Interplay Of Emotion Research Articles

Cutting Cultural Ties? Reasons Why Ukrainians Terminate or Continue to Interact With Russian Culture Despite the Ongoing Russian-Ukrainian War

The study investigates the factors related to Ukrainian nationals’ engagement or disengagement with Russian culture amid Russian-Ukrainian war. It explores the predictors of both continued engagement and reasons for terminating interaction, considering demographic, emotional, and circumstantial factors. A cross-sectional correlational design was used, involving 935 participants (305 continuing and 630 ceasing interaction with Russian culture). Participants completed questionnaires and detailed their engagement with Russian culture across various cultural items. Multiple linear and logistic regressions were conducted for analysis. The study found that factors like spoken language and coping strategies play a significant role in the decision to cut cultural ties. For those continuing interaction, language and emotional attachment were influential, alongside practical necessities like work/study requirements and the absence of Ukrainian alternatives. The study highlights a complex interplay of emotion, language, and age in shaping Ukrainians’ interaction with Russian culture during the war. It suggests future research should include additional sociopolitical and sociocultural factors, and a broader demographic representation to gain more nuanced perspectives.

Recent progress in alleviating orthodontic discomfort: Mechanism and management-the state of evidence

Orthodontic treatment has demonstrated efficacy in enhancing dental health and rectifying tooth misalignments. Nevertheless, patients experience substantial discomfort and distress. Advancements in orthodontic technology and treatment procedures have led to a decrease in orthodontic discomfort. Orthodontic discomfort refers to the inflammation that occurs due to the obstruction of blood vessels by orthodontic force. This leads to inflammatory responses, which encompass alterations in blood vessels, recruitment of inflammatory and immune cells, and heightened sensitivity of nerves along with the release of chemicals that promote inflammation. The body's inherent analgesic systems ultimately regulate the inflammatory response, thereby diminishing pain. Orthodontic pain signals are transmitted by three-order neurons, beginning with the trigeminal neuron located in the trigeminal ganglia. The signals subsequently arrive at the trigeminal nucleus caudalis located in the medulla oblongata, as well as the ventroposterior nucleus in the thalamus, where the sensation of pain is perceived. The processing of orthodontic pain involves the interplay of emotion, cognition, and memory in many parts of the brain. The structures encompassed in this list are the insular cortex, amygdala, hippocampus, locus coeruleus, and hypothalamus. The inherent analgesic neuronal pathway of the periaqueductal gray and dorsal raphe regions alleviates orthodontic discomfort. Various techniques are employed to manage orthodontic discomfort. These therapies encompass pharmacological, mechanical, behavioral, and low-level laser treatments. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medicines (NSAIDs) alleviate pain, but their impact on tooth movement remains uncertain. Additional research is required to establish the effectiveness of alternative modalities. Gene therapy provides a new, practical, and hopeful approach to treating orthodontic pain. This article explores new advancements and techniques that have enhanced the level of comfort experienced by orthodontic patients.

Emotional configurations of grief: Narratives from childhood

Being human involves encountering losses to which grief is a common response. No one can escape grief—it is the price of affection and love. In this paper, we aim to understand how grieving unfolds as described in university students’ short narratives of their childhood. Applying a cultural-historical approach, especially the notion of emotional configuration, we explore the interplay of emotion, sense-making, and practice in grief-related childhood life events. Our research problematizes the binary classification of “little and large griefs” and shows that focusing only on death-related grief may devalue losses in childhood that are not related to death. Our findings demonstrate that grief is never isolated, but configured with a variety of other emotions and feelings, and strongly related to children’s own sense-making and worldviews. Attention to emotional configuration shifts our focus from individual grief to the wider cultural-historical practices and sense-making processes in which grief is always intertwined.

