Think again: the role of reappraisal in reducing negative valence bias

M Neta, NR Harp, TT Tong, CJ Clinchard… - Cognition and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Stimuli such as surprised faces are ambiguous in that they are associated with both positive
and negative outcomes. Interestingly, people differ reliably in whether they evaluate these …

Tendency to share positive emotions buffers loneliness-related negativity in the context of shared adversity

NR Harp, M Neta - Journal of research in personality, 2023 - Elsevier
Loneliness is associated with adverse outcomes, and the COVID-19 pandemic threatened to
increase loneliness. How loneliness-related outcomes unfold, though, varies across …

[HTML][HTML] Associations of state and chronic loneliness with interpretation bias: The role of internalizing symptoms

B Grocott, M Neta, F Chen, J LeMoult - Behaviour Research and Therapy, 2024 - Elsevier
Loneliness is common and, while generally transient, persists in up to 22% of the
population. The rising prevalence and adverse impacts of chronic loneliness highlight the …

In the face of ambiguity: intrinsic brain organization in development predicts one's bias toward positivity or negativity

NR Harp, AN Nielsen, DH Schultz, M Neta - Cerebral Cortex, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Exacerbated negativity bias, including in responses to ambiguity, represents a common
phenotype of internalizing disorders. Individuals differ in their propensity toward positive or …

Greater social network complexity mitigates pandemic-related negativity

E Haque, NR Harp, M Neta - Journal of Social and Personal …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Having strong, diverse social relationships is tightly linked to myriad physical and mental
health benefits by mitigating the negative impacts of adverse events. The COVID-19 …

Habitual Expressive Suppression of Positive, but not Negative, Emotions Consistently Predicts Lower Well-being across Two Culturally Distinct Regions

CWF Yu, CM Haase, JH Chang - Affective Science, 2023 - Springer
Habitual expressive suppression (ie, a tendency to inhibit the outward display of one's
emotions; hereafter suppression) is often conceptualized as a maladaptive emotion …

Attributional negativity bias and acute stress disorder symptoms mediate the association between trauma history and future posttraumatic stress disorder

EK Webb, SC Timmer‐Murillo… - … of Traumatic Stress, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Individuals who have experienced more trauma throughout their life have a heightened risk
of developing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following injury. Although trauma history …

Emotion regulation moderates the association between COVID-19 stress and mental distress: findings on buffering, exacerbation, and gender differences in a cross …

A Haver, H Krampe, LJ Danbolt, G Stålsett… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background Maintaining good mental health is important during a crisis. However, little
attention has been given to how people achieve this, or how they evaluate emotions …

Valence bias: Individual differences in response to ambiguity.

M Neta - 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
This chapter focuses on the portion of the variance driven by the organism, revealing that
there are stable organism level differences in valence decisions made in response to …

Characterizing Relationships Among the Cognitive, Physical, Social-emotional, and Health-related Traits of Military Personnel

GE Giles, E Navarro, S Elkin-Frankston… - Military …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Introduction Personnel engaged in high-stakes occupations, such as military personnel, law
enforcement, and emergency first responders, must sustain performance through a range of …