ArticleScientific reports2021
Social connectedness and negative affect uniquely explain individual differences in response to emotional ambiguity.
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- The role of trait reappraisal in response to emotional ambiguity: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2024Pooled it
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- Facing ambiguity: What we do in the space between stimulus and response.Current directions in psychological science · 2026Article
- Valence bias arises from both positive and negative responses to ambiguous stimuli.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Intergenerational Transmission of Valence Bias Is Moderated by Attachment.Developmental science · 2025Article
- Chronic Stress May Amplify Gender/Sex Differences in Amygdala Reactivity to Ambiguous Emotional Stimuli.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2025Article
- Negative news exposure does not affect risk or ambiguity aversion.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- A More Connected Future: How Social Connection, Interdisciplinary Approaches, and New Technology Will Shape the Affective Science of Loneliness, a Commentary on the Special Issue.Affective science · 2024Review
- Relevance of pre-stimulus oscillatory activity for the perceived valence of emotional facial expressions.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Proposing a model whereby negative valence bias increases the risk for more severe dysphoric posttraumatic stress disorder and depression symptomology.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2024Article
- Shift in Valence Bias Associated with Decrease in Trait Anxiety and Depression Symptoms.Cognitive therapy and research · 2024Article
- In the face of ambiguity: intrinsic brain organization in development predicts one's bias toward positivity or negativity.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2024Article
- Resting-state functional network segregation of the default mode network predicts valence bias across the lifespan.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
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- Negative interpretation bias connects to real-world daily affect: A multistudy approach.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2023Article
- Attentional Biases and their Push and Pull with Rumination and Co-Rumination is Based on Depressive Symptoms: a Prospective Study of Adolescents.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2023Article
- Think again: the role of reappraisal in reducing negative valence bias.Cognition & emotion · 2023Article
- Tendency to Share Positive Emotions Buffers Loneliness-Related Negativity in the Context of Shared Adversity.Journal of research in personality · 2023Article
- Face coverings differentially alter valence judgments of emotional expressions.Basic and applied social psychology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Negativity bias is not only central to mood and anxiety disorders, but can powerfully impact our decision-making across domains (e.g., financial, medical, social). This project builds on previous work examining negativity bias using dual-valence ambiguity. Specifically, although some facial expressions have a relatively clear negative (angry) or positive valence (happy), surprised expressions are interpreted negatively by some and positively by others, providing insight into one's valence bias. Here, we examine putative sources of variability that distinguish individuals with a more negative versus positive valence bias using structural equation modeling. Our model reveals that one's propensity toward negativity (operationalized as temperamental negative affect and internalizing symptomology) predicts valence bias particularly in older adulthood when a more positive bias is generally expected. Further, variability in social connectedness (a propensity to seek out social connections, use those connections to regulate one's own emotions, and be empathic) emerges as a notable and unique predictor of valence bias, likely because these traits help to override an initial, default negativity. We argue that this task represents an important approach to examining variability in affective bias, and can be specifically useful across the lifespan and in populations with internalizing disorders or even subclinical symptomology.
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