EmotionPub Date : 2024-12-19DOI: 10.1037/emo0001467
Hanneli Sinisalo, Amanda C Hahn, Benedict C Jones, Marian J Bakermans-Kranenburg, Mikko J Peltola
{"title":"Impact of parity and salivary hormonal levels on motivation toward infant emotions.","authors":"Hanneli Sinisalo, Amanda C Hahn, Benedict C Jones, Marian J Bakermans-Kranenburg, Mikko J Peltola","doi":"10.1037/emo0001467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001467","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Infant faces have been shown to be particularly motivating stimuli for women. No studies, however, have compared mothers and nonmothers in whether parity modulates approach motivation toward emotional infant faces. We studied 54 Finnish first-time mothers and 42 nonmothers in a pay-per-view key-press task where the participants were shown 20 infant faces with smiling and crying expressions. Participants were able to adjust the time each face was visible. In addition, salivary testosterone, estradiol, and cortisol levels were measured and their impact on motivation toward infants analyzed. When controlling for the hormonal levels, happy infant faces were viewed longer than crying faces and there was no difference in mean viewing times between mothers and nonmothers. An interaction between parity and emotion emerged: Mothers were more motivated to view happy faces and less motivated to view crying infant faces than nonmothers. Testosterone had a significant effect on viewing times: The higher the testosterone levels were, the shorter amount of time infant faces were viewed. This indicates that testosterone is inversely associated with approach motivation to emotional infant stimuli. This study is the first to compare mothers and nonmothers in a task measuring motivational responses to infant stimuli and indicates that the difference between the approach motivation caused by happy and distressed infant emotions might be more heightened in new mothers. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142855884","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}
{"title":"Does the Brief Implicit Association Test measure semantic or affective valence representations?","authors":"Yiftach Argaman, Orit Heimer, Yoav Bar-Anan, Assaf Kron","doi":"10.1037/emo0001480","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001480","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Valence, the representation of a stimulus as positive or negative, is fundamental to conceptualizing attitudes and their empirical research. Valence has two potential representations: semantic and affective. The current line of studies investigates the degree to which the congruency effect of the Brief Implicit Association Test (BIAT), often used as an indirect evaluation measure, reflects affective or semantic aspects of valence. In three preregistered experiments (<i>N</i> = 1,056, with 352 participants each), we examined how the congruency effect of the BIAT reflects these aspects. In all three experiments, we used a repeated exposure manipulation, which typically causes a habituation effect on affective but not on semantic aspects of valence, to differentiate between the two types. In the first experiment, repeated exposure occurred before the BIAT, while in the second and third experiments, it was performed in the context of the BIAT task. We utilized three dependent variables: feelings-focused self-reports (measuring participants' reports about their feelings), knowledge-focused self-reports (measuring semantic evaluations), and the BIAT congruence effect. Supported by Bayesian analysis, we found consistent evidence that the repeated exposure manipulation influenced feelings-focused self-reports but did not affect knowledge-focused self-reports or the BIAT. The results suggest that the BIAT effect is sensitive to semantic (and not affective) representations of valence. Implications for attitude theory and measurement are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142830271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EmotionPub Date : 2024-12-16DOI: 10.1037/emo0001462
Michael D Robinson, Roberta L Irvin, Muhammad R Asad, Hamidreza Fereidouni
{"title":"Neuroticism's link to threat sensitivity: Evidence from a dynamic affect reactivity task.","authors":"Michael D Robinson, Roberta L Irvin, Muhammad R Asad, Hamidreza Fereidouni","doi":"10.1037/emo0001462","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001462","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The personality trait of neuroticism has been theoretically linked to threat sensitivity, but this perspective of neuroticism has resulted in mixed findings, arguably because mood states, rather than emotional reactions, have been examined. The present studies (total <i>N</i> = 519) administered a task capable of assessing emotional reactions-to appetitive versus aversive images-in a nearly continuous manner, parsing threat sensitivity in terms of emotional onsets, peak amplitudes, and prototypicality in responding. In the context of this tight temporal focus, higher levels of neuroticism tended to be associated with faster emotional onsets when aversive images were involved. In addition, neuroticism by valence interactions occurred with respect to peak amplitudes and prototypic patterning, with negativity effects for these parameters being amplified at higher, relative to lower, levels of neuroticism. These results link the neuroticism and emotion dynamics literatures while providing novel support for perspectives that emphasize neuroticism's link to threat sensitivity, in the present context defined in terms of faster, stronger, and more prototypical reactions to acute aversive events. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142830311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EmotionPub Date : 2024-12-16DOI: 10.1037/emo0001477
