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{"title":"Empathic accuracy in couples: A daily diary study of relationship-related emotions.","authors":"Judith Kotiuga, Marie-Ève Daspe, Samantha J Dawson, Sophie Bergeron, Marie-Pier Vaillancourt-Morel","doi":"10.1037/emo0001532","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001532","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Empathic accuracy-the ability to accurately infer one's partner's emotions-has important implications for couples' relational well-being. Although distinct emotions convey various needs and elicit different responses between romantic partners, research on empathic accuracy-its patterns, underlying processes and relational consequences-across a spectrum of discrete emotions directed towards the partner or the relationship remains sparse. This study employed a 35-day dyadic daily diary design to examine empathic accuracy in couples, focusing on seven emotions (joy, feeling loved, anger, contempt, sadness, fear, and guilt) while also investigating the reliance on bias of assumed similarity, the moderating role of the target's social sharing, and the links between empathic accuracy and perceived partner responsiveness (PPR). The sample included 327 couples who reported on their own emotions, their perceptions of their partner's emotions, their perceptions of their own social sharing and their perception of their partner's responsiveness. Results showed that partners tend to hold a slight negativity bias when inferring each other's emotions. However, most are adept at tracking changes in their partner's emotions, especially when partners verbalize how they are feeling, and they strongly rely on their own emotions to make such inferences. In addition, the intensity of felt or perceived emotions-rather than empathic accuracy-were associated with PPR, though some distinct patterns emerged across emotions. These results provide partial support for error-management theory and highlight the importance of examining emotions beyond valence, as both similarities and distinctions emerge in patterns of empathic accuracy and their links to relational outcomes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144042176","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":"Exploring the potential of large language models to understand interpersonal emotion regulation strategies from narratives.","authors":"Belén López-Pérez, Yuhui Chen, Xiuhui Li, Shixing Cheng, Pooya Razavi","doi":"10.1037/emo0001528","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001528","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Interpersonal emotion regulation involves using diverse strategies to influence others' emotions, commonly assessed with questionnaires. However, this method may be less effective for individuals with limited literacy or introspection skills. To address this, recent studies have adopted narrative-based approaches, though these require time-intensive qualitative analysis. Given the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLM) for information classification, we evaluated the feasibility of using AI to categorize interpersonal emotion regulation strategies. We conducted two studies in which we compared AI performance against human coding in identifying regulation strategies from narrative data. In Study 1, with 2,824 responses, ChatGPT initially achieved Kappa values over .47. Refinements in prompts (i.e., coding instructions) led to improved consistency between ChatGPT and human coders (κ > .79). In Study 2, the refined prompts demonstrated comparable accuracy (κ > .76) when analyzing a new set of responses (<i>N</i> = 2090), using both ChatGPT and Claude. Additional evaluations of LLMs' performance using different accuracy metrics pointed to notable variability in LLM's capability when interpreting narratives across different emotions and regulatory strategies. These results point to the strengths and limitations of LLMs in classifying regulation strategies, and the importance of prompt engineering and validation. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144051188","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":"Toward ecological validity in expression discrimination: Forced-choice saccadic responses to posed and naturalistic faces.","authors":"Natalie Peluso, Blake W Saurels, Jessica Taubert","doi":"10.1037/emo0001527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001527","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Certain faces draw more attention than others. For example, faces signaling emotion elicit quicker and more accurate eye movements compared to faces signaling more neutral displays. However, the use of faces with posed expressions staged to represent particular emotion categories might have inflated these effects, and it remains largely unknown whether we can effectively discriminate facial displays under more naturalistic conditions. Here, we used forced-choice saccadic responses to investigate the speed and accuracy of discrimination between happy, threatening, and neutral facial expressions. Further, we compared these markers of performance when using posed or naturalistic databases. Participants (<i>N</i> = 40) viewed happy/neutral and neutral/threatening face pairs and were tasked with saccading toward the \"happiest\" face. We found that participants rapidly distinguished happy expressions from neutral expressions in both posed and naturalistic face trials, though this bias was amplified when distinguishing faces with posed expressions. Further, interference from threatening faces more strongly disrupted neutral expression selection in posed compared to naturalistic face trials. These results confirm that naturalistic faces drive similar behavioral biases to posed faces in expression discrimination tasks. However, detailed analyses of continuous eye position revealed that, despite increased levels of visual noise, naturalistic faces elicited accurate eye movements faster than posed faces. These findings are a vital step forward in the field of social perception, paving the way from tightly controlled laboratory experiments to more ecologically valid approaches. