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Emotion Pub Date : 2025-05-15 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001538

Tamar Amishav, Nilly Mor

{"title":"Peripheral information's effect on emotional intensity depends on depression level.","authors":"Tamar Amishav, Nilly Mor","doi":"10.1037/emo0001538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001538","url":null,"abstract":"This research examined the effect of peripheral information on emotional responses and depression-related differences in this effect. In two experiments, undergraduate students, representing a subclinical sample with varying levels of depression, rated their emotional responses to neutral and negative target pictures. The target pictures were presented alone or with negative and neutral peripheral pictures (Study 1), or with negative and positive pictures (Study 2). As predicted, across studies, depressive symptoms were associated with more negative emotional responses to neutral pictures when these were presented in the context of peripheral negative pictures as compared to neutral or positive peripheral pictures. Contrary to predictions, positive peripheral pictures did not attenuate responses to negative target pictures, and depression did not moderate the effect of positive information on emotional responses. These results highlight the potential impact of contextual negative peripheral information on the emotional responses of individuals with depressive symptoms and suggest avenues for exploring interventions aimed at modifying negative affective responses. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144081641","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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Metacognitive monitoring of attentional bias toward threat in anxiety. 焦虑中威胁注意偏向的元认知监测。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2025-05-15 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001544

Cheongil Kim, Juyoen Hur, Jeong Hyeon Park, Sang Chul Chong

{"title":"Metacognitive monitoring of attentional bias toward threat in anxiety.","authors":"Cheongil Kim, Juyoen Hur, Jeong Hyeon Park, Sang Chul Chong","doi":"10.1037/emo0001544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001544","url":null,"abstract":"Are anxious individuals aware that their attention is excessively captured by threat-related stimuli? If so, how accurate is this awareness? Accurate attentional monitoring is crucial for effective attentional control, as it enables individuals to recognize whether and to what extent attentional control is necessary. The present study investigates how accurately individuals (recruited in 2023-2024) monitor their attentional bias toward an angry face and whether this ability is associated with anxiety levels. Adopting a novel approach that involves average facial expression and attentional allocation judgments, we demonstrate that individuals can monitor their attentional bias toward an angry face. However, anxious individuals tend to underestimate their greater attentional bias, despite having an intact ability to monitor trial-by-trial variations in attentional bias; this may explain why they exhibit impaired attentional control. This study provides a novel theoretical framework that incorporates attentional monitoring processes to more comprehensively understand the relationship between attention and anxiety. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144081621","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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Rumination and acceptance differentially modulate the scope of attention. 反刍和接受对注意力范围的调节是不同的。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2025-05-12 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001540

Mor Ben Zaken Linn, Lihi Cohen, Noam Weinbach

{"title":"Rumination and acceptance differentially modulate the scope of attention.","authors":"Mor Ben Zaken Linn, Lihi Cohen, Noam Weinbach","doi":"10.1037/emo0001540","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001540","url":null,"abstract":"Rumination, characterized by repetitive and intrusive thoughts about negative personal events, has been linked to a narrow attentional scope. Conversely, emotional acceptance, which involves fully experiencing emotions in a nonevaluative way, is theorized to broaden attention. However, empirical data that support the theoretical link between rumination, acceptance, and the attentional scope are scarce. The present study examined the effects of rumination and acceptance on local (narrow attention) versus global (broad attention) processing styles. Seventy-two healthy participants were asked to describe a distressing personal event. Then, participants implemented rumination or acceptance to cope with that event. Before and after the implementation phase, participants completed a global/local processing task. The results showed that rumination led to a pre- to postmanipulation increase in local interference (i.e., greater interference caused by details when attending to a whole figure) and a decrease in global interference (i.e., smaller interference caused by a whole figure while attending to the details). In contrast, implementing emotional acceptance led to a pre- to postmanipulation reduction in local interference, with no change in global interference. Post hoc analyses indicated that the effects of rumination and acceptance on processing style were not mediated by affective changes that resulted from implementing these strategies. The findings provide support for the role played by rumination in narrowing the attentional scope and partial support for the effect of acceptance on broadening attention. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144041201","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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Calmness and excitement intensity and variability in old age: Linking stressful circumstances to well-being and health. 老年人的冷静和兴奋强度和变化：将压力环境与幸福和健康联系起来。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2025-05-12 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001535

