Cognitive Emotion Research Articles

Deficits in Emotion Perception and Cognition in Patients with Parkinson's Disease: A Systematic Review.

Non-motor symptoms (NMS) are common among Parkinson's disease (PD) patients and have a significant impact on quality of life. NMS such as deficits in emotion perception are gaining due focus in the recent times. As emotion perception and cognitive functions share certain common neural substrates, it becomes pertinent to evaluate existing emotion perception deficits in view of underlying cognitive deficits. The current systematic review aimed at examining studies on emotion perception PD in the last decade. We carried out a systematic review of 44 studies from the PubMed database. We reviewed studies examining emotion perception and associated cognitive deficits, especially executive function and visuospatial function in PD. This review also examines how early and advanced PD differ in emotion perception deficits and how the presence of common neuropsychiatric conditions such as anxiety, apathy, and depression as well as neurosurgical procedure such as deep brain stimulation affect emotion perception. The need for future research employing a comprehensive evaluation of neurocognitive functions and emotion perception is underscored as it has a significant bearing on planning holistic intervention strategies.

The Relationship Between Suicidal Behavior and Metacognitive Characteristics in Male Patients with Antisocial Personality Disorder

Objective: Antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) is a mental disorder with impaired psychosocial functioning and carries a high risk for suicide. Previous studies have investigated the role of metacognitive considerations in individual behavioral differences and provided ample evidence of significant relationships between emotional processes, cognition, metacognitive beliefs, and behavior. A close relationship between metacognitive functions and personality disorders was suggested. This study investigated the relationship between the metacognitive characteristics of male patients with ASPD and suicidal behavior. Method: We included seventy-four patients diagnosed with ASPD according to DSM-5 criteria, who applied to Çukurova University Faculty of Medicine Balcalı Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, as the patient group and 74 healthy volunteers as the control group. Sociodemographic data form, Metacognition Questionnaire (MCQ), Beck Suicidal Ideation Scale (BSIS), Suicidal Behaviors Questionnaire (SBQ), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), and Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) were administered to the participants. Results: The control and ASPD groups were similar in terms of age, years of education, educational and marital status, and place of residence (p>0.05 for each). The MCQ and its subscales, BSIS, SBQ, BDI, and BAI scale scores, were significantly higher in the patient group (p<0.05 for each). Patients who have previously attempted suicide have significantly higher MCQ- uncontrollability and danger (p=0.028), MCQ- need to control thoughts subscales (p=0.016), and BSIS, SBS, BDI, BAI (p<0.001 for each) mean scores than those who have not attempted suicide. There was a positive correlation between SBQ and MCQ-cognitive confidence (p=0.04) and MCQ- need to control thoughts (p=0.01) subscales in the patient group. Conclusions: Metacognitive beliefs may be associated with the severity of suicidal behavior, depression, and anxiety symptoms in male patients with ASPD. The negative metacognitive functions, especially beliefs about the need to control thoughts, may help determine the risk of suicide in individuals with ASPD, and metacognitive therapy methods may be beneficial for those patients.

The Influence of the Matching of Leader’s Authorization Behavior and Employee’s Authorization Expectation on Employee’s Active Behavior: Based on the Theory of Personal-Environmental Matching

Purpose: Based on the theory of personal-environment matching, from the perspective of matching a leader’s authorization behavior with an employee’s authorization expectation, this paper explores the question of when the authorization utility is maximized. Design/Methodology/Approach: Polynomial regression and response surface analysis were used to analyze the two-stage matching data of 45 leaders and 303 subordinates. Findings: It is found that when the leader’s authorization behavior and the employee’s authorization expectation are in “high-high” agreement, the employee’s harmonious work passion and positive behavior are the highest, and harmonious work passion plays an intermediary role between the leader’s authorization behavior and employee’s authorization expectation and employee’s positive behavior. Practical Implications: The findings provide a helpful reference for management practitioners on how to authorize better, stimulate employees’ harmonious work passion, and promote employees’ positive behaviors. Originality/Value: First, from the dual perspective of leaders and subordinates, comprehensively and dialectically analyzes how to maximize the effectiveness of authorization. Second, from the standpoint of positive emotion cognition, the emotional driving mechanism of an employee’s positive behavior is demonstrated by matching the leader’s authorized behavior with the employee’s authorized expectations.

Metaphoric Function and Emotional Cognition of English Loanwords in the Internet Environment.