The politics of smiling: the interplay of emotion, power and discourse in sensegiving and sensemaking

PurposeThis research investigates the politics of smiling as a central driver for employees to navigate power dynamics within the prevailing discourse at a Japanese retailer in Hong Kong. Existing critical management studies emphasize power in organizational language, often neglecting the role of employees’ emotions in sustaining discourse. This paper examines employees’ smiles as tools for legitimizing (sensegiving) and interpreting (sensemaking) discourse. It explores how the use of their emotional display influenced the outcome of the company’s attempt to legitimize discourse. This research divides the discourse process into five phases: formation, codification, implementation, monitoring and adaptation.Design/methodology/approachUsing the critical sensegiving and sensemaking approach, this paper discusses how employees’ interpretations of corporate policies shape the perpetuation of dominant discourse and outcomes. Data were collected through the author’s long-term participant observation in the Hong Kong branches of Japanese retailers.FindingsThe formation phase discusses the emergence of a dominant discourse favoring Japanese practices in the company’s Hong Kong operations. Codification involves the conceptualization of standard smiles in customer service policies. In practice (implementation, monitoring and adjustment), employee smiles serve as tools for negotiating power—shaping careers, earnings and shift preferences. This paper argues that this discourse shapes organizational norms while employees’ sensemaking influences the discourse implementation. Furthermore, this paper highlights the transnational impact of Japanese culture in Hong Kong, which has shaped the way Japanese top management and local employees interpret the dominant discourse.Originality/valueThis study demonstrates the importance of discussing the display of emotions and employees’ intentions to understand their impact on the outcome of discourse implementation. This study also reiterates the significance of discussing the influence of one culture on another to understand the broader social context that affects the perpetuation of discourse.

The politics of care and confinement: Disabled people's affective lives during COVID‐19

AbstractThis paper explores the affective and material impacts of the reconfiguration of caring on disabled people's lives during the pandemic. We draw on a series of focus groups and interviews with a group of nine disabled people with mobility or sensory impairments, many of whom were politically active in the arena of disability rights and independent living. This work forms part of a wider project re‐imagining care practices and policies. We reveal the interplay of emotion, affect and socio‐material conditions in disabled people's pandemic lives and reflect on how pre‐existing diminished care landscapes compounded COVID‐19's impacts. With support services shuttered and people confined at home, many disabled people experienced a renewed dependence on family care or found their care needs reduced to functional tasks undertaken by rota‐filling workers. We document participants' emotional experiences of loss, fear and anger deriving from changes in their one‐to‐one care interactions and arrangements but also wider societal narratives positioning disabled people as both vulnerable to, and carriers of, disease. Drawing together the crisis' affective and material effects, we demonstrate how disabled people politicized their affective experiences of anger and hope through online organizing to challenge the diminution of supports and demand affective justice from the care system.

Emotion, place, and practice: Exploring the interplay in children's engagement in ecologists' sampling practices

AbstractIn science education, there has been a sustained focus on supporting the emergence of science practices in K–12 and field‐based settings. Recent work has elevated the integral role of emotion in sparking and sustaining such disciplinary practices, deepening the field's understanding of what is entailed in “doing” science. Yet even as we gain this richer understanding of practice, less attention has been given to the places where practice emerges. These places play a critical role in the co‐emergence of emotion and practice, and while separate strands of research have elevated emotion and practice or, alternately, place and practice, rarely has their dynamic relationship been considered together. In this article, I explore this interplay of emotion, place, and practice emergent in children's sampling practices within a multiweek curriculum centered around their schoolyard soil ecosystem. Through a comparative case study analysis of two student pairs using video data, student interviews, and classroom artifacts, my analysis reveals how children's emergent emotion was entangled in their relationships with the schoolyard and life within, shaping not only how they engaged in sampling practices but also what dimensions of the ecological system they attended to. I argue that emotion and place should be central to the design, teaching, and analysis of learning contexts, in turn centering the social and emplaced dimensions of science disciplinary practices for children and scientists alike. Implications for science teaching and learning are discussed, with particular consideration of field‐based sciences.

The curious case of productivity orientation: The influence of advertising stimuli on affect and preference for subscription boxes

This research evaluates the interplay of emotion, cognition, and individual differences such as productivity orientation. Two experimental design studies using Mturk participants test the proposed effects of curiosity evoked by advertising stimuli with mystery on positive affect and preference for curated subscription boxes. The results show that advertising stimuli with mystery can have a negative influence on positive affect unless people feel high curiosity. We further demonstrate that people with high productivity orientation are more likely to experience high positive affect and to prefer “curated for you” items compared to low productivity-oriented people, after viewing advertising stimuli with mystery.

