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Emotion Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-02-20 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001510

Angie M Gross, Jocelyn Lai, Nathaniel S Eckland, Renee J Thompson

{"title":"Interoceptive awareness and clarity of one's emotions and goals: A naturalistic investigation.","authors":"Angie M Gross, Jocelyn Lai, Nathaniel S Eckland, Renee J Thompson","doi":"10.1037/emo0001510","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001510","url":null,"abstract":"Interoceptive awareness is a multidimensional construct that denotes the conscious level of one's ability to sense the physiological conditions of their body. Theories (e.g., constructionist theories of emotion) propose associations with psychological clarity, yet empirical support is limited when examining these constructs globally. We hypothesized that these associations exist at the momentary level and that they are associated with certain individual differences (i.e., life satisfaction, conscientiousness, depression, neuroticism). Using experience sampling methodology, participants (N = 179 adults; Mage = 35.3, SDage = 12.2) reported on six dimensions of interoceptive awareness, as well as emotional clarity and goal clarity five times a day over 14 days. They also completed self-report measures assessing individual differences. We found nearly all measured interoceptive awareness dimensions were independently, positively associated with emotional clarity and goal clarity. These associations were, unexpectedly, strengthened by greater depression and neuroticism and weakened by greater life satisfaction and conscientiousness, suggesting potential implications for the individual differences involved in how people generate, clarify, and understand their emotions and goals. These findings demonstrate dimensions of momentary interoceptive awareness are positively associated with emotional and goal clarity and identify potential mechanisms underlying associations between interoceptive awareness and psychological clarity, including psychological outcomes and personality traits. Individuals with elevated depression or neuroticism may rely more heavily on bottom-up processing to understand their emotions and goals, whereas individuals high in life satisfaction or conscientiousness may be more equipped to use top-down processing for this purpose. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1516-1530"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143469579","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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Emotion brokering in Latinx college students: Associations with depressive symptoms and acculturative stress. 拉丁裔大学生的情绪中介：与抑郁症状和异文化压力的关系。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-10 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001506

Sivenesi Subramoney, Eric A Walle, Alexandra Main, Dalia Magaña

{"title":"Emotion brokering in Latinx college students: Associations with depressive symptoms and acculturative stress.","authors":"Sivenesi Subramoney, Eric A Walle, Alexandra Main, Dalia Magaña","doi":"10.1037/emo0001506","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001506","url":null,"abstract":"Research on cultural brokering (i.e., interpreting cultural norms for others) indicates that some brokering practices (i.e., interpreting language) predict negative psychological adjustment. Recent research indicates that individuals also interpret emotions for others (i.e., emotion brokering). However, the associations between emotion brokering and psychological adjustment have yet to be reported. This investigation is the first to examine the associations between emotion brokering and psychological adjustment (i.e., depressive symptoms, acculturative stress) among Latinx college students. Study 1 (data collected in 2020) compared emotion brokering and language brokering and investigated how the frequency of each type of brokering (emotion, language) and the emotions (embarrassment, pride) experienced when brokering related to psychological adjustment. Results revealed that frequent emotion brokering predicted greater depressive symptoms among those who experienced greater embarrassment when emotion brokering. In addition, frequent emotion brokering predicted lower acculturative stress among those who experienced greater pride when emotion brokering. Study 2 (data collected from 2021 to 2022) examined the role of familism and family assistance attitudes as moderators of the relationships between emotion brokering frequency, emotions experienced (embarrassment, pride) when emotion brokering, and psychological adjustment. Findings revealed that the relationships between the emotions experienced when emotion brokering and depressive symptoms were moderated by the endorsement of emotion brokering as a means of family assistance, rather than familism values more broadly. These novel findings have implications for cultural brokering and psychological adjustment. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1536-1549"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143597980","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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In the grip of pain: Elevated momentary pain is associated with lower momentary emotional granularity in individuals with chronic pain. 在疼痛的控制中：在慢性疼痛的个体中，瞬时疼痛的升高与较低的瞬时情绪粒度有关。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001571

