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Emotion Pub Date : 2026-08-03 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001718

Minjie Lu, Suyi Wang, Jennifer C Lay, Christiane A Hoppmann, Helene H Fung

{"title":"Shielding against interpersonal threat in later life: The regulatory function of nostalgia among older adults.","authors":"Minjie Lu, Suyi Wang, Jennifer C Lay, Christiane A Hoppmann, Helene H Fung","doi":"10.1037/emo0001718","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001718","url":null,"abstract":"Nostalgia, a sentimental longing for the past, is a resource for regulating psychological distress. According to socioemotional selectivity theory (Carstensen, 2006), aging is associated with a shift toward prioritizing emotionally meaningful goals. Integrating these views, we proposed that nostalgia's social affordances would make it a particularly potent resource for older adults when confronting interpersonal threats. We examined this hypothesis in two studies: an experience-sampling study and an experiment. In Study 1 (N = 115, age 18-80 years), older as compared to younger adults reported stronger nostalgic emotions following daily interpersonal negative emotions. In Study 2 (N = 189, age 21-78 years), older adults reported greater nostalgic engagement in response to social exclusion induced by the Cyberball game than younger adults. Furthermore, after experiencing nostalgia, compared to younger adults, older adults reported increased social engagement in everyday life (Study 1) and greater recovery of a sense of belonging from social exclusion (Study 2), demonstrating greater benefits from nostalgia. Importantly, these effects were unique to nostalgia and remained significant after controlling for general positive emotions. These findings suggest that nostalgia may be an adaptive resource for older adults. It is recruited specifically to counteract social threats and fulfills a need for emotional connectedness in later life, thereby functioning as a goal-congruent resource for healthy aging. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148664561","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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The moving potential of global crises: Threat and future visions are linked to collective action through feelings of being moved. 全球危机的移动潜力：威胁和未来愿景通过被移动的感觉与集体行动联系在一起。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2026-08-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-15 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001636

Janine Stollberg, Stefan Reiss, Eva Jonas

{"title":"The moving potential of global crises: Threat and future visions are linked to collective action through feelings of being moved.","authors":"Janine Stollberg, Stefan Reiss, Eva Jonas","doi":"10.1037/emo0001636","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001636","url":null,"abstract":"Global crises necessitate collective action but confront people with the threat of negative future consequences, which can make them anxious and inactive. Based on the assumption that being moved is a collective approach emotion, we predicted that the threat of negative future consequences, as well as a positive future vision, motivates collective action through feelings of being moved. In four experimental studies (Ntotal = 718, conducted between 2021 and 2022 in Central Europe), we tested the moving potential of different threatening and visionary scenarios related to global crises, such as climate change and gender inequality, on collective action. While testing being moved as an underlying emotional process, we accounted for anxiety and anger as parallel processes. The results show that experimentally confronting participants with the threatening negative future consequences of the gender data gap (S1a and 1b) or climate change (S3) increased feelings of being moved that were linked to collective action. Shifting the cognitive focus from threat to a positive future vision (S2 and S3), where collective goals for equality and sustainability will be achieved, also increased feelings of being moved, predicting collective action as well. However, the total effect of global crisis salience on collective action was only positive in Studies 1a and 2, whereas Studies 1b and 3 revealed a null effect. Together, the findings connect threat and future vision salience effects on collective action through an affective-motivational process of being moved. The present findings may generalize to the target population of well-educated Western industrialized countries. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1148-1165"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145991163","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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Attention to interoceptive processes interferes with access of emotion concepts. 对内感受过程的关注会干扰情绪概念的获取。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2026-08-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-29 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001642

Alexandra E Kelly, Evangelia G Chrysikou

{"title":"Attention to interoceptive processes interferes with access of emotion concepts.","authors":"Alexandra E Kelly, Evangelia G Chrysikou","doi":"10.1037/emo0001642","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001642","url":null,"abstract":"Grounded theories of cognition would predict that processing concepts such as emotions, which are inherently associated with a variety of bodily states, would rely on embodied simulations. Here, we manipulated attention to respiratory rate and used a feature-verification task to assess the degree to which such simulations are involved when processing emotion, concrete, and abstract (but non-emotion-related) concepts. Participants in the experimental group were guided through a mindful breathing exercise and instructed to pay attention to the sensations of breath for the duration of the feature verification task. They reported an estimate of number of breaths taken during the preceding minute at specific intervals throughout the experiment, while we continuously recorded the participants' respiration rate. A separate control group tracked the presence of an unrelated visual distractor while completing the feature verification task. Using a linear mixed effects model to analyze the data, we found evidence of an interference effect where attention to respiration slowed reaction times specifically for emotion concepts. This effect was driven by multiple dimensions of interoceptive ability, including individual differences in baseline interoceptive sensibility, and task-concurrent engagement of those interoceptive resources. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1228-1240"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146087175","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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The developmental changes in emotion recognition from human biological motion by children aged from 4 to 12 years. 4 ~ 12岁儿童从人体生物动作中识别情绪的发育变化。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2026-08-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-15 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001626