With the rapid development of society, the emergence and innovation of network buzzwords continue to emerge. On the rapidly changing social network platform, previous sentiment analysis tasks cannot fully meet the needs of users. This paper aims to study the metaphorical function and affective cognition in Internet English loanwords. This paper proposes a neural network algorithm and conducts a comprehensive analysis of the metaphorical function and emotional cognition of Internet English loanwords. The neural network algorithm has a powerful sentiment analysis function, so the article chooses this algorithm. The experimental results of this paper show that with the popularity of the Internet, more and more people go online. In 2013, the proportion of Internet users was the highest at 23.2%. In 2015, the proportion of Internet users was 38.3%, an increase of 15.1% in just one year. The percentage of people online will reach 68.3% by 2021, indicating that almost half of the people have learned to surf the Internet. This also means that Internet English loanwords have also been developed. The rapid development of loanwords in Internet English is because they have metaphorical functions and express people's emotions.

The Effectiveness of Mindfulness Education on Emotional Cognitive Regulation, Eating Style and Body Mass Index in Obese Adolescent Students Female

Background and Aim: Obesity in children and adolescents has gradually become a major public health problem in many developing countries, including Iran. The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of group mindfulness training on the cognitive-emotional regulation, eating style, and body mass index of obese female adolescents with body mass indexes above 30. Methods: In order to achieve this goal, we used a statistical sample consisting of obese teenage girls in a high school in Boroujerd city in 2021.Research design consists of a pre-test, post-test experiment with a control group of 40 people (20 experimental and 20 control).Every week for 8 sessions of 90 minutes, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy was conducted, and a post-test was administered to both experimental and control groups.A Garnefski cognitive emotional regulation questionnaire and a Dutch eating style questionnaire were used for this study. The statistical analysis was based on multivariate analysis of covariance.Statisticians used multivariate analysis of covariance. Results: There was a significant difference in mean scores of emotional cognitive regulation between the experimental and control groups, including an enormous difference in weight loss in eating style and body mass (P <0.01). Conclusion: The results indicated, mindfulness therapy was able to improve cognitive-emotional regulation and eating style in obese girls by 64% and 74% respectively

Executive Functions as Mediator Variables between Binge Eating Symptoms and Body Mass Index: A Mediation Analysis

In recent years, the topic of executive functions has played a significant role in the context of clinical psychology, because maladaptive patterns can impair several aspects of physical and mental health. The main goal of the present study is to explore the relationship between executive functions, binge eating symptoms and body mass index. 103 participants showing binge eating symptoms have been involved in the present study, who completed the Binge Eating Screener, the short Hungarian version of the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function - Adult - Self Report scale, and a demographic questionnaire. We conducted and explorative study, since contrary to previous research, we did not only point out the linear relationship between binge eating symptoms and body mass index, but also studied the mediating role of executive functions (cognitive regulation, emotion regulation and behavior regulation) in this relationship. In this model, binge eating symptoms can be defined as predictor variables, while the output variable is the body mass index. Our results show that there is a significant positive correlation between body mass index, binge eating symptoms and certain components of executive functions (cognitive regulation problems and behavior regulation problems). We also found that behavior regulation problems are present as mediators in the relationship between binge eating symptoms and body mass index.

Interactive effects of age and inflammation on change in ecologically-assessed cognitive functioning

Inflammation has been implicated as a precursor to steeper declines in age-associated cognitive decline. Here we investigated biomarkers of peripheral inflammation [basal cytokines, stimulated cytokines (ex vivo), C-reactive protein (CRP)] as moderators of age-related changes in cognitive functioning. As part of the Effects of Stress on Cognitive Aging, Physiology, and Emotion (ESCAPE) study, participants (N = 233; 65% female; 63% Black, 25% Hispanic; 25-65 years of age) completed up to four instances of ambulatory cognitive testing per day across two weeks, over three waves of annual assessments. After each 2-week ecological momentary assessment (EMA) burst, blood was collected and assayed for inflammatory biomarkers. Performance on spatial working memory (mean Euclidean distance errors), processing speed (mean symbol search reaction time), and working memory (n-back test accuracy) tasks were averaged across all instances within an EMA burst. CRP and age interactively predicted change in spatial working memory (B = 0.003, [0.000, 0.005], t(133.60) = 2.350, p = 0.020) such that higher CRP at older ages (~60 years) was associated with a loss of the expected practice effects across waves; at younger ages, CRP did not relate to change in spatial working memory. In a similar fashion, basal (B = -0.002, [-0.004, -0.000], t(103.26) = -2.399, p = 0.018) and stimulated cytokine levels (B = -0.002, [-0.004, -0.000], t(126.65) = -2.183, p = 0.031) interacted with age to predict change in processing speed across waves. These results indicate that inflammation may be critically associated with changes in cognitive functioning in older mid-life adults.

