Highlights•HC users show greater emotional reactivity compared to NC females.•Distancing reduces negative affect in HC users compared to NC females.•HC users exhibit memory modulation for emotional images by emotion regulation. AbstractHormonal contraceptives (HCs) are widely used, yet their effects on emotional and cognitive processes remain poorly understood. This study examined how HC use may influence… Continue reading #Emotion regulation strategies differentially impact memory in #hormonal #contraceptive users
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Dissecting abstract, modality-specific and experience-dependent coding of affect in the human #brain
#Emotion and #perception are tightly intertwined, as affective experiences often arise from the appraisal of sensory information. Nonetheless, whether the brain encodes emotional instances using a sensory-specific code or in a more abstract manner is unclear. Here, we answer this question by measuring the association between emotion ratings collected during a unisensory or multisensory presentation… Continue reading Dissecting abstract, modality-specific and experience-dependent coding of affect in the human #brain
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Environmental impassivity: Blunted emotionality undermines concern for the environment
The average American believes in climate change, worries about it, and supports related policy, but there are still considerable differences—across individuals and with political ideology—that limit the ability to foster change. Researchers and practitioners often increase concern and action for others through feelings of empathy, which also increases pro-environmentalism. However, some people appear less emotionally… Continue reading Environmental impassivity: Blunted emotionality undermines concern for the environment
Total #sleep deprivation reduces top-down regulation of #emotion without altering bottom-up affective processing
Sleep loss is reported to influence affective processing, causing changes in overall mood and altering emotion regulation. These aspects of affective processing are seldom investigated together, making it difficult to determine whether total sleep deprivation has a global effect on how affective stimuli and emotions are processed, or whether specific components of affective processing are… Continue reading Total #sleep deprivation reduces top-down regulation of #emotion without altering bottom-up affective processing
Neurocognitive processing efficiency for discriminating human non-alarm rather than alarm scream calls
Across many species, scream calls signal the affective significance of events to other agents. Scream calls were often thought to be of generic alarming and fearful nature, to signal potential threats, with instantaneous, involuntary, and accurate recognition by perceivers. However, scream calls are more diverse in their affective signaling nature than being limited to fearfully… Continue reading Neurocognitive processing efficiency for discriminating human non-alarm rather than alarm scream calls
#Income robustly predicts self-regard #emotions
There is robust evidence that higher income makes people evaluate their lives more favorably, but there is no consistent evidence on whether it makes people feel better. Analyzing data from five large surveys spanning 162 countries, we predicted and found the most comprehensive evidence to date that income reliably predicted greater positive self-regard emotions (e.g.,… Continue reading #Income robustly predicts self-regard #emotions
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