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ArticlePsychophysiology2019

Neurocognitive mechanisms of emotion-related impulsivity: The role of arousal.

Jennifer G Pearlstein, Sheri L Johnson, Kiana Modavi, Andrew D Peckham, Charles S Carver

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Article in Psychophysiology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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31 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  4. Neural Bases of Affect-Based Impulsivity: A Decision Neuroscience Account.Computational psychiatry (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2026
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  5. Variable Presence of an Evolutionarily New Brain Structure Is Related to Trait Impulsivity.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2026
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  7. Introducing the Glutamate-Amplifies-Noradrenergic-Effects (GANE) Model to the Neurocognitive Study of Emotion-Related Impulsivity.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2025
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  8. Negative urgency as a state-level process.Journal of personality · 2025
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  13. Emotion-related impulsivity is related to orbitofrontal cortical sulcation.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2024
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  17. Contexts of urgency may go beyond emotion.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024
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  18. The Insidious Influence of Stress: An Integrated Model of Stress, Executive Control, and Psychopathology.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2023
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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Jennifer G PearlsteinDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California.
Sheri L JohnsonDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California.
Kiana ModaviDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California.
Andrew D PeckhamBehavioral Health, McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts.
Charles S CarverDepartment of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida.

Funding

Stress-Induced Decays in Working Memory and Internalizing SymptomsR01MH110477 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI JOHNSON, SHERI L, TIMPANO, KIARA R · 2016 to 2020
$3.3M
Neural /Cognitive Facets /Reward Responsivity /Bipolar DR01MH076021 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI CORAL GABLES · PI JOHNSON, SHERI L · 2006 to 2010
$1.9M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH076021NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH110477
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prior research suggests that a traitlike tendency to experience impulsivity during states of high emotion is robustly associated with many forms of psychopathology. Several studies tie emotion-related impulsivity to response inhibition deficits, but these studies have not focused on the role of emotion or arousal within subjects. The present study tested whether arousal, measured by pupil dilation, amplifies deficits in response inhibition for those high in emotion-related impulsivity. Participants (N = 85) completed a measure of emotion-related impulsivity, underwent a positive mood induction procedure that reduced heterogeneity in mood states, and completed a response inhibition task. Pupil dilation was used to index arousal during the response inhibition task. Generalized linear mixed effect modeling yielded the hypothesized interaction between arousal (pupil dilation) and emotion-related impulsivity in predicting response inhibition performance at the trial level. Emotion-related impulsivity relates to more difficulties with response inhibition during moments of high arousal.

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Inhibition, PsychologicalAdolescentAdultAffectArousalExecutive FunctionFemaleHumansImpulsive BehaviorMalePupilYoung Adultcognitive controlemotionimpulsivitypupillometryresponse inhibition

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PMID30259983
PMCPMC6404980

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