Emotional pathways to climate change responses

AbstractThe first trigger to any form of personal and collective change begins with emotions. They influence whether and how our attention is drawn to stimuli, how we reflect upon those stimuli, and how we choose courses of action. Emotions are thus at the center of social responses to climate change. We offer a selective, interdisciplinary review of emotions research to inform the development of a hypothetical emotion–cognition model of climate change response, followed by exploration of the emotional precedents supporting three prevailing behavioral responses which support inaction: apathy, denial, and withdrawal. We then review research that can inform emotion triggers to pro‐climate adaptive and mitigative action. We conclude with a discussion of two key research needs: intersectionality and interdisciplinarity. Addressing these needs will enhance our ability to respond to the climate emergency.This article is categorized under:Perceptions, Behavior, and Communication of Climate Change > Behavior Change and Responses

Formation of the Upbringing Cultural Environment of a School as an Emotional and Figurative Way of Improving Education Quality

The process of upbringing by means of art is an influential factor in education quality improvement. In this regard, an emotional and figurative way of cognition proposed in the study becomes the foundation for the upbringing cultural environment at school. In the conducted experiment, children from the sixth, seventh, and eighth grades take part in project activity integrating various subject areas. The experiment results show a positive dynamic in the academic performance of students involved in project activity of creating multimedia products which substantiates the effectiveness of creating an upbringing cultural environment within the framework of emotional and figurative cognition in improving the quality of education.

The effects of atorvastatin on emotional processing, reward learning, verbal memory and inflammation in healthy volunteers: An experimental medicine study.

Background:Growing evidence from clinical trials and epidemiological studies suggests that statins can have clinically significant antidepressant effects, potentially related to anti-inflammatory action on several neurobiological structures. However, the underlying neuropsychological mechanisms of these effects remain unexplored.Aims:In this experimental medicine trial, we investigated the 7-day effects of the lipophilic statin, atorvastatin on a battery of neuropsychological tests and inflammation in healthy volunteers.Methods:Fifty healthy volunteers were randomised to either 7 days of atorvastatin 20 mg or placebo in a double-blind design. Participants were assessed with psychological questionnaires and a battery of well-validated behavioural tasks assessing emotional processing, which is sensitive to putative antidepressant effects, reward learning and verbal memory, as well as the inflammatory marker, C-reactive protein.Results:Compared to placebo, 7-day atorvastatin increased the recognition (p = 0.006), discriminability (p = 0.03) and misclassifications (p = 0.04) of fearful facial expression, independently from subjective states of mood and anxiety, and C-reactive protein levels. Otherwise, atorvastatin did not significantly affect any other psychological and behavioural measure, nor peripheral C-reactive protein.Conclusions:Our results reveal for the first time the early influence of atorvastatin on emotional cognition by increasing the processing of anxiety-related stimuli (i.e. increased recognition, discriminability and misclassifications of fearful facial expression) in healthy volunteers, in the absence of more general effects on negative affective bias. Further studies exploring the effects of statins in depressed patients, especially with raised inflammatory markers, may clarify this finding and inform future clinical trials.

Emotional cognition in depression: Is it relevant for Clinical practice?

Emotional cognition in depression: Is it relevant for Clinical practice?

Functionality, Emotion, and Acceptance of Artificial Intelligence Virtual Assistants

This paper aims to expand the acceptance of the AI Virtual Assistant model from the perspective of user’s cognition. Based on the 240 samples, we used multi-layer regression analysis to investigate the influencing factors and differential effects of users' acceptance of AI Virtual Assistant. The results show that functional cognition and emotional cognition of users are important influencing factors for an artificial intelligence virtual assistant. This provides a new perspective for user acceptance processes of the AI Virtual Assistant. We also examined the moderating effect of social norms between user cognition and AI Virtual Assistant. At last, a new AI acceptance model of AI Virtual Assistant was established.

