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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Marianna Liotti, Alberto Milesi, Grazia Fernanda Spitoni, Annalisa Tanzilli, Anna Maria Speranza, Laura Parolin, Chloe Campbell, Peter Fonagy, Vittorio Lingiardi, Guido Giovanardi
Summary: This study aimed to validate the Epistemic Trust, Mistrust, and Credulity Questionnaire (ETMCQ) in an Italian sample and explore the influence of age, gender, and education level on epistemic trust. The results showed that epistemic trust was associated with psychological well-being and childhood traumatic experiences. The ETMCQ is a convenient and effective tool that could lead to interesting clinical and theoretical findings.
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Anna Maria Rosso
Summary: This study examined the relationships between ability emotional intelligence (EI), attachment security, and mentalization. The results revealed significant positive correlations between ability EI, attachment security, and reflective functioning (RF). The findings suggest a connection between different attachment strategies and ability EI.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
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Health Care Sciences & Services
Giulia Bordoagni, Edita Fino, Alessandro Agostini
Summary: This study evaluated the attachment style and mentalization capacity in nurse professionals and nursing students, and explored their impact on burnout in professional nurses. Nursing students may compensate for their attachment insecurity with high mentalization, while attachment security could play a protective role against burnout in professional nurses. Educational programs aimed at enhancing mentalizing abilities and implementing training strategies based on attachment theory may help prevent burnout in nurse professionals.
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Psychology, Clinical
Jeremy M. Ridenour, Daniel Knauss, David W. Neal
Summary: Research has shown that adopting a more integrating recovery style after a psychotic episode can lead to better treatment outcomes. A novel therapeutic treatment, mentalization-based therapy for psychosis, targets potential mechanisms that may foster an integrating recovery style, allowing individuals to make meaning of their episode and explore it through others.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Agata Gasiorowska, Kaja Glomb, Pelin Kesebir
Summary: The validity of the Polish version of the Emotional Style Questionnaire (ESQ) has been documented in three studies. The results show that the Polish version is similar to the English version in terms of factorial structure and gender measurement, and has excellent test-retest reliability. The questionnaire can be used as a valid and easily implemented tool to measure healthy emotionality and its components in research settings.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Psychiatry
R. L. Trotti, D. A. Parker, D. Sabatinelli, M. S. Keshavan, S. K. Keedy, E. S. Gershon, G. D. Pearlson, S. K. Hill, C. A. Tamminga, J. E. McDowell, B. A. Clementz
Summary: This study investigates emotional scene-elicited ERPs in Biotypes of psychosis and finds that psychosis Biotypes display emotional processing deficits that are not apparent in DSM psychosis subgroups. Neuro-biologically defined psychosis subgroups offer a better capture of the neurophysiological correlates of social-emotional deficits. Future translational research can benefit from exploring emotional scene processing in these neurobiologically-defined psychosis groups.
PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH
(2023)
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Neurosciences
Teodosio Giacolini, David Conversi, Antonio Alcaro
Summary: Adolescence is a crucial developmental stage characterized by complex biological and social changes that lay the foundation for psychopathological problems. The integration of phylogenetically ancient Dominance/Submission Systems with newer Attachment/CARE Systems begins in prepubertal period, marking the start of addressing the delicate balance between cooperative and competitive behaviors in human species.
FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
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Clinical Neurology
Fabio Campanella, Thomas West, Corrado Corradi Dell'Acqua, Miran Skrap
Summary: Extensive neuroimaging literature suggests that understanding others' thoughts and emotions involves a wide network of brain areas. However, the causal role played by these regions in social inferential abilities is still unclear. This study evaluated theory of mind deficits in brain tumour patients and found that damage to specific brain regions resulted in selective impairments in cognitive and affective theory of mind. Overall, the data provide novel evidence supporting the segregation of different aspects of the theory of mind network.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Rachel E. Guetta, Clair Cassiello-Robbins, Jacqueline Trumbull, Deepika Anand, M. Zachary Rosenthal
Summary: Misophonia is a condition characterized by emotional reactivity to repetitive sounds, and it is linked to difficulties with emotion regulation and functional impairment.
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Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Luca Puviani, Sidita Rama, Giorgio Matteo Vitetta
Summary: This paper discusses how a simple mathematical description of processes governing implicit emotional dynamics can be developed and how these models can be exploited to improve tracking, estimation, and active modulation of human emotions.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AFFECTIVE COMPUTING
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Bruno Faustino
Summary: The paper discusses the efforts to bridge the gap between affective neuroscience and psychotherapy through a biopsychosocial and contextual approach. It suggests that there may be several affective neurobiological systems underlying primary emotional brain processes and highlights the role of internal narrative processes in giving meaning to specific life themes. However, there is still a lack of theoretical understanding of emotional needs, interpersonal motivational systems, and life themes.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Andreea Sitoiu, Georgeta Panisoara
Summary: This study reveals the relationship between parental emotional regulation, optimism, and parenting style. The results show that authoritative parenting style is associated with parents' emotional regulation and optimism. Optimism and emotional regulation are factors that contribute to the adoption of the authoritative parenting style.
