Cognition and Emotion

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    Similar, not universal: the cognitive dimensions of conceptual prototypes of basic emotions in English and in Polish.Halszka Bąk & Jeanette Altarriba - 2025 - Cognition and Emotion 39 (2):261-281.
    The current study explores the differences in conceptualisation of the prototypical basic emotion lexicalisations (anger, disgust, fear, joy, sadness, surprise) in English and in Polish. Measures of concreteness, imageability and context availability were collected and analysed across the six semantic categories of basic emotions, across different parts of speech and between the self-determined genders of the study participants. The initial results indicate that within these cognitive dimensions the conceptualisations of basic emotions in English and in Polish are only similar on (...)
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    Emotional false memories: the impact of response bias under speeded retrieval conditions.Lauren M. Cooper & Datin Shah - 2025 - Cognition and Emotion 39 (2):445-452.
    Emotional false memory findings using the DRM paradigm have been marked by higher false alarms to negatively arousing compared to neutral critical lure items. Explanations for these findings have mainly focused on false memory-based accounts. However, here we address the question of whether a response bias for emotional stimuli can, at least in part, explain this phenomenon. Participants viewed both neutral and negative arousing DRM lists and completed a recognition test in speeded or self-paced conditions. Speeded test reduces the opportunity (...)
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    Peer threat evaluations shape one’s own threat perceptions and feelings of distress.Lisa Espinosa, Erik C. Nook, Martin Asperholm, Therese Collins, Juliet Y. Davidow & Andreas Olsson - 2025 - Cognition and Emotion 39 (2):431-444.
    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 transmission of threat and safety evaluations in a paradigm that mimicked online social media platforms. In Study 1 (N = 103), participants viewed images and indicated how distressed they made them feel. Participants then categorised these images as threatening or safe for others to see, (...)
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    Investigating the role of mental imagery use in the assessment of anhedonia.Julie L. Ji, Marcella L. Woud, Angela Rölver, Lies Notebaert, Jemma Todd, Patrick J. F. Clarke, Frances Meeten, Jürgen Margraf & Simon E. Blackwell - 2025 - Cognition and Emotion 39 (2):227-245.
    Anhedonia, or a deficit in the liking, wanting, and seeking of rewards, is typically assessed via self-reported “in-the-moment” emotional and motivational responses to reward stimuli and activities. Given that mental imagery is known to evoke emotion and motivational responses, we conducted two studies to investigate the relationship between mental imagery use and self-reported anhedonia. Using a novel Reward Response Scale (adapted from the Dimensional Anhedonia Rating Scale, DARS; Rizvi et al., 2015) modified to assess deliberate and spontaneous mental imagery use, (...)
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    Investigation of the mental health and cognitive correlates of psychological decentering in adolescence.R. C. Knight, D. L. Dunning, J. Cotton, G. Franckel, S. P. Ahmed, S. J. Blakemore, T. Ford, W. Kuyken, Myriad Team, T. Dalgleish & M. P. Bennett - 2025 - Cognition and Emotion 39 (2):465-475.
    The ability to notice and reflect on distressing internal experiences from an objective perspective, often called psychological decentering, has been posited to be protective against mental health difficulties. However, little is known about how this skill relates to age across adolescence, its relationship with mental health, and how it may impact key domains such as affective executive control and social cognition. This study analysed a pre-existing dataset including mental health measures and cognitive tasks, administered to adolescents in Greater London and (...)
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    The impact of catholic titles on the perception and aestheticisation of violence in figurative paintings.Atenas Campbell-de la Cruz & Gabriela Durán-Barraza - 2025 - Cognition and Emotion 39 (2):377-392.
    The impact of Catholic Titles on figurative paintings depicting violence were studied using both explicit and implicit measures. When paintings were described as Catholic, they were significantly rated as more beautiful and interesting, and less violent than when they were described as Non-Catholic. Therefore, demonstrating that Catholic themes associated with these artworks overshadow their violent content. This was demonstrated via hedonic ratings. Thus, suggesting an aestheticisation of violent imagery when connected to Catholic themes. Implicit responses, assessed using the Implicit Association (...)
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    Aversive conditioning, anxiety, and the strategic control of attention.David S. Lee, Andrew Clement, Laurent Grégoire & Brian A. Anderson - 2025 - Cognition and Emotion 39 (2):476-484.
    What we pay attention to is influenced by both reward learning and aversive conditioning. Although early attention tends to be biased toward aversively conditioned stimuli, sustained ignoring of such stimuli is also possible. How aversive conditioning influences how a person chooses to search, or the strategic control of attention, has not been explored. In the present study, participants learned an association between a colour and an aversive outcome during a training phase, and in a subsequent test phase searched for one (...)