Clara Pretus, Jillian K Swencionis, Yifei Pei, Luis Marcos-Vidal, Ingrid J Haas, William A Cunningham, Dominic J Packer, Jay J Van Bavel
{"title":"Shifting evaluative construal: Common and distinct neural components of moral, pragmatic, and hedonic evaluations.","authors":"Clara Pretus, Jillian K Swencionis, Yifei Pei, Luis Marcos-Vidal, Ingrid J Haas, William A Cunningham, Dominic J Packer, Jay J Van Bavel","doi":"10.1037/emo0001477","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001477","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>People generate evaluations of different attitude objects based on their goals and aspects of the social context. Prior research suggests that people can shift between at least three types of evaluations to judge whether something is good or bad: <i>pragmatic</i> (how costly or beneficial it is), <i>moral</i> (whether it is aligned with moral norms), and <i>hedonic</i> (whether it feels good; Van Bavel et al., 2012). The current research examined the neurocognitive computations underlying these types of evaluations to understand how people construct affective judgments. Specifically, we examined whether different types of evaluations stem from a common neural evaluation system that incorporates different information in response to changing evaluation goals (moral, pragmatic, or hedonic), or distinct evaluation systems with different neurofunctional architectures. We found support for a hybrid evaluation system in which people rely on a set of brain regions to construct all three forms of evaluation but recruit additional distinct regions for each type of evaluation. The three types of evaluations all relied on common neural activity in affective structures such as the amygdala, the insula, and the hippocampus. However, moral evaluations involved greater neural activation in the orbitofrontal and cingulate cortex compared to pragmatic evaluations, and temporoparietal regions compared to hedonic evaluations. These results suggest that people use a hybrid system that includes common evaluation components as well as distinct ones to generate moral judgments. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142830314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EmotionPub Date : 2024-12-16DOI: 10.1037/emo0001458
Mirna Đurić, Francesca Righetti, Giulia Zoppolat, Clara Lohmer, Iris K Schneider
{"title":"Mixed signals: Romantic jealousy and ambivalence in relationships.","authors":"Mirna Đurić, Francesca Righetti, Giulia Zoppolat, Clara Lohmer, Iris K Schneider","doi":"10.1037/emo0001458","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001458","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Ambivalence (i.e., \"mixed feelings\") is a common and consequential experience in romantic relationships, but not much is known about which aspects of relationships are likely to elicit it. We investigated whether romantic jealousy (experienced by the individual and perceived in one's partner) is associated with stronger ambivalence toward the partner. Four studies (<i>N</i> = 1,466; participants from the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands) employing cross-sectional, daily diary, longitudinal, and experimental methodologies showed that experiencing romantic jealousy and perceiving one's partner as romantically jealous are positively associated with ambivalence toward the partner. Participants experiencing higher jealousy reported simultaneously higher perceived partner mate value but also lower trust toward their partner, which in turn increased feelings of ambivalence. Furthermore, participants who perceived their partner to be more jealous saw them as simultaneously highly committed to the relationship but also untrusting, in turn increasing feelings of ambivalence. These findings contribute to the literature on ambivalence in romantic relationships by highlighting an important relationship dynamic that increases ambivalent feelings. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142830307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EmotionPub Date : 2024-12-16DOI: 10.1037/emo0001475
Kinga Wołoszyn, Mateusz Hohol, Michał Kuniecki, Piotr Winkielman
