Review
Cell Biology
Cherkaouia Kibaly, Jacob A. L. Alderete, Steven H. Liu, Hazem S. Nasef, Ping-Yee Law, Christopher J. Evans, Catherine M. Cahill
Summary: The abuse of opioid medications, particularly oxycodone, has become a significant crisis, leading to overdose deaths and addiction. Misuse of oxycodone is driven by its pharmacological properties, market strategies, and false claims of non-addictiveness, contributing to its high likability and abuse susceptibility. Understanding the unique pharmacology and marketing tactics of oxycodone is crucial in addressing the opioid epidemic and preventing further harm.
CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR NEUROBIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Shelley M. Warlow, Kent C. Berridge
Summary: The central nucleus of amygdala (CeA) plays a role in mediating both positively-valenced reward motivation and negatively-valenced fear. Stimulation of CeA circuitry can intensify incentive motivation while not affecting hedonic impact of the reward. CeA can promote either incentive motivation or fearful motivation, potentially leading to different outcomes in neuropsychiatric disorders involving aberrant motivational salience.
BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Yoann Stussi, Eva R. Pool
Summary: Food rewards elicit various affective responses, consisting of motivation and pleasure processes. Dopamine and opioids modulate these components differently, involving different subregions of the ventral striatum, and are separated in addiction. By connecting the components of food rewards with appraisal processes in emotion, a multicomponential framework is proposed, distinguishing between elicitation- and response-based affective-reward processes. Affective relevance could be a crucial factor in stimulating food-seeking behaviors. This framework helps identify the psychological and neural processes involved in affective responses to different properties of food rewards, and explores the effects of executive control on them.
CURRENT OPINION IN BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Psychiatry
Domonkos File, Beata Bothe, Balint File, Zsolt Demetrovics
Summary: This study examined the changes in wanting and liking of substances and behaviors in individuals, as well as the potential roles of impulsivity and reward deficiency. The findings showed that wanting increased with the severity, frequency, and intensity of potentially problematic use, while liking did not change. Impulsivity positively predicted wanting, and both impulsivity and problem uses/behaviors negatively predicted wellbeing. Women showed higher levels of wanting compared to men. These results highlight the potential significance of incentive sensitization in substance use and problematic behaviors.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Domonkos File, Beata Bothe, Zsolt Demetrovics
Summary: Previous studies have shown that addiction is associated with attentional bias towards external stimuli. This study aimed to investigate whether this bias also extends to internal attention. The results indicated that increasing nicotine dependence disrupted the balance of wanting and liking, and there was a moderate positive correlation between wanting and liking and the personal relevance of positive consequences. However, this attentional bias may not apply to all smokers to the same extent, based on different profiles of smokers. The findings suggest that the bias of internal attention may play a significant role in smoking cessation and relapse, and diversifying health communication topics could be beneficial.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION
(2023)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
David Nguyen, Erin E. Naffziger, Kent C. Berridge
Summary: The positive impact of rewards, which involve components of pleasure, motivation, and learning, is essential for well-being. Under normal conditions, liking and wanting are coherent, but alterations in neural signaling can lead to their dissociation, which may be detrimental to positive well-being.
CURRENT OPINION IN BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
(2021)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Richard J. Stevenson, Heather M. Francis, Alannah Hughes, Fiona Wylie, Martin R. Yeomans
Summary: People experience a discrepancy between their wanting for food and their liking of it, with the former declining to a greater extent after eating. This study investigates the predictors of these affective changes, including state, sensory, and memory-based factors. The results show that changes in flavor liking best predict state-based changes in food liking, while memory-based information about flavor liking and fillingness are significant predictors of state-based changes in wanting. Additionally, recollections of food fillingness significantly increase after lunch and are the best predictor of the affective discrepancy effect.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Halim Moore, Melanie J. White, Graham Finlayson, Neil King
Summary: This study found no significant effects of response inhibition training on liking, wanting, and consumption of energy-dense foods. The duration of training did not moderate the intervention effects. Higher BMI was associated with differences in chocolate intake and frequency of choice for energy-dense foods.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jingnan Huang, Zhaonan Zhang, Wangjiang Feng, Yuanhong Zhao, Anna Aldanondo, Maria Gabriela de Brito Sanchez, Marco Paoli, Angele Rolland, Zhiguo Li, Hongyi Nie, Yan Lin, Shaowu Zhang, Martin Giurfa, Songkun Su
Summary: This study focused on honey bees and investigated the presence of a wanting system in insects. Through monitoring foraging and dance behavior, as well as interfering with biogenic amine signaling in the bee brain, the researchers found that honey bees have a dopamine-dependent wanting system, which shares neural mechanisms with mammals for encoding the wanting of stimuli with positive hedonic value.