Elliot Riviere, Yannick Courbois, Edouard Gentaz

{"title":"The developmental changes in emotion recognition from human biological motion by children aged from 4 to 12 years.","authors":"Elliot Riviere, Yannick Courbois, Edouard Gentaz","doi":"10.1037/emo0001626","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001626","url":null,"abstract":"Most research on the development of emotion recognition has focused on facial expressions, leaving a relative gap in our understanding of how children interpret emotions through body movements. This study examined developmental changes in the ability to recognize basic emotions (joy, anger, fear, and sadness) from human biological motion presented in point-light displays (HBM-PLDs), with particular attention to how these changes vary depending on the type of emotion and age. One hundred twenty-eight preschool and primary school children aged 4-12 years participated in two experimental tasks involving the explicit recognition of emotions from HBM-PLDs. The results highlight a clear developmental progression in the recognition of emotions from HBM-PLDs with increasing age. This developmental change appears to follow a curvilinear trajectory, with an inflection point around 8.5 years of age (100 months). However, the study further reveals that this inflection point differs depending on the specific discrete emotion considered. Joy seems to be recognized as early as age 4, followed by anger between ages 5 and 6, sadness between ages 6 and 7.5, and finally fear after age 9-10. This represents an important contribution, demonstrating that the improvement in emotion recognition from body movement is not homogeneous but modulated according to the discrete emotion. These findings support the idea that the development of discrete emotion recognition is independent of the modality of presentation (facial expressions, body movements, vocal cues, etc.) and suggest that emotion recognition may rely on a modality-independent and unified developmental process. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1166-1180"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145991216","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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Seven challenges in affective inertia research. 情感惯性研究中的七个挑战。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2026-08-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-12 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001630

Sijing Shao, Anthony D Ong

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Positive affect inertia uniquely differentiates formerly depressed individuals from healthy controls: An ecological momentary assessment study. 积极的影响惯性唯一区分前抑郁症个体与健康对照：一项生态瞬时评估研究。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2026-08-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-12 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001637

Josip Razum, Igor Marchetti, Ivar Snorrason, Kristján H Hjartarson, Ragnar P Ólafsson

{"title":"Positive affect inertia uniquely differentiates formerly depressed individuals from healthy controls: An ecological momentary assessment study.","authors":"Josip Razum, Igor Marchetti, Ivar Snorrason, Kristján H Hjartarson, Ragnar P Ólafsson","doi":"10.1037/emo0001637","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001637","url":null,"abstract":"Previous studies have shown that emotional dynamics, that is, moment to moment variability and inertia of emotional states, are related to depression, but have no significant contribution after their overlap with mean affect is taken into account. However, few studies considered clinical samples. In our study, we compared a sample of euthymic formerly depressed persons (n = 94) at high risk of depression recurrence and healthy controls with no history of depression (n = 56), while using ecological momentary assessment data collected 10 times per day. The samples differed with respect to indicators of negative and positive affect dynamics computed from ecological momentary assessment data. However, when jointly considering all of emotional variability, inertia, and mean affect, only emotional inertia emerged as a significant predictor of group assignment. Specifically, the higher emotional inertia of positive affect proved to be the most influential predictor of belonging to the sample of formerly depressed persons versus being a healthy control. The finding remained even after controlling for differences in depressive symptoms between the samples. These findings indicate that positive affect inertia may characterize formerly depressed persons after symptoms have subsided, potentially indicating vulnerability for recurrence of depression episodes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1107-1117"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145960678","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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I react to bodies but not faces, a replication and extension of Aviezer et al. (2012). 我对身体做出反应，而不是对面孔做出反应，这是Aviezer等人（2012）的复制和延伸。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2026-08-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-09 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001621

Nicolas Pillaud, Clément Chassaing-Monjou, Adèle Cottin

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Should I stay or should I go: An exploration of spontaneous postural behaviors following threatening emotion perception. 我该走还是该留：对威胁性情绪感知后的自发姿势行为的探索。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2026-08-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-09 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001653

