Affective sciencePub Date : 2023-10-02DOI: 10.1007/s42761-023-00222-0
Kate Petrova, James J. Gross
{"title":"The Future of Emotion Regulation Research: Broadening Our Field of View","authors":"Kate Petrova, James J. Gross","doi":"10.1007/s42761-023-00222-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s42761-023-00222-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Over the past few decades, emotion regulation research has matured into a vibrant and rapidly growing field (in 2022 alone, more than <i>30 thousand</i> papers were published on emotion regulation). Taking stock of our progress, we ask “What does the future hold?” In this manuscript, we offer a roadmap for the next generation of research on emotion regulation. We begin by painting a picture of the field’s journey so far. We then outline a forward-looking agenda for broadening our field of view along three key dimensions: (1) increasing our resolution to see how regulatory strategies are flexibly and dynamically translated into tactics; (2) widening our viewing angle to embrace interpersonal emotion regulation; and (3) extending the timescale of emotion regulation research to examine how regulatory efforts are fine-tuned across the regulatory cycle and in the context of a broader range of affective experiences. In doing so, we highlight empirical studies that exemplify these three areas of focus and discuss the opportunities that lie before us. We close by offering a set of concrete practical and methodological recommendations for how the field can accomplish the goals we have outlined.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72119,"journal":{"name":"Affective science","volume":"4 4","pages":"609 - 616"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135790181","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}
Affective sciencePub Date : 2023-09-21DOI: 10.1007/s42761-023-00221-1
Chen-Wei Felix Yu, Claudia M. Haase, Jen-Ho Chang
{"title":"Habitual Expressive Suppression of Positive, but not Negative, Emotions Consistently Predicts Lower Well-being across Two Culturally Distinct Regions","authors":"Chen-Wei Felix Yu, Claudia M. Haase, Jen-Ho Chang","doi":"10.1007/s42761-023-00221-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s42761-023-00221-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Habitual expressive suppression (i.e., a tendency to inhibit the outward display of one's emotions; hereafter suppression) is often conceptualized as a maladaptive emotion regulation strategy. Yet, is this equally true for suppression of positive and of negative emotions? Across three studies and seven samples (total <i>N</i> > 1300 people) collected in two culturally distinct regions (i.e., Taiwan and the US), we examined the separability and distinct well-being effects of suppressing positive vs. negative emotions. Results consistently showed that (a) people suppressed their positive (vs. negative) emotions less, (b) the construct of suppression of positive (vs. negative) emotions was conceptually farther away from that of suppression of emotions in general, (c) suppression of positive and of negative emotions were only moderately correlated, and (d) only suppression of positive, but not negative, emotions, predicted lower well-being. An internal meta-analysis (<i>k</i> = 52 effect sizes) showed that these associations were robust to the inclusion of age, gender, and region as covariates. Future research may further probe the respective links between suppression of positive and of negative emotions and well-being across more cultural regions and across the life-span.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72119,"journal":{"name":"Affective science","volume":"4 4","pages":"684 - 701"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136154587","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}
Affective sciencePub Date : 2023-09-12DOI: 10.1007/s42761-023-00220-2
Michelle N. Shiota, Linda A. Camras, Ralph Adolphs
{"title":"The Future of Affective Science: Introduction to the Special Issue","authors":"Michelle N. Shiota, Linda A. Camras, Ralph Adolphs","doi":"10.1007/s42761-023-00220-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s42761-023-00220-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Modern affective science—the empirical study of emotional responding and affective experience—has been active for a half-century. The <i>Future of Affective Science</i> special issue considers the history of this field and proposes new directions for the decades ahead. Contributors represent diverse theoretical perspectives, methodological expertise, and domains of study, and the special issue includes both literature reviews and new empirical studies as illustrations. This introductory article synthesizes the contributions, articulating the broader context of the current status of our field and highlighting common themes across articles as well as gaps notable even in this special issue. Sections of the article address theoretical and conceptual issues, research methodology, the questions we ask, and translation of basic affective science to applied domains. We conclude that much has been learned from the first 50 years of affective science, and it is now time for new theories, new research questions, and innovative methods for the decades ahead.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72119,"journal":{"name":"Affective science","volume":"4 3","pages":"429 - 442"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s42761-023-00220-2.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41174456","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 : 2023-09-12DOI: 10.1007/s42761-023-00213-1
Nadia Kako, Christian E. Waugh, Kateri McRae
