Fluid and crystallized cognitive resources differentially linked to emotion regulation success in adulthood.
Emotion, Vol 23(2), Mar 2023, 589-594; doi:10.1037/emo0001087Effective emotion regulation (ER) is theorized to require cognitive resources. Past work has identified inconsistent relationships between cognitive ability and ER success and has focused on implementation of instructed ER strategies. In the present study, we examine a wide range of cognitive abilities as predictors of ER success in the absence of constraints on strategy selection. An age-diverse sample of participants (N = 129, age 25–83) completed an ER task in which they viewed film clips eliciting disgust, sadness, and amusement under instructions to regula...
Source: Emotion - April 14, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
On the latency of object recognition and affect: Evidence from speeded reaction time tasks.
Emotion, Vol 23(2), Mar 2023, 486-503; doi:10.1037/emo0001092According to the semantic primacy hypothesis of emotion generation, stimuli must be semantically categorized to evoke emotions. This hypothesis was tested in two speeded reaction time experiments that also explored the processes underlying valence judgments. Participants viewed pleasant and unpleasant pictures. In different blocks of trials, they pressed a key as soon as they experienced the feeling evoked by a picture, recognized the depicted object, or detected the valence (pleasant/unpleasant) of the picture. Object recognition was significantly earlier than a...
Source: Emotion - April 14, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
What’s in a gaze, what’s in a face?: The direct gaze effect can be modulated by emotion expression.
Emotion, Vol 23(2), Mar 2023, 400-411; doi:10.1037/emo0001076Gaze direction and emotion expression are salient facial features that facilitate social interactions. Previous studies addressed how gaze direction influences the evaluation and recognition of emotion expressions, but few have tested how emotion expression influences attentional processing of direct versus averted gaze faces. The present study examined whether the prioritization of direct gaze (toward the observer) relative to averted gaze (away from the observer) is modulated by the emotional expression of the observed face. Participants identified targets pres...
Source: Emotion - April 14, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Discrete negative emotions and goal disengagement in older adulthood: Context effects and associations with emotional well-being.
This study examined whether sadness, but not anger, could facilitate adaptive goal disengagement capacity in the context of older adult’s stress-related experiences. To this end, we investigated whether the within-person effects of sadness and anger on older adults’ goal disengagement capacity were moderated by stress perceptions and diurnal cortisol levels. In addition, we tested whether an association between sadness and goal disengagement capacity could protect emotional well-being when older adults experience higher than normal perceived stress or cortisol. The study used data from a 6-wave 10-year longitudinal stu...
Source: Emotion - April 14, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The actor’s insight: Actors have comparable interoception but better metacognition than nonactors.
Emotion, Vol 22(7), Oct 2022, 1544-1553; doi:10.1037/emo0001080Both accurately sensing our own bodily signals and knowing whether we have accurately sensed them may contribute to a successful emotional life, but there is little evidence on whether these physiological perceptual and metacognitive abilities systematically differ between people. Here, we examined whether actors, who receive substantial training in the production, awareness, and control of emotion, and nonactor controls differed in interoceptive ability (the perception of internal bodily signals) and/or metacognition about interoceptive accuracy (awareness of ...
Source: Emotion - April 14, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Discrete negative emotions and goal disengagement in older adulthood: Context effects and associations with emotional well-being.
This study examined whether sadness, but not anger, could facilitate adaptive goal disengagement capacity in the context of older adult’s stress-related experiences. To this end, we investigated whether the within-person effects of sadness and anger on older adults’ goal disengagement capacity were moderated by stress perceptions and diurnal cortisol levels. In addition, we tested whether an association between sadness and goal disengagement capacity could protect emotional well-being when older adults experience higher than normal perceived stress or cortisol. The study used data from a 6-wave 10-year longitudinal stu...
Source: Emotion - April 14, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The actor’s insight: Actors have comparable interoception but better metacognition than nonactors.
Both accurately sensing our own bodily signals and knowing whether we have accurately sensed them may contribute to a successful emotional life, but there is little evidence on whether these physiological perceptual and metacognitive abilities systematically differ between people. Here, we examined whether actors, who receive substantial training in the production, awareness, and control of emotion, and nonactor controls differed in interoceptive ability (the perception of internal bodily signals) and/or metacognition about interoceptive accuracy (awareness of that perception), and explored potential sources of individual ...