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    A pandemic-related affect gap in risky decisions for self and others.Aalim Makani, Sadia Chowdhury, David B. Flora & Julia Spaniol - 2025 - Cognition and Emotion 39 (2):211-226.
    The early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic exposed large portions of the global populations to increased daily stressors. Research on risky choice in medical contexts suggests that affect-rich choice options promote less-advantageous decision strategies compared with affect-poor options, causing an “affect gap” in decision making. The current experiments (total N = 437, age range: 21–82) sought to test whether negative pandemic-related affect would lower expected-value (EV) maximisation within individuals. In Experiment 1, participants indicated how much they would be willing to (...)
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    Emotion-specific recognition biases and how they relate to emotion-specific recognition accuracy, family and child demographic factors, and social behaviour.Anushay Mazhar & Craig S. Bailey - 2025 - Cognition and Emotion 39 (2):320-338.
    The errors young children make when recognising others’ emotions may be systematic over-identification biases and may partially explain the challenges some have socially. These biases and associations may be differential by emotion. In a sample of 871 ethnically and racially diverse preschool-aged children (i.e. 33–68 months; 49% Hispanic/Latine, 52% Children of Colour), emotion recognition was assessed, and scores for accuracy and bias were calculated by emotion (i.e. anger, sad, happy, calm, and fear). Child and family characteristics and teacher-reported social behaviour (...)
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    Examining conceptual generalisation after acquisition, extinction, and reinstatement in evaluative conditioning.Rachel R. Patterson, Ottmar V. Lipp & Camilla C. Luck - 2025 - Cognition and Emotion 39 (2):297-319.
    In evaluative conditioning, a neutral conditional stimulus (CS) acquires the valence of a pleasant or unpleasant unconditional stimulus (US) after the CS and US are paired (acquisition). Valence acquired by the CS can generalise to other stimuli from the same category. Presenting the CS alone can reduce evaluative conditioning (extinction), but evaluations can return after the US is presented alone (reinstatement). The current research investigated whether extinction and reinstatement generalise to other category members (generalisation stimuli, GS). In Experiment 1, evaluations (...)
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    Pride and moral disengagement: associations among comparison-based pride, moral disengagement, and unethical decision-making.Manuel Rengifo & Simon M. Laham - 2025 - Cognition and Emotion 39 (2):282-296.
    Pride has rarely been explored in the context of moral disengagement and unethical decision-making. Although some research has examined the associations between “authentic” and “hubristic” pride and unethical behaviour, little attention has been paid to potential mechanisms. Across two correlational studies (N = 379), we explore the associations between two facets of pride rooted on comparisons – social comparison-based pride, and self-based pride, moral disengagement, and unethical decision-making. Results show that social comparison-based pride consistently (positively) relates to moral disengagement, and (...)
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    Translating theoretical insights into an emotion regulation flexibility intervention: assessing effectiveness.Prachi Sharma & Parwinder Singh - 2025 - Cognition and Emotion 39 (2):355-376.
    Objective: Traditional research often categorizes emotion regulation strategies as adaptive or maladaptive, overlooking crucial situational and individual differences that dictate their efficacy. The literature highlights the need for a more nuanced approach, like the role of emotion regulation flexibility. Despite its importance, research on developing and testing interventions that promote this flexibility is scarce. Addressing this gap, our study designed and tested an “Emotion Regulation Flexibility Booster Program” (ERFBP). We aimed to assess its efficacy in improving emotion regulation flexibility (ERF) (...)
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    The impact of disgust learning on memory processes for neutral stimuli: a classical conditioning approach.Sinem Söylemez & Aycan Kapucu - 2025 - Cognition and Emotion 39 (2):339-354.
    Disgust is a basic emotion that promotes pathogen avoidance and can contaminate nearby neutral stimuli. This study investigates how neutral stimuli, which have acquired disgust value through classical conditioning, are processed in episodic memory. The Category Conditioning paradigm was utilised to assign emotional significance to neutral stimuli, followed by a recognition test conducted immediately or 24 h after conditioning (Experiment 1). The results revealed that neutral stimuli that acquired disgust value were recognised with greater accuracy and higher liberal bias compared (...)
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    Working memory capacity relates to reduced negative emotion in daily life.Justin N. Wahlers, Katie E. Garrison & Brandon J. Schmeichel - 2025 - Cognition and Emotion 39 (2):453-464.
    Working memory capacity (WMC) refers to the ability to maintain information in short–term memory while attending to the immediate environment, and has been associated with emotional states. Yet, research on the link between WMC and emotion in naturalistic settings is growing and inconsistencies have been observed. In the current study (N = 109), we directly replicated the procedures of a prior experience sampling study (Garrison & Schmeichel, 2022), which found that higher WMC attenuates the relationship between stressful events in daily (...)
