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Langeslag SJE, Surti K. Increasing Love Feelings, Marital Satisfaction, and Motivated Attention to the Spouse. J PSYCHOPHYSIOL 2022. [DOI: 10.1027/0269-8803/a000294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Abstract. Love typically decreases over time, sometimes leading to divorces. We tested whether positively reappraising the spouse and/or up-regulating positive emotions unrelated to the spouse increases infatuation with and attachment to the spouse, marital satisfaction, and motivated attention to the spouse as measured by the late positive potential (LPP). Married individuals completed a regulation task in which they viewed spouse, pleasant, and neutral pictures without regulation prompt as well as spouse and pleasant pictures that were preceded by regulation prompts. Event-related potentials were recorded, and self-reported infatuation, attachment, and marital satisfaction were assessed. Viewing spouse pictures increased infatuation, attachment, and marital satisfaction compared to viewing pleasant or neutral pictures in the no regulation condition. Thinking about positive aspects of the spouse and increasing positive emotions unrelated to the spouse did not increase infatuation, attachment, and marital satisfaction any further. Motivated attention, measured by the LPP amplitude, was greatest to spouse pictures, intermediate to pleasant pictures, and minimal to neutral pictures. Although the typical up-regulation effect on the LPP amplitude was observed for pleasant pictures, positively reappraising the spouse did not increase the LPP amplitude and hence motivated attention to the spouse any further. This study indicates that looking at spouse pictures increases love and marital satisfaction, which is not due to increased positive emotions unrelated to the spouse. Looking at spouse pictures is an easy strategy that could be used to stabilize marriages in which the main problem is the decline of love feelings over time.
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri – St. Louis, MO, USA
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Lei Y, Wang Y, Wang C, Wang J, Lou Y, Li H. Taking Familiar Others' Perspectives to Regulate Our Own Emotion: An Event-Related Potential Study. Front Psychol 2019; 10:1419. [PMID: 31379635 PMCID: PMC6660283 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2019] [Accepted: 06/03/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Current research on emotion regulation has mainly focused on Gross’s cognitive strategies for regulating negative emotion; however, little attention has been paid to whether social cognitive processes can be used to regulate both positive and negative emotions. We considered perspective-taking as an aspect of social cognition, and investigated whether it would affect one’s own emotional response. The present study used a block paradigm and event-related potential (ERP) technology to explore this question. A 3 (perspective: self vs. pessimistic familiar other vs. optimistic familiar other) × 3 (valence: positive vs. neutral vs. negative) within-group design was employed. Thirty-six college students participated and considered their own or target others’ feelings about pictures with different valences. Results showed that positive emotional responses were more neutral under a pessimistic familiar other perspective, and more positive under an optimistic familiar other perspective, and vice versa for negative emotional responses. In ERP results, compared with a self-perspective, taking familiar others’ perspectives elicited reductions in P3 (370–410 ms) and LPP (400–800 ms) difference waves. These findings suggested that taking a pessimistic or optimistic familiar other perspective affects emotion regulation by changing later processing of emotional information.
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- Yi Lei
- Department of Psychology, College of Psychology and Sociology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China.,Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Affective and Social Cognitive Science, Shenzhen, China.,Center for Language and Brain, Shenzhen Institute of Neuroscience, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Psychology, College of Psychology and Sociology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China.,Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Affective and Social Cognitive Science, Shenzhen, China.,Center for Language and Brain, Shenzhen Institute of Neuroscience, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Psychology, College of Psychology and Sociology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China.,Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Affective and Social Cognitive Science, Shenzhen, China.,Center for Language and Brain, Shenzhen Institute of Neuroscience, Shenzhen, China.,Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Jyvaskyla, Jyvaskyla, Finland
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- Department of Psychology, College of Psychology and Sociology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China.,Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Affective and Social Cognitive Science, Shenzhen, China.,Center for Language and Brain, Shenzhen Institute of Neuroscience, Shenzhen, China.,Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Jyvaskyla, Jyvaskyla, Finland
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- Department of Psychology, College of Psychology and Sociology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China.,Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Affective and Social Cognitive Science, Shenzhen, China.,Center for Language and Brain, Shenzhen Institute of Neuroscience, Shenzhen, China.,Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Jyvaskyla, Jyvaskyla, Finland
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- Department of Psychology, College of Psychology and Sociology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China.,Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Affective and Social Cognitive Science, Shenzhen, China.,Center for Language and Brain, Shenzhen Institute of Neuroscience, Shenzhen, China
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Zhu C, He W, Qi Z, Wang L, Song D, Zhan L, Yi S, Luo Y, Luo W. The time course of emotional picture processing: an event-related potential study using a rapid serial visual presentation paradigm. Front Psychol 2015. [PMID: 26217276 PMCID: PMC4497308 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00954] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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The present study recorded event-related potentials using rapid serial visual presentation paradigm to explore the time course of emotionally charged pictures. Participants completed a dual-target task as quickly and accurately as possible, in which they were asked to judge the gender of the person depicted (task 1) and the valence (positive, neutral, or negative) of the given picture (task 2). The results showed that the amplitudes of the P2 component were larger for emotional pictures than they were for neutral pictures, and this finding represents brain processes that distinguish emotional stimuli from non-emotional stimuli. Furthermore, positive, neutral, and negative pictures elicited late positive potentials with different amplitudes, implying that the differences between emotions are recognized. Additionally, the time course for emotional picture processing was consistent with the latter two stages of a three-stage model derived from studies on emotional facial expression processing and emotional adjective processing. The results of the present study indicate that in the three-stage model of emotion processing, the middle and late stages are more universal and stable, and thus occur at similar time points when using different stimuli (faces, words, or scenes).
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- Chuanlin Zhu
- Research Center of Brain and Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian China
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- Research Center of Brain and Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian China
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- Research Center of Brain and Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian China
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- School of Educational Science, Huaiyin Normal University, Huaiyin China
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- School of Education Science, Liaocheng University, Liaocheng China
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- Research Center of Brain and Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian China
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- Research Center of Brain and Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian China
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- Institute of Affective and Social Neuroscience, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen China
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- Research Center of Brain and Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian China ; Laboratory of Cognition and Mental Health, Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences, Chongqing China
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Ibanez A, Kotz SA, Barrett L, Moll J, Ruz M. Situated affective and social neuroscience. Front Hum Neurosci 2014; 8:547. [PMID: 25120451 PMCID: PMC4112784 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00547] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2014] [Accepted: 07/05/2014] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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- Agustin Ibanez
- Laboratory of Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience, Institute of Cognitive Neurology (INECO), Favaloro University Buenos Aires, Argentina ; National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) Buenos Aires, Argentina ; UDP-INECO Foundation Core on Neuroscience, Diego Portales University Santiago, Chile ; Universidad Autónoma del Caribe Barranquilla, Colombia ; Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Australian Research Council (ACR) Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology Section, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester Manchester, UK ; Department of Neuropsychology, Max Planck Institute of Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, University of Lethbridge Lethbridge, AB, Canada
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- Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience Unit, D'Or Institute for Research and Education Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, Brain, Mind and Behavior Research Center, University of Granada Granada, Spain
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