Marcel C Schmitt, Julia Karbach, Tanja Könen, Ulrike Basten, Julia A Glombiewski, Tina In-Albon, Tanja Lischetzke

{"title":"In the grip of pain: Elevated momentary pain is associated with lower momentary emotional granularity in individuals with chronic pain.","authors":"Marcel C Schmitt, Julia Karbach, Tanja Könen, Ulrike Basten, Julia A Glombiewski, Tina In-Albon, Tanja Lischetzke","doi":"10.1037/emo0001571","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001571","url":null,"abstract":"Emotional granularity (EG), or emotion differentiation, reflects the ability to distinguish between same-valenced emotional states in a nuanced way. While traditionally considered a stable trait, recent research shows that EG can fluctuate within individuals, influenced by situational factors such as stress. Building on this work, the present study investigated how momentary pain as a specific stressor relates to momentary EG in the daily lives of individuals with chronic pain. We hypothesized that individuals would exhibit lower levels of momentary EG when they experience higher than usual pain. We also hypothesized that higher scores in the three domains of executive functions (EFs)-namely, working memory, inhibition, and shifting-would buffer the negative within-person association between pain intensity and momentary EG. Between April 2022 and March 2024, 218 individuals with chronic pain (aged 14-83 years, 70% female) completed an online EF assessment and a 14-day ambulatory assessment (five prompts daily) with repeated pain and emotion ratings. Generalized linear mixed models revealed that more intense momentary pain was contemporaneously associated with lower momentary EG and predicted a decrease in momentary EG from one occasion to the next (both momentary negative and positive EG). However, these findings remained robust only for momentary positive EG when controlling for momentary mean scores of emotions. Moreover, EFs did not moderate the association between momentary pain and momentary EG. The findings suggest that pain may disrupt the ability to differentiate one's emotions, providing novel insights into maladaptive emotional processes due to pain for individuals with chronic pain. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144974533","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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Suppression of fear-conditioned stimuli. 抑制恐惧条件刺激。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-02-20 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001515

Jan Theeuwes, Jonna van Doorn, Dirk van Moorselaar

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Desirability biases perceptual decisions in the aversive domain. 在厌恶领域，可取性会影响感知决策。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-02-27 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001511

Haena Kim, Alicia Liu, Yuan Chang Leong

{"title":"Desirability biases perceptual decisions in the aversive domain.","authors":"Haena Kim, Alicia Liu, Yuan Chang Leong","doi":"10.1037/emo0001511","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001511","url":null,"abstract":"Perceptual judgments are often influenced by goals and preferences, resulting in biased judgments that deviate from objective reality. When presented with ambiguous images, observers are biased to report seeing images associated with rewards. However, it remains unclear whether this is driven by a bias toward stimuli that are desirable or stimuli that are motivationally salient. As rewards are both desirable and motivationally salient, these effects are not easily dissociated in a reward context. This study investigates the effects of desirability and motivational salience on perceptual judgments in an aversive context involving financial losses. Across two experiments conducted between 2023 and 2024, participants completed a visual categorization task where ambiguous stimuli were associated with a large financial loss. Participants' perceptual judgments were biased away from stimuli associated with the loss, indicating a desirability bias. Drift diffusion model analyses revealed that this bias was due to a shift in the starting point of evidence accumulation, such that participants required more evidence to commit to a response associated with an undesirable outcome. The bias in starting point correlated with individual differences in punishment sensitivity but not reward sensitivity, highlighting how individual traits shape motivational effects on perceptual decisions. Results replicated across an in-lab sample and a larger online sample. Altogether, our study provides robust evidence of a desirability bias in perceptual decisions involving financial losses, identifying both the computational mechanisms and trait-level differences that influence how people decide what they see when faced with the prospect of undesirable outcomes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1564-1578"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143524995","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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Interpersonal emotion differentiation. 人际情感分化。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001579

