Krivzov, Juri Baert, Fleur Meganck, Reitske Cornelis, Shana
Published in
Journal of counseling psychology
Patients with functional somatic syndromes (FSS) often display troubled relationships with health care providers, psychotherapists, and significant others. Research shows that patients' history of trauma, attachment disturbances, and mentalization deficits may result in the emergence of maladaptive interpersonal patterns, which may later contribute...
Damiano, Claudia; 133644; Walther, Dirk B.; Cunningham, William A.;
Quickly scanning an environment to determine relative threat is an essential part of survival. Scene gist extracted rapidly from the environment may help people detect threats. Here, we probed this link between emotional judgements and features of visual scenes. We first extracted curvature, length, and orientation statistics of all images in the I...
Hessels, Roy S.; Benjamins, Jeroen S.; van Doorn, Andrea J.; Koenderink, Jan J.; 74227; Hooge, Ignace T.C.;
In urban environments, humans often encounter other people that may engage one in interaction. How do humans perceive such invitations to interact at a glance? We briefly presented participants with pictures of actors carrying out one of 11 behaviors (e.g., waving or looking at a phone) at four camera-actor distances. Participants were asked to des...
Battista, Fabiana; 129145; Lanciano, Tiziana; Curci, Antonietta;
Prior studies on alexithymia and memory have found a negative association between the two constructs, especially when emotional memories are considered. Moreover, it has been demonstrated that also the executive functioning (EF) of the individuals influences this relationship. Thus, the goal of this study is to verify whether alexithymia can influe...
Callebaut, Ina; Steelant, Brecht; 87055; Backaert, Wout; 90320; Peeters, Ronald; 39914; Sunaert, Stefan; 15289; Van Oudenhove, Lukas; 27997; Hellings, Peter W.; 9634;
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Nijssens, Liesbet; 53253; Luyten, Patrick; 6541; Malcorps, Saskia; 105722; Vliegen, Nicole; 6362; Mayes, Linda;
This study investigated theory of mind (ToM) development in 83 children aged 3-5 years and its associations with parental reflective functioning (PRF), using a multidimensional and developmental approach. Results showed that ToM dimensions (i.e., affective, belief-desire, and cognitive) gradually increased with age. All dimensions of PRF (i.e., pre...
De Coninck, Sarah Aben, Bart Van den Bussche, Eva Mariën, Peter Van Overwalle, Frank
Published in
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Repetitive thought about oneself, including one’s emotions, can lead to both adaptive and maladaptive effects. Construal level of repetitive self-referential thought might moderate this. During interoception, which engages areas such as the insula, the anterior and/or posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) and the somatosensory cortex, concrete low level...
Rivas, JJ Lara, MDC Castrejon, L Hernandez-Franco, J Orihuela-Espina, F Palafox, L Williams, A Berthouze, N Sucar, E
Computational systems that process multiple affective states may benefit from explicitly considering the interaction between the states to enhance their recognition performance. This work proposes the combination of a multi-label classifier, Circular Classifier Chain (CCC), with a multimodal classifier, Fusion using a Semi-Naive Bayesian classifier...
Sels, Laura Ickes, William Hinnekens, Celine Ceulemans, Eva Verhofstadt, Lesley
Many couple therapies focus on enhancing the disclosure of thoughts and feelings, and on an accurate understanding of these. But does the expression of thoughts and feelings lead to better empathic accuracy, as is generally assumed? In this study, we explicitly tested a dynamic expression-leading-to-accuracy account of empathic accuracy in intimate...
Kyrolainen, Aki-Juhani Keuleers, Emmanuel Mandera, Pawel Brysbaert, Marc Kuperman, Victor
Emotions play a fundamental role in language learning, use, and processing. Words denoting positivity account for a larger part of the lexicon than words denoting negativity, and they also tend to be used more frequently, a phenomenon known as positivity bias. However, language experience changes over an individual's lifetime, making the examinatio...
