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View article: Cognitive reappraisal changes cognitive evaluations more than affective experiences
Cognitive reappraisal changes cognitive evaluations more than affective experiences Open
Cognitive reappraisal is an emotion regulation strategy that involves changing one’s interpretation of a situation to change its emotional impact. Cognitive reappraisal studies typically assess changes in valence ratings following reapprai…
View article: Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health Treatment and Research
Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health Treatment and Research Open
Mental health challenges add immensely to the global burden of disease, yet traditional approaches to psychological assessment and care remain resource-intensive and often inaccessible. There is widespread interest in testing whether advan…
View article: Examining Social Emotion Regulation in Spanish-English Bilinguals
Examining Social Emotion Regulation in Spanish-English Bilinguals Open
People often turn to others for support in managing their emotions. This process of social emotion regulation has become a key focus of research, given its connection to wellbeing and its ubiquity in human relationships. Social emotion reg…
View article: Predicting Psychological and Subjective Well-being through Language-based Assessment
Predicting Psychological and Subjective Well-being through Language-based Assessment Open
Well-being is often defined in terms of a person’s comfort, happiness, functioning and flourishing. Scholars distinguish subjective well-being (i.e., perceiving one’s life as pleasant) from psychological well-being (i.e., perceiving one’s …
View article: Big team science reveals promises and limitations of machine learning efforts to model the physiological basis of affective experience
Big team science reveals promises and limitations of machine learning efforts to model the physiological basis of affective experience Open
Researchers are increasingly using machine learning to study physiological markers of emotion. We evaluated the promises and limitations of this approach via a big team science competition. Twelve teams competed to predict self-reported af…
View article: Large natural emotion vocabularies are linked with better mental health in psychotherapeutic conversations
Large natural emotion vocabularies are linked with better mental health in psychotherapeutic conversations Open
Psychotherapy is the most ubiquitous form of mental health treatment and it unfolds predominantly through language. To better understand how this exchange of words bolsters mental health, we tested how the variety of emotion words used by …
View article: Big team science reveals promises and limitations of machine learning efforts to model physiological markers of affective experience
Big team science reveals promises and limitations of machine learning efforts to model physiological markers of affective experience Open
Researchers are increasingly using machine learning to study physiological markers of emotion. We evaluated the promises and limitations of this approach via a big team science competition. Twelve teams competed to predict self-reported af…
View article: Affective abstraction predicts variation in alexithymia, depression, and autism spectrum quotient.
Affective abstraction predicts variation in alexithymia, depression, and autism spectrum quotient. Open
Affective abstraction refers to how people conceptualize affective states in terms of category-level representations that generalize across specific situations (e.g., "fear" as evoked by heights, predators, and haunted houses). Here, we de…
View article: Cognitive Modeling of Real-World Behavior for Understanding Mental Health
Cognitive Modeling of Real-World Behavior for Understanding Mental Health Open
A core strength of computational psychiatry is its focus on theory-driven research, in which cognitive processes are precisely quantified using computational models that formalize specific theoretical mechanisms. However, the data used in …
View article: Predicting Psychological and Subjective Well-being through Language-based Assessment
Predicting Psychological and Subjective Well-being through Language-based Assessment Open
Well-being is often defined in terms of a person’s comfort, happiness, functioning and flourishing. Scholars distinguish subjective well-being (i.e., perceiving one’s life as pleasant) from psychological well-being (i.e., perceiving one’s …
View article: Leveraging large language models to estimate clinically relevant psychological constructs in psychotherapy transcripts
Leveraging large language models to estimate clinically relevant psychological constructs in psychotherapy transcripts Open
Developing precise, innocuous markers of psychopathology and the processes that foster effective treatment would greatly advance the field’s ability to detect and intervene on psychopathology. However, a central challenge in this area is t…
View article: Emotion word production tasks grant insight into the development of emotion word organization and accessibility.
Emotion word production tasks grant insight into the development of emotion word organization and accessibility. Open
Children are often instructed to "use their words" to communicate their emotions, which requires them to quickly access words that best describe their feelings. Adults vary in their ability to bring both nonemotion and emotion words to min…
View article: Leveraging Large Language Models to Estimate Clinically Relevant Psychological Constructs in Psychotherapy Transcripts
Leveraging Large Language Models to Estimate Clinically Relevant Psychological Constructs in Psychotherapy Transcripts Open
Developing precise, innocuous markers of psychopathology and the processes that foster effective treatment would greatly advance the field's ability to detect and intervene on psychopathology. However, a central challenge in this area is t…
View article: Peer threat evaluations shape one’s own threat perceptions and feelings of distress
Peer threat evaluations shape one’s own threat perceptions and feelings of distress Open
We are continuously exposed to what others think and feel about content online. How do others' evaluations shared in this medium influence our own beliefs and emotional responses? In two pre-registered studies, we investigated the social t…
View article: Perceptual sensitivity to labeling stereotyped emotion expressions: Associations with age and subclinical psychopathology symptoms from childhood through early adulthood.
