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Open AccessEffect of partner presence on emotion regulation during parent–child interactions
Having people around, especially if they provide social support, often leads to positive outcomes both physically and mentally. Mere social presence is especially beneficial when it comes from a loved one or r...
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Three reasons why parental burnout is more prevalent in individualistic countries: a mediation study in 36 countries
The prevalence of parental burnout, a condition that has severe consequences for both parents and children, varies dramatically across countries and is highest in Western countries characterized by high indivi...
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Emotion beliefs are associated with emotion regulation strategies and emotional distress
Emotion regulation strategies such as rumination and suppression have been consistently associated with distress and psychopathology. However, it is not yet known why people engage in maladaptive strategies in...
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Open AccessTeachers’ emotion regulation and related environmental, personal, instructional, and well-being factors: A meta-analysis
Teachers experience and express various emotions of different qualities and intensities. They also adopt emotion regulation strategies to increase teaching effectiveness and maintain professionalism. Previous ...
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The Future of Emotion Regulation Research: Broadening Our Field of View
Over the past few decades, emotion regulation research has matured into a vibrant and rapidly growing field (in 2022 alone, more than 30 thousand papers were published on emotion regulation). Taking stock of our ...
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The Neural Separability of Emotion Reactivity and Regulation
One foundational distinction in affective science is between emotion reactivity and regulation. This conceptual distinction has long been assumed to be instantiated in spatially separable brain systems (a typi...
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Breaking the Link Between Negative Emotion and Unhealthy Eating: the Role of Emotion Regulation
Stressful experiences frequently lead to increased consumption of unhealthy foods, high in sugar and fat yet low in nutrients. Can emotion regulation help break this link? In a laboratory experiment (N = 200), pa...
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Using large language models in psychology
Large language models (LLMs), such as OpenAI’s GPT-4, Google’s Bard or Meta’s LLaMa, have created unprecedented opportunities for analysing and generating language data on a massive scale. Because language dat...
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Open AccessAffect Across the Wake-Sleep Cycle
Affective scientists traditionally have focused on periods of active wakefulness when people are responding to external stimuli or engaging in specific tasks. However, we live much of our lives immersed in exp...
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Open AccessExamining the Cross Cultural Validity and Measurement Invariance of the Emotion Beliefs Questionnaire (EBQ) in Iran and the USA
People’s beliefs about emotions contribute to their psychological wellbeing, and two important beliefs about emotions concern their controllability and usefulness. Recently, the Emotion Beliefs Questionnaire (...
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Open AccessThe temporal dynamics of dissociation: protocol for an ecological momentary assessment and laboratory study in a transdiagnostic sample
Dissociation is a ubiquitous clinical phenomenon. Dissociative disorders (DD) are primarily characterized by dissociation, and dissociative states are also a criterion for borderline personality disorder (BPD)...
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Open AccessThe Psychological Science Accelerator’s COVID-19 rapid-response dataset
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Psychological Science Accelerator coordinated three large-scale psychological studies to examine the effects of loss-gain framing, cognitive reappraisals, and autonomy...
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Homophily and acrophily as drivers of political segregation
Political segregation is an important social problem, increasing polarization and impeding effective governance. Previous work has viewed the central driver of segregation to be political homophily, the tenden...
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Amplification in the evaluation of multiple emotional expressions over time
Social interactions are dynamic and unfold over time. To make sense of social interactions, people must aggregate sequential information into summary, global evaluations. But how do people do this? Here, to ad...
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Author Correction: A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Open AccessA synergistic mindsets intervention protects adolescents from stress
Social-evaluative stressors—experiences in which people feel they could be judged negatively—pose a major threat to adolescent mental health1–3 and can cause young people to disengage from stressful pursuits, res...
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Multivariate Brain Activity while Viewing and Reappraising Affective Scenes Does Not Predict the Multiyear Progression of Preclinical Atherosclerosis in Otherwise Healthy Midlife Adults
Cognitive reappraisal is an emotion regulation strategy that is postulated to reduce risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (CVD), particularly the risk due to negative affect. At present, however, th...
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Open AccessAssessing and improving public mental health literacy concerning rTMS
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) has received empirical support as a viable treatment alternative for treatment-resistant major depressive disorder. Nevertheless, patients and the public-at-...
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Frontoparietal and Default Mode Network Contributions to Self-Referential Processing in Social Anxiety Disorder
Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is characterized by negative self-referential processing, which triggers excessive emotional reactivity. In healthy individuals, positive self-views typically predominate and are ...
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Development and Validation of the Parental Assistance with Child Emotion Regulation (PACER) Questionnaire
Caregivers play a central role in promoting emotion regulation throughout infancy, childhood, and adolescence. However, there are no existing psychometric measures to assess how parents assist children in empl...