Source: Emotion - April 14, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
From values to emotions: Cognitive appraisal mediates the impact of core values on emotional experience.
Emotion, Vol 23(4), Jun 2023, 1115-1129; doi:10.1037/emo0001083Emotions and values are fundamentally connected. They both are psychological markers of subjective relevance and are thought to be deeply functionally intertwined: According to appraisal theories of emotion, emotions arise when value concerns are at stake; according to theories of value, a value that is threatened or supported gets infused with feelings. Surprisingly, while these assumptions are considered well established by researchers in the respective domains, up to now, empirical research has not provided much evidence supporting a link between values and ...
Source: Emotion - April 7, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
When they cry: Tears facilitate responses toward members of socially disadvantaged groups.
Emotion, Vol 23(2), Mar 2023, 521-537; doi:10.1037/emo0001085Emotional tears are vehicles for bonding between individuals, even with those belonging to different social categories. Yet, little is known about the reactions they provoke toward members of underprivileged groups such as immigrants or the explanatory mechanisms of their effects. Across three experiments (with 546 adults) using standardized images of emotional displays, we tested the effects of tears on cognitive inferences (of warmth and competence) and self-reported affective responses (such as compassion or discomfort), and both directly and indirectly on sel...
Source: Emotion - April 7, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Financial resources impact the relationship between meaning and happiness.
Emotion, Vol 23(2), Mar 2023, 504-511; doi:10.1037/emo0001090Do financial resources relate to how important meaning is for one’s happiness? Across three large-scale data sets spanning more than 500,000 individuals across 123 countries, we examined the relationship between meaning and happiness for individuals who vary in financial resources. Whether based on actual income level (Studies 1 and 2) or subjective assessments of socioeconomic status (Study 3), the results reveal that meaning is a weaker predictor of happiness for individuals with greater (vs. lesser) financial resources. Collectively, these studies suggest th...
Source: Emotion - April 7, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Profiles of adolescents’ sadness, anger, and worry regulation: Characterization and relations with psychopathology.
Emotion, Vol 23(2), Mar 2023, 473-485; doi:10.1037/emo0001084Adaptive emotion regulation (ER) reflects competence in effective emotion expression and emotion coping, both of which are critical to mitigating psychopathology risk. The current study extends past work on adolescent ER in three ways. First, using a functionalist framework, we focused on discrete emotions, examining how adolescents may differentially express and cope with sadness, anger, and worry. Second, we used a person-centered approach to determine whether subgroups of youth report different patterns of managing emotions. Third, to provide indices of validi...
Source: Emotion - April 7, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Dynamic associations between emotion expressions and strategy use in Chinese American and Mexican American preschoolers.
Emotion, Vol 23(2), Mar 2023, 460-472; doi:10.1037/emo0001100Previous studies of emotion regulation in young children commonly used between-person approaches, which limit our understanding of dynamic and temporal relations between emotion expressions and strategy use. Further, previous work has mainly focused on temperamental reactivity among White children, and it is unclear whether these findings can generalize to children of Asian and Latinx origins. In the current study, we examined the within-person temporal associations between emotion expressions and strategy use among 3- to 5-year-old children in low-income Chinese...
Source: Emotion - April 7, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Parental emotion socialization: Relations with adjustment, security, and maternal depression in early adolescence.
Emotion, Vol 23(2), Mar 2023, 450-459; doi:10.1037/emo0001099How parents approach and teach their children about emotions are key determinants of children’s healthy adjustment (Denham, 2019). Parental emotion socialization has been mostly studied in parents of young children. Our study identified emotion socialization (ES) strategies used by parents of early adolescents (Study 1) and then examined the relations of ES strategies with early adolescent adjustment, parent–child attachment, and maternal depression (Study 2). Study 1 included 171 parents of 9- to 14-year-old children who completed an open-ended questionnaire...
Source: Emotion - April 7, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Intersectionality in emotion signaling and recognition: The influence of gender, ethnicity, and social class.
Discussion focused on intersectionality and emotion. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Emotion)
Source: Emotion - April 7, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