Quantifying fear of failure in STEM: modifying and evaluating the Performance Failure Appraisal Inventory (PFAI) for use with STEM undergraduates

BackgroundThe ability to navigate obstacles and embrace iteration following failure is a hallmark of a scientific disposition and is hypothesized to increase students’ persistence in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). However, this ability is often not explicitly explored or addressed by STEM instructors. Recent collective interest brought together STEM instructors, psychologists, and education researchers through the National Science Foundation (NSF) research collaborative Factors affecting Learning, Attitudes, and Mindsets in Education network (FLAMEnet) to investigate intrapersonal elements (e.g., individual differences, affect, motivation) that may influence students’ STEM persistence. One such element is fear of failure (FF), a complex interplay of emotion and cognition occurring when a student believes they may not be able to meet the needs of an achievement context. A validated measure for assessing FF, the Performance Failure Appraisal Inventory (PFAI) exists in the psychological literature. However, this measure was validated in community, athletic, and general undergraduate samples, which may not accurately reflect the motivations, experiences, and diversity of undergraduate STEM students. Given the potential role of FF in STEM student persistence and motivation, we felt it important to determine if this measure accurately assessed FF for STEM undergraduates, and if not, how we could improve upon or adapt it for this purpose.ResultsUsing exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis and cognitive interviews, we re-validated the PFAI with a sample of undergraduates enrolled in STEM courses, primarily introductory biology and chemistry. Results indicate that a modified 15-item four-factor structure is more appropriate for assessing levels of FF in STEM students, particularly among those from groups underrepresented in STEM.ConclusionsIn addition to presenting an alternate factor structure, our data suggest that using the original form of the PFAI measure may significantly misrepresent levels of FF in the STEM context. This paper details our collaborative validation process and discusses implications of the results for choosing, using, and interpreting psychological assessment tools within STEM undergraduate populations.

Uchronic Lives, Emotion, and Temporality: The Radical Politics of the Basque Country, 1968-1982

The Spanish leftists who struggled against Franco’s dictatorial regime in the late 1960s and 1970s were fuelled by their belief in a radically different and better future. Revolutionary enthusiasm was particularly strong in the Basque Country, where the radical left had a strong presence. However, when the transition to democracy in Spain in the late 1970s and early 1980s followed a reformist rather than revolutionary course, the sense of disillusionment among Basque radicals eager for revolutionary change was especially acute. This article examines the presence of “uchronic dreams”—imaginings of alternate, radically different futures for post-Francoist Spain—in Basque leftists’ memories of the period between 1968 and 1982. Interviews with Basque militants who had been active in different organizations during the 1970s reveal the complex interplay of emotion and temporality in their memories of their activism. In understanding the memories of activists in terms of the loss and defeat of their revolutionary ideals, the author argues that melancholia plays an active role in shaping their memories. What emerges from their sense of loss of a future that never came to be is a new temporality that preserves intact many of their revolutionary expectations and utopian promises.

Uchronic Lives, Emotion, and Temporality: The Radical Politics of the Basque Country, 1968–1982

The Spanish leftists who struggled against Franco's dictatorial regime in the late 1960s and 1970s were fuelled by their belief in a radically different and better future. Revolutionary enthusiasm was particularly strong in the Basque Country, where the radical left had a strong presence. However, when the transition to democracy in Spain in the late 1970s and early 1980s followed a reformist rather than revolutionary course, the sense of disillusionment among Basque radicals eager for revolutionary change was especially acute. This article examines the presence of "uchronic dreams"—imaginings of alternate, radically different futures for post-Francoist Spain—in Basque leftists' memories of the period between 1968 and 1982. Interviews with Basque militants who had been active in different organizations during the 1970s reveal the complex interplay of emotion and temporality in their memories of their activism. In understanding the memories of activists in terms of the loss and defeat of their revolutionary ideals, the author argues that melancholia plays an active role in shaping their memories. What emerges from their sense of loss of a future that never came to be is a new temporality that preserves intact many of their revolutionary expectations and utopian promises.