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Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism
Dan Huang, Qiurong Chen, Songshan (Sam) Huang, Xinyi Liu
Summary: Drawing on the cognitive-affective-conative framework, this study developed a model of service robot acceptance in the hospitality sector by incorporating both cognitive evaluations and affective responses. A mixed-method approach was used to develop measurement and test research hypotheses. The findings show that cognitive evaluations significantly influence consumers' affect and acceptance intention. The study provides significant implications for the design and implementation of service robots in the hospitality and tourism sector, enhancing knowledge about human-robot interactions.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Shaishai Wang, Huagang Hu, Xinyang Wang, Bo Dong, Tianyang Zhang
Summary: Different parenting styles experienced in childhood and adolescence have varied effects on the empathy among offenders. Parental care and control factors are more strongly associated with empathy compared to parental encouragement, and the consistency of parenting styles plays a role in predicting cognitive and affective empathy. The findings suggest the importance of monitoring measures or policies to enhance parenting styles for better empathy outcomes among offenders.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Physics, Multidisciplinary
Luisa Roeder, Pamela Hoyte, Johan van der Meer, Lauren Fell, Patrick Johnston, Graham Kerr, Peter Bruza
Summary: This study investigates the evolving judgments of reliability when interacting with an AI system, comparing the predictive performance of quantum and Markov models and identifying a neural correlate of the perturbation of human agent's judgment. The findings suggest that the quantum model better predicts reliability ratings and a trust-related EEG-based measure opens up possibilities for real-time parameter adaptation of the quantum model.
Article
Neurosciences
Jordan E. Pierce, Roberta Ronchi, Marine Thomasson, Irene Rossi, Carlotta Casati, Arnaud Saj, Giuseppe Vallar, Patrik Vuilleumier
Summary: Unilateral spatial neglect is a common neuropsychological syndrome observed after stroke, characterized by the inability to attend or respond to stimuli in the contralesional field. This study developed a novel manual exploration test using a touch screen computer to quantify spatial search behavior, which revealed clear signs of neglect in some stroke patients. The findings suggest that different modalities may be affected separately, but severe neglect is more likely related to damage in a common underlying representation.
NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL REHABILITATION
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Joana Leitao, Maya Burckhardt, Patrik Vuilleumier
Summary: Motivation, as an important element of emotion, drives adaptive actions and goal pursuit by promoting approach to positive events and avoidance of negative stimuli. The amygdala plays a crucial role in the appraisal of stimulus valence and is associated with generation of approach and avoidance behaviors. This study investigated amygdala functional connectivity patterns during a video game task that manipulated the conduciveness of goals through the presence of good, neutral, or bad monsters. The results revealed that good monsters induced more approach behaviors, while bad monsters triggered more avoidance behaviors. The amygdala showed increased connectivity with medial brain areas for good monsters, and with the caudate for bad monsters. Additionally, connectivity between the amygdala and medial prefrontal regions was positively correlated with brain scores representing efficient goal pursuit.
JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Eva R. Pool, David Munoz Tord, Sylvain Delplanque, Yoann Stussi, Donato Cereghetti, Patrik Vuilleumier, David Sander
Summary: Different subregions of the ventral striatum play distinct roles in the motivational and hedonic components of reward processing. Understanding the neural mechanisms underlying the interplay between pavlovian incentive and hedonic processes is crucial for comprehending compulsive reward-seeking behaviors such as addiction, binge eating, or gambling.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Alexia Bourgeois, Virginie Sterpenich, Giannina Rita Iannotti, Patrik Vuilleumier
Summary: The study found that reward cues can selectively modulate the Frontal Eye Field (FEF) during attentional shifts, especially after high-predictive cueing to invalid locations. Reward information also modulated FEF connectivity to superior colliculus, striatum, and visual cortex.
Article
Neurosciences
Monika Riegel, Malgorzata Wierzba, Marek Wypych, Maureen Ritchey, Katarzyna Jednorog, Anna Grabowska, Patrik Vuilleumier, Artur Marchewka
Summary: Recent research has found that the amygdala plays an important role in the reinstatement of emotional memories. Specifically, the amygdala has a stronger impact on the reinstatement of disgust memories. Additionally, differences in memory performance and neural mechanisms were observed, with the amygdala and perirhinal cortex more active during encoding of disgust-related events, and the hippocampus and parahippocampal gyrus more active during encoding of fear-related events.
Article
Neurosciences
Ryan J. Murray, Kornelia Gentsch, Eleonore Pham, Zeynep Celen, Joana Castro, Nader Perroud, Dimitri Van De Ville, Patrik Vuilleumier, Camille Piguet
Summary: The study found that patients with borderline personality disorder showed overactive corticolimbic reactivity, particularly in self-monitoring and emotion regulation regions, even when controlling for emotion dysregulation traits. In contrast, patients with bipolar disorder exhibited hypoactive corticolimbic reactivity compared to patients with BPD and healthy controls, even after controlling for emotion dysregulation. Healthy control subjects showed significantly lower amygdala/hippocampus activity compared to both clinical groups, although this difference did not survive when controlling for emotion dysregulation.