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144002244","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":"Neural correlates of well-being in young adults.","authors":"Kayla H Green, Suzanne van de Groep, Renske van der Cruijsen, Esther A H Warnert, Eveline A Crone","doi":"10.1037/emo0001526","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001526","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Subjective experiences of well-being are multifaceted in nature, but the behavioral and neural correlates of subdomains of well-being are not yet well understood. Prior neuroimaging studies have primarily focused on single aspects of well-being (e.g., happiness). In the present study, we differentiated between five domains of well-being based on prior research (Green, van de Groep, et al., 2023): (a) family relationships; (b) dealing with stress; (c) self-confidence; (d) having impact, purpose, and meaning; and (e) feeling loved, appreciated, and respected. Young adults (age range = 20-25 years; <i>n</i> = 34) completed a self-evaluation functional magnetic resonance imaging task addressing the applicability of the items to the self on a scale of 1 to 4, followed by whether this item addressed a desire for change on a scale of 1 to 4. Behavioral ratings showed that young adults were least positive about dealing with stress and reported the highest degree of desired change for this domain. Higher positivity ratings in all five domains of current well-being were negatively associated with burnout symptoms. More burnout symptoms were associated with higher desire for future changes in the impact, confidence, and loved conditions. More depressive symptoms were associated with higher desire for future changes in all domains, except for confidence. Neural results showed increased activity in the precuneus for items addressing \"positive family relations\" and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex for items addressing \"dealing with stress,\" relative to the other domains, which did not result in distinct neural patterns. Together, these findings highlight the importance of assessing various components of well-being, which show distinct behavioral and neural patterns. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143991397","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":"Is it pain, anger, disgust, or sadness? Individual differences in expectations of pain facial expressions.","authors":"Arianne Richer, Francis Gingras, Marie-Pier Plouffe-Demers, Daniel Fiset, Caroline Blais","doi":"10.1037/emo0001516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001516","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Humans rely on facial expressions to assess others' affective states. However, pain facial expressions are poorly recognized and are often confused with other negative affective states, such as anger, disgust, sadness, and fear. Previous research has shown that individuals' expectations about the appearance of pain facial expressions are not optimal and do not perfectly reflect the facial features typically observed in individuals expressing pain. In the present study, we verified if expectations about pain facial expressions are also suboptimal by overlapping with other affective states. We relied on two published data sets (data collected between 2017 and 2020) containing images representing the expectations of the appearance of pain facial expressions according to 162 White participants. We then asked an independent group of White participants (<i>N</i> = 60, 30 women, <i>M</i>_age = 31.5) to rate the degree to which they perceived the six basic emotions (anger, disgust, fear, joy, sadness, and surprise) and pain in those images (data collected in 2023). The same pattern of findings was obtained in both data sets. Anger, disgust, and sadness were perceived as highly salient in expectations about pain facial expressions. Most importantly, three clusters of participants with distinct expectations were found. These results support the hypothesis that individual differences exist in how observers expect pain to be expressed. These individual differences might impact the ability of an observer to distinguish an expression of pain from other negative affective states, and raising awareness about them might help reduce mistakes with serious consequences. