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Unlocking the past: efficacy of guided self-compassion and benefit-focused online interventions for managing negative personal memories Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Rosaria Maria Zangri, Ivan Blanco, Teodoro Pascual, Carmelo Vázquez
Positive reappraisal strategies have been found to reduce negative affect following the recall of negative personal events. This study examined the restorative effect of two mood-repair instruction...
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The relationship between environmentally induced emotion and memory for a naturalistic virtual experience Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Aria S. Petrucci, Cade McCall, Guy Schofield, Victoria Wardell, Omran K. Safi, Daniela J. Palombo
Emotional stimuli (e.g. words, images) are often remembered better than neutral stimuli. However, little is known about how memory is affected by an environmentally induced emotional state (without...
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Effect of emotional valence on true and false recognition controlling arousal Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Alfonso Pitarque, Juan C. Meléndez, Encarna Satorres, Joaquín Escudero, José Manuel García-Justicia
The aim of our experiment was to analyse the effect of the emotional valence (positive, negative, or neutral) on true and false recognition, matching the arousal, frequency, concreteness, and assoc...
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Can irony regulate negative emotion? Evidence from behaviour and ERPs Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Valeria A. Pfeifer, Jessica R. Andrews-Hanna, Vicky T. Lai
This study used ratings and event-related potentials (ERPs) to compare the mechanisms through which verbal irony and cognitive reappraisal mitigate negative emotion. Verbal irony is when the litera...
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Age-related differences on temporal source memory by using dynamic stimuli: the effects of POV and emotional valence Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Adolfo Di Crosta, Pasquale La Malva, Irene Ceccato, Giulia Prete, Nicola Mammarella, Alberto Di Domenico, Rocco Palumbo
Previous studies have highlighted that temporal source memory can be influenced by factors such as the individual’s age and the emotional valence of the event to be remembered. In this study, we in...
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Temporal memory for threatening events encoded in a haunted house Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Katelyn G. Cliver, David F. Gregory, Steven A. Martinez, William J. Mitchell, Joanne E. Stasiak, Samantha S. Reisman, Chelsea Helion, Vishnu P. Murty
Despite the salient experience of encoding threatening events, these memories are prone to distortions and often non-veridical from encoding to recall. Further, threat has been shown to preferentia...
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Threat priming diminishes the gaze cueing effect Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Manman Zhai, Jari K. Hietanen
Gaze cueing effect (GCE) refers to attention orienting towards the gazed-at location, characterised by faster responses to gazed-at than non-gazed-at stimuli. A previous study investigated the effe...
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Love and hate do not modulate the attentional blink but improve overall performance* Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Yi Liu, Christian Olivers, Paul A. M. Van Lange
How may feelings of love and hate impact people’s attention? We used a modified Attentional Blink (AB) task in which 300 participants were asked to categorise a name representing a person towards w...
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Putting a label on someone: impact of schizophrenia stigma on emotional mimicry, liking, and interpersonal closeness Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Mathilde Parisi, Stéphane Raffard, Pierre Slangen, Till Kastendieck, Ursula Hess, Heidi Mauersberger, Tifenn Fauviaux, Ludovic Marin
Affiliation is both an antecedent and a consequence of emotional mimicry (i.e. imitating a counterpart’s emotional expression). Thus, interacting with a disliked partner can decrease emotional mimi...
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Duration of face mask exposure matters: evidence from Swiss and Brazilian kindergartners’ ability to recognise emotions Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Ebru Ger, Mirella Manfredi, Ana Alexandra Caldas Osório, Camila Fragoso Ribeiro, Alessandra Almeida, Annika Güdel, Marta Calbi, Moritz M. Daum
Wearing facial masks became a common practice worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study investigated (1) whether facial masks that cover adult faces affect 4- to 6-year-old children’s reco...
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Stimulus valence moderates self-learning Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Parnian Jalalian, Saga Svensson, Marius Golubickis, Yadvi Sharma, C. Neil Macrae
Self-relevance has been demonstrated to impair instrumental learning. Compared to unfamiliar symbols associated with a friend, analogous stimuli linked with the self are learned more slowly. What i...
