Affective Science

Empathy is a multidimensional construct that includes changes in cognitive, affective, and physiological processes. However, the physiological processes that contribute to empathic responding have received far less empirical attention. Here, we investigated whether physiological synchrony emerged during an empathy-inducing activity in which individuals disclosed a time of suffering while their romantic partner listened and responded (N = 111 couples). Further, we examined the extent to which trait and state measures of cognitive and affective empathy were associated with each other and with physiological synchrony during this activity. We found evidence for physiological synchrony in skin conductance reactivity and also in interbeat interval reactivity, though only when disclosers were women, but not for respiratory sinus arrhythmia reactivity. Physiological synchrony was not consistently associated with other well-established trait and state measures of empathy. These findings identify the nuanced role of physiological synchrony in empathic responding to others' suffering.

Jaweria Qaiser

Nathan D Leonhardt

Bonnie M Le

Amie M Gordon

Emily A Impett

Jennifer E Stellar

Affective science

Affect Sci

Shared Hearts and Minds: Physiological Synchrony During Empathy.

共享心灵与思想：共情过程中的生理同步性。

This randomized controlled trial examined the effects of mindfulness on anhedonic symptoms in a sample of adults reporting high levels of chronic stress. Meditation-naïve adults (N = 68, Mage = 32, 62% female) were randomized to either an 8-week group-based MBSR intervention (N = 35), or a waitlist control group (N = 33). We hypothesized that changes in mindfulness would mediate the relationship between condition and changes in anhedonic symptoms. Additionally, the present study aimed to determine if other theoretically linked mechanisms (i.e., stress, negative affect [NA], depression) were involved in producing changes in anhedonic symptoms. Results provided evidence for full mediation of the effect of MBSR on social anhedonia through its essential mechanism of ΔMindfulness. These results highlight specificity of anhedonic symptoms targeted by MBSR, with social anhedonia symptoms being modified by changes in mindfulness whereas other anhedonic domains were not. The specificity of effects to the social anhedonia domain may be in part due to the group-based nature of MBSR. Additionally, although associative relationships were present for stress, depression, NA, and anhedonic symptoms, no mediational relationships emerged. Results presented here should be evaluated in light of study limitations, such as the reliance on self-report measures as well as a lack of information regarding cultural or geographic diversity.

Corinne N. Carlton

Ligia Antezana

Katelyn M. Garcia

Holly Sullivan-Toole

John A. Richey

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Specifically Improves Social Anhedonia Among Adults with Chronic Stress

正念减压法特别改善慢性压力成年人的社交快感缺失

Jennifer M. B. Fugate

Maria Gendron

Katie Hoemann

Links Between Emotion Word, Usage, Understanding, Accuracy, and Emotion Dysregulation: An Integrative Analysis

情感词汇使用、理解、准确性与情感失调之间的关联：一项综合分析

Ian M. Raugh

Alysia M. Berglund

Gregory P. Strauss

Implementation of Mindfulness-Based Emotion Regulation Strategies: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

正念情绪调节策略的实施：一项系统综述和元分析

Abstract Individual differences in coping responses can predict psychological distress, anxiety, and depression; therefore, it is vital to explore adaptive coping strategies. Recent research suggests that an individual’s ability to choose strategies based on the context may be more important than the ability to use any one strategy, an ability termed coping flexibility. For example, problem-focused coping is adaptive for situations of high control, while emotion-focused coping is adaptive for situations of low control. This conceptualization of coping flexibility, termed strategy-situation fit, consists of the match of strategy to situation. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate if daily fluctuations in strategy-situation fit for daily stressors would be associated with daily levels of depressed mood. A seven-day diary study in a sample of undergraduate students ( n = 75) was completed. The results of generalized linear mixed models demonstrated that in situations of high stress and high control, more use of emotion-focused coping was related to higher levels of depressed mood. Additionally, in situations of high stress and low control, more use of emotion-focused coping was related to lower levels of depressed mood. These findings suggest that the match between emotion-focused coping and perceived stressor controllability can be a predictor of daily experiences of depressed mood when faced with high-level stressors.

Calissa J. Leslie-Miller

Jutta Joormann

Meghan E. Quinn

Coping Flexibility: Match Between Coping Strategy and Perceived Stressor Controllability Predicts Depressed Mood

应对灵活性：应对策略与感知压力源可控性的匹配预测抑郁情绪

Isabella Kahhale

Kelly R. Barry

Desmond C. Ong

Jamil Zaki

Jamie L. Hanson

Exploring the Role of Empathy in the Association Between Early Life Adversity and Antisocial Behavior

探究早期生活逆境与反社会行为之间共情的作用

Abstract The ability to infer others’ emotions is important for social communication. This study examines three key aspects of emotion perception for which relatively little is currently known: (1) the evaluation of the intensity of portrayed emotion, (2) the role of contextual information in the perception of facial configurations, and (3) developmental differences in how children perceive co-occurring facial and contextual information. Two experiments examined developmental effects on the influence of congruent, incongruent, and neutral situational contexts on participants’ reasoning about others’ emotions, both with and without emotion labels. Experiment 1 revealed that participants interpreted others’ emotions to be of higher intensity when facial movements were congruent with contextual information. This effect was greater for children compared to adolescents and adults. Experiment 2 showed that without verbal emotion category labels, adults relied less on context to scale their intensity judgments, but children showed an opposite pattern; in the absence of labels, children relied more on contextual information than facial information. Making accurate inferences about others’ internal states is a complex learning task given high variability within and across individuals and contexts. These data suggest changes in attention to perceptual information as such learning occurs.

Brian T. Leitzke

Aaron Cochrane

Andrea G. Stein

Gwyneth A. DeLap

C. Shawn Green

Seth D. Pollak

Children’s and Adolescent’s Use of Context in Judgments of Emotion Intensity

儿童和青少年在情绪强度判断中对情境的运用

短名	Affec Sci
Journal Impact	2.24
国际分区	PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL(Q2)

ISSN	2662-2041, 2662-205X
h-index	13

出版信息	出版商: Springer Nature，出版周期: ，期刊类型: journal，开源期刊: 否
基本数据	创刊年份: 2020，原创研究文献占比: ，自引率:， Gold OA占比:

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Shared Hearts and Minds: Physiological Synchrony During Empathy.

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Specifically Improves Social Anhedonia Among Adults with Chronic Stress

Links Between Emotion Word, Usage, Understanding, Accuracy, and Emotion Dysregulation: An Integrative Analysis

Implementation of Mindfulness-Based Emotion Regulation Strategies: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Coping Flexibility: Match Between Coping Strategy and Perceived Stressor Controllability Predicts Depressed Mood

Links Between Emotion Word, Usage, Understanding, Accuracy, and Emotion Dysregulation: An Integrative Analysis

Implementation of Mindfulness-Based Emotion Regulation Strategies: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Coping Flexibility: Match Between Coping Strategy and Perceived Stressor Controllability Predicts Depressed Mood

Exploring the Role of Empathy in the Association Between Early Life Adversity and Antisocial Behavior

Children’s and Adolescent’s Use of Context in Judgments of Emotion Intensity