Affective sciencePub Date : 2025-03-03DOI: 10.1007/s42761-025-00298-w
{"title":"Abstracts from the 2024 SAS Annual Meeting","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s42761-025-00298-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s42761-025-00298-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72119,"journal":{"name":"Affective science","volume":"6 1","pages":"40 - 49"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143594579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unveiling the Role of Theory of Mind: Neural Response to Emotional Stimuli in Context.","authors":"Brigitte Biró, Renáta Cserjési, Natália Kocsel, Attila Galambos, Kinga Gecse, Lilla Nóra Kovács, Dániel Baksa, Dóra Dobos, Gabriella Juhász, Gyöngyi Kökönyei","doi":"10.1007/s42761-025-00293-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s42761-025-00293-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The recent literature on theory of mind (ToM) aims to identify situations that necessitate a greater reliance on ToM. The self-to-other model of empathy proposes that when there is a discrepancy between affective and contextual information, the ToM system is activated more strongly to assist in the classification of the emotional state. In order to test this aspect of the theory, the study aimed to examine the neural response to emotional stimuli in context. Non-congruent images depict natural scenarios where there is a mismatch between the valence of facial expressions of one of the protagonists and the overall context, when considered in isolation. In contrast, congruent images are those in which there is no such discrepancy. The fMRI data of 53 healthy participants (31 females; mean age, 25.23 ± 5.09) were analysed using a pre-defined ToM mask. The results align with the prediction that non-congruent images will recruit the ToM system to a greater degree. Additionally, we found activations in areas implicated in emotion processing and control functions in response to non-congruent images relative to congruent ones. The results indicate that the emotional processing of complex social situations is supported by multiple processes. Consequently, identifying the sources of alterations in emotion processing and social cognition is crucial for understanding individual differences in neurotypical and clinical populations.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s42761-025-00293-1.</p>","PeriodicalId":72119,"journal":{"name":"Affective science","volume":"6 2","pages":"340-355"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12209149/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144555977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Affective sciencePub Date : 2025-02-01eCollection Date: 2025-06-01DOI: 10.1007/s42761-024-00292-8
Alessia Iancarelli, Nicholas R Rypkema, Maureen Ritchey, Ajay B Satpute
{"title":"The Affective Science Network: A Fieldwide Map of over 1 Million Citations.","authors":"Alessia Iancarelli, Nicholas R Rypkema, Maureen Ritchey, Ajay B Satpute","doi":"10.1007/s42761-024-00292-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s42761-024-00292-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research in affective science includes over one hundred thousand articles, the vast majority of which have been published in only the past two decades. The size and rapid growth of this field have led to unique challenges for the twenty-first-century scientist including how to develop both breadth and depth of scholarship, curb siloing and promote integrative and interdisciplinary framework, and represent and monitor the field in its entirety. Here, we help address these issues by compactly mapping out this enormous field using citation network analysis (CNA). We generated a citation matrix of over 100,000 publications and over 1 million citations since the seminal works on emotion by Charles Darwin (1872) and William James (1884). Using graph theory metric and content analysis of titles and abstracts, we identified and characterized the contents of 69 research communities, their most influential articles, and their interconnectedness with each other. We further identified potential \"missed connections\" between communities that share similar content but do not have strong citation-based connections. In doing so, we establish the first, low-dimensional representation, or field-wide map, of a substantial portion of the affective sciences literature. This panoramic view of the field provides affective and non-affective scientists alike with the means to rapidly survey dozens of major research communities and topics in the field, guide scholarship development, and identify gaps and connections for developing an integrative science.</p>","PeriodicalId":72119,"journal":{"name":"Affective science","volume":"6 2","pages":"321-339"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12209489/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144555975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Affective sciencePub Date : 2025-01-30eCollection Date: 2025-06-01DOI: 10.1007/s42761-024-00286-6
Deon W Brown, Fantasy T Lozada, Zewelanji N Serpell, Vivian A Dzokoto, Julie C Dunsmore