Parisa Sepehri, Ute Kunzmann, Carsten Wrosch

{"title":"Calmness and excitement intensity and variability in old age: Linking stressful circumstances to well-being and health.","authors":"Parisa Sepehri, Ute Kunzmann, Carsten Wrosch","doi":"10.1037/emo0001535","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001535","url":null,"abstract":"The discrete emotion theory of affective aging posits that the adaptive effects of emotions vary depending on their ability to facilitate effective responses to developmental constraints and opportunities. Research suggests that calmness and excitement are two positive emotions with distinct functions and that calmness, but not excitement, supports effective adjustment to developmental constraints in old age, particularly when control perceptions are low. In the present research, we conducted a 1-week daily diary study with 169 community-dwelling older adults (Mage = 76.6, SD = 7.2). Data were collected in 2018. We examined the effects of calmness and excitement intensity (between- and within-person differences) and variability within the context of stressful experiences on older adults' well-being and health. We expected that levels, increases, and consistency (i.e., low variability) of calmness, but not excitement, may be adaptive, particularly among older adults with low control perceptions. Results from hierarchical and linear regression models showed that calmness intensity was associated with better well-being and health, on both the between- and within-person levels. Between-person levels of excitement intensity, by contrast, predicted poorer health and depressive symptoms among individuals with low perceived control. Compared to variable calmness, consistent calmness was associated with adaptive outcomes, particularly for older adults with low perceived control. By contrast, excitement variability was largely unrelated to well-being and health, except for a positive association with depressive symptoms among adults with low control. Findings inform functional theories of emotion by suggesting that positive emotions with disparate motivational functions can exert diverging effects in older adulthood. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144039520","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 interplay between momentary experienced and verbally expressed negative affect within interactions. 在互动中，瞬间体验和口头表达的消极情绪之间的相互作用。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2025-05-05 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001534

Otto Versyp, Eva Ceulemans, Andrea B Horn, Peter Kuppens

{"title":"The interplay between momentary experienced and verbally expressed negative affect within interactions.","authors":"Otto Versyp, Eva Ceulemans, Andrea B Horn, Peter Kuppens","doi":"10.1037/emo0001534","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001534","url":null,"abstract":"Emotions dynamically unfold and are jointly constructed throughout social interactions between individuals. Yet, how exactly the experience and expression of emotions interact throughout such interactions remains poorly understood. In this study, we investigated the interplay between the experience and verbal expression of negative affect within and between romantic partners during negative interactions. We examined this interplay in terms of four possible relations: (a) how one's experienced negative affect predicts the verbal expression thereof, (b) how the verbal expression of negative affect predicts a subsequent change in one's own experienced affect, (c) how the verbal expression of negative affect predicts change in a partner's experienced affect, and (d) how one's experienced negative affect predicts the verbal expression of negative affect by a partner. We answered these questions by analyzing second-to-second data of self-reported affect ratings and verbatim transcripts of videotaped negative interactions between romantic partners. Our findings reveal inconsistent evidence for intraindividual relationships between the experience and verbal expression of negative affect. Yet, they demonstrate a consistent, though small, interpersonal relation with the expression of negative affect in one partner predicting the subsequent experience of negative affect in the other. These results suggest that verbal negative emotion expression may be more consistently related to others' experience than one's own, and highlight the role of emotion expression in interpersonal emotion regulation and the social construction of emotional experience, though the small effect sizes suggest this relationship may be subtle and that many other factors contribute to our emotional experiences. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144022931","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 Pub Date : 2025-05-05 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001533

