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Emotion induction, Emotion Regulation, Physiological Correlates, Subjective Measures, Music perception, Pain, Physical Activity, Standardized Affective Stimuli, Gender and Cultural Differences
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October 2012 - March 2021
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Prior neuroimaging studies of music-evoked emotions have shown that music listening involves the activation of cortical and subcortical regions. However, these regions could be differentially activated by music stimuli with different affective valence. To better understand the neural correlates involved in the processing of pleasant and unpleasant...
Listening to music prompts strong emotional reactions in the listeners but relatively little research has focused on individual differences. This study addresses the role of musical preference and familiarity on emotions induced through music. A sample of 50 healthy participants (25 women) listened to 42 excerpts from the FMMS during 8 s while thei...
Although music is one of the most important sources of pleasure for many people, there are considerable individual differences in music reward sensitivity. Behavioral and neurobiological characterizations of music reward variability have been topics of increasing scientific interest over the last two decades. However, it is not clear how difference...
The present study aims at comparing the effects of two subtypes of cognitive reappraisal (i.e., stimulus-focused vs. goal-based reappraisal) to reduce anticipatory anxiety of pain. Affective ratings, startle reflex, and autonomic measures (electrodermal and heart rate changes) were used as a measure of emotion regulation success. A total of 86 unde...
La pandemia causada por la COVID-19 ha tenido un gran impacto en diferentes aspectos de nuestra vida diaria. Uno de ellos es nuestra sexualidad. En concreto, el comportamiento sexual solitario y el consumo pornográfico han adquirido más protagonismo por las medidas de distanciamiento social y confinamiento que se han puesto en práctica en la mayorí...
Cognitive reappraisal and acceptance strategies have been shown to be effective in reducing pain experience and increasing pain tolerance. However, no systematic reviews have focused on the relationship between the use of these two strategies and peripheral physiological correlates when pain is experimentally induced. This systematic review aims to...
The use of music as emotional stimuli in experimental studies has grown in recent years. However, prior studies have mainly focused on self-reports and central measures, with a few works exploring the time course of psychophysiological correlates. Moreover, most of the previous research has been carried out either from the dimensional or categorica...
Research on emotional processes has been closely related to the use of emotional stimuli, promoting the development of different standardized sets of images. However, some kinds of images that would be relevant in clinical psychology research are not available, especially for small animal phobias. The aim of the present study is to validate a set o...
Heart Rate Variability (HRV) has been widely studied in laboratory settings due to its clinical implications, primarily as a potential biomarker of emotion regulation (ER). Studies have reported that individuals with higher resting HRV show more distinct startle reflexes to negative stimuli as compared to those with lower HRV. These responses have...
In this era of COVID-19, novel solo sex behavior, like a changed pornography market that enhances usage and masturbation, is gaining prominence. Nevertheless, the body of literature on solo sex and pornography usage lacks data and coherence in terms of potentially negative or positive outcomes of these changed behavior patterns. Moreover, nearly al...
Social acceptance and aesthetic impact of renewable energy (RE) in cities are topics scarcely considered in the literature even though they have attracted growing interest. Innovative European-funded projects, therefore, should start to consider these concepts. This paper provides an innovative review of European projects with the aim of identifyin...
Pictures with affective content have been widely used in the scientific study of emotions, from two main perspectives: on the one hand, dimensional theories claiming that affective experiences can be described according to a few fundamental dimensions such as valence and arousal, and on the other hand, discrete-category theories proposing the prese...
The literature review reveals different conceptual and methodological challenges in the field of music and emotion, such as the lack of agreement in terms of standardized datasets, and the need for replication of prior findings. Our study aimed at validating for Spanish population a set of film music stimuli previously standardized in Finnish sampl...
This paper presents the translation, adaptation and validation of a broadly used scale to measure emotion regulation strategies (i.e. The Emotion Regulation Questionnaire Children and Adolescents –ERQ-CA; Gullone & Taffe, 2012) in a sample of early adolescents. The 10-item scale was applied to a sample of 248 adolescents (128 boys) aged 13 to 14 ye...
Increased attention among the research community in exploring underlying mechanisms of emotion regulation has prompted a growth of experimental works in this field. Empirical studies have mainly focused on self‐reports, brain imaging, and electrophysiological measures, with only a few works exploring peripheral physiology. Additionally, most of suc...