{"title":"African American College Students' Contextual Emotion Expression.","authors":"Deon W Brown, Fantasy T Lozada, Zewelanji N Serpell, Vivian A Dzokoto, Julie C Dunsmore","doi":"10.1007/s42761-024-00286-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s42761-024-00286-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The current study aimed to explore patterns of self-reported emotion expression across familial and college campus contexts among African American college students and the associations of these patterns with contextual features on college campuses (i.e., racial demographics of the university overall and students' friend group and racial discrimination experiences). Theoretical support included Triple Quandary Theory and emotional development models. Online survey data from 169 self-identified African American college students (62.4% female; <i>M</i> <sub>age</sub> = 20.60) across three college campuses were analyzed to compare reports of emotion expression with family members and emotion expression on campus. Additionally, family and campus emotion expression reports were analyzed via latent profile analysis (LPA) to identify latent profiles of emotion expression and their predictors. Four profiles of emotion expression across familial and college campus contexts emerged: <i>Positive Low Expressors</i> (<i>n</i> = 55; 32%), <i>High Family - Low Campus Expressors</i> (<i>n</i> = 44; 26%), <i>Consistent Expressors</i> (<i>n</i> = 37; 22%), and <i>Low Family Positive - Consistent Negative Expressors</i> (<i>n</i> = 33; 20%). College campus type was not a significant predictor of profile membership. However, campus experiences of racial discrimination and racial composition of friend group were significant predictors. African American college students' varying emotion expression in familial domains relative to public domains (i.e., college campuses) may reflect variation in their racial experiences. These findings have implications for a contextual based understanding of African Americans' emotional competence, broadly, and the necessity for colleges to consider how campus experiences shape African American college students' emotional functioning.</p>","PeriodicalId":72119,"journal":{"name":"Affective science","volume":"6 2","pages":"296-307"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12209128/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144555997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Affective sciencePub Date : 2025-01-24eCollection Date: 2025-06-01DOI: 10.1007/s42761-024-00291-9
Teresa Bolzenkötter, Andreas B Neubauer, Peter Koval
{"title":"Impact of a Momentary Mindfulness Intervention on Rumination, Negative Affect, and their Dynamics in Daily Life.","authors":"Teresa Bolzenkötter, Andreas B Neubauer, Peter Koval","doi":"10.1007/s42761-024-00291-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s42761-024-00291-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Rumination and negative affect are mutually reinforcing experiences. Their dynamic relation can confer vulnerability to psychopathology. Cultivating mindfulness has been proposed to buffer against such downward spirals of negativity. However, it remains unclear whether practicing mindfulness in daily life causally impacts rumination, negative affect, and their dynamics. We investigated this using a micro-randomized intensive longitudinal trial. Participants (<i>N</i> = 91) were prompted eight times per day for 10 days using a smartphone app. At each prompt, participants were randomized to complete a brief mindfulness intervention or an active-control task and then reported levels of rumination and negative affect. Results of dynamic structural equation models showed that the mindfulness intervention led to lower levels of rumination and negative affect but that it had no reliable impact on their dynamics. Thus, cultivating mindfulness in daily life may be a promising approach for decreasing rumination and negative affect but not their dynamical relation.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s42761-024-00291-9.</p>","PeriodicalId":72119,"journal":{"name":"Affective science","volume":"6 2","pages":"259-271"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12209136/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144555956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Affective sciencePub Date : 2025-01-17eCollection Date: 2025-06-01DOI: 10.1007/s42761-024-00283-9
David B Rompilla, Erik C Nook, Jacquelyn E Stephens, Emily F Hittner, Vijay A Mittal, Claudia M Haase