Edward P Lemay, Jennifer N Cutri, Ronald T Or

{"title":"Daily relatedness predicts positive shifts in world beliefs: Implications for psychological well-being and affective tendencies.","authors":"Edward P Lemay, Jennifer N Cutri, Ronald T Or","doi":"10.1037/emo0001533","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001533","url":null,"abstract":"Primal world beliefs-beliefs about the general character of the world-are linked to psychological well-being, yet little is known about what drives changes in these beliefs. This study examined whether daily relatedness-rewarding, intimate, and responsive social interactions-predicts shifts in primal world beliefs over a year. In a dyadic study of romantic couples (N = 235 couples and 6,411 daily observations), daily relatedness predicted more positive world beliefs 1 year later. Specifically, positive interactions with close ties (i.e., familiar and close interaction partners), romantic relationship satisfaction, and perceived partner responsiveness contributed to these shifts. However, the quality of interactions with weak ties (i.e., unfamiliar or distant partners) did not predict changes in world beliefs. Moreover, positive changes in world beliefs partially explained the prospective effects of daily relatedness on greater well-being and lower depressed affect over the year. These findings provide novel support for retrospective models of world belief change, highlighting the role of everyday interpersonal experiences in shaping fundamental views of the world. They also suggest that more positive world beliefs may partially explain why relatedness promotes well-being. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144064913","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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Torn between valences? Associations between mixed emotions and well-being in stressful and nonstressful situations in a large-scale ecological momentary assessment study. 在两个价之间纠结？大型生态瞬间评估研究中压力和非压力情境下混合情绪与幸福感的关系。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2025-05-05 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001537

Vincent Y S Oh

{"title":"Torn between valences? Associations between mixed emotions and well-being in stressful and nonstressful situations in a large-scale ecological momentary assessment study.","authors":"Vincent Y S Oh","doi":"10.1037/emo0001537","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001537","url":null,"abstract":"Using a large-scale public-sample ecological momentary assessment study (N = 710) collected across 7 days in 2020 and providing 29,820 observations, the present work examines associations between moment-to-moment and day-to-day experiences of mixed emotions with well-being among American adults and whether these relationships would be moderated by stressful situations or adverse life events. Multilevel lagged analyses adjusting for positive emotions, negative emotions, neuroticism, and demographic variability found that mixed emotions were not associated with next-moment physical well-being or next-day social well-being, but were associated with poorer next-day physical health. Reverse pathways in which physical well-being and social well-being on each day predicted reduced mixed emotions on subsequent days were also supported, though the comparable pathway at the moment level was not significant. Moderation analyses further found that whereas adverse life events reported in the previous month did not moderate the associations of mixed emotions with well-being, there were significant interaction terms between moment-level mixed emotions with stressful events reported at the moment predicting next-moment well-being, as well as between day-level mixed emotions with stressful events reported that day predicting next-day physical health. Simple slope analyses found that mixed emotions were associated with poorer next-moment physical well-being and next-day physical health only when stressful events were not reported. We discuss the implications of these findings for conceptualizations of mixed emotions and the potential role of stress as a contextual factor that may alter how mixed emotions are linked to downstream outcomes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144051192","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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Why humor's positive effect on memory disappears with aging. 为什么幽默对记忆的积极影响会随着年龄的增长而消失。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2025-05-05 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001519