{"title":"Facing emotional vocalizations and instrumental sounds: Sighted and blind individuals spontaneously and selectively activate facial muscles in response to emotional stimuli.","authors":"Kinga Wołoszyn, Mateusz Hohol, Michał Kuniecki, Piotr Winkielman","doi":"10.1037/emo0001475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001475","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Facial mimicry of visually observed emotional facial actions is a robust phenomenon. Here, we examined whether such facial mimicry extends to auditory emotional stimuli. We also examined if participants' facial responses differ to sounds that are more strongly associated with congruent facial movements, such as vocal emotional expressions (e.g., laughter, screams), or less associated with movements, such as nonvocal emotional sounds (e.g., happy, scary instrumental sounds). Furthermore, to assess whether facial mimicry of sounds reflects visual-motor or auditory-motor associations, we compared individuals that vary on lifetime visual experience (sighted vs. blind). To measure spontaneous facial responding, we used facial electromyography to record the activity of the <i>corrugator supercilii</i> (frowning) and the <i>zygomaticus major</i> (smiling) muscles. During measurement, participants freely listened to the two types of emotional sounds. Both types of sounds were rated similarly on valence and arousal. Notably, only vocal, but not instrumental, sounds elicited robust congruent and selective facial responses. The facial responses were observed in both sighted and blind participants. However, the muscles' responses of blind participants showed less differentiation between emotion categories of human vocalizations. Furthermore, the groups differed in the shape of the time courses of the <i>zygomatic</i> activity to human vocalizations. Overall, the study shows that emotion-congruent facial responses occur to nonvisual stimuli and are more robust to human vocalizations than instrumental sounds. Furthermore, the amount of lifetime visual experience matters little for the occurrence of cross-channel facial mimicry, but it shapes response differentiation. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142830286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EmotionPub Date : 2024-12-16DOI: 10.1037/emo0001466
Reut Machluf-Ruttner, David A Sbarra, Ben Shahar, Carmel Sofer, Eran Bar-Kalifa
{"title":"The dance of smiles: Comparing smile synchrony in nondistressed and therapy-seeking couples.","authors":"Reut Machluf-Ruttner, David A Sbarra, Ben Shahar, Carmel Sofer, Eran Bar-Kalifa","doi":"10.1037/emo0001466","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001466","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Dyadic affective processes are key determinants of romantic relationship quality. One such process termed emotional synchrony (i.e., the coupling of partners' emotions) has attracted growing attention in recent years. The present study focused on synchrony in partners' smiles, a nonverbal signal with significant social functions. Specifically, smile synchrony in the interactions of nondistressed couples was compared to smile synchrony in therapy-seeking couples. The former were predicted to show higher levels of smile synchrony. Data from the interactions of 61 (30 nondistressed and 31 treatment-seeking) couples were collected during a laboratory session while they engaged in four 6-min interactions during which they discussed positive or negative aspects of their relationship. FaceReader software was used to continuously code each partner's smile. Compared to treatment-seeking couples, nondistressed couples exhibited higher levels of smile synchrony, and such synchrony occurred in shorter time intervals. These results suggest that smile synchrony may be used as a behavioral signature of relationship quality. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142830318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EmotionPub Date : 2024-12-16DOI: 10.1037/emo0001453
Jennifer C Veilleux, Jeremy B Clift, Regina E Schreiber, Dylan K Shelton, Hannah M Henderson, Caitlin Gregory
{"title":"What goals do people have for who they want to be emotionally? Exploring long-term emotional goals.","authors":"Jennifer C Veilleux, Jeremy B Clift, Regina E Schreiber, Dylan K Shelton, Hannah M Henderson, Caitlin Gregory","doi":"10.1037/emo0001453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001453","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The goals that people have for their emotions are crucial for whether emotion regulation is pursued, as well as the regulation strategies people select. However, emotional goals may extend beyond the emotions people want to feel to include long-term goals for how people want to be emotionally in the future. In two studies, we qualitatively explored people's long-term emotional goals (i.e., desired emotional self; Study 1, <i>n</i> = 157, October 2023) and then quantitatively confirmed the association between well-being and current emotional attributes, desired emotional self, intention to work toward long-term goals, and belief in goal malleability (Study 2, <i>n</i> = 244, November 2023). Study 1 used qualitative coding to identify 13 long-term emotional goals, including hedonic goals (e.g., experience more pleasure, experience less negative affect) as well as goals to allow emotions, better understand emotions, have more emotional