Article
Clinical Neurology
Garima Singh, Ethan M. Campbell, Jeremy Hogeveen, Katie Witkiewitz, Eric D. Claus, James F. Cavanagh
Summary: The Reward Positivity (RewP) is a component of event-related potential that is elicited by reward receipt and is modulated by reward probability and affective valuation. This study aimed to determine whether RewP is a marker of hedonic salience in hazardous drinkers. The findings showed that hazardous drinkers rated alcohol significantly higher than the control group, but there were no group differences in performance or RewP amplitudes.
PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH-NEUROIMAGING
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
David John Hallford, David W. Austin
Summary: This study used confirmatory factor analysis to examine the factor structure of the Temporal Experience of Pleasure Scale (TEPS) in populations with clinical depression and in a community sample. The results indicated that the two-factor TEPS scales showed adequate model fit in depressed and community Australian samples.
Article
Neurosciences
Clayton Hickey, David Acunzo, Jaclyn Dell
Summary: Reward-related activity in the dopaminergic midbrain influences animal behavior by enhancing the perception and attention to reward-predictive environmental stimuli. This study demonstrates that reward-associated real-world objects attract attention but do not capture it, as humans are able to quickly suppress the incentive salience of irrelevant reward-associated objects and shift attention to more useful objects.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Itamar Jalon, Assaf Berger, Ben Shofty, Noam Goldway, Moran Artzi, Guy Gurevitch, Uri Hochberg, Rotem Tellem, Talma Hendler, Tal Gonen, Ido Strauss
Summary: Human pain consists of a sensory/somatic component and an affective component. Chronic pain investigation is limited in inferring the functional network of chronic pain. Lesions to affective and somatic pain pathways lead to connectivity changes within the salience and sensorimotor networks, indicating two converging systems transmitting experienced pain. Causal evidence is provided linking pain relief and connectivity changes within the salience network after lesions to sensory/affective pain pathways.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Adrian Meule, Swen Hesse, Elmar Braehler, Anja Hilbert
Summary: By reanalyzing the data of a cross-sectional study, the interaction effect between food craving and loss of control over eating on body mass index (BMI) was examined. The results showed that higher dyscontrol scores related to higher BMI, particularly at high wanting scores, supporting the dual systems models of self-regulation.
Article
Neurosciences
Claudia Massaccesi, Sebastian Korb, Nadine Skoluda, Urs M. Nater, Giorgia Silani
Summary: Research shows that exposure to aversive experiences can increase the motivation to obtain social rewards and the anticipatory pleasure associated with them, without a corresponding change in liking during or after consumption. This suggests differential state-dependent effects on the processing of social rewards.
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
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Stephanie Mertens, Mario Herberz, Ulf J. J. Hahnel, Tobias Brosch
Summary: Choice architecture interventions, based on insights from behavioral sciences, aim to facilitate desirable decision-making by designing choice environments without limiting freedom of choice. A comprehensive analysis of over 200 studies suggests that these interventions have an overall small to medium effect size in promoting behavior change, with food choices particularly responsive to such interventions.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2022)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Mario Herberz, Ulf J. J. Hahnel, Tobias Brosch
Summary: Understanding the barriers to adopting electric vehicles and addressing the underestimation of the compatibility between battery range and driver needs is crucial for promoting the widespread use of electric vehicles. Tailored compatibility information has been found to reduce range concern and increase willingness to pay for electric vehicles. This intervention is more effective than providing information about charging infrastructure access and is particularly beneficial for car owners who would financially benefit from adopting an electric vehicle.
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Beatrice Conte, Ulf J. J. Hahnel, Tobias Brosch
Summary: This article provides evidence from three experiments that values serve as antecedents of emotions, with individual differences in biospheric values predicting the intensity of emotional responses towards nature and climate change-related information. The study also highlights the key role of primary appraisal in connecting values and emotions. These findings contribute to a stronger integration of values and emotions within a theoretical framework.
Article
Economics
Tobia Spampatti, Ulf J. J. Hahnel, Evelina Trutnevyte, Tobias Brosch
Summary: The study found that informing citizens about positive or negative aspects of shallow geothermal systems can significantly influence their affect and evaluations, with a stronger impact from negative information and a decay in effects over time. Tailoring positive messages around citizens' values can help minimize the temporal decay and maximize the positivity of geothermal systems' image in the public's eye.