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Interpersonal helping in the workplace: social expectation predicts anticipated guilt and intention to help a coworker Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Claudia Gherghel
Promoting interpersonal helping among coworkers is an important aim for any organisation that cares about employee well-being. Drawing on guilt aversion hypothesis, this research focuses on the pow...
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Rumination, but not mood, predicts prospective memory performance: novel insights from a derived measure of trait rumination Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Iulia Niculescu, Lance M. Rappaport, Kristoffer Romero
Prospective memory (PM) is the accurate execution of an intention in the future. PM may be negatively impacted by negative affect, but the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Rumination may incre...
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Unpacking affect maintenance and its association with depressive symptoms: integrating positive and negative affects Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Noa Vardi, Eva Gilboa-Schechtman, Shimrit Daches
Depression is associated with increased maintenance of negative affect (NA) and reduced – blunted and short-lived – maintenance of positive affect (PA). Studies have focused on factors associated w...
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Threat directionality modulates defensive reactions in humans: cardiac and electrodermal responses Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-03-30 Mariana Xavier, Eliane Volchan, Arthur V. Machado, Isabel A. David, Letícia Oliveira, Liana C. L. Portugal, Gabriela G. L. Souza, Fátima S. Erthal, Rita de Cássia S. Alves, Izabela Mocaiber, Mirtes G. Pereira
Features of threatening cues and the associated context influence the perceived imminence of threat and the defensive responses evoked. To provide additional knowledge about how the directionality ...
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Blinded by wistfulness: on how nostalgia strengthens attitudes Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-03-30 LaCount J. Togans, Allen R. McConnell
Across four studies, we explored how feeling nostalgic about an attitude object impacts the metacognitive characteristics of the attitude toward that object and how those metacognitions predict the...
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The role of category valence in prototype preference Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-03-30 Moritz Ingendahl, Nadja Propheter, Tobias Vogel
People prefer prototypical stimuli over atypical stimuli. The dominant explanation for this prototype preference effect is that prototypical stimuli are processed more fluently. However, a more rec...
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When unpleasantness meets feminines: a behavioural study on gender agreement and emotionality Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-03-30 Lucía Vieitez, Isabel Padrón, Isabel Fraga
The emotional connotation of words is known to affect word and sentence processing. However, the when and how of the interaction between emotion and grammar are still up for debate. In this behavio...
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Emotion malleability beliefs matter in emotion regulation: a comprehensive review and meta-analysis Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Yunsu Kim, Sooyeon Kim, Sunkyung Yoon
Individuals’ beliefs about the malleability of emotions have been theorised to play a role in their psychological distress by influencing emotion regulation processes, such as the use of emotion re...
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Who expresses their pride when? The regulation of pride expressions as a function of self-monitoring and social context Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Chau Tran, Bengisu Sezer, Yvette van Osch
Pride expressions draw attention to one’s achievement, and therefore can enhance one’s status. However, such attention has been linked to negative interpersonal consequences (i.e. envy). Fortunatel...
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Within- and between-person associations between social interactions and loneliness: students’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Alyssa K. Truong, Gizem Keskin, Jessica P. Lougheed
The COVID-19 pandemic introduced many restrictions to in-person interactions, and remote social interactions may be especially important for managing loneliness when such restrictions are in place....
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Linking a latent variable trait-state-occasion model of emotion regulation to cognitive control Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Bunmi O. Olatunji, Kelly A. Knowles, Alexandra M. Adamis, David A. Cole
Emotion dysregulation (ED) is a vulnerability factor for affective disorders that may originate from deficits in cognitive control (CC). Although measures of ED are often designed to assess trait-l...
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Two roads leading to the same evaluative conditioning effect? Stimulus-response binding versus operant conditioning Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Tarini Singh, Christian Frings, Eva Walther
Evaluative Conditioning (EC) refers to changes in our liking or disliking of a stimulus due to its pairing with other positive or negative stimuli. In addition to stimulus-based mechanisms, recent ...