The Dynamic Interplay of Emotion and Reason in Moral Imagination

The Dynamic Interplay of Emotion and Reason in Moral Imagination

Tension of interaction order: infringement and mobilization of the umbrella movement

Purpose This study aims at exploring the mobilization of the Umbrella Movement and examining how the interplay of emotion and meaning contribute to a mass occupation via the mass media and social media. It proposes a model of emotional mobilization and explains how and why the perception of eviction is capable of triggering the subsequent collective political action through moral shock on bystanders. Design/methodology/approach The paper is an exploratory study and adopts the method of semi-structured interview. It interviewed 31 participants of the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong. The data were complemented by discourse analysis of video clips and participation observation of conflict scenes between protestors and police. Findings This study provides insights on how a potential participant can be motivated to participate in a social movement, after perceiving violent behaviors of police on other people. It suggests that moral outrage can be generated when people realizes a dramatic difference between expected behaviors and perceived behaviors of police officers through watching live broadcast or video clips. It also suggests that the shared social identity between protestors, police and perceivers provides the ground for the perceivers to feel angry and believe they are obliged to response to the situation. Research limitations/implications Because of the method and approach, the study may lack generalizability. However, researchers can test the proposed propositions by applying the model to other unexpected mobilization of social movement in history, or expand the model by studying the mobilizing power of direct and indirect perception of eviction, and the examine responses of the same physical conflict from people with different social identities. Originality/value This study explains how the mobilization of a social movement is possible despite the failure of mobilization by activists. It also complements the idea of moral shock by grounding such process on interaction order.

Towards medical education neuroscience: pilot results of integrative affective analytics from clinical skills workshops

Towards medical education neuroscience: pilot results of integrative affective analytics from clinical skills workshops

T. S. Eliot, Emotion and the Reader

From the mid-1990s onwards, the humanities and social sciences have devoted a great deal of attention to the operations of the affects, and there has been much talk about “the affective turn”. This article begins by looking at the impact of that phenomenon on scholarly and critical work on T. S. Eliot, a milder impact than one might have expected. It then goes on to investigate the interplay of emotion and intellect in the creation of Eliot's works, affective effects on readers of literature and the role of the academic writer/teacher in the context of emotional engagement with literary texts. The contention of cognitive scientists that emotion and thought do not occupy distinct cerebral spheres is seen as a liberating factor, and the author argues that the admission of affective dimensions to a pursuit traditionally dominated by intellectuality contributes to making the present time a propitious one for innovative Eliot criticism.

The neurobiology of emotion-cognition interactions: fundamental questions and strategies for future research.

Recent years have witnessed the emergence of powerful new tools for assaying the brain and a remarkable acceleration of research focused on the interplay of emotion and cognition. This work has begun to yield new insights into fundamental questions about the nature of the mind and important clues about the origins of mental illness. In particular, this research demonstrates that stress, anxiety, and other kinds of emotion can profoundly influence key elements of cognition, including selective attention, working memory, and cognitive control. Often, this influence persists beyond the duration of transient emotional challenges, partially reflecting the slower molecular dynamics of catecholamine and hormonal neurochemistry. In turn, circuits involved in attention, executive control, and working memory contribute to the regulation of emotion. The distinction between the ‘emotional’ and the ‘cognitive’ brain is fuzzy and context-dependent. Indeed, there is compelling evidence that brain territories and psychological processes commonly associated with cognition, such as the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and working memory, play a central role in emotion. Furthermore, putatively emotional and cognitive regions influence one another via a complex web of connections in ways that jointly contribute to adaptive and maladaptive behavior. This work demonstrates that emotion and cognition are deeply interwoven in the fabric of the brain, suggesting that widely held beliefs about the key constituents of ‘the emotional brain’ and ‘the cognitive brain’ are fundamentally flawed. We conclude by outlining several strategies for enhancing future research. Developing a deeper understanding of the emotional-cognitive brain is important, not just for understanding the mind but also for elucidating the root causes of its disorders.

Introduction to the special research topic on the neurobiology of emotion-cognition interactions.