Ella S Sudit, Kelly V Klein, Kathleen C Gunthert, Nathaniel R Herr

{"title":"Interpersonal emotion differentiation.","authors":"Ella S Sudit, Kelly V Klein, Kathleen C Gunthert, Nathaniel R Herr","doi":"10.1037/emo0001579","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001579","url":null,"abstract":"Emotion differentiation (ED), or the ability to make fine-grained distinctions about one's own emotional experiences, has been frequently linked to well-being but has only been studied as an intrapersonal construct. The present study proposes a new construct, Interpersonal ED, defined as the ability to classify others' emotions in a nuanced manner. Using daily diary data, we explored how Interpersonal ED is associated with ED, internalizing symptoms, and relationship satisfaction among 77 cohabiting couples. Participants self-reported their own emotions and their perceptions of their partner's emotions, which were used to calculate indices of positive and negative ED (NED/PED) and Interpersonal ED indices (Interpersonal NED/PED). Results show that although ED and Interpersonal ED were strongly associated, they were differentially related to internalizing symptoms. Specifically, greater NED (but not Interpersonal NED) was associated with participants experiencing greater anxiety symptoms in the context of heightened negative emotionality. In contrast, greater Interpersonal NED/PED (but not NED/PED) was associated with partners experiencing fewer anxiety symptoms, and Interpersonal NED alone was associated with partners experiencing fewer depressive symptoms. These findings highlight Interpersonal ED as a novel construct uniquely associated with mental health across individuals in romantic relationships. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144974529","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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Intrinsic resting-state connectivity and personal meaning across the transition to fatherhood. 内在静息状态的连通性和过渡到父亲的个人意义。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2025-08-28 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001574

Anthony G Vaccaro, Philip Newsome, Yael H Waizman, Geoffrey Corner, Darby E Saxbe

{"title":"Intrinsic resting-state connectivity and personal meaning across the transition to fatherhood.","authors":"Anthony G Vaccaro, Philip Newsome, Yael H Waizman, Geoffrey Corner, Darby E Saxbe","doi":"10.1037/emo0001574","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001574","url":null,"abstract":"New fatherhood is marked by profound psychological and neural transformations. While these changes can be stressful, many fathers also report increased life satisfaction associated with parenthood. Personal meaning-the subjective sense that life has purpose, meaning, and coherence-may reflect positive adaptation to parenthood. This study investigated how personal meaning across the transition to fatherhood is associated with both psychological and neural changes. Among 88 first-time fathers followed from mid-pregnancy into the first year after birth, we found an approximately even split between fathers who reported increases or decreases in personal meaning. Within 35 fathers who also underwent neuroimaging before and after birth, we observed increases in resting-state functional connectivity in the bilateral temporal lobes, right angular gyrus, thalamus, and right lateral occipital cortex, and decreases in regions such as the right frontal pole, left opercular cortex, and anterior cingulate. Increases in insular cortex connectivity predicted greater postnatal personal meaning, even after controlling for both positive and negative parenting-related feelings. These findings suggest that dynamic changes within the insula may support fathers' ability to form a higher order sense of meaning and purpose during this transformative period. Future mixed-methods research may further elucidate how these neural changes contribute to well-being during stressful life transitions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12396509/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144974495","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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Exploring the effects of prosocial and self-kindness interventions on mental health outcomes. 探讨亲社会和自我友善干预对心理健康结果的影响。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2025-08-28 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001577