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    Revealing the distinct impacts of effectiveness recognition and memory retention on the transfer of creative cognitive reappraisal.Luchuan Xiao, Qi Guo, Naem Haihambo, Xiaofei Wu, Shuting Yu & Jing Luo - 2025 - Cognition and Emotion 39 (2):393-412.
    Previous research has shown that creative cognitive reappraisal is highly effective in regulating negative emotions. We conducted three experiments to explore its transferability. In Experiment 1, we observed that free recall performance was better for creative reappraisal compared to non-creative reappraisal. Memory retention of reappraisals was associated with creativity ratings, but not with perceived effectiveness ratings. In Experiment 2, participants generated reappraisals for newly introduced unpleasant images before (pre-session) and after (post-session) exposure to creative reappraisal, non-creative reappraisal, and descriptive control (...)
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    Modulatory effects of goal relevance on emotional attention reveal that fear has a distinct value.Xiaojuan Xue & Gilles Pourtois - 2025 - Cognition and Emotion 39 (2):246-260.
    Threat-related stimuli can capture attention. However, it remains debated whether this capture is automatic or not. To address this question, we compared attentional biases to emotional faces using a dot-probe task (DPT) where emotion was never goal-relevant (Experiment 1) or made directly task-relevant by means of induction trials (Experiments 2–3). Moreover, the contingency between the DPT and induction trials was either partial (Experiment 2) or full (Experiment 3). Eye-tracking was used to ascertain that the emotional cue and the subsequent target (...)
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    The effect of congruent emotional context on semantic memory during discourse comprehension.Qian Zhang, Lin Li, Xiaohong Yang & Yufang Yang - 2025 - Cognition and Emotion 39 (2):413-430.
    This study examined the effect of emotional context on the semantic memory of subsequent emotional words during discourse comprehension in two eye-tracking experiments. Four-sentence discourses were used as experimental materials. The first three sentences established an emotional or neutral context, while the fourth contained an emotional target word consistent with the preceding emotional context's valence. The discourses were presented twice using the text change paradigm, where the target words were replaced with strongly - or weakly-related words during the second presentation. (...)
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    Emotional dissociations in temporal associations: opposing effects of arousal on memory for details surrounding unpleasant events.Paul C. Bogdan, Sanda Dolcos, Kara D. Federmeier, Alejandro Lleras, Hillary Schwarb & Florin Dolcos - 2025 - Cognition and Emotion 39 (1):82-96.
    Research targeting emotion’s impact on relational episodic memory has largely focused on spatial aspects, but less is known about emotion’s impact on memory for an event’s temporal associations. The present research investigated this topic. Participants viewed a series of interspersed negative and neutral images with instructions to create stories linking successive images. Later, participants performed a surprise memory test, which measured temporal associations between pairs of consecutive pictures where one picture was negative and one was neutral. Analyses focused on how (...)
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    Emotional arousal lingers in time to bind discrete episodes in memory.David Clewett & Mason McClay - 2025 - Cognition and Emotion 39 (1):97-116.
    Temporal stability and change in neutral contexts can transform continuous experiences into distinct and memorable events. However, less is known about how shifting emotional states influence these memory processes, despite ample evidence that emotion impacts non-temporal aspects of memory. Here, we examined if emotional stimuli influence temporal memory for recent event sequences. Participants encoded lists of neutral images while listening to auditory tones. At regular intervals within each list, participants heard emotional positive, negative, or neutral sounds, which served as “emotional (...)
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    Temporal memory for threatening events encoded in a haunted house.Katelyn G. Cliver, David F. Gregory, Steven A. Martinez, William J. Mitchell, Joanne E. Stasiak, Samantha S. Reisman, Chelsea Helion & Vishnu P. Murty - 2025 - Cognition and Emotion 39 (1):65-81.
    Despite the salient experience of encoding threatening events, these memories are prone to distortions and often non-veridical from encoding to recall. Further, threat has been shown to preferentially disrupt the binding of event details and enhance goal-relevant information. While extensive work has characterised distinctive features of emotional memory, research has not fully explored the influence threat has on temporal memory, a process putatively supported by the binding of event details into a temporal context. Two primary competing hypotheses have been proposed; (...)
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    Are multiple types of associative memory differently impacted by emotion?Emilie de Montpellier & Deborah Talmi - 2025 - Cognition and Emotion 39 (1):156-179.
    The effect of emotion on associative memory is still an open question. Our aim was to test whether discrepant findings are due to differential impact of emotion on different types of associative memory or to differences in the way participants encoded stimuli across studies. We examined the effect of negative content on multiple forms of associative memory, using the same encoding task. Two registered experiments were conducted in parallel with random allocation of participants to experiments. Each experiment included 4 encoding (...)