Recent years have witnessed an explosion of interest focused on the interplay of emotion and cognition (Pessoa, 2013; Braver et al., 2014; Dolcos and Denkova, 2014). The goal of our Special Research Topic was to survey recent advances in understanding how emotional and cognitive processes interact, how they are integrated in the brain, and the implications for understanding the mind and its disorders. Investigators from across North America, Israel, and Europe contributed 19 original empirical reports as well as 15 commentaries and theoretical reviews. Their work encompasses a broad spectrum of populations and showcases a wide variety of paradigms, measures, analytic strategies, and conceptual approaches. Already (August 2014), the 34 contributions to this Special Topic have been viewed on the Frontiers website more than 70,000 times, shared or posted to social media networks more than 16,000 times, and cited nearly 90 times. While reading, posting, sharing, and citing are undoubtedly helpful, active debate provides a more direct means of sharpening constructs, clarifying boundary conditions, articulating unspoken assumptions, identifying soft spots in the evidentiary record, and refining models. We agree with Kenrick and Funder's suggestion that, “science best progresses through multiple and mutually critical attempts to understand the same problem. When camps with… opposing sets of biases manage to come to some level of agreement, we may be more confident of the validity of the conclusions that are agreed upon” (Kenrick and Funder, 1988, p. 32). In this regard, we were pleased to see Proudfit (Proudfit et al., 2013) and Moser (Moser et al., 2013) vigorously debate the integration of anxiety and cognitive control. The research embodied in this Special Research Topic underscores the tremendous progress made in our understanding of emotion-cognition interactions. In particular, this work demonstrates that emotional cues and states can profoundly influence key elements of cognition, including attention (Holtmann et al., 2013; Kessel et al., 2013; Mchugo et al., 2013; Mohanty and Sussman, 2013; Morriss et al., 2013; Peers et al., 2013; Stollstorff et al., 2013), working memory (Clarke and Johnstone, 2013; Iordan et al., 2013; Robinson et al., 2013b; Stout et al., 2013; Vytal et al., 2013), cognitive control (Kalanthroff et al., 2013; Proudfit et al., 2013; Robinson et al., 2013a), reinforcement learning (Berghorst et al., 2013), and various kinds of mood-congruent information processing (van Dessel and Vogt, 2012; Harle et al., 2013; Schick et al., 2013). Several contributors provided evidence that mood can have enduring consequences for cognition (Morriss et al., 2013; Vaisvaser et al., 2013), perhaps reflecting the comparatively slow dynamics of catecholamine and hormonal neurochemistry (Sacher et al., 2013; Shansky and Lipps, 2013). These and other molecular pathways may also help to explain the impact of emotional traits on cognition (Berggren et al., 2013; Kessel et al., 2013; Moser et al., 2013; Proudfit et al., 2013). A number of contributors provided exciting new evidence that circuits involved in attention, executive control, and working memory play a central role in emotion and emotion regulation (Aue et al., 2013; Clarke and Johnstone, 2013; Iordan et al., 2013; Peers et al., 2013; Rolls, 2013; Sheppes and Levin, 2013; Stollstorff et al., 2013). Several contributors provided evidence that putatively emotional and cognitive regions can influence one another via complex webs of connections in ways that jointly contribute to adaptive and maladaptive behavior (John et al., 2013; Morrison et al., 2013; Rolls, 2013). Taken together, this research suggests that emotion and cognition are deeply interwoven in the fabric of the brain (Dreisbach and Fischer, 2012; Crocker et al., 2013; Mcdermott et al., 2013; Moser et al., 2013; Proudfit et al., 2013; Warren et al., 2013). Despite this progress, a number of important challenges remain. We address these challenges in more detail in the accompanying review (Okon-Singer et al., 2015). Future work aimed at developing a deeper understanding of the interplay of emotion and cognition is a matter of practical as well as theoretical importance. Many of the most common, costly, and challenging to treat neuropsychiatric disorders—anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, substance abuse, chronic pain, autism, and so on—involve prominent disturbances of both cognition and emotion (Millan, 2013), suggesting that they can be conceptualized as disorders of the emotional-cognitive brain (Shackman et al., in press). These disorders impose a larger burden on public health and the global economy than either cancer or cardiovascular disease (Collins et al., 2011; Diluca and Olesen, 2014; Whiteford, 2014), underscoring the importance of accelerating efforts to understand the neural systems underlying the interaction and the integration of emotion and cognition.