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Experimentally manipulated anger activates implicit cognitions about social hierarchy Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Harrison M. Miller, Connor R. Hasty, Jon K. Maner
A correlational pilot study (N = 143) and an integrative data analysis of two experiments (total N = 377) provide evidence linking anger to the psychology of social hierarchy. The experiments demon...
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Control your emotions: evidence for a shared mechanism of cognitive and emotional control Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Eldad Keha, Hadar Naftalovich, Ariel Shahaf, Eyal Kalanthroff
The current investigation examined the bidirectional effects of cognitive control and emotional control and the overlap between these two systems in regulating emotions. Based on recent neural and ...
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Can sequencing of articulation ease explain the in–out effect? A preregistered test Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Sascha Topolinski, Tobias Vogel, Moritz Ingendahl
Words whose consonantal articulation places move from the front of the mouth to the back (e.g. BADAKA; inward) receive more positive evaluations than words whose consonantal articulation places mov...
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Altered mechanisms of adaptation in social anxiety: differences in adapting to positive versus negative emotional faces Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Erinda Morina, Daniel A. Harris, Sarah A. Hayes-Skelton, Vivian M. Ciaramitaro
Social anxiety is characterised by fear of negative evaluation and negative perceptual biases; however, the cognitive mechanisms underlying these negative biases are not well understood. We investi...
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Filtering distractors is costly Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Brian A. Anderson
To find a target in visual search, it is often necessary to filter out task-irrelevant distractors. People find the process of distractor filtering effortful, exerting physical effort to reduce the...
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Associations between affect dynamics and eating regulation in daily life: a preliminary ecological momentary assessment study Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Alexandro Smith, Kathleen A. Page, Kathryn E. Smith
Disordered eating behaviors consistently associated with emotion regulation difficulties. However, most studies have focused on affect intensity without considering dynamic affective patterns. We e...
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Observational learning of threat-related attentional bias Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Laurent Grégoire, Mirela Dubravac, Kirsten Moore, Namgyun Kim, Brian A. Anderson
Attentional bias to threat has been almost exclusively examined after participants experienced repeated pairings between a conditioned stimulus (CS) and an aversive unconditioned stimulus (US). Thi...
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Illustrating the pathway from affect to somatic symptom: the Affective Picture Paradigm* Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Tara M. Petzke, Kathrin Weber, Omer Van den Bergh, Michael Witthöft
High levels of somatic symptom distress represent a core component of both mental and physical illness. The exact aetiology and pathogenesis of this transdiagnostic phenomenon remain largely unknow...
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The enhancement of temporal binding effect after negative social feedback Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Yunyun Chen, Xintong Zou, Yuying Wang, Hong He, Xuemin Zhang
The present study investigated the effect of social feedback on the experiences of our actions and the outcomes (e.g. temporal binding between an action and its outcome, reflecting individuals’ cau...
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Determinants for positive and negative experiences of interpersonal touch: context matters Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Uta Sailer, Yvonne Friedrich, Fatemeh Asgari, Marc Hassenzahl, Ilona Croy
The goal of the study was to determine which aspects of interpersonal touch interactions lead to a positive or negative experience. Previous research has focused primarily on physical characteristi...
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Associations of nature contact with emotional ill-being and well-being: the role of emotion regulation Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Gregory N. Bratman, Ashish Mehta, Hector Olvera-Alvarez, Katie Malloy Spink, Chaja Levy, Mathew P. White, Laura D. Kubzansky, James J. Gross
Nature contact has associations with emotional ill-being and well-being. However, the mechanisms underlying these associations are not fully understood. We hypothesised that increased adaptive and ...
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Emotion in motion: perceiving fear in the behaviour of individuals from minimal motion capture displays Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Matthew T. Crawford, Christopher Maymon, Nicola L. Miles, Katie Blackburne, Michael Tooley, Gina M. Grimshaw
The ability to quickly and accurately recognise emotional states is adaptive for numerous social functions. Although body movements are a potentially crucial cue for inferring emotions, few studies...
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Funny? Think About It! Selective effect of cognitive mechanisms of humour on insight problems Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Sergei Y. Korovkin, Ekaterina N. Morozova, Olga S. Nikiforova
The present study aims to elucidate whether insight problem solving could be facilitated by the cognitive component of humour. The authors take interest in whether the logical mechanisms of humour ...