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    How list composition affects the emotional enhancement of memory in younger and older adults.Sandry M. Garcia, Maureen Ritchey & Elizabeth A. Kensinger - 2025 - Cognition and Emotion 39 (1):47-64.
    Young adults show an immediate emotional enhancement of memory (EEM) when emotional and non-emotional information are presented in mixed lists but not pure lists, but it is unclear whether older adults’ memories also benefit from the cognitive factors producing the list-composition effect. The present study examined whether the list-composition effect extended to older adults (55+), testing the following alternatives: (1) younger and older adults could show the list-composition effect, (2) due to age-related decreases in cognitive resources, older adults may show (...)
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    The influence of emotion on temporal context models.Lynn J. Lohnas & Marc W. Howard - 2025 - Cognition and Emotion 39 (1):18-46.
    Temporal context models (TCMs) have been influential in understanding episodic memory and its neural underpinnings. Recently, TCMs have been extended to explain emotional memory effects, one of the most clinically important findings in the field of memory research. This review covers recent advances in hypotheses for the neural representation of spatiotemporal context through the lens of TCMs, including their ability to explain the influence of emotion on episodic and temporal memory. In recent years, simplifying assumptions of “classical” TCMs – with (...)
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    Temporal recall in the shadow of emotion: separate emotional contexts during encoding enhance the temporal source memory retrieval.Rong Pan, Di Wu, Jingwen Hu, Wenjie Dou, Chuanji Gao, Bao-Ming Li & Xi Jia - 2025 - Cognition and Emotion 39 (1):196-209.
    Episodic memory, with its emphasis on temporal–spatial contexts, has been a longstanding focus in memory research. While previous studies have investigated the role of emotion in temporal source memory using emotionally charged stimuli, such as emotional words or images, the influence of a separated emotional context remains less explored. This study sought to understand the impact of separate emotional contexts on temporal source memory. Participants were shown Chinese characters alongside separate emotional contexts (i.e. a neutral or negative picture) and then (...)
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    The relationship between environmentally induced emotion and memory for a naturalistic virtual experience.Aria S. Petrucci, Cade McCall, Guy Schofield, Victoria Wardell, Omran K. Safi & Daniela J. Palombo - 2025 - Cognition and Emotion 39 (1):180-195.
    Emotional stimuli (e.g. words, images) are often remembered better than neutral stimuli. However, little is known about how memory is affected by an environmentally induced emotional state (without any overtly emotional occurrences) – the focus of this study. Participants were randomly assigned to discovery (n = 305) and replication (n = 306) subsamples and viewed a desktop virtual environment before rating their emotions and completing objective (i.e. item, temporal-order, duration) and subjective (e.g. vividness, sensory detail, coherence) memory measures. In both (...)
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    Opposite effects of emotion and event segmentation on temporal order memory and object-context binding.Monika Riegel, Daniel Granja, Tarek Amer, Patrik Vuilleumier & Ulrike Rimmele - 2025 - Cognition and Emotion 39 (1):117-135.
    Our daily lives unfold continuously, yet our memories are organised into distinct events, situated in a specific context of space and time, and chunked when this context changes (at event boundaries). Previous research showed that this process, termed event segmentation, enhances object-context binding but impairs temporal order memory. Physiologically, peaks in pupil dilation index event segmentation, similar to emotion-induced bursts of autonomic arousal. Emotional arousal also modulates object-context binding and temporal order memory. Yet, these two critical factors have not been (...)
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    Emotional time travel: the role of emotion in temporal memory.Deborah Talmi & Daniela J. Palombo - 2025 - Cognition and Emotion 39 (1):1-17.
    Remembering when emotional experiences occurred can be adaptive, yet there is no consensus on how emotion influences temporal aspects of memory. Temporal memory, a type of associative memory, refers to the capacity to encode, store, and retrieve information about the sequence and timing of events. This Special Issue presents evidence on how emotion affects three aspects of temporal memory: temporal-order, temporal source, and event segmentation. The contributions suggest that emotion often increases temporal-order memory, a result that is harder to reconcile (...)
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    Emotional state dynamics impacts temporal memory.Jingyi Wang & Regina C. Lapate - 2025 - Cognition and Emotion 39 (1):136-155.
    Emotional fluctuations are ubiquitous in everyday life, but precisely how they sculpt the temporal organisation of memories remains unclear. Here, we designed a novel task – the Emotion Boundary Task – wherein participants viewed sequences of negative and neutral images surrounded by a colour border. We manipulated perceptual context (border colour), emotional-picture valence, as well as the direction of emotional-valence shifts (i.e., shifts from neutral-to-negative and negative-to-neutral events) to create events with a shared perceptual and/or emotional context. We measured memory (...)
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