Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Sade J. Abiodun, Joanna M. Salerno, Galen A. Mcallister, Gregory R. Samanez-Larkin, Kendra L. Seaman
Summary: This study investigated age-related differences in evoked responses to dynamic facial expressions. The results showed that older adults rated positive facial expressions (happy) more positively and negative facial expressions (angry and sad) more negatively than younger adults in terms of valence. However, there was no significant difference in arousal to negative expressions between older and younger adults. Overall, the findings suggest that older adults may be more sensitive to variations in dynamic facial expressions, particularly in terms of valence estimates.
JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES B-PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Gillian Slessor, Pauline Insch, Isla Donaldson, Vestina Sciaponaite, Malgorzata Adamowicz, Louise H. Phillips
Summary: Older adults have difficulty identifying emotions from facial expressions, but they are better at interpreting emotions from the mouth region. They rely more on information from the mouth and struggle with emotion perception when the mouth is covered.
JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES B-PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Lyn S. Turkstra, Sam Hosseini-Moghaddam, Sophie Wohltjen, Sara V. Nurre, Bilge Mutlu, Melissa C. Duff
Summary: A study found impaired emotion recognition in adults with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Two major design features of previous studies limit the application of results to real-world contexts. To address these limitations, a new task was created to more closely approximate how adults with TBI label facial emotions beyond the lab.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Management
Karen Niven
Summary: This article investigates the differences in interpersonal emotion regulation between older and younger workers and provides predictions about age-related differences in managing others' feelings. By synthesizing theoretical and empirical evidence, it guides future research in this important area.
HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Food Science & Technology
N. da Quinta, E. Santa Cruz, Y. Rios, B. Alfaro, I Martinez de Maranon
Summary: This study aimed to evaluate the dimensional and semantic meanings of emoji in different contexts and the effects of age and gender on this perception. The results showed that the dimensional meaning of emoji was context-dependent, with a stronger valence in a food-related context. Gender and age also influenced the dimensional meaning, with girls rating specific emoji more negatively and younger children perceiving certain emoji as more arousing. The semantic meaning of emoji was also context-dependent, and different age groups had different interpretations of specific groups of emoji.
FOOD QUALITY AND PREFERENCE
(2023)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Susanne P. Lajoie, Juan Zheng, Shan Li, Amanda Jarrell, Maren Gube
Summary: This study investigated the influence of affect and self-regulatory activities on learning outcomes. High-performing medical students differed from low-performing students in terms of performance goal orientation, emotional expressions, and self-regulation behaviors. The findings have important implications for research and medical education.
LEARNING AND INSTRUCTION
(2021)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Nora I. Muros, Arturo S. Garcia, Cristina Forner, Pablo Lopez-Arcas, Guillermo Lahera, Roberto Rodriguez-Jimenez, Karen N. Nieto, Jose Miguel Latorre, Antonio Fernandez-Caballero, Patricia Fernandez-Sotos
Summary: The study found that patients with schizophrenia have difficulty recognizing emotions in facial expressions, and they show a learning effect during the task, which is important for designing training interventions.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
(2021)
Review
Psychology
Allison S. Troy, Emily C. Willroth, Amanda J. Shallcross, Nicole R. Giuliani, James J. Gross, Iris B. Mauss
Summary: People's responses to adversity vary greatly, with some showing better psychological resilience than expected. However, psychology's understanding of resilience is incomplete due to a lack of conceptual clarity and the limitations of existing approaches. To address these issues, an integrative affect-regulation framework is proposed to enhance our understanding of resilience.
ANNUAL REVIEW OF PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Chiara Ferrari, Andrea Ciricugno, Maria Arioli, Zaira Cattaneo
Summary: The medial sectors of the posterior cerebellum are involved in basic emotional recognition, while the lateral sectors are recruited for higher-level social inference. Moreover, the contribution of the cerebellum in these processes is limited to negative emotional stimuli.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Keith A. Bush, Clinton D. Kilts
Summary: In this study, machine learning and human neuroimaging methods were combined to investigate the impact of self-induced affect processing states on subsequent affect processing of image stimuli. The findings revealed that self-induction of a positive brain state significantly biased the valence processing of subsequent stimuli. This study also demonstrated the feasibility of experimental paradigms triggered by pre-defined cognitive states, which has important implications for exploring individual differences in perceptual processing mechanisms.
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Ashley M. Battaglini, Katerina Rnic, Taylyn Jameson, Ellen Jopling, Joelle LeMoult
Summary: This study integrates two emerging areas of research, emotion regulation flexibility and interpersonal emotion regulation, and explores their effects on affective outcomes. The findings suggest that greater flexibility and responsivity to feedback are associated with more adaptive affective outcomes. However, unexpected results indicate that context sensitivity did not significantly predict affect, and covariation of within-strategy variability and environmental variability predicted higher negative affect.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Pilleriin Sikka, Hilda Engelbrektsson, Jinxiao Zhang, James J. Gross
Summary: This study investigated the relationship between negative affect experienced in dreams and next-day waking affect level, affect reactivity, and affect regulation. The results showed that the more negative affect people experienced in their dreams, the more negative affect and the less positive affect they reported the next morning. However, negative dream affect was not associated with affect reactivity to pictures or the ability to down-regulate negative affect in response to these pictures.
FRONTIERS IN BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Shuyao Liao, Wei Tang, Xin Zhang
Summary: This study aimed to examine the age-related differences in responses toward social exclusion by using self-report scales and electrodermal activity measurements. The results showed that older adults had lower levels of responsiveness to social exclusion compared to younger adults. Additionally, the study found that active emotion regulation, specifically detached reappraisal, in the appraisal stage might account for the age-related differences in responses toward social exclusion.
JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES B-PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Psychiatry
Selima Jelili, Soumeyya Halayem, Amal Taamallah, Selima Ennaifer, Olfa Rajhi, Mohamed Moussa, Melek Ghazzei, Ahmed Nabli, Sami Ouanes, Zeineb Abbes, Malek Hajri, Radhouane Fakhfakh, Asma Bouden
Summary: Research on facial emotion recognition in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) has shown that they tend to score lower than typically developing children in both static and dynamic subtests. However, there were no significant differences in recognizing certain emotions between the two groups. The study also found a positive correlation between total scores in static and dynamic subtests and school grade in the ASD group, emphasizing the importance of emotion recognition training for social development in individuals with ASD.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY
(2021)
Article
Psychiatry
Christopher Dawes, Claudia Danielmeier, Mark Haselgrove, Paula M. Moran
Summary: The study found that deficits in emotion recognition in non-clinical negative schizotypy may be independent of confounding factors such as patient status and medication, and the association between negative symptoms and ER deficits in clinical samples may also be independent of mood disorder co-morbidity. Additionally, it was observed that negative affect did not impact ER performance, indicating potential independence between emotion recognition deficits and mood disorders in patients.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY
(2021)
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Jaclyn H. Ford, Elizabeth A. Kensinger
JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES B-PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
(2019)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Jaclyn H. Ford, Elizabeth A. Kensinger
Article
Neurosciences
Holly J. Bowen, Elizabeth A. Kensinger
Article
Gerontology
Jaclyn H. Ford, Sandry M. Garcia, Eric C. Fields, Tony J. Cunningham, Elizabeth A. Kensinger
Summary: The study indicates that adults across different age groups have varied ways of remembering the initial phase of the pandemic, with older individuals focusing more on the positive aspects. While the pandemic is a universal experience, its impact may be perceived differently depending on one's age.
PSYCHOLOGY AND AGING
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Tony J. Cunningham, Eric C. Fields, Sandry M. Garcia, Elizabeth A. Kensinger
Summary: The study found that increased age benefited emotional well-being for multiple metrics during the initial outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, exercise and perception of social connectedness can buffer against negative mental health outcomes across all ages, although the positive effects of age on emotional well-being remained even when controlling for these influences. However, increased age was associated with more worry about one's own health when exercise and social connectedness were controlled.
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Eric C. Fields, Elizabeth A. Kensinger, Sandry M. Garcia, Jaclyn H. Ford, Tony J. Cunningham
Summary: The study found that older adults had better emotional well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to younger adults, with lower stress, negative affect, and depressive symptoms, as well as higher positive affect. Older age was associated with increased resilience, although older adults were more worried about their personal health.
AGING & MENTAL HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Ryan T. Daley, Elizabeth A. Kensinger
Summary: Older adults shape the moral context of society through voting, guiding future generations' values, and holding political office. Recent research suggests age-related differences in sacrificial moral decision-making, with cognitively healthy older adults tending to make more deontological decisions than younger adults. This review aims to situate these age-related differences in the context of existing literature to guide future research. The decline in cognitive abilities supporting utilitarian moral decision-making and age-related changes to socioemotional information processing are potential mechanistic explanations for these age-related differences. Furthermore, age-related neural changes may contribute to cognitive decline and motivational shifts. Understanding the brain-behavior relationships in sacrificial moral decision-making and aging is crucial for future research.
AGING NEUROPSYCHOLOGY AND COGNITION
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Jaclyn H. H. Ford, Eric C. C. Fields, Sandry M. M. Garcia, Tony J. J. Cunningham, Elizabeth A. A. Kensinger
Summary: Compared to younger adults, older adults not only show greater positive memory after negative events, but they are also more likely to decrease memory negativity as events become more distant. However, this decrease in negativity was not observed when older adults were asked to rate memories of the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. The present study investigates whether perceived event resolution, rather than time alone, is necessary for age-related decreases in negativity.
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Brandy S. Martinez, Dan Denis, Sara Y. Kim, Carissa H. DiPietro, Christopher Stare, Elizabeth A. Kensinger, Jessica D. Payne
Summary: Emotion regulation can affect long-term emotional memory formation, but the effects of sleep on emotional memory are not well understood. A study presented participants with different emotionally paired pictures and found that sleep improved overall memory but did not specifically enhance memory for emotional aspects.
COGNITION & EMOTION
(2023)
Editorial Material
Psychology, Experimental
Ryan T. T. Daley, Elizabeth A. A. Kensinger, Tony J. J. Cunningham, Jaclyn H. H. Ford
JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH IN MEMORY AND COGNITION
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Elizabeth A. Kensinger, Jaclyn H. Ford
Summary: The dorsomedial prefrontal cortex plays a key role in emotional memory by integrating affective and cognitive components, setting up networks and framings that influence the emphasis and de-emphasis of emotional content in memories.
CURRENT DIRECTIONS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Christopher R. Madan, Aubrey G. Knight, Elizabeth A. Kensinger, Katherine R. Mickley Steinmetz
COGNITION & EMOTION
(2020)
Review
Psychology, Mathematical
Holly J. Bowen, Sarah M. Kark, Elizabeth A. Kensinger
PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW
(2018)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Jaclyn H. Ford, Haley D. DiBiase, Elizabeth A. Kensinger
COGNITION & EMOTION
(2018)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Eric S. Allard, Elizabeth A. Kensinger
AGING NEUROPSYCHOLOGY AND COGNITION
(2018)