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143804549","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":"Environmental sensitivity in children is associated with emotion recognition.","authors":"Jenni Elise Kähkönen, Francesca Lionetti, Michael Pluess","doi":"10.1037/emo0001524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001524","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Children differ significantly in their emotion recognition, which represents an important component of social competence. According to theory and initial empirical studies in adults, individual differences in the trait of environmental sensitivity have been associated with emotion recognition, but this has not been studied in highly sensitive children yet. Highly sensitive children are generally understood to perceive and process environmental stimuli, including social ones, more easily and deeply than other children. We hypothesized that highly sensitive children would perform better in an objective emotion recognition task and be rated as more socially competent compared to low sensitive children. Ninety-seven 7- to 9-year-old U.K. primary school children (47% girls) completed the Reading the Mind in the Eyes test's child version on a computer one-on-one with a researcher during school hours on school premises. Teachers rated children's sensitivity using the Highly Sensitive Child in School scale and also reported on children's social competence. Children completed the Highly Sensitive Child scale. The data were collected in 2022. Teacher-reported sensitivity emerged as a significant predictor of the Reading the Mind in the Eyes test's child version and social competence, while child-reported sensitivity was not associated with emotion recognition. Teacher-reported overstimulation of children was negatively associated with social competence. This study is the first to report links between children's environmental sensitivity, emotion recognition skills, and social competence. Findings are consistent with theories on environmental sensitivity and highlight the potential benefits of high sensitivity but will need to be replicated in more ethnically diverse samples. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143804548","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":"Perceptual sensitivity to labeling stereotyped emotion expressions: Associations with age and subclinical psychopathology symptoms from childhood through early adulthood.","authors":"David G Weissman, Henna I Vartiainen, Erik C Nook, Hilary K Lambert, Stephanie F Sasse, Leah H Somerville, Katie A McLaughlin","doi":"10.1037/emo0001441","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001441","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigates (a) age-related differences in how the intensity of stereotyped facial expressions influence the emotion label children, adolescents, and adults assign to that face and (b) how this perceptual sensitivity relates to subclinical symptoms of psychopathology. In 2015-2016, 184 participants aged 4-25 years viewed posed stereotypes of angry, fearful, sad, and happy expressions morphed with neutral expressions at 10%-90% intensity. Thin plate regression smoothing splines were used to chart nonlinear associations between age and the perceptual threshold participants needed to assign the emotion label expected based on cultural consensus. Results suggest that sensitivity to labeling stereotypical happy faces as \"happy\" peaked by age 4. Sensitivity to perceiving stereotypical angry faces as \"angry\" increased from ages 4 to 7 and then plateaued. In contrast, sensitivity to perceiving stereotypical fearful and sad faces demonstrated protracted development, not reaching a plateau until ages 15 and 16, respectively. Reduction in selecting the \"I don't know\" response was the primary driver of these age-related changes. Stereotyped fear expressions required the highest intensity to be labeled as such and showed the most marked change in perceptual threshold across development. Interestingly, lower intensity morphs of stereotypical fear faces were frequently labeled \"sad.\" Furthermore, perceiving lower intensity fear morphs was associated with fewer internalizing and externalizing symptoms in participants aged 7-19. This study describes the development of perceptual sensitivity to labeling stereotypical expressions of emotion according to cultural consensus and shows that how people perceive and categorize ambiguous facial expressions is associated with vulnerability to psychopathology. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"588-600"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11996056/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142394338","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}

{"title":"Predicting analog intrusions from neural correlates of immediate and lasting effects of cognitive reappraisal.","authors":"Marie K Neudert, Axel Schäfer, Raphaela I Zimmer, Susanne Fricke, Rosa J Seinsche, Rudolf Stark, Andrea Hermann","doi":"10.1037/emo0001420","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001420","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Emotional dysregulation is considered as an etiologically relevant factor for posttraumatic stress disorder. The relevance of immediate and lasting effects of cognitive reappraisal, a prominent emotion regulation strategy, and its habitual use for the development of posttraumatic stress symptoms in response to an experimental trauma are therefore investigated in our study. Eighty-five healthy women participated in a functional magnetic resonance imaging study, which included an emotion regulation paradigm prior to the conduction of the trauma film