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Aberrant cognitive empathy in individuals with elevated social anxiety and regulation with emotional working memory training Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Saif A. Kade, Simone A. du Toit, Craig T. Danielson, Susanne Schweizer, Amanda S. Morrison, Desmond C. Ong, Ashni Prasad, Lauren J. Holder, Jin Han, Michelle Torok, Quincy J. J. Wong
Social anxiety may disrupt the empathic process, and well-regulated empathy is critical for navigating the social world. Two studies aimed to further understand empathy in the context of social anx...
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The influence of dynamism and expression intensity on face emotion recognition in individuals with autistic traits Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Natalie Corluka, Robin Laycock
Face emotion recognition (FER) ability varies across the population, with autistic traits in the general population reported to contribute to this variation. Previous studies used photographs of po...
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Age-related disgust responses to signs of disease Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Jared Walters, Stefano Occhipinti, Amanda L. Duffy, Sharon Scrafton, Caley Tapp, Megan Oaten
Previous studies found similarities in adults’ disgust responses to benign (e.g. obesity) and actual disease signs (e.g. influenza). However, limited research has compared visual (i.e. benign and a...
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Buffering effect of fiction on negative emotions: engagement with negatively valenced fiction decreases the intensity of negative emotions Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Marina Iosifyan, Judith Wolfe
Previous research has investigated how the context of perception affects emotional response. This study investigated how engagement with perceived fictional content vs perceived everyday-life conte...
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Does cognitive load influence expressive flexibility? Comparing civilian and veteran populations Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Roland P. Hart, John A. Benzshawel, George A. Bonanno
Expressive flexibility (EF) is a component of emotion regulation flexibility repertoire that constitutes the ability to enhance or suppress the expression of emotion in accordance with a given situ...
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Affective dynamics in mother-adolescent dyads: links to mental health and relationship quality Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Chloe E. Allen, Jackie A. Nelson, Deyaun L. Villarreal
Current research in developmental psychopathology has emphasised how emotion dynamics, such as affective variability, relate to psychosocial functioning. In this brief article, we examined mean dif...
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An integrative analysis of potential mechanisms of reduced positive affect in daily life in depression: an ESM study Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Ana Mar Pacheco-Romero, Óscar Martín-García, Ricardo Rey-Sáez, Teresa Boemo, Iván Blanco, Carmelo Vázquez, Álvaro Sánchez-López
Decreased levels of positive affect (PA) are a hallmark of depression. Current models propose as potential main mechanisms a dysfunctional use of emotion regulation (ER) strategies (i.e. dampening,...
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Simultaneous maintenance of emotions in affective working memory Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Nour Kardosh, Christian Waugh, Joseph Mikels, Nilly Mor
Affective Working Memory (AWM) is the ability to maintain an emotion after the emotion-eliciting stimulus is no longer present. Emotions are dynamic, and emotion-eliciting stimuli are encountered s...
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When mind and body align: examining the role of cross-modal congruency in conscious representations of happy facial expressions Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Thomas Quettier, Elena Moro, Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Paola Sessa
This study explored how congruency between facial mimicry and observed expressions affects the stability of conscious facial expression representations. Focusing on the congruency effect between pr...
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The mindful gaze: trait mindful people under an instructed emotion regulation goal selectively attend to positive stimuli Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Hannah Raila, Annabel Bouwer, Cole A. Moran, Elizabeth T. Kneeland, Rhea Modi, Jutta Joormann
Trait mindfulness confers emotional benefits and encourages skillful emotion regulation, in part because it helps people more deliberately attend to internal experiences and external surroundings. ...
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Attentional bias towards happy faces in the dot-probe paradigm: it depends on which task is used Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Dirk Wentura, Liliann Messeh, Benedikt Emanuel Wirth
Two recent articles [Gronchi et al., 2018. Automatic and controlled attentional orienting in the elderly: A dual-process view of the positivity effect. Acta Psychologica, 185, 229–234; Wirth & Went...