{"title":"The Future of Immersive Mood Induction in Affective Science: Using Virtual Reality to Test Effects of Mood Context on Task Performance","authors":"Nadia Kako, Christian E. Waugh, Kateri McRae","doi":"10.1007/s42761-023-00213-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s42761-023-00213-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A fundamental premise of affective and clinical science is that fluctuations in mood drive meaningful changes in cognition and behavior. These theories are often tested via laboratory mood induction procedures followed by performing an established task. Despite advances in understanding the temporal dynamics of emotions, it is still unclear whether it is the enduring mood that impacts subsequent task performance. Additionally, this design requires task switching, which may limit the impact of mood and affect task performance. We suggest that virtual reality (VR) offers a more powerful, immersive alternative to traditional mood induction methods and effectively addresses these limitations because it can be used to create mood contexts that occur simultaneously with task performance. VR creates an immersive, real-world experience while benefiting from a well-controlled laboratory setting (Diniz Bernardo et al., 2021). We first summarize the literature on mood induction methodologies, including evidence that VR creates a more immersive environment, leading to mood inductions that are greater in magnitude than other methods. We then report a novel empirical study on the feasibility of utilizing VR to create a mood context that occurs simultaneously with a gold-standard emotion regulation task. Our results indicate that VR was a powerful and enduring positive mood induction tool, resulting in immediate changes in mood and greater trial-by-trial positivity ratings during the concurrent task. Portions of this study were pre-registered on August 3, 2020, on the Clinical Trials website (project citation: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04496258).</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72119,"journal":{"name":"Affective science","volume":"4 3","pages":"570 - 579"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s42761-023-00213-1.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41173697","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 : 2023-09-06DOI: 10.1007/s42761-023-00218-w
Janine M. Simmons, Andrew Breeden, Rebecca A. Ferrer, Arielle S. Gillman, Holly Moore, Paige Green, Vani Pariyadath, Erin B. Quinlan, Aleksandra Vicentic
{"title":"Affective Science Research: Perspectives and Priorities from the National Institutes of Health","authors":"Janine M. Simmons, Andrew Breeden, Rebecca A. Ferrer, Arielle S. Gillman, Holly Moore, Paige Green, Vani Pariyadath, Erin B. Quinlan, Aleksandra Vicentic","doi":"10.1007/s42761-023-00218-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s42761-023-00218-w","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Affective science is a broad and burgeoning field, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) support research on a similarly broad range of topics. Across NIH, funding is available for basic, translational, and intervention research, including research in non-human animals, healthy populations, and those with or at risk for disease. Multiple NIH Institutes and Centers have specific programs devoted to topics within the affective science umbrella. Here, we introduce the funding priorities of these six: the National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institute on Aging (NIA), National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), and National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD). We then discuss overlapping themes and offer a perspective on promising research directions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72119,"journal":{"name":"Affective science","volume":"4 3","pages":"600 - 607"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s42761-023-00218-w.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41168502","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 : 2023-09-05DOI: 10.1007/s42761-023-00219-9
Giada Lettieri, Giacomo Handjaras, Erika Bucci, Pietro Pietrini, Luca Cecchetti
{"title":"How Male and Female Literary Authors Write About Affect Across Cultures and Over Historical Periods","authors":"Giada Lettieri, Giacomo Handjaras, Erika Bucci, Pietro Pietrini, Luca Cecchetti","doi":"10.1007/s42761-023-00219-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s42761-023-00219-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A wealth of literature suggests the existence of sex differences in how emotions are experienced, recognized, expressed, and regulated. However, to what extent these differences result from the put in place of stereotypes and social rules is still a matter of debate. Literature is an essential cultural institution, a transposition of the social life of people but also of their intimate affective experiences, which can serve to address questions of psychological relevance. Here, we created a large corpus of literary fiction enriched by authors’ metadata to measure the extent to which culture influences how men and women write about emotion. Our results show that even though before the twenty-first century and across 116 countries women more than men have written about affect, starting from 2000, this difference has diminished substantially. Also, in the past, women’s narratives were more positively laden and less arousing. While the difference in arousal is ubiquitous and still present nowadays, sex differences in valence vary as a function of culture and have dissolved in recent years. Altogether, these findings suggest that historic evolution is associated with men and women writing similarly about emotions and reveal a sizable impact of culture on the affective characteristics of the lexicon.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72119,"journal":{"name":"Affective science","volume":"4 4","pages":"770 - 780"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s42761-023-00219-9.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133961628","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 : 2023-09-02DOI: 10.1007/s42761-023-00217-x
Eric A. Walle, Daniel Dukes