paradigm, which was used to assess the development of analog intrusions. During the first phase of the emotion regulation paradigm, participants were instructed to use two reappraisal tactics (reinterpretation and distancing) to reduce negative feelings toward aversive pictures or to passively watch aversive and neutral pictures. One week later, these pictures were presented again during a passive reexposure phase. Ratings of negative feelings and blood oxygen level dependent responses in regions of interest served as main outcome variables. The habitual use of cognitive reappraisal was assessed by questionnaire. Reduced habitual use and stronger lasting effects of cognitive reappraisal, as indicated by reduced insula activation during reexposure to pictures previously reinterpreted and distanced from, predicted the development of long-term analog intrusions. Stronger lasting effects of both reappraisal tactics for women with long-term analog intrusions seem to result from stronger emotional reactivity processes. Women with long-term analog intrusions in response to an experimental trauma seem to benefit to a greater extent from a cognitive reappraisal training than women without long-term intrusions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"693-705"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142604315","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":"Parental emotion socialization and parent-child attachment security: A meta-analytic review.","authors":"Gabriela A Rodrigues, Stephanie M Waslin, Travis K Nair, Kathryn A Kerns, Laura E Brumariu","doi":"10.1037/emo0001457","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001457","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although parental sensitivity is an established determinant of children's attachment security, effect sizes are modest, suggesting other aspects of parenting that might support secure attachment. Parental emotion socialization (ES) has been proposed as a parenting domain that is theoretically linked to secure parent-child attachment. The goal of this meta-analysis was to evaluate the strength of the relations between parental ES and attachment security in children under the age of 18. We conducted three meta-analyses assessing the links of supportive parental ES, nonsupportive parental ES, and parental elaboration with attachment security assessed with behavioral, representational, and questionnaire measures (<i>k</i>s = 9-11 samples; <i>N</i>s = 576-1,763 participants). The relation between supportive ES and security was significant but very small (<i>r</i> = .06). The relation between nonsupportive ES and security was not significant (<i>r</i> = -.05). Parental elaboration emerged as a key correlate of secure attachment, with a medium effect size (<i>r</i> = .24), similar to the relation between sensitivity and attachment security. The findings underscore the need for further research to elaborate on the role of ES in the development of attachment. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"775-781"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142607103","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":"It takes two to empathize: Interbrain coupling contributes to distress regulation.","authors":"Yarden Avnor, Dovrat Atias, Andrey Markus, Simone Shamay-Tsoory","doi":"10.1037/emo0001431","DOIUrl":"10.1037/emo0001431","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>While extant research on empathy has made significant progress in uncovering the mechanisms underlying the responses of an observer (empathizer) to the distress of another (target), it remains unclear how the interaction between the empathizer and the target contributes to distress regulation in the target. Here, we propose that behavioral and neural coupling during empathic interactions contribute to diminished distress. From November 2020 to November 2022, we recruited 37 pairs of previously unacquainted participants (<i>N</i> = 74) from multicultural backgrounds. They engaged in a 5 min face-to-face emotional sharing task, where one participant shared a distressing biographical experience with the other participant. We used functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to measure interbrain coupling in the emotion regulation system, specifically the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC), and the observation execution system, specifically the inferior frontal gyrus (IFG). Results indicate that during emotional sharing the target and the empathizer emotionally converge, such that the empathizer becomes sadder. Moreover, the levels of empathizers' empathy predicted both emotional convergence and target distress relief. The neuroimaging findings indicate that interbrain coupling in the dlPFC, IFG, and premotor cortex, predicted distress relief in the target, and more critically that interbrain coupling in the dlPFC played a mediating role in the relationship between distress relief and the levels of empathy of the empathizer. Considering the role of the dlPFC in emotion regulation, we conclude that interbrain coupling in this region during emotional sharing plays a key role in dyadic coregulation of distress. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48417,"journal":{"name":"Emotion","volume":" ","pages":"736-754"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142630724","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}