Emotion

Emotional enhancement of error detection—The role of perceptual processing and inhibition monitoring in failed auditory stop trials

Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience

Published in: Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, Volume 18, Issue 1, 1-20 Abstract “The first aim of the present study was to test whether arousing, aversive sounds can influence inhibitory task performance and lead to increased error monitoring relative to a neutral task condition. The second aim was to examine whether the enhancement of error monitoring […]

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Languages flex cultural thinking

Bilingualism: Language and Cognition

Published in: Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, Volume 21, Issue 2, 219-227 Abstract “Recent studies have revealed remarkable interactions between language and emotion. Here, we show that such interactions influence judgments made regarding cultural information. Balanced Welsh–English bilinguals categorized statements about their native Welsh culture as true or false. Whilst participants categorized positive statements as true

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“So Happy I Could Shout!” and “So Happy I Could Cry!” Dimorphous expressions represent and communicate motivational aspects of positive emotions

Cognition and Emotion

Published in: Cognition and Emotion, Volume 32, Issue 2, 286-302 Abstract “Happiness can be expressed through smiles. Happiness can also be expressed through physical displays that without context, would appear to be sadness (tears, downward turned mouths, and crumpled body postures) and anger (clenched jaws, snarled lips, furrowed brows, and pumped fists). These seemingly incongruent displays

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Finding the good in the bad: age and event experience relate to the focus on positive aspects of a negative event

Cognition and Emotion

Published in: Cognition and Emotion, Volume 32, Issue 2, 414-421 Abstract “All lives contain negative events, but how we think about these events differs across individuals; negative events often include positive details that can be remembered alongside the negative, and the ability to maintain both representations may be beneficial. In a survey examining emotional responses to

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Attentional bias during emotional processing: evidence from an emotional flanker task using IAPS

Cognition and Emotion

Published in: Cognition and Emotion, Volume 32, Issue 2, 275-285 Abstract “Attention is biased towards threat-related stimuli. In three experiments, we investigated the mechanisms, processes, and time course of this processing bias. An emotional flanker task simultaneously presented affective or neutral pictures from the international affective picture system database either as central response-relevant stimuli or surrounding

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The dot-probe task to measure emotional attention: A suitable measure in comparative studies?

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

Published in: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Volume 24, Issue 6, December 2017, 1686-1717 Abstract “For social animals, attending to and recognizing the emotional expressions of other individuals is of crucial importance for their survival and likely has a deep evolutionary origin. Gaining insight into how emotional expressions evolved as adaptations over the course of evolution can

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Differences in holistic processing do not explain cultural differences in the recognition of facial expression

The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Published in: The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Volume 70, Issue 12, 2445-2459 Abstract “The aim of this study was to investigate the causes of the own-race advantage in facial expression perception. In Experiment 1, we investigated Western Caucasian and Chinese participants’ perception and categorization of facial expressions of six basic emotions that included two pairs

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