Menstrual Cycle Phase Modulates Emotional Conflict Processing in Women with and without Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) – A Pilot Study

BackgroundPremenstrual syndrome (PMS) is characterized by a cluster of psychological and somatic symptoms during the late luteal phase of the menstrual cycle that disappear after the onset of menses. Behavioral differences in emotional and cognitive processing have been reported in women with PMS, and it is of particular interest whether PMS affects the parallel execution of emotional and cognitive processing. Related to this is the question of how the performance of women with PMS relates to stress levels compared to women without PMS. Cortisol has been shown to affect emotional processing in general and it has also been shown that women with severe PMS have a particular cortisol profile.MethodsWe measured performance in an emotional conflict task and stress levels in women with PMS (n = 15) and women without PMS (n = 15) throughout their menstrual cycle.ResultsWe found a significant increase (p = 0.001) in the mean reaction time for resolving emotional conflict from the follicular to the luteal cycle phase in all subjects. Only women with PMS demonstrated an increase in physiological and subjective stress measures during the luteal menstrual cycle phase.ConclusionsOur findings suggest that the menstrual cycle modulates the integration of emotional and cognitive processing in all women. Preliminary data are supportive of the secondary hypothesis that stress levels are mediated by the menstrual cycle phase only in women with PMS. The presented evidence for menstrual cycle-specific differences in integrating emotional and cognitive information highlights the importance of controlling for menstrual cycle phase in studies that aim to elucidate the interplay of emotion and cognition.

Evidence from neuroimaging for the role of the menstrual cycle in the interplay of emotion and cognition

Women show increased predisposition for certain psychiatric disorders, such as depression, that are associated with disturbances in the integration of emotion and cognition. While this suggests that sex hormones need to be considered as modulating factors in the regulation of emotion, we still lack a sound understanding of how the menstrual cycle impacts emotional states and cognitive function. Though signals for the influence of the menstrual cycle on the integration of emotion and cognition have appeared as secondary findings in numerous behavioral and neuroimaging studies, this has only very rarely been the primary research goal. This review summarizes evidence: (1) that the menstrual cycle modulates the integration of emotional and cognitive processing on a behavioral level, and (2) that this change in behavior can be associated with functional, molecular and structural changes in the brain during a specific menstrual cycle phase. The growing evidence for menstrual cycle-specific differences suggests a modulating role for sex hormones on the neural networks supporting the integration of emotional and cognitive information. It will further be discussed what methodological aspects need to be considered to capture the role of the menstrual cycle in the emotion-cognition interplay more systematically.

Emotionele intelligentie en de relatie met stress, gezondheid en welzijn1

Emotional intelligence (EI) has become increasingly popular over the past decade. However, researchers are still involved in a hot debate concerning the conceptualization. EI can be classified in ability models and mixed (trait) models. Ability models focus on the interplay of emotion and intelligence as traditionally defined, while mixed models describe a broader conception of intelligence that combines mental abilities with a wide range of personality characteristics. EI is closely related to social and practical intelligence, alexithymia, and psychological mindedness. Preliminary findings demonstrated that certain aspects of EI may protect people from stress and may lead to better psychological adaptation. A number of studies have shown that EI is positively related to physical health and psychological health. However, future research should focus on attempts to increase conceptual coherence. EI should be liberated from elements that do not represent forms of intelligence and facets that are already encapsulated by existing personality and temperament models. Therefore, the use of EI measures should be accompanied by great caution.

The experience of time: neural mechanisms and the interplay of emotion, cognition and embodiment.

Time research has been a neglected topic in the cognitive neurosciences of the last decades: how do humans perceive time? How and where in the brain is time processed? This introductory paper provides an overview of the empirical and theoretical papers on the psychological and neural basis of time perception collected in this theme issue. Contributors from the fields of cognitive psychology, psychiatry, neurology and neuroanatomy tackle this complex question with a variety of techniques ranging from psychophysical and behavioural experiments to pharmacological interventions and functional neuroimaging. Several (and some new) models of how and where in the brain time is processed are presented in this unique collection of recent research that covers experienced time intervals from milliseconds to minutes. We hope this volume to be conducive in developing a better understanding of the sense of time as part of complex set of brain-body factors that include cognitive, emotional and body states.