Introduction:
eating disorders (ED) are complex multifactorial chronic diseases with adverse consequences on cognition in adolescence.
Objectives:
the main aim of the present study was to analyze the association between the risk of ED and academic performance in adolescents, considering the key role of weight status.
Methods:
a total of 261 adole...
The presence of solar energy systems has increased significantly in recent years both in rural areas –in the form of solar farms–, and in urban areas as part of building installations. This transformation of the landscape, in spite of the good social acceptance of solar energy, causes an aesthetic impact whose interest has been growing in literatur...
In classical conditioning, conditioned responses (CRs) to aversively paired (CS+) relative to unpaired (CS-) face images are often interpreted in terms of the specific individual displayed in the CS + face image having adopted an aversive emotional connotation. This interpretation requires conditioning to rely on an association between CS + face id...
La Respuesta Cardíaca de Defensa (RCD) es un patrón dinámico de reactividad car-díaca en respuesta a un estímulo aversivo, intenso e inesperado que consiste en dos componentes sucesivos acelerativos y decelerativos, cuya significación psicológica se atribuye tanto a procesos atencionales como emocionales. De acuerdo con el modelo de la cascada defe...
Architecture has become an important field of research on the mitigation of climate change. The literature contains a number of environmental studies of buildings and energy efficiency improvements analysis. Important advances have also been made by integrating renewable energies within the building envelope. In architecture, however, it must be re...
La Respuesta Cardíaca de Defensa (RCD) es un patrón dinámico de reactividad cardíaca en respuesta a un estímulo aversivo, intenso e inesperado que consiste en dos componentes sucesivos acelerativos y decelerativos, cuya significación psicológica se atribuye tanto a procesos atencionales como emocionales. De acuerdo con el modelo
de la cascada defen...
La perspectiva de género debe ser una categoría transversal en el ámbito de la salud para garantizar la igualdad efectiva entre hombres y mujeres. Sin embargo, sigue siendo una asignatura pendiente en las investigaciones científicas, especialmente en el campo de la salud y de las emociones. Este libro recoge una serie de trabajos en formato de capí...
Introducción: La regulación emocional puede definirse como la capacidad para influir sobre qué emociones tenemos, cuándo las tenemos y cómo las experimentamos y expresamos. La mayoría de estudios se han centrado en la reevaluación cognitiva, básicamente utilizando medidas centrales (fmri o erp). Sin embargo, pocos trabajos se han interesado por los...
La regulación emocional es la capacidad para manejar las emociones
de manera apropiada, modificando su intensidad y duración, por lo que se ha vinculado
con el bienestar psicológico. Así mismo, la actividad física se considera beneficiosa
para la salud, aunque los resultados que la vinculan con el bienestar psicológico y
emocional no han sido concl...
En este capítulo se analizarán los factores que pueden estar afectando a la salud psicosocial en el trabajo considerando la perspectiva de género. Para ello, desde el marco de la Psicología de la Salud Ocupacional, se analizarán las variables tantos estructurales (segregación horizontal y vertical, características del puesto diferenciadas por géner...
Several challenges make it difficult to simultaneously investigate central and autonomous nervous system correlates of conditioned stimulus (CS) processing in classical conditioning paradigms. Such challenges include, for example, the discrepant requirements of electroencephalography (EEG) and electrodermal activity (EDA) recordings with regard to...
The present study examines the effectiveness of a prolonged exposure to body technique for the treatment of body dissatisfaction in people without ED (Eating Disorder), but with high body dis- satisfaction. The mirror exposure technique was compared with other two forms of treatment, one that join mirror exposure plus neutral description of one’s b...
En el presente capítulo se incluyen una serie de reflexiones en torno a cuatro grandes áreas de estudio. En primer lugar, sobre la salud de las mujeres desde un punto de vista holístico e in- tegral, y cómo las diversas manifestaciones de su cuerpo deben ir unidas a las propias vivencias. Seguidamente se establecen algunas de las paradojas existent...
The focus of the present study was on further exploring anticipatory responses to emotional stimuli by measuring the eyeblink startle reflex in a variation of the picture-picture affective learning procedure. Participants (113 undergraduate women) were not explicitly instructed before the experiment began. Instead, they had to learn the specific re...
