Tracking emotions from song lyrics: Analyzing 30 years of K-pop hits.
Emotion, Vol 23(6), Sep 2023, 1658-1669; doi:10.1037/emo0001185Emotions that are shared by a large number of people could broadly impact affective experiences at the individual level. Here, we used text mining on popular song lyrics—a cultural product that has been suggested to mirror emotions that many members of a society value and prefer—to track the changes in emotions over time. Morpheme frequency analysis and structural topic modeling on 2,962 hit K-pop songs from 1990 to 2019 showed converging evidence for increased positive emotional content and decreased negative emotional content embedded within the lyrics. T...
Source: Emotion - November 10, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Cultural differences in recognizing emotions of masked faces.
Emotion, Vol 23(6), Sep 2023, 1648-1657; doi:10.1037/emo0001181In the wake of the global pandemic, interacting with others while wearing masks has emerged as a global challenge. A growing body of literature has reported that face masks hinder emotion recognition in Western populations. Given that diagnostic facial features for recognizing specific emotions (e.g., happiness) differ between Western and Eastern cultures, there may be cultural differences in the effects of face masks on emotion recognition. Relying on the previous findings showing cultural differences in emotion recognition, we conducted a preregistered study ...
Source: Emotion - November 10, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Threat effects on cognitive systems: Testing links to aggression proneness.
Emotion, Vol 23(6), Sep 2023, 1633-1647; doi:10.1037/emo0001178The biobehavioral study of aggression has implications for expanding our understanding of transdiagnostic processes that increase risk for disinhibited behaviors. Toward this end, our study tested tenets from the process model of aggression (Verona & Bresin, 2015). First, we expected that the predictability of threat would differentially alter cognitive networks, including attentional alerting and executive control. Second, we examined the moderating effects of self- and informant reports of aggression on threat-related changes in cognitive functioning. Using e...
Source: Emotion - November 10, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Awe fosters global self-continuity: The mediating effect of global processing and narrative.
Emotion, Vol 23(6), Sep 2023, 1618-1632; doi:10.1037/emo0001187Awe is a self-relevant emotion, but whether and how awe impacts global self-continuity (GSC), a sense of connectedness among past, present, and future selves, has never been investigated. In six studies (N = 1,384), we examined the relationship between awe and GSC, as well as the mechanisms underlying this relationship, with both correlational and experimental design. We found awe positively associated with (Studies 1 and 3) and predicted (Studies 2 and 4–6) GSC. Moreover, we found that global processing (processing information in a general and big-picture wa...
Source: Emotion - November 10, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Task-irrelevant threatening information is harder to ignore than other valences.
Emotion, Vol 23(6), Sep 2023, 1606-1617; doi:10.1037/emo0001189Emotionally salient objects activate the survival circuits of the brain and are given priority in cognitive processing, even at the cost of inhibiting ongoing activities. These circuits arouse and prepare the organism to take swift action when needed. Previous studies have suggested, however, that not all emotional dimensions are equally prioritized. Threatening stimuli may have greater prominence than other emotional categories. Thus, we sought to compare the effects that stimuli of varying emotions would have on orienting and executive attentional processing....
Source: Emotion - November 10, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Incongruent affect in early childhood: Neurobiological markers and links to psychopathology.
We examined simultaneous neurobiological markers of incongruent smiles using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) and galvanic skin response (GSR) and tested links to parent-rated emotion regulation and psychopathology. Neutral and negative expressions were assessed as comparison expressions. Results revealed that complete incongruent smiling predicted poor effortful control, whereas partial incongruent smiling was not a significant predictor of regulation, neurobiological changes, or psychopathology. Neutral expressions predicted better effortful control skills and adaptive physiological response patterns. Result...
Source: Emotion - November 10, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Distinguishing dimensions of emotion dynamics across 12 emotions in adolescents’ daily lives.
Emotion, Vol 23(6), Sep 2023, 1549-1561; doi:10.1037/emo0001173Research on emotion dynamics as indices of emotion functioning has become muddled by conceptual confusion, methodological heterogeneity, and seemingly conflicting results. One way to address this chaos is the study of profiles of emotion dynamics across 12 emotions and how they differ between 246 adolescents. The interpretation of these dynamic profiles was guided by auxiliary variables including age, personality, depressive symptoms, and social experiences. During 6 days, 246 adolescents (Mage = 14.20; 65% female) rated nine times daily the intensity of 12 emo...
Source: Emotion - November 10, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Social feedback promotes positive social sharing, trust, and closeness.
