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View article: Determinants of digital well-being
Determinants of digital well-being Open
How can people lead fulfilling lives both thanks to and despite the constant use of digital media and artificial intelligence? While the prevailing narrative often portrays these technologies as generally harmful to well-being, the reality…
View article: Affect and Impact Neglect in Sustainable Decision-Making
Affect and Impact Neglect in Sustainable Decision-Making Open
In a recent special section on Sustainability and Emotion, Schneider and van der Linden present how sustainability science could benefit from affective science to address important unanswered questions about the psychological and affective…
View article: How Affective Science Can Inform Behavioral Public Policy
How Affective Science Can Inform Behavioral Public Policy Open
In this commentary, we expand on the special issue themes of applied affective science, ecologically valid data and application, and the need for transdisciplinary collaboration by discussing and exemplifying how affective science can info…
View article: Facial mimicry interference reduces working memory accuracy for facial emotion expressions
Facial mimicry interference reduces working memory accuracy for facial emotion expressions Open
Facial mimicry, the tendency to imitate facial expressions of other individuals, has been shown to play a critical role in the processing of emotion expressions. At the same time, there is evidence suggesting that its role might change whe…
View article: Affective Paternalism
Affective Paternalism Open
In this commentary we expand on the special issue themes of applied affective science, ecologically valid data and application, and the need for transdisciplinary collaboration by discussing and exemplifying how affective science can infor…
View article: Affective integration in experience, judgment, and decision-making
Affective integration in experience, judgment, and decision-making Open
Research on the role of affect in judgment and decision-making has attracted an increasing interest in recent decades. However, most current approaches ignore the temporal dependence of mental states and focus on effects rather than on mec…
View article: Affective responses drive the impact neglect in sustainable behavior
Affective responses drive the impact neglect in sustainable behavior Open
We need unparalleled human behavioral changes to mitigate the effects of climate change. However, recent studies suggest that people are not good at identifying mitigative behaviors that are relatively more effective in reducing carbon emi…
View article: A causal link between mental imagery and affect-laden perception of climate change related risks
A causal link between mental imagery and affect-laden perception of climate change related risks Open
Previous studies have shed light on the importance of affect in risk perception and the role of mental imagery in generating affect. In the current study, we explore the causal relationship between mental imagery, affect, and risk percepti…
View article: No sound is more distracting than the one you're trying not to hear: delayed costs of mental control of task-irrelevant neutral and emotional sounds
No sound is more distracting than the one you're trying not to hear: delayed costs of mental control of task-irrelevant neutral and emotional sounds Open
Background Suppressing intrusive thoughts can result in a post-suppression rebound effect where the same thoughts become hyperaccessible. The current study aimed to investigate if similar so-called rebound effects could be observed when pe…
View article: The goal-relevance of affective stimuli is dynamically represented in affective experience
The goal-relevance of affective stimuli is dynamically represented in affective experience Open
Affect is a continuous and temporally dependent process that represents an individual's ongoing relationship with its environment. However, there is a lack of evidence on how factors defining the dynamic sensory environment modulate change…
View article: The continuous and changing impact of affect on risky decision-making
The continuous and changing impact of affect on risky decision-making Open
Affective experience has an important role in decision-making with recent theories suggesting a modulatory role of affect in ongoing subjective value computations. However, it is unclear how varying expectations and uncertainty dynamically…
View article: Is it me or the music? Stress reduction and the role of regulation strategies and music
Is it me or the music? Stress reduction and the role of regulation strategies and music Open
Music is a common resource for the regulation of emotions, moods, and stress. This study aimed at determining the individual and relative impact on stress reduction of two of the main factors involved in musical affect regulation: regulati…
View article: Affective response predicts risky choice for fast, but not slow, decisions.
Affective response predicts risky choice for fast, but not slow, decisions. Open
We use skin conductance to measure emotional arousal in subjects who make risky choices under time pressure or time delay. Our results show a strong correlation between subjects skin conductance responses and their risky choices under time…
View article: Exposure to arousal-inducing sounds facilitates visual search
Exposure to arousal-inducing sounds facilitates visual search Open
Exposure to affective stimuli could enhance perception and facilitate attention via increasing alertness, vigilance, and by decreasing attentional thresholds. However, evidence on the impact of affective sounds on perception and attention …
View article: Auditory attentional selection is biased by reward cues
Auditory attentional selection is biased by reward cues Open
Auditory attention theories suggest that humans are able to decompose the complex acoustic input into separate auditory streams, which then compete for attentional resources. How this attentional competition is influenced by motivational s…
View article: Auditory-Induced Emotion Mediates Perceptual Categorization of Everyday Sounds
Auditory-Induced Emotion Mediates Perceptual Categorization of Everyday Sounds Open
Research has shown that emotion categorization plays an important role in perception and categorization in the visual domain. In the present paper, we investigated the role of auditory-induced emotions for auditory perception. We further i…
View article: The Arithmetic of Emotion: Integration of Incidental and Integral Affect in Judgments and Decisions
The Arithmetic of Emotion: Integration of Incidental and Integral Affect in Judgments and Decisions Open
Research has demonstrated that two types of affect have an influence on judgment and decision making: incidental affect (affect unrelated to a judgment or decision such as a mood) and integral affect (affect that is part of the perceiver's…