Perceptual sensitivity to labeling stereotyped emotion expressions: Associations with age and subclinical psychopathology symptoms from childhood through early adulthood. Open
This study investigates (a) age-related differences in how the intensity of stereotyped facial expressions influence the emotion label children, adolescents, and adults assign to that face and (b) how this perceptual sensitivity relates to…
View article: Emotion Regulation is Associated with Increases in Linguistic Measures of Both Psychological Distancing and Abstractness
Emotion Regulation is Associated with Increases in Linguistic Measures of Both Psychological Distancing and Abstractness Open
Emerging research shows that distancing one’s language by reducing the use of “I” and present-tense verbs is associated with more successful emotion regulation. However, construal level theory posits that increasing psychological distance …
View article: From talk to telepathy: The spontaneous use of insider language in casual conversation
From talk to telepathy: The spontaneous use of insider language in casual conversation Open
Close friends seem to communicate almost telepathically. A single word or phrase can be loaded with meaning that would take pages of text to explain to an outsider. This linguistic compression is undeniably efficient. But is efficiency the…
View article: Big team science reveals promises and limitations of machine learning efforts to model the physiological basis of affective experience
Big team science reveals promises and limitations of machine learning efforts to model the physiological basis of affective experience Open
Researchers are increasingly using machine learning to study physiological markers of emotion. We evaluated the promises and limitations of this approach via a big team science competition. Twelve teams competed to predict self-reported af…
View article: Depression is associated with higher sensitivity to social media rewards
Depression is associated with higher sensitivity to social media rewards Open
The interaction between social media use and mental health is of great public health concern. Studies so far, largely employing self-reported measures of social media use, have produced inconclusive evidence regarding the impact of social …
View article: Perceptions of Caring and Mental Health in LGBTQ+ Youth in Foster Care
Perceptions of Caring and Mental Health in LGBTQ+ Youth in Foster Care Open
We compared the relationship between foster care and psychopathology in LGBTQ+ and cisgender, heterosexual youth. We also compared perceptions of caring, and the relationship between these perceptions and psychopathology, in LGBTQ+ and cis…
View article: How first- and second-language emotion words influence emotion perception in Swedish–English bilinguals
How first- and second-language emotion words influence emotion perception in Swedish–English bilinguals Open
Emotional experiences are often dulled in one's second language. We tested whether emotion concepts are more strongly associated with first language (L1) than second language (L2) emotion words. Participants (140 L1-Swedish–L2-English bili…
View article: Peer Threat Evaluations Shape One’s Own Threat Perceptions and Feelings of Distress
Peer Threat Evaluations Shape One’s Own Threat Perceptions and Feelings of Distress Open
We are continuously exposed to what others think and feel about content online. How do others’ evaluations shared in this medium influence our own beliefs and emotional responses? In two pre-registered studies, we investigated the social t…
View article: Perceptual sensitivity to labeling stereotyped emotion expressions: Associations with age and subclinical psychopathology symptoms from childhood through early adulthood
Perceptual sensitivity to labeling stereotyped emotion expressions: Associations with age and subclinical psychopathology symptoms from childhood through early adulthood Open
This study investigates (i) age-related differences in how the intensity of stereotyped facial expressions influence the emotion label children, adolescents, and adults assign to that face and (ii) how this perceptual sensitivity relates t…
View article: Emotion regulation is associated with increases in linguistic measures of both psychological distancing and abstractness
Emotion regulation is associated with increases in linguistic measures of both psychological distancing and abstractness Open
Emerging research shows that distancing one’s language by reducing the use of “I” and present-tense verbs is associated with more successful emotion regulation. However, construal level theory posits that increasing psychological distance …
View article: Emotion word production tasks grant insight into the development of emotion word organization and accessibility
Emotion word production tasks grant insight into the development of emotion word organization and accessibility Open
Children are often instructed to “use their words” to communicate their emotions, which requires them to quickly access words that best describe their feelings. Adults vary in their ability to bring both non-emotion and emotion words to mi…
View article: The Promise of Affective Language for Identifying and Intervening on Psychopathology
The Promise of Affective Language for Identifying and Intervening on Psychopathology Open
We are in dire need of innovative tools for reducing the global burden of psychopathology. Emerging evidence suggests that analyzing language (i.e., the words people use) can grant insight into an individual's emotional experiences, their …
View article: The emergence of organized emotion dynamics in childhood
The emergence of organized emotion dynamics in childhood Open
Emotions change from one moment to the next. They have a duration from seconds to hours, and then transition to other emotions. Here we describe the early ontology of these key aspects of emotion dynamics. In five cross-sectional studies t…
View article: Fluency generating emotion words correlates with verbal measures but not emotion regulation, alexithymia, or depressive symptoms
Fluency generating emotion words correlates with verbal measures but not emotion regulation, alexithymia, or depressive symptoms Open
How do you feel? To answer this question, one must first think of potential emotion words before choosing the best fit. However, we have little insight into how the ability to rapidly bring to mind emotion words—emotion fluency—relates to …
View article: The promise of affective language for identifying and intervening on psychopathology
The promise of affective language for identifying and intervening on psychopathology Open
We are in dire need of innovative tools for reducing the global burden of psychopathology. Emerging evidence suggests that analyzing language (i.e., the words people use) can grant insight into one’s emotional experiences, their ability to…