Maria Naclerio, Lee Lazar, Erica A Hornstein, Naomi I Eisenberger

{"title":"Exploring the effects of prosocial and self-kindness interventions on mental health outcomes.","authors":"Maria Naclerio, Lee Lazar, Erica A Hornstein, Naomi I Eisenberger","doi":"10.1037/emo0001577","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001577","url":null,"abstract":"A growing body of literature suggests that prosocial behavior, or behavior intended to help others, benefits well-being. However, modern society often places a greater emphasis on self-focused acts in the pursuit of well-being. To understand the effects of these differing forms of kindness (to others or the self), we conducted a 2-week intervention study of a community sample during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Participants were randomly assigned to a prosocial (other-kindness), self-kindness, or control condition, and those in the active conditions were asked to perform three acts of kindness each week. Of those who completed the intervention (N = 777), we found that participants in the other-kindness (vs. control) group experienced significant decreases in depression, anxiety, and loneliness from pre- to postintervention, offering compelling evidence for the mental health benefits of prosocial behavior. Furthermore, we found that participants in the self-kindness (vs. control) group experienced significant decreases in depression, but no differences in anxiety and loneliness. While the self-kindness group reported experiencing more positive feelings during their acts of kindness, the other-kindness group felt more connected. Exploratory mediation analyses revealed that, for the prosocial group, the effect of condition on depression, anxiety, and loneliness was mediated by increases in feelings of social connection, whereas for the self-kindness group, the effect of condition on depression was mediated by increases in positive feelings. Overall, these findings reaffirm the benefits of prosocial behavior on well-being and suggest unique pathways to mental health benefits for these two forms of kindness. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144974500","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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Perceiving facial emotions in context: The intertwined roles of emotional valence and consciousness. 情境中面部情绪的感知：情绪效价和意识的交织作用。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2025-08-25 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001581

Yujie Chen, Yi Jiang, Ying Wang

{"title":"Perceiving facial emotions in context: The intertwined roles of emotional valence and consciousness.","authors":"Yujie Chen, Yi Jiang, Ying Wang","doi":"10.1037/emo0001581","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001581","url":null,"abstract":"Facial emotion perception in real life is inevitably influenced by the affective context, such as the expressions on nearby people's faces. However, to what extent and how the expressions of others exert a contextual influence on our interpretation of target facial emotions remains largely unclear. Using psychophysical methods, we demonstrated that the emotional facial context alone (i.e., without any evident social interaction cues) is sufficient to bias the perceived expression of an ambiguous target face (N = 160, healthy Asian college students, 2017-2025). Intriguingly, the contextual effect induced by faces with fearful, but not happy, expressions was regulated by observers' awareness of the context. For fearful contexts, the contextual effect showed a dissociation between nonconscious and conscious conditions, occurring only when the contextual face was not consciously perceived. By contrast, contextual faces expressing happiness biased emotion perception regardless of awareness. These findings broaden our understanding of the affective contextual effect in situations without explicit social relationships. More crucially, they unveil the intertwined roles of emotional valence and consciousness in emotional information integration, offering valuable insights into the intricate mechanisms whereby affective context shapes facial emotion perception. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144974451","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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Distinct signatures of social and emotional cues in memory and eye movements. 记忆和眼球运动中社会和情感线索的明显特征。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2025-08-21 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001570

Veronica Dudarev, James T Enns, Kate Rho, Chantelle Cocquyt, Em J E Mittertreiner, Christopher R Madan, Connor M Kerns, Daniela J Palombo

{"title":"Distinct signatures of social and emotional cues in memory and eye movements.","authors":"Veronica Dudarev, James T Enns, Kate Rho, Chantelle Cocquyt, Em J E Mittertreiner, Christopher R Madan, Connor M Kerns, Daniela J Palombo","doi":"10.1037/emo0001570","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001570","url":null,"abstract":"Negative emotional stimuli are associated with increased recognition accuracy but decreased memory for the associative context, an effect coined as \"tunnel memory\" (Steinmetz & Kensinger, 2013). Recently, Stewardson et al. (2023) found that social cues enhance both recognition and associative memory and weaken the effects of negative emotion on memory, suggesting potentially distinct mechanisms underlying how adaptively relevant information is processed and retained when social cues are present. In this study (conducted in 2023-2024), we sought to replicate these findings and use eye tracking to explore attention as a mechanism underlying this divergence. As predicted, both negative images and social cues enhanced recognition memory, with differential effects on associative memory (diminishing for negative, enhancing for social). Negative pictures with few social cues were associated with a \"tunneling\" of both memory and attention, that is, better recognition but poorer associative memory alongside more frequent, longer fixations on the picture and reduced picture-object saccades. By contrast, social cues led to a partial tunneling of attention-that is, more frequent but shorter fixations and fewer linking saccades-and yet enhanced both picture recognition and associative memory. Perhaps most striking, negative emotion's effects on memory and attention were significantly attenuated when social cues were present. These findings suggest that differences in how negative versus neutral content is processed and retained depend on the social context. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144974502","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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