Influence of We Media Information Dissemination on Public Emotional Cognition and Behavior under Government Responsibility Constraint

In recent years, We Media’s chaotic behavior has emerged one after another. How to properly supervise We Media and effectively manage its violations has become an urgent problem in the process of national governance system and governance capacity building. From the three aspects of opportunity, motivation, and control methods, this paper analyzes the relevant stakeholders and their relationships in the process of We Media information dissemination. It constructs a tripartite evolutionary game model of government, We Media, and public participation, which focuses on the analysis of the equilibrium point of the game model and carries out simulation experiments to explore the influence of government responsibility constraints on the evolution results. The research results show that government regulation plays an important role in restricting We Media’s information release. When the government's willingness to regulate increases, We Media will be punished more if it violates rules. In order to reduce the cost of punishment and other factors, We Media will reduce the willingness to violate the rules. After the occurrence of social hot events, the public is more willing to be guided by positive information from We Media, prompting the government to choose strict supervision strategies, effectively reducing the violations of We Media and achieving the Pareto optimum. According to the research results, this paper puts forward reasonable countermeasures to realize the comprehensive governance pattern of noncompliance of We Media and correct guidance of public emotional cognitive behavior under responsibility constraints. The research results provide theoretical support and decision-making basis for We Media information management and control.

Respiration-Driven Brain Oscillations in Emotional Cognition.

Respiration paces brain oscillations and the firing of individual neurons, revealing a profound impact of rhythmic breathing on brain activity. Intriguingly, respiration-driven entrainment of neural activity occurs in a variety of cortical areas, including those involved in higher cognitive functions such as associative neocortical regions and the hippocampus. Here we review recent findings of respiration-entrained brain activity with a particular focus on emotional cognition. We summarize studies from different brain areas involved in emotional behavior such as fear, despair, and motivation, and compile findings of respiration-driven activities across species. Furthermore, we discuss the proposed cellular and network mechanisms by which cortical circuits are entrained by respiration. The emerging synthesis from a large body of literature suggests that the impact of respiration on brain function is widespread across the brain and highly relevant for distinct cognitive functions. These intricate links between respiration and cognitive processes call for mechanistic studies of the role of rhythmic breathing as a timing signal for brain activity.

Innovative Research on the Construction of Learner’s Emotional Cognitive Model in E-Learning by Big Data Analysis

This article first addresses the problem that the unstructured data in the existing e-learning education data is difficult to effectively use and the problem that the coarser granularity of sentiment analysis results in traditional sentiment analysis methods and proposes multipolarized sentiment based on fine-grained sentiment analysis evaluation model. Then, an algorithm for behavior prediction and course recommendation based on emotional change trends is proposed, and the established multiple linear regression equation is solved with an improved algorithm. Finally, the method in this paper is verified by a comprehensive example with algorithm comparison analysis and cross-validation evaluation method. The research method proposed in this article provides new research ideas for evaluating and predicting the learning behavior of e-learners, which is conducive to timely discovering learners’ dropout tendency and recommending relevant courses of interest to improve their graduation rate, so as to optimize the learning experience of learners, promote the development of personalized education and effective teaching of the e-learning teaching platform, and provide a certain reference value for accelerating the reform process of education informatization. In order to improve the speed of searching for parameters and the best parameters, this paper proposes a particle swarm algorithm (to improve the support vector machine parameters in a sense) and finds the best parameters which also achieved the goal from academic expression to academic performance.

The Use of a Novel Neurologic Music Therapy Program to Improve Cognition and Emotional Affect in Individuals with Mild to Severe Dementia: A Research Protocol

Introduction: Dementia is a prevalent neurodegenerative disorder that interferes with independent and daily functioning. In addition to cognitive decline, individuals with dementia experience behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD), which involves neuropsychiatric disturbances such as agitation. Studies have suggested music therapy to be an effective part of treatment of individuals with dementia as a method to increase both cognitive function and quality of life (QoL). Therefore, this study aims to construct and test a novel neurologic music therapy (NMT) program to optimize the improvement of cognition and emotional affect in those with mild to severe stages of dementia. Methods: This research will be designed as a randomized-controlled crossover study, where two groups of participants will be examined: those with mild to moderate dementia and those with severe dementia. The first eight weeks will consist of a no-treatment control period, and the last eight weeks consist of the treatment period, where both participant groups will undergo cognitive and QoL testing at various times. Results: By comparing the eight-week control period to the eight-week intervention, the results of the study may indicate that NMT benefits individuals with dementia, particularly within the mild to moderate group. Following the intervention, improved cognition, emotional affect, and reduced levels of BPSD in individuals with mild to moderate dementia are anticipated. Participants with severe dementia are expected to have slight improvements within BPSD and emotional affect, and little to no improvement in cognition. Discussion: Few studies have used NMT as an intervention to treat dementia, with no study utilizing a combination of the three NMT techniques proposed in this study. Furthermore, there has been limited literature focusing on individuals with severe dementia. This proposed study will thus allow for further research on this population. Conclusion: The proposed NMT program aims to reduce BPSD, and improve emotional affect and cognition within individuals with mild to severe dementia. Future studies may be conducted to examine whether introducing the proposed NMT program may act as a preventative measure of dementia-related cognitive decline.

