Weber, Isla Zorowitz, Sam Niv, Yael Bennett, Daniel
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Cognition & emotion
Across species, animals have an intrinsic drive to approach appetitive stimuli and to withdraw from aversive stimuli. In affective science, influential theories of emotion link positive affect with strengthened behavioural approach and negative affect with avoidance. Based on these theories, we predicted that individuals' positive and negative affe...
Tipples, Jason
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Cognition & emotion
The results of a previous study (Craig & Lipp, 2018) into the effects of multiple social category cues (face race and face sex) on facial emotion recognition indicate that face sex dominates face race, and moreover, participant sex differences contribute little to the observed effects. Here, I modelled the same dataset (https://osf.io/rsmxb/) using...
Van Cappellen, Patty Ladd, Kevin L Cassidy, Stephanie Edwards, Megan E Fredrickson, Barbara L
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Cognition & emotion
Most emotion theories recognise the importance of the body in expressing and constructing emotions. Focusing beyond the face, the present research adds needed empirical data on the effect of static full body postures on positive/negative affect. In Studies 1 (N = 110) and 2 (N = 79), using a bodily feedback paradigm, we manipulated postures to test...
Guo, Hui-Fang Tao, Rui Zhao, Ning Chen, Hai-Ping Zheng, Rui Li, Shu
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Cognition & emotion
A surprisingly large number of lottery prizes go unclaimed every year. This leads us to suspect that what people bet on is not only money, but also good mood. We conducted three studies to explain, from an emotional perspective, why people play lottery games. We first conducted two survey studies to assess mood state reported by online (Study 1a) a...
Mattavelli, Simone Masi, Matteo Brambilla, Marco
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Cognition & emotion
The face is a powerful source to make inferences about one's trustworthiness. Recent studies demonstrated that facial trustworthiness is influenced by the level of threat conveyed by the visual scene in which faces are embedded: untrustworthy-looking faces are more likely judged as untrustworthy when shown in threatening scenes. Here, we explore wh...
Fernandez, Amanda Quigley, Leanne Dobson, Keith Sears, Christopher
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Cognition & emotion
Previous research has found that depression is characterised by biased processing of emotional information. Although most studies have examined cognitive biases in isolation, simultaneous examination of multiple biases is required to understand how they may interact and influence one another to produce depression vulnerability. In this study, the a...
Goyal, Namrata Adams, Marian M Wice, Matthew Sullivan, Stephen Miller, Joan G
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Cognition & emotion
What is the temporal course of gratitude and indebtedness and how do these feelings influence helping in the context of reciprocity? In an online-game tapping real-life behaviour, Study 1 (N = 106) finds that while gratitude towards a benefactor remains elevated after an opportunity to reciprocate, indebtedness declines along with helping. Yet, ind...
Book, Angela Visser, Beth Wattam, Tori
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Cognition & emotion
Research suggests that people with psychopathic traits experience fear-inducing stimuli differently from others, seeming to interpret fear as more positive and less negative. We expected that this reaction, termed fear enjoyment, would impact the effect of fear-inducing stimuli on self-report risk-taking behaviour. Risk-taking was measured before a...
Plank, Irene S Christiansen, Lina-Nel Kunas, Stefanie L Dziobek, Isabel Bermpohl, Felix
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Cognition & emotion
Parenting requires mothers to read social cues and understand their children. It is particularly important that they recognise their child's emotions to react appropriately, for example, with compassion to sadness or compersion to happiness. Despite this importance, it is unclear how motherhood affects women's ability to recognise emotions associat...
van Swol, Lyn M Polman, Evan Paik, Jihyun Esther Chang, Chen-Ting
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Cognition & emotion
An increased focus on fake news and misinformation is currently emerging. But what does it mean when information is designated as "fake?" Research on deception has focused on lies of commission, in which people disclose something false as true. However, people can also lie by omission, by withholding important yet true information. In this research...