression. There was evidence of publication bias in all analyses, but the effect sizes remained significant after imputing for missing studies. Overall, the present results support consistent associations between loneliness and ER and highlight potential targets for future interventions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"755-774"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142630727","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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Behavioral and brain differences in the processing of negative emotion in previously depressed individuals: An exploratory analysis of population-based data.

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Emotion Pub Date : 2025-03-13 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001499

Jakub Nagrodzki, Luca Passamonti, Suzanne Schweizer, Jason Stretton, Ethan Knights, Richard N Henson, Noham Wolpe

{"title":"Behavioral and brain differences in the processing of negative emotion in previously depressed individuals: An exploratory analysis of population-based data.","authors":"Jakub Nagrodzki, Luca Passamonti, Suzanne Schweizer, Jason Stretton, Ethan Knights, Richard N Henson, Noham Wolpe","doi":"10.1037/emo0001499","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001499","url":null,"abstract":"Depressed individuals show significant biases in the processing of emotional stimuli, focusing attention on negative facial expressions (termed \"attentional negativity bias\"). Some of these biases persist in previously depressed individuals, but their mechanisms remain largely unknown. Here, in a population-based study in which participants (n = 134, 68 females; 21-92 years) were recruited as part of the Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience in 2010-2014, we explored (a) the cognitive process underlying attentional negativity bias; (b) whether this process is associated with a self-reported history of depression; and (c) the neural correlates of this process. Participants completed an implicit emotion processing task, while functional MRI was acquired. Drift-diffusion modeling was used to calculate each participant's tendency for sustained task-irrelevant attention on negative (angry) compared to neutral faces. In the cohort, 14% of participants reported a history of depression. Drift-diffusion modeling showed reduced drift rate for angry compared to neutral faces. The magnitude of this reduction was associated with self-reported depression history. Across the whole group, drift rate for angry faces was associated with increased brain activity when processing angry versus neutral faces in areas of bilateral insula/inferior frontal gyrus and bilateral parietal cortex. Our results suggest that attentional negativity bias is explained by slower task-relevant drift rate for negative (angry) stimuli. This slower drift rate is associated with the difference in brain activity when processing these stimuli, possibly reflecting increased emotional engagement. Such altered processing may persist even after a depressive episode, but this finding should be validated in clinical samples. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143625051","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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Feeling good about the bad: Making positive appraisals of predominantly negative stressors. 对坏事感觉良好对以负面为主的压力进行积极评价。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2025-03-13 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001517

Christian E Waugh, Marquis Schieber, Yifang Zhao

{"title":"Feeling good about the bad: Making positive appraisals of predominantly negative stressors.","authors":"Christian E Waugh, Marquis Schieber, Yifang Zhao","doi":"10.1037/emo0001517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001517","url":null,"abstract":"People often experience positive emotions during predominantly negative stressors, and we hypothesize that one way this occurs is that people make positive appraisals of some elements of the stressors. Further, we hypothesized that people can use these positive appraisals to spontaneously and/or strategically regulate their stress responses. In several studies with online and subject pool convenience samples, participants were able to generate unambiguously positive appraisals (as defined in pilot Studies 2 and 3) of elements of predominantly negative stressors both when instructed to generate positive appraisals (Study 1) and when instructed to just list elements of their stressors with no instruction on what valence they should be (Studies 3-6). Further, just generating these positive appraisals helped participants feel better about a prolonged life stressor (Studies 4 and 6) and an acute laboratory stressor (Study 5). We successfully distinguished the emotion regulation strategy of positive \"up-appraisal\" (elaborating and focusing on positive appraisals) from that of positive \"alt-appraisal\" (reframing and changing a negative appraisal to be more positive) and showed that positive up-appraisal was more effective at improving stress-related emotions (Studies 1 and 4). Last, individual differences in positivity and negative emotionality were the most reliable predictors of generating positive appraisals of stressors. These studies demonstrate that sometimes, people can cope successfully with stressors because they are able to separate elements of that stressor, recognize that some of those elements are positive, and then elaborate and focus on those positive appraisals. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143625834","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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