Emotional cognition subgroups in unaffected first-degree relatives of patients with mood disorders.

Patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) or bipolar disorder (BD) exhibit difficulties with emotional cognition even during remission. There is evidence for aberrant emotional cognition in unaffected relatives of patients with these mood disorders, but studies are conflicting. We aimed to investigate whether emotional cognition in unaffected first-degree relatives of patients with mood disorders is characterised by heterogeneity using a data-driven approach. Data from 94 unaffected relatives (33 of MDD patients; 61 of BD patients) and 203 healthy controls were pooled from two cohort studies. Emotional cognition was assessed with the Social Scenarios Test, Facial Expression Recognition Test and Faces Dot-Probe Test. Hierarchical cluster analysis was conducted using emotional cognition data from the 94 unaffected relatives. The resulting emotional cognition clusters and controls were compared for emotional and non-emotional cognition, demographic characteristics and functioning. Two distinct clusters of unaffected relatives were identified: a relatively 'emotionally preserved' cluster (55%; 40% relatives of MDD probands) and an 'emotionally blunted' cluster (45%; 29% relatives of MDD probands). 'Emotionally blunted' relatives presented with poorer neurocognitive performance (global cognition p = 0.010), heightened subsyndromal mania symptoms (p = 0.004), lower years of education (p = 0.004) and difficulties with interpersonal functioning (p = 0.005) than controls, whereas 'emotionally preserved' relatives were comparable to controls on these measures. Our findings show discrete emotional cognition profiles that occur across healthy first-degree relatives of patients with MDD and BD. These emotional cognition clusters may provide insight into emotional cognitive markers of genetically distinct subgroups of individuals at familial risk of mood disorders.

The Innovative Model of Family Education Guidance of Guiding First, then Supplementing and Further Solidifying

In the new era a new more effective family education model can ease unbalanced and inadequate education development. In the new era, parents look forward to a more personalized, active and interactive form of family education guidance. This new guidance model will start with improving behavior by focusing on emotional behavior and cognition. The Roast can ease parents' anxiety, lectures and reading groups can supplement parents' knowledge, and mutual discussion, vicarious practice and teaching others can solidify a scientific and effective family education behavior. The family education guidance model of "guiding first, then supplementing and further solidifying" focuses on the participation of parents in the whole process, which can improve the effectiveness of family education guidance.

Revisiting the Social Origins of Human Morality: A Constructivist Perspective on the Nature of Moral Sense-Making

A recent turn in the cognitive sciences has deepened the attention on embodied and situated dynamics for explaining different cognitive processes such as perception, emotion, and social cognition. This has fostered an extensive interest in the social and ‘intersubjective’ nature of moral behavior, especially from the perspective of enactivism. In this paper, I argue that embodied and situated perspectives, enactivism in particular, nonetheless require further improvements with regards to their analysis of the social nature of human morality. In brief, enactivist proposals still do not define what features of the social-relational context, or which kind of processes within social interactions, make an evaluation or action morally relevant or distinctive from other types of social normativity. As an alternative to this proclivity, and seeking to complement the enactive perspective, I present a definition of the process of moral sense-making and offer an empirically-based ethical distinction between different domains of social knowledge in moral development. For doing so, I take insights from the constructivist tradition in moral psychology. My objective is not to radically oppose embodied and enactive alternatives but to expand the horizon of their conceptual and empirical contributions to morality research.

Katastrofizacija, anksioznost i depresivnost kod pacijenata s kroničnom nemalignom boli

The aim of this study was to determine the level of anxiety and depression and the intensity of pain in patients with chronic non-malignant pain, the correlation of catastrophizing with these factors, and the interaction of a multidisciplinary program for the treatment of chronic pain and the level of catastrophizing, anxiety, depression and pain intensity. The study was conducted on a sample of 44 participants aged 32 to 80 years who participated in the multidisciplinary program for chronic pain management at the Institute for Pain Management of the Clinical Medical Center Osijek. Pain intensity was measured using the Visual Analog Scale (VAS); the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21) was used to measure anxiety and depression; while catastrophizing was measured using the Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS). There was a moderate positive correlation between anxiety, depression, and pain intensity in patients with chronic non-malignant pain; a positive correlation between anxiety, depression, pain intensity, and catastrophic factors; and a reduction of anxiety, depression, pain intensity and catastrophization at the end of a multidisciplinary chronic pain treatment program. The findings contribute to a better understanding of the relation between emotional distress, cognitions and pain intensity in patients with chronic non-malignant pain.