{"title":"Emotion Regulation and Executive Functioning in Late Life.","authors":"David B Rompilla, Erik C Nook, Jacquelyn E Stephens, Emily F Hittner, Vijay A Mittal, Claudia M Haase","doi":"10.1007/s42761-024-00283-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s42761-024-00283-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Emotion regulation has long been suspected to boost executive functioning. Correlational studies have shown links between emotion regulation and executive functioning. However, experimental studies have been rare, especially with older adults for whom declines in executive functioning may become a pressing concern. In this laboratory-based study, we examined whether instructing older adults to use emotion regulation strategies in response to loss-themed film clips could enhance subsequent executive functioning. The sample consisted of 129 healthy older adults (age 64-83) who completed an experiment consisting of six trials in which they first watched a loss-themed film clip (with the instruction to \"just watch\" or to regulate their emotions using detachment, positive reappraisal, or emotional acceptance) and then completed an executive functioning task (assessing verbal fluency, inhibition, or working memory). Results showed a selective effect of emotion regulation on verbal fluency, but not inhibition or working memory performance. Older adults who were instructed to regulate negative emotions (vs. \"just watch\") subsequently showed greater verbal fluency. Effects of emotion regulation on executive functions did not differ between detachment, positive reappraisal, and emotional acceptance and remained stable when controlling for age, gender, education, and functional status. This study contributes to our understanding of emotion-cognition interactions, highlights emotion regulation as an avenue for enhancing verbal fluency in older adults, and suggests further probing of links between emotion regulation and other executive functioning processes in late life.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s42761-024-00283-9.</p>","PeriodicalId":72119,"journal":{"name":"Affective science","volume":"6 2","pages":"202-213"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12209095/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144555954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Affective sciencePub Date : 2025-01-15eCollection Date: 2025-06-01DOI: 10.1007/s42761-024-00289-3
Hyunwoo Kim, Yifan Bian, Eva G Krumhuber
{"title":"A Review of 25 Spontaneous and Dynamic Facial Expression Databases of Basic Emotions.","authors":"Hyunwoo Kim, Yifan Bian, Eva G Krumhuber","doi":"10.1007/s42761-024-00289-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s42761-024-00289-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Most prior research on basic emotions has relied upon posed, static displays that do not accurately reflect the facial behavior seen in everyday life. To address this gap, the present paper aims to highlight existing facial expression databases (FEDBs) that feature spontaneous and dynamic displays of the six basic emotions. To assist readers in their decisions about stimulus selection, we comprehensively review 25 FEDBs in terms of three key dimensions: (a) <i>conceptual features</i> which reflect thematic approaches in database construction and validation, i.e., emotional content and elicitation procedures, encoder demographics, measurement and elicitation techniques; (b) <i>technical features</i> which concern technological aspects in stimulus development, i.e., stimulus numbers and duration, frame rate, and resolution; and (c) <i>practical features</i> which entail information about database access and potential ethical restrictions. Finally, we outline some of the remaining challenges in stimulus generation and make recommendations for future research.</p>","PeriodicalId":72119,"journal":{"name":"Affective science","volume":"6 2","pages":"380-394"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12209106/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144555996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Affective sciencePub Date : 2025-01-11eCollection Date: 2025-06-01DOI: 10.1007/s42761-024-00285-7
Danhua Zhu, Fantasy T Lozada, Cynthia L Smith, Martha Ann Bell, Julie C Dunsmore
{"title":"Maternal Emotion Coaching and Child Emotion Regulation: Within-Interaction Sequences in Early Childhood.","authors":"Danhua Zhu, Fantasy T Lozada, Cynthia L Smith, Martha Ann Bell, Julie C Dunsmore","doi":"10.1007/s42761-024-00285-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s42761-024-00285-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Emotion socialization is a dynamic transactional process that unfolds at the moment during parent-child interactions. To better understand these transactions (both parent-driven and child-driven) in early childhood, we conducted a lag-sequential analysis examining sequential contingency between maternal emotion coaching and child emotion regulation at ages 3 and 4 years. Mother-child dyads in the southeastern United States (<i>N</i> = 208 for age 3 timepoint [101 boys, 107 girls] and 227 for age 4 timepoint [115 boys, 112 girls]) participated in a laboratory etch-a-sketch task, which was videorecorded and later observationally coded for maternal coaching of both positive and negative emotions and for child emotion regulation (indexed as compliance, engagement, and low frustration) at 30-s intervals. At age 3, we found two reciprocal sequences: (1) When mothers coached positive emotions, children were subsequently more likely to show compliance, and when children complied, mothers were subsequently more likely to coach their positive emotions; (2) when mothers coached negative emotions, children were subsequently more likely to display frustration, and when children showed frustration, mothers were subsequently more likely to coach their negative emotions. At age 4, we only found parent-driven, positive emotion-related sequences: when mothers coached positive emotions, children were subsequently more likely to show compliance and engagement. Findings shed light on the distinct functions of positive and negative emotions as well as the intricacy of dynamic emotion socialization transactions in relation to child emotion regulation during early childhood.