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Interactive relationship between alexithymia, psychological distress and posttraumatic stress disorder symptomology across time Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Andrea Putica, Nicholas T. Van Dam, Kim Felmingham, Ellie Lawrence-Wood, Alexander McFarlane, Meaghan O’Donnell
Alexithymia, psychological distress, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are highly related constructs. The ongoing debate about the nature and relationship between these constructs is perpetu...
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Social anxiety and emotion regulation flexibility: a daily diary approach Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Germaine Y. Q. Tng, Hwajin Yang
Previous research suggests that social anxiety symptoms are maintained and intensified by inflexible emotion regulation (ER). Therefore, we examined whether trait-level social anxiety moderates ER ...
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Enhanced source memory for emotionally valenced sources: does an affective orienting task make the difference? Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Nikoletta Symeonidou, Beatrice G. Kuhlmann
Previous research on whether source memory is enhanced for emotionally valenced sources yielded inconclusive results. To identify potential boundary conditions, we tested whether encoding instructi...
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Effects of age on the interactions of attentional and emotional processes: a prefrontal fNIRS study Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Michael K. Yeung
The aging of attentional and emotional functions has been extensively studied but relatively independently. Therefore, the relationships between aging and the interactions of attentional and emotio...
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Fast habituation to semantic interference generated by taboo connotation in reading aloud Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Simone Sulpizio, Michele Scaltritti, Giacomo Spinelli
The recognition of taboo words – i.e. socially inappropriate words – has been repeatedly associated to semantic interference phenomena, with detrimental effects on the performance in the ongoing ta...
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“Anger? No, thank you. I don't mimic it”: how contextual modulation of facial display meaning impacts emotional mimicry Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Michal Olszanowski, Aleksandra Tołopiło
Research indicates that emotional mimicry predominantly occurs in response to affiliative displays, such as happiness, while the mimicry of antagonistic displays, like anger, is seldom observed in ...
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“I’m so dumb and worthless right now”: factors associated with heightened momentary self-criticism in daily life Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Jennifer C. Veilleux, Jeremy B. Clift, Katherine Hyde Brott, Elise A. Warner, Regina E. Schreiber, Hannah M. Henderson, Dylan K. Shelton
Self-criticism is a trait associated with increased psychopathology, but self-criticism is also a personality state reflecting an action that people do in moments of time. In the current study, we ...
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Real is the new sexy: the influence of perceived realness on self-reported arousal to sexual visual stimuli Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Marco Marini, Alessandro Ansani, Alessandro Demichelis, Giovanna Mancini, Fabio Paglieri, Marco Viola
As state-of-art technology can create artificial images that are indistinguishable from real ones, it is urgent to understand whether believing that a picture is real or not has some import over af...
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Effects of task switching and emotional stimuli on memory selectivity Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Mirela Dubravac, Katie E. Garrison, Brandon J. Schmeichel
It is not always easy to attend to task-relevant information and ignore task-irrelevant distractions. We investigated the impact of task switching and emotional stimuli on goal-oriented selective a...
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Higher sensory processing sensitivity: increased cautiousness in attentional processing in conflict contexts Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-01-07 Luchuan Xiao, Kris Baetens, Natacha Deroost
While interest grows in investigating sensory processing sensitivity (SPS), few studies have employed objective behavioural measures to directly explore the underlying attentional processing. The p...
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Effects of positive affect and positive emotions on executive functions: a systematic review and meta-analysis Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Franziska Lautenbach
Positive emotions (PEs) impact cognitive processes, including executive functions (EFs; i.e. inhibition, working memory, cognitive flexibility). However, previous reviews and meta-analyses report c...
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Retrieval-induced forgetting of emotional memories Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Crystal Reeck, Kevin S. LaBar
Long-term memory manages its contents to facilitate adaptive behaviour, amplifying representations of information relevant to current goals and expediting forgetting of information that competes wi...
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Investigating the relationship between self-reported interoceptive experience and risk propensity Cognition and Emotion (IF 2.72) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Arran T. Reader, Gerardo Salvato
Risky behaviour may be associated with visceral experiences, such as increased heart rate. Previous studies examining the relationship between perception of such signals (interoception) and risk-ta...