Letter
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Stephanie Mertens, Mario Herberz, Ulf J. J. Hahnel, Tobias Brosch
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2022)
Article
Psychiatry
Francesca Borghese, Pauline Henckaerts, Fanny Guy, Coral Perez Mayo, Sylvain Delplanque, Sophie Schwartz, Lampros Perogamvros
Summary: The study found that using TMR technology during REM sleep can help reduce anxiety levels in social anxiety disorder patients, and longer REM sleep duration and more stimulations can contribute to reducing anxiety levels.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY
(2022)
Article
Ethics
Chloee FitzGerald, Christian Mumenthaler, Delphine Berner, Melinee Schindler, Tobias Brosch, Samia Hurst
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the moderating effects of specialty and experience on implicit obesity and mental illness prejudice among Swiss physicians, showing that both factors have an impact on implicit and explicit biases.
BMC MEDICAL ETHICS
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Marte Roel Lesur, Yoann Stussi, Philippe Bertrand, Sylvain Delplanque, Bigna Lenggenhager
Summary: Conflicting multisensory signals can lead to self-identification with a foreign body, and this study examines the role of olfaction in this process. The results reveal that sex-related body odors have an impact on implicit aspects of embodiment, while cosmetic scents do not. These findings highlight the unique characteristics of olfaction in cognition.
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Yoann Stussi, Eva R. Pool
Summary: Food rewards elicit various affective responses, consisting of motivation and pleasure processes. Dopamine and opioids modulate these components differently, involving different subregions of the ventral striatum, and are separated in addiction. By connecting the components of food rewards with appraisal processes in emotion, a multicomponential framework is proposed, distinguishing between elicitation- and response-based affective-reward processes. Affective relevance could be a crucial factor in stimulating food-seeking behaviors. This framework helps identify the psychological and neural processes involved in affective responses to different properties of food rewards, and explores the effects of executive control on them.
CURRENT OPINION IN BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Environmental Studies
Beatrice Conte, Tobias Brosch, Ulf J. J. Hahnel
Summary: While literature in environmental psychology has generally treated values and emotions as separate constructs, recent studies have shown that value endorsement predicts the intensity of emotions experienced towards nature and climate change. This study explores the role of environmental values in determining both the intensity and quality of emotional experiences in environmental situations. The findings provide evidence for a systematic link between values and types of emotions experienced in environmentally-relevant situations.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Environmental Studies
Mario Herberz, Tobias Brosch, Ulf J. J. Hahnel
Summary: Bridging the political divide between liberals and conservatives is a challenge in gaining broad public support for climate policies. Previous research suggested that framing climate policies with respect to the past could reduce opposition from conservatives, but recent attempts to replicate this effect have failed. This study investigates the influence of temporal framing and explicit political identity cues on individuals' perception of the messenger and subsequent climate policy support.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Ryan J. Murray, Hana H. Kutlikova, Tobias Brosch, David Sander
Summary: Based on the affective neuroscience approach, this study examined the role of the amygdala in processing concern-relevance. The results indicated that the amygdala is involved in the modulation of academic motivation.
MOTIVATION SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Tobias Brosch, Disa Sauter
Summary: Climate change and loss of biodiversity are urgent challenges, and a transition to a more sustainable society is crucial. This special section focuses on the role of emotions in climate and biodiversity crises, and how they influence pro-environmental behavior. It provides an overview of articles covering topics such as global analyses of distress, case studies on emotional experiences, discussions on the motivational functions of emotions, and reflections on the intersection of affective science and policy making. The section also identifies promising research objectives and emphasizes the importance of sustainability in affective sciences.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Edna C. Cieslik, Markus Ullsperger, Martin Gell, Simon B. Eickhoff, Robert Langner
Summary: Previous studies on error processing have primarily focused on the posterior medial frontal cortex, but the role of other brain regions has been underestimated. This study used activation likelihood estimation meta-analyses to explore brain activity related to committing errors and responding successfully in interference tasks. It was found that the salience network and the temporoparietal junction were commonly involved in both correct and incorrect responses, indicating their general involvement in coping with situations that require increased cognitive control. Error-specific convergence was observed in the dorsal posterior cingulate cortex, posterior thalamus, and left superior frontal gyrus, while successful responding showed stronger convergence in the dorsal attention network and lateral prefrontal regions. Underrecruitment of these regions in error trials may reflect failures in activating the appropriate stimulus-response contingencies necessary for successful response execution.
NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS
(2024)