Jean Monéger, Laurence Chaby, Chrystel Besche-Richard, Dorine Vergilino-Perez

{"title":"Should I stay or should I go: An exploration of spontaneous postural behaviors following threatening emotion perception.","authors":"Jean Monéger, Laurence Chaby, Chrystel Besche-Richard, Dorine Vergilino-Perez","doi":"10.1037/emo0001653","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001653","url":null,"abstract":"Emotional facial expressions can indicate behavioral intentions to others. Observing a threatening emotional expression (e.g., angry face) could prompt avoidance. However, the literature reports mixed findings, with emotional expressions such as anger or fear being associated with both approach and avoidance. In this study (N = 152 participants; 93.9% women, 4.7% men, 1.4% other; Mage = 19.57, SDage = 3.25), we investigated how facial characteristics (i.e., gaze direction) and individual traits (i.e., Big Five and schizotypal personality traits) modulate behavioral responses to the perception of approaching emotional facial expressions (angry, fearful, sad, and neutral faces). We assessed motor responses using force plates to investigate spontaneous postural adjustments. Results show that angry and fearful faces elicit defensive responses characterized by backward body sway (i.e., avoidance). Although facial features further qualified those defensive reactions with averted gazes in fear stimuli eliciting a relative approach, we did not find conclusive evidence for the role of personality in these responses. Results are discussed in light of sociofunctional and appraisal models of emotion perception. The present study underlines the relevance of studying postural sway to assess adaptive avoidance of threatening social stimulus. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1273-1286"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146143287","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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When feeling good does not always help you sleep: Cultural moderation of the positive affect-sleep link. 当感觉良好并不总是有助于睡眠时：积极情绪与睡眠联系的文化调节。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2026-08-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-29 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001654

Yiyi Zhu, Heidi S Kane, Jiyoung Park

{"title":"When feeling good does not always help you sleep: Cultural moderation of the positive affect-sleep link.","authors":"Yiyi Zhu, Heidi S Kane, Jiyoung Park","doi":"10.1037/emo0001654","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001654","url":null,"abstract":"Positive affect has been linked to better sleep. However, this evidence primarily comes from Western societies with a long-standing cultural tradition of prioritizing the pursuit of positivity. Here, we tested whether such benefits generalize to East Asian societies, where positive affect is less culturally valued. In these cultural contexts, individuals strive to achieve emotional balance, and thus, elevating positive emotions may not confer the same health benefits. We tested this hypothesis in two cross-cultural studies. Using large-scale surveys from American and Japanese midlife adults (N = 1,358), Study 1 examined whether culture moderates the relationship between positive affect and subjective sleep quality. As predicted, higher positive affect was associated with better subjective sleep quality among European Americans, but not among Japanese. Study 2 employed a 2-week daily diary design to examine whether European American and East Asian college students (N = 119) differ in how positive affect relates to both subjective and actigraphy-derived sleep measures. Among European Americans, higher average positive affect was associated with better subjective sleep quality and a calmer (vs. tense) mood upon awakening. By contrast, these associations were not observed among East Asians; instead, greater positive affect predicted shorter sleep duration for these individuals. Notably, these cultural differences emerged only for high-arousal (not low-arousal) positive affect. Together, these findings suggest that the restorative benefits of positive affect on sleep may be culturally contingent, depending on how positive emotions are viewed in different societies. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1058-1072"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146087196","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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Express yourself: Emotional expressive accuracy in a supportive interaction between friends. 表达自己：在朋友之间的支持互动中，情感表达的准确性。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2026-08-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-19 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001646

Alexandrija Zikic, Maya Reingold, Jonas P Nitschke, Katya Santucci, Erin P Macdonald, Jennifer A Bartz, Lauren J Human, Melanie A Dirks

{"title":"Express yourself: Emotional expressive accuracy in a supportive interaction between friends.","authors":"Alexandrija Zikic, Maya Reingold, Jonas P Nitschke, Katya Santucci, Erin P Macdonald, Jennifer A Bartz, Lauren J Human, Melanie A Dirks","doi":"10.1037/emo0001646","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001646","url":null,"abstract":"Empathic accuracy-the ability to infer others' emotions accurately-is associated with positive social functioning. To be empathically accurate, individuals must base their inferences on accurate cues. Consequently, expressive accuracy-the extent to which individuals accurately communicate their self-reported affect-may be a constraint on others' empathic accuracy. Though affective communication involves both perceivers (i.e., those who make inferences) and targets (i.e., those being judged), prior research has focused on perceivers. Here, we examined the relative contribution of perceivers and targets to explaining variance in empathic accuracy and the association between targets' expressive accuracy and perceivers' empathic accuracy. Data from 137 same-gender friend dyads were collected between 2018 and 2020. After engaging in a supportive interaction, participants watched videos and rated their own and their friend's affect during the conversation. Empathic accuracy was the correlation between participants' inferences of friends' affect and friends' reports of their own affect. Between 2022 and 2023, six to 10 external raters watched the videos and inferred participants' affect, providing additional empathic accuracy scores. Expressive accuracy was indexed as how accurately each participant's affect was read by the external raters on average. Targets (participants) explained more variance in empathic accuracy scores than perceivers (external raters), and participants' expressive accuracy positively predicted friends' empathic accuracy, even after controlling for emotional expressivity. Results suggest that expressing affect accurately may be a key component of affective communication. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"1073-1079"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146012617","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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