Resumen Tan antiguos como la existencia de los seres vivos son los mecanismos de adaptacion que les han servido para evolucionar y sobrevivir. Con la aparicion del cerebro reptilia-no surgieron las primeras emociones y, desde entonces, los procesos emocionales han estado ligados al desarrollo cerebral, aumentando en grado y sofisticacion segun evol...
MultiCS conditioning is an affective associative learning paradigm, in which affective categories consist of many similar and complex stimuli. Comparing visual processing before and after learning, recent MultiCS conditioning studies using time-sensitive magnetoencephalography (MEG) revealed enhanced activation of prefrontal cortex (PFC) regions to...
Drawing on the Job-Person Fit Model, this study examines whether the wanted (person) and the actual (job) features fit has similar effects on job related well-being (work engagement and satisfaction) in both men and women. A sample of 840 employees from 29 countries (53% men) participated in this study. The results of the Student's t-test, ANOVA, a...
The Spanish norms for pictures in shows 15 to 20 of the Interna-tional Affective Picture System (IAPS) are reported in this paper. Participants were 811 undergraduate university students (521 women), who rated the valence, arousal, and dominance of 358 pictures. The correlations between the North-American and the Spanish ratings were all highly sig...
The present study examined the effects of sustained anticipatory anxiety on the affective modulation of the eyeblink startle reflex. Towards this end, pleasant, neutral and unpleasant pictures were presented as a continuous stream during alternating threat-of-shock and safety periods, which were cued by colored picture frames. Orbicularis-EMG to au...
Prior studies have demonstrated that differences in activation of the defensive motivational system – as indexed by cardiac responses to the CS+ during aversive conditioning – are related to differences in the acquisition of two-levels-of-learning: cognitive (contingency learning) and emotional (fear learning). Here we further explored these differ...
Event-related potentials (ERP) were measured when pleasant, neutral or unpleasant pictures were presented in the context of similarly valenced stimuli, and compared to ERPs elicited when the same pictures were viewed in an intermixed context. An early ERP component (150-300 ms) measured over occipital and fronto-central sensors was specific to view...
In order to clarify the role of the two broad components of psychopathy (interpersonal/affective and social deviance; R. D. Hare, 2003) in explaining maladaptive response perseveration in psychopaths, as well as the role of reflection after punished responses in this deficit, the authors administered a card perseveration task to 47 Spanish male inm...
This study examined the utility of the MMPI-2 to predict Gray’s BIS/BAS dimensions in a sample of 193 Spanish undergraduates. Although the MMPI-2 is composed of numerous scale indices, we focused on the clinical, content, and the Personality Psychopathology-Five (PSY-5) scales. Overall, findings confirmed hypothesized associations between BIS/BAS f...
The behavioral inhibition (BIS) and activation systems (BAS) are featuring prominently in representations of personality and psychopathology. Although theoretical links between the BIS and BAS dimensions and personality disorder (PD) have been offered, little empirical evidence has been forthcoming. In a nonclinical sample of Spanish college studen...
Gray’s two-factor model represents motivation in terms of a behavioral inhibition (BIS) and a behavioral activation system (BAS). Although this model has theoretical links to psychopathy, few studies have examined this relationship. In a sample of 326 noninstitutionalized young adults, we examined the relationship of the BIS/BAS dimensions to multi...
Startle probe modulation during affective picture viewing was assessed in a Spanish prison population. As for North American inmates, psychopaths failed to display normal blink potentiation during unpleasant slides even though their evaluative judgments and autonomic reaction to affective stimuli paralleled those of other inmate and noninmate parti...
The norms of the Spanish adaptation for shows 9 14 (second part) of the International Affective Picture System (lAPS) are presented. The results are highly consistent with those obtained in the first part of the Spanish adaptation and in the original USA version. The picture distribution in the bi-dimensional space, defined by the ratings of valen...
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I would like to contact with any researchers that work with Biopac for measuring facial EMG (orbicularis oculi), and implement subroutines of analyses for startle eye blink parameters (peak amplitude, onset latency...) using Acknowledge v.4.1 or v.4.4.
In the past we used the algorithms implemented in different softwares such as VPM, which includes the parameters suggested by Balaban et al., (1987), for data acquired with other systems (e.g., Coulbourn).