Audrey Noël, Laurence Picard

{"title":"Why humor's positive effect on memory disappears with aging.","authors":"Audrey Noël, Laurence Picard","doi":"10.1037/emo0001519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001519","url":null,"abstract":"Numerous studies have highlighted the beneficial effect of humor on memory in younger adults. While older adults are known to preferentially process positive information and appreciate humor, no study has investigated whether the effect of humor on memory persists in aging. Two studies were conducted to address this gap. In Study 1, 19 younger adults and 20 older adults performed a memory task designed to compare the recall of humorous and neutral photograph sequences. Results revealed the typical beneficial effect of humor on free recall in young adults, while in older adults, humor had no influence on free recall and even a detrimental effect in the cued recall task, suggesting that humor primarily affects encoding processes. Study 2 aimed to replicate these findings and further investigate the mechanisms underlying this negative effect in older adults (i.e., the effect of humor per se or confounding incongruity effect). To this end, 37 younger adults and 38 older adults completed a similar task, now featuring three different photograph sequences (humorous, incongruous and neutral). Older adults exhibited no further effect of humor on memory when incongruity was controlled, whereas younger adults continued to recall humorous photographs better than neutral ones, in the two retrieval conditions. As expected, older adults also showed a negative effect of incongruity on memory, consistent with the inefficiency of their binding processes. Taken together, these studies show that the positive effect of humor on memory disappears in aging, owing to the inherent incongruity of humorous stimuli, combined with an associative memory deficit. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144051257","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 you feel what I feel? The relation between congruence of perceived affect and self-reported empathy in daily life social situations. 你能感受到我的感受吗？日常生活社交情境中感知情感一致性与自述共情的关系。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2025-04-28 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001531

Whitney R Ringwald, Colin E Vize, Aidan G C Wright

{"title":"Do you feel what I feel? The relation between congruence of perceived affect and self-reported empathy in daily life social situations.","authors":"Whitney R Ringwald, Colin E Vize, Aidan G C Wright","doi":"10.1037/emo0001531","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001531","url":null,"abstract":"Theories of empathy highlight the importance of affective congruence, which is the degree to which we match an interaction partner in negative or positive affect. However, no research to date has used a multipronged assessment approach necessary to investigate whether and how affective congruence typically relates to empathy (i.e., perception of others' affect, self-reported affect, and self-reported empathy during interpersonal interactions). Using multilevel response surface analysis and ecological momentary assessment, we investigated relations between congruence of perceived affect and self-reported empathy during social interactions in a large sample of adults (N = 526; total interactions = 21,521; Mdn = 38 interactions per person). Data were collected in spring 2023. We found that while self-reported empathy is generally higher when there is congruence of perceived affect, empathy is highest when there is congruence in high positive affect. Further, people are least empathetic when they feel emotionally worse than they perceive the other person is feeling. These findings provide novel insights into the empathic processes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144003735","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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Information-management behavior during stressful waiting periods. 在紧张的等待期间的信息管理行为。

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Emotion Pub Date : 2025-04-24 DOI: 10.1037/emo0001529

Jennifer L Howell, Kate Sweeny

{"title":"Information-management behavior during stressful waiting periods.","authors":"Jennifer L Howell, Kate Sweeny","doi":"10.1037/emo0001529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001529","url":null,"abstract":"In three longitudinal studies, we examined the relationship between worry about an outcome and information-management behavior-specifically seeking and avoiding information about that outcome-in the context of awaiting uncertain news. Study 1 examined a group of U.S. voters across the 4 weeks preceding the 2020 presidential election. Study 2 examined law graduates who completed the California bar exam during the 17 weeks between when they took the exam and when their results were posted online. Study 3 examined job candidates from a variety of academic fields from October to April as they searched for academic jobs. In all three studies, people who reported greater worry about the relevant outcome across the wait reported greater information seeking. Additionally, people were particularly likely to seek information at the times during the wait when they reported the most acute worry. Evidence for the relationship between worry and information avoidance during the wait was more mixed; we found only that people who worried more were more likely to avoid information generally (between-subjects effect) in Studies 1 and 2 and did not find evidence that people were more likely to avoid at times they were most worried (within-subjects effect). These findings suggest that information avoidance might not be the strategy of choice in response to worry during stressful waiting periods; instead, worry seems to be motivating the pursuit of (sometimes unhelpful) information. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144016971","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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