Emotion, Vol 23(6), Sep 2023, 1536-1548; doi:10.1037/emo0001182Positive social sharing is an interpersonal emotion regulation strategy that enhances positive affect and social belonging, particularly when met with positive social feedback. Despite the ubiquity of positive social sharing both in person and online, what drives this behavior is not well understood. We hypothesized that positive social feedback serves as a reward that reinforces sharing behavior and strengthens social bonds. Participants made trial-by-trial choices about whether to share social media photos with peers who returned positive (“likes”) or neg...
Source: Emotion - November 10, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Relations between perceived affect and liking for melodies and visual designs.
Emotion, Vol 23(6), Sep 2023, 1584-1605; doi:10.1037/emo0001141Sensory valuation is a fundamental aspect of cognition. It involves assigning hedonic value to a stimulus based on its sensory information considering personal and contextual factors. Hedonic values (e.g., liking) can be deemed affective states that motivate behavior, but the relations between hedonic and affective judgments have yet to be established. To fill this gap, we investigated the relations between stimulus features, perceived affect, and liking across domains and with potentially relevant individual traits. Fifty-eight participants untrained in music ...
Source: Emotion - October 13, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Prosocial aggression tracks genetic relatedness distinctly from emotional closeness.
Emotion, Vol 23(6), Sep 2023, 1575-1583; doi:10.1037/emo0001175Altruistic behavior is understood to largely stem from adaptations for kin altruism, contingent on degree of relatedness, and/or reciprocal altruism, contingent on degree of benefits conferred in exchange for help. Because kin qualify for both kin and reciprocal altruism, they should receive greater support than friends, as has been demonstrated in prior research. Here, we tested this prediction with regard to willingness to punish on another’s behalf, comparing inclinations to aggress against transgressors when the victim was framed as an acquaintance, close...
Source: Emotion - October 13, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
A three-dimensional model of emotional display rules: Model invariance, external validity, and gender differences.
Emotion, Vol 23(5), Aug 2023, 1410-1422; doi:10.1037/emo0001176In this foundational study, we test display rules for a set of 24 theoretically derived emotions to discover the key emotional dimensions underlying this important construct. Participants (Sample 1 [exploratory factor analysis, EFA] N = 339, 18–77 years; Sample 2 [confirmatory factor analysis, CFA] N = 477, 20–81 years) rated how important it was to control expressions of each emotion for them personally (self-rules). Sample 1 also gave ratings for other people (men-rules and women-rules). EFA revealed a three-dimensional (3D) structure, comprising emotions...
Source: Emotion - October 13, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Maternal recognition of positive emotion predicts sensitive parenting in infancy.
Emotion, Vol 23(5), Aug 2023, 1506-1512; doi:10.1037/emo0001125Research on parent–child relationships demonstrates the importance of maternal sensitivity for the development of children’s emotion regulation, social competence, and health; thus, it is important to understand the emotional-cognitive capacities underlying maternal sensitivity. We followed 120 mothers and their full-term infants from the newborn period to 5 months postpartum. Mothers’ emotion recognition during the newborn period was measured using a validated facial emotion recognition task assessing discrimination (d') of six facial expressions of emot...
Source: Emotion - October 6, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Investigating mixed emotion elicitation across the life span via intensity and networks.
Emotion, Vol 23(5), Aug 2023, 1492-1500; doi:10.1037/emo0001177Although a relatively common concept in nonacademic spheres, mixed emotions are poorly understood in research. The literature suggests that, despite methodological difficulties, positive and negative states can be experienced together and have health-related implications. Yet, there is a need for additional work including investigations of in-the-moment manifestations and individual factors that lead to more or fewer mixed emotions. In this light, the present study seeks to clarify discord in the literature regarding age differences in mixed emotions using in-t...
Source: Emotion - October 6, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The role of uncertainty, worry, and control in well-being: Evidence from the COVID-19 outbreak and pandemic in U.S. and China.
This study is one of the first to demonstrate an indirect path from uncertainty to well-being via worry and to demonstrate the role of control in moderating whether uncertainty and worry manifest in poor well-being. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Emotion)
Source: Emotion - October 6, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Changes in affect during the pursuit of performance goals.
Emotion, Vol 23(5), Aug 2023, 1472-1491; doi:10.1037/emo0001164The aim of this article is to examine how affect changes when people are pursuing performance goals. We do this using the circumplex model of affect, in which a person’s current affective state is represented as a point on a plane defined by the latent dimensions of pleasure and activation. We test competing hypotheses regarding the direction of changes within this 2-dimensional space. The first set of hypotheses are derived from Carver and Scheier’s (1998) theory of self-regulation, which predicts that changes in the prospects of goal attainment should pro...
Source: Emotion - September 15, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