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY-COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE AND NEUROIMAGING
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Tomas Ros, Abele Michela, Anais Mayer, Anne Bellmann, Philippe Vuadens, Victorine Zermatten, Arnaud Saj, Patrik Vuilleumier
Summary: This study utilizes EEG source imaging to uncover differences in resting-state network organization in stroke-induced hemineglect patients and highlights the relationship between symptom severity and brain network organization. The findings suggest that EEG signals could be sensitive markers for the study and rehabilitation of hemineglect.
NETWORK NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Marco Schlosser, Thorsten Barnhofer, Florence Requier, Yacila Deza-Araujo, Oussama Abdoun, Natalie L. Marchant, Gael Chetelat, Fabienne Collette, Olga M. Klimecki, Antoine Lutz
Summary: This study aims to investigate whether a theory-based taxonomy of meditation-related mechanisms can be used to create psychometrically sound composite scores. The results from three independent samples suggest that the three composite scores, reflecting attentional, constructive, and deconstructive practices, have adequate psychometric properties. This study provides preliminary support for using a theoretical model to create meaningful and reliable composite scores for meditation-related mechanisms.
Review
Psychology, Clinical
Aurore Fernandez, Leah Urwicz, Patrik Vuilleumier, Chantal Berna
Summary: This article reviews the literature on the effects of hypnosis on psychophysiological measures of autonomic nervous system activity and the stress/relaxation response. The results, based on 49 studies with 1315 participants, suggest that hypnosis leads to reductions in sympathetic responses and/or increases in parasympathetic tone. The article also highlights methodological limitations and suggests future directions for research.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL HYPNOSIS
(2022)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Monika Riegel, Marek Wypych, Malgorzata Wierzba, Michal Szczepanik, Katarzyna Jednorog, Patrik Vuilleumier, Artur Marchewka
Summary: This study investigates the effects of emotion schema congruency and emotion category on associative memory, using a face-word pair association paradigm combined with fMRI and eye-tracking techniques. The results show that congruency with emotion schemas enhances memory retrieval, with different effects observed for different emotion categories. This suggests a role for semantic processing and visual attention processes in the modulation of memory by disgust and fear.
Article
Clinical Neurology
Sophie Dautricourt, Julie Gonneaud, Brigitte Landeau, Vince D. Calhoun, Robin de Flores, Geraldine Poisnel, Salma Bougacha, Valentin Ourry, Edelweiss Touron, Elizabeth Kuhn, Harriet Demintz-King, Natalie L. Marchant, Denis Vivien, Vincent de la Sayette, Antoine Lutz, Gael Chetelat
Summary: This study investigates the relationships between dynamic functional network connectivity (DFNC) and dementia risk. The findings suggest that different DFNC states are associated with dementia risk and could underlie cognitive reserve.
ALZHEIMERS RESEARCH & THERAPY
(2022)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Theo Andriot, Patrick Ohnmacht, Patrik Vuilleumier, Gabriel Thorens, Yasser Khazaal, Nathalie Ginovart, Tomas Ros
Summary: Current research indicates that long-term cannabis use can lead to cognitive deficits and widespread changes in brain activity. This study investigated the electrophysiological and behavioral correlates of cannabis dependence and found that patients with cannabis use disorder had higher levels of alpha rhythm and lower attentional performance compared to nonusers.
COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Tim Whitfield, Harriet Demnitz-King, Marco Schlosser, Thorsten Barnhofer, Eric Frison, Nina Coll-Padros, Sophie Dautricourt, Florence Requier, Marion Delarue, Julie Gonneaud, Olga M. Klimecki, Antoine Lutz, Leo Paly, Eric Salmon, Ann-Katrin Schild, Zuzana Walker, Frank Jessen, Gael Chetelat, Fabienne Collette, Miranka Wirth, Natalie L. Marchant
Summary: Non-pharmacological interventions can help maintain or improve cognition in individuals with SCD, reducing the risk of dementia.
ALZHEIMERS RESEARCH & THERAPY
(2022)
Article
Cell Biology
Sebastian Baez-Lugo, Yacila Deza-Araujo, Christel Maradan, Fabienne Collette, Antoine Lutz, Natalie L. Marchant, Gael Chetelat, Patrik Vuilleumier, Olga Klimecki
Summary: Basic emotional functions appear intact in older adults, but their response to and recovery from negative social events are not well understood. The researchers used a 'task-rest' paradigm and functional MRI to investigate the neural dynamics of empathy-related functions in older adults. They found that emotional elicitation during the task enhanced resting-state connectivity between the default mode network and amygdala in older adults, and this connectivity was associated with higher anxiety, rumination, and negative thoughts.
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Maelan Q. Menetrey, Gelareh Mohammadi, Joana Leitao, Patrik Vuilleumier
Summary: The study investigates the relationship between discrete emotions and physiological measures using a multi-componential approach. The results suggest that physiological features are encoded within each component and that integrating all components improves emotion prediction accuracy. However, physiology is found to be the least significant predictor for emotion classification compared to other components.
FRONTIERS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
(2022)