{"title":"We (Still!) Need to Talk About Valence: Contemporary Issues and Recommendations for Affective Science","authors":"Eric A. Walle, Daniel Dukes","doi":"10.1007/s42761-023-00217-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s42761-023-00217-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Valence is central to the experience of emotion. However, to the detriment of affective science, it is often ill-defined and poorly operationalized. Being more precise about what is meant by valence would make for more readily comparable emotion stimuli, methodologies, and results, and would promote consideration of the diversity, complexity, and function of discrete emotions. This brief review uses prior literature and an informal survey of affective scientists to illustrate disagreements in conceptualizing valence. Next, we describe issues of valence in affective science, particularly as they pertain to the emotion process, the functions of emotion, and precision in empirical research. We conclude by providing recommendations for the future of valence in affective science.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72119,"journal":{"name":"Affective science","volume":"4 3","pages":"463 - 469"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s42761-023-00217-x.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41157041","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 : 2023-08-30DOI: 10.1007/s42761-023-00209-x
Dahlia Mukherjee, Sun Ah Lee, David Almeida
{"title":"Daily Affective Dynamics in Major Depressive Disorder: The Role of Daily Stressors and Positive Events","authors":"Dahlia Mukherjee, Sun Ah Lee, David Almeida","doi":"10.1007/s42761-023-00209-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s42761-023-00209-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study examined daily affective dynamic indices among individuals with a major depressive disorder (MDD) diagnosis in the past one year at the time of the interview, focusing on affective variability and change in affect in response to daily events (affective reactivity). Data were from the main survey and daily diary project of the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) study. Participants (<i>N</i> = 1,970; <i>n</i><sub><i>MDD</i></sub> = 202; <i>n</i><sub><i>non-MDD</i></sub> = 1,768) completed structured clinical interviews on mental health and telephone interviews about their daily experiences spanning eight consecutive days. Multilevel models revealed that the MDD group experienced greater positive (PA) and negative affect (NA) variability than the non-MDD group. On days that at least one stressful event was reported, the MDD group experienced a greater decrease in PA and a greater increase in NA. On days that at least one positive event was reported, the MDD group experienced a greater increase in PA and a greater decrease in NA. Changes in affect to daily events, particularly the mood brightening effect, may be indicators of depression and potential targets for intervention. Limitations of the study include a community sample, reliance on self-reported measures of daily stressors and positive events, inclusion of remitted and current MDD participants, and the DSM-III-R based criteria for MDD diagnosis.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72119,"journal":{"name":"Affective science","volume":"4 4","pages":"757 - 769"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134490948","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}
Affective sciencePub Date : 2023-08-30DOI: 10.1007/s42761-023-00212-2
Adrienne Wood, James A. Coan
{"title":"Beyond Nature Versus Nurture: the Emergence of Emotion","authors":"Adrienne Wood, James A. Coan","doi":"10.1007/s42761-023-00212-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s42761-023-00212-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Affective science is stuck in a version of the nature-versus-nurture debate, with theorists arguing whether emotions are evolved adaptations or psychological constructions. We do not see these as mutually exclusive options. Many adaptive behaviors that humans have evolved to be good at, such as walking, emerge during development – not according to a genetically dictated program, but through interactions between the affordances of the body, brain, and environment. We suggest emotions are the same. As developing humans acquire increasingly complex goals and learn optimal strategies for pursuing those goals, they are inevitably pulled to particular brain-body-behavior states that maximize outcomes and self-reinforce via positive feedback loops. We call these recurring, self-organized states <i>emotions</i>. Emotions display many of the hallmark features of self-organized attractor states, such as hysteresis (prior events influence the current state), degeneracy (many configurations of the underlying variables can produce the same global state), and stability. Because most bodily, neural, and environmental affordances are shared by all humans – we all have cardiovascular systems, cerebral cortices, and caregivers who raised us – similar emotion states emerge in all of us. This perspective helps reconcile ideas that, at first glance, seem contradictory, such as emotion universality and neural degeneracy.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72119,"journal":{"name":"Affective science","volume":"4 3","pages":"443 - 452"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s42761-023-00212-2.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41162747","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 : 2023-08-30DOI: 10.1007/s42761-023-00216-y
Rebecca A. Ferrer, Arielle S. Gillman
{"title":"Synergistic Opportunities for Affective Science and Behavior Change","authors":"Rebecca A. Ferrer, Arielle S. Gillman","doi":"10.1007/s42761-023-00216-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s42761-023-00216-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Behavior change can be challenging to facilitate and achieve. Behavior change frameworks largely focus on social cognitive determinants, omitting affective determinants or including them in a superficial way. However, evidence points to the role of affect in decision-making and behavior, particularly when the behavior at focus for change is affectively pleasant or when the behavior to be facilitated is affectively unpleasant. This paper identifies challenges and opportunities to further affective science by using behavior change as a context and, relatedly, to further the science of behavior change by leveraging theoretical and methodological innovations in affective science.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72119,"journal":{"name":"Affective science","volume":"4 3","pages":"586 - 590"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s42761-023-00216-y.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41173253","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}