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s42761-024-00285-7.</p>","PeriodicalId":72119,"journal":{"name":"Affective science","volume":"6 2","pages":"214-223"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12209066/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144555958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Affective sciencePub Date : 2024-12-20eCollection Date: 2025-06-01DOI: 10.1007/s42761-024-00288-4
Tess Reid, Catie Nielson, Jolie B Wormwood
{"title":"Measuring Arousal: Promises and Pitfalls.","authors":"Tess Reid, Catie Nielson, Jolie B Wormwood","doi":"10.1007/s42761-024-00288-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s42761-024-00288-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The concept of arousal is ubiquitous and has been suggested as a critical component of many mental and physical phenomena, including emotion, behavior, motivation, learning, attention, motor action, and neural activity. In this review, we discuss theoretical, empirical, and analytic challenges to defining and measuring arousal and suggest avenues for future research to address these challenges. We begin by contesting the typically implicit (but occasionally explicit) assumption in the literature that arousal is a unitary construct representing a generalized, organism-wide phenomenon-an assumption evidenced by the common use of a measure from one arousal domain (e.g., motor action or autonomic activity) as a proxy for arousal in another (e.g., subjective experience). We demonstrate that this assumption is not supported by empirical evidence, and that instead arousal is best conceptualized as multidimensional, comprising multiple factors that can manifest variably both within and across individuals. We then discuss the implications, promises, and pitfalls of adopting this perspective for future research on arousal. We argue that it necessitates employing novel methodological approaches, including highly multimodal data collection from individuals across multiple contexts, preferably in variable real-world settings. It also necessitates bringing innovative data-driven analytic techniques to bear. We conclude that future research stands to dramatically reshape the scientific understanding of arousal by conceptualizing it as multifaceted with a manifestation that is variable in the moment and by leveraging emerging technologies and analyses to improve its measurement.</p>","PeriodicalId":72119,"journal":{"name":"Affective science","volume":"6 2","pages":"369-379"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12209062/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144555959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Affective sciencePub Date : 2024-12-16eCollection Date: 2025-06-01DOI: 10.1007/s42761-024-00290-w
Dominic M Denning, Tiffany A Brown
{"title":"Examining the Prospective Effects of Alexithymia and Minority Stress on Emotion Regulation in Sexual Minority Adults.","authors":"Dominic M Denning, Tiffany A Brown","doi":"10.1007/s42761-024-00290-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s42761-024-00290-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sexual minority (SM) populations demonstrate greater emotion regulation (ER) difficulties, which are hypothesized to arise from experiences of minority stress. While little is known under which conditions minority stressors may affect ER abilities in SM individuals, previous literature suggests that alexithymia may disrupt ER. Thus, the present study examined the prospective main and interaction effects of SM stressors and alexithymia on ER. SM adults (<i>N</i> = 392) provided baseline and 1-month follow-up reports of SM stressors, alexithymia, and ER. There were significant interaction effects between alexithymia and both heterosexist discrimination and sexual orientation concealment on cognitive reappraisal. Namely, at high levels of alexithymia, sexual orientation concealment and heterosexist discrimination predicted declines in cognitive reappraisal. There were no significant interaction effects between SM stressors and alexithymia on changes in expressive suppression; however, greater internalized stigma and sexual orientation concealment were associated with increases in expressive suppression. Taken together, our findings and theory may suggest that it is critical to address alexithymia in SM clients prior to targeting ER difficulties as alexithymia may disrupt or impede adaptive ER.</p>","PeriodicalId":72119,"journal":{"name":"Affective science","volume":"6 2","pages":"236-242"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12209481/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144555955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}