confidence, reduce emotion-driven behavior, increase regulation, increase cognitive control, and several goals related to interpersonal functioning (e.g., increase emotional connections, empathy, expressiveness, emotional boundaries). In Study 2, we confirmed the desirability of the long-term emotional goals, and we found that for many of the goals, greater discrepancies between desired and current emotional selves were associated with decreased well-being. In Study 2, we also explored self-reported attention to short-term versus long-term emotional goals. We found that greater emphasis on long-term emotional goals in emotional situations was associated with enhanced well-being. Exploratory analyses examined gender differences and the role of belief in goal malleability in intention to pursue long-term emotional change. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142830321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EmotionPub Date : 2024-12-05DOI: 10.1037/emo0001465
Anthony D Ong, Lijuan Wang, Yuan Fang, Guangjian Zhang, Raquael J Joiner, Kenneth T Wilcox, C S Bergeman
{"title":"Affect dynamics and depressive symptomatology: Revisiting the inertia-instability paradox.","authors":"Anthony D Ong, Lijuan Wang, Yuan Fang, Guangjian Zhang, Raquael J Joiner, Kenneth T Wilcox, C S Bergeman","doi":"10.1037/emo0001465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001465","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The inertia-instability paradox poses an intriguing question in depression research: How can the affective experiences of depressed individuals demonstrate both resistance to change and fluctuation? Prior studies examining this paradox have faced limitations, including small sample sizes, analytic approaches prone to biased parameter estimates, and inconsistent results. Using data from 842 adults (<i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 54.31, <i>SD</i> = 13.25, age range: 18-88; 58.2% female) collected over 56 consecutive days, we applied dynamic structural equation modeling to quantify individualized indices of mean levels, variability, instability, and inertia of negative affect. When adjusting for shared variances among affect dynamic measures, depressive symptoms were uniquely associated with both higher mean levels and inertia of negative affect. However, neither variability nor instability demonstrated unique links to depressive symptoms after accounting for the mean and inertia. Findings indicate that greater predictability in day-to-day negative affect is an important dynamic feature of depression. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142787316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EmotionPub Date : 2024-12-02DOI: 10.1037/emo0001455
Junyuan Luo, Kateri McRae, Christian E Waugh
{"title":"Committing to emotion regulation: Factors impacting the choice to implement a reappraisal after its generation.","authors":"Junyuan Luo, Kateri McRae, Christian E Waugh","doi":"10.1037/emo0001455","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001455","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cognitive reappraisal, changing the way one thinks about an emotional event, is one of the most effective and extensively studied emotion regulation strategies. Previous research has dissociated the generation of reappraisals (i.e., generating candidate alternative meanings of the event) from the implementation of reappraisals (i.e., selecting and elaborating on one reappraisal), finding that while generation slightly changes positive feelings, implementation yields the most substantial changes in positive emotion. Because they are two discrete processes, people might not always choose to implement a reappraisal they generated, and it is unclear what factors might influence implementation choice. We addressed this question in three preregistered studies. In Studies 1 (<i>N</i> = 52) and 2 (<i>N</i> = 58), we examined whether people's choices to implement a generated reappraisal are influenced by (a) their positive emotion after generation and/or (b) the plausibility of that reappraisal (the degree to which a reappraisal reflects what might be actually happening and/or could potentially happen). The results suggest that people monitor their positive emotion when choosing to implement a positive reappraisal, while monitoring plausibility when choosing to implement a negative reappraisal. In Study 3 (<i>N</i> = 134), we found that people primarily monitored their positive emotion (vs. plausibility) both when given a motive to feel better and a motive to understand the stressor. Taken together, we propose that positive emotion after reappraisal generation and reappraisal plausibility are indices of making progress toward the goal of regulation. Our results suggest that these indices influence people's choice to further implement the reappraisal. Our findings further our understanding of reappraisal generation and reappraisal implementation and reveal how and why people might choose to continue to regulate their emotions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142773814","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}