ArticleSocial psychological and personality science2021
Spring Break or Heart Break? Extending Valence Bias to Emotional Words.
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- The role of trait reappraisal in response to emotional ambiguity: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2024Pooled it
- Facing ambiguity: What we do in the space between stimulus and response.Current directions in psychological science · 2026Article
- Valence bias arises from both positive and negative responses to ambiguous stimuli.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Proposing a model whereby negative valence bias increases the risk for more severe dysphoric posttraumatic stress disorder and depression symptomology.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2024Article
- Shift in Valence Bias Associated with Decrease in Trait Anxiety and Depression Symptoms.Cognitive therapy and research · 2024Article
- In the face of ambiguity: intrinsic brain organization in development predicts one's bias toward positivity or negativity.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2024Article
- Resting-state functional network segregation of the default mode network predicts valence bias across the lifespan.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
- Specialized late cingulo-opercular network activation elucidates the mechanisms underlying decisions about ambiguity.NeuroImage · 2023Article
- Negative interpretation bias connects to real-world daily affect: A multistudy approach.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2023Article
- Think again: the role of reappraisal in reducing negative valence bias.Cognition & emotion · 2023Article
- Tendency to Share Positive Emotions Buffers Loneliness-Related Negativity in the Context of Shared Adversity.Journal of research in personality · 2023Article
- Face coverings differentially alter valence judgments of emotional expressions.Basic and applied social psychology · 2023Article
- Interpersonal emotion regulation mitigates the link between trait neuroticism and a more negative valence bias.Personality and individual differences · 2022Article
- Social connectedness and negative affect uniquely explain individual differences in response to emotional ambiguity.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Reappraisal-but not Suppression-Tendencies Determine Negativity Bias After Laboratory and Real-World Stress Exposure.Affective science · 2021Article
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Abstract
Ambiguous stimuli are useful for assessing emotional bias. For example, surprised faces could convey a positive or negative meaning, and the degree to which an individual interprets these expressions as positive or negative represents their "valence bias." Currently, the most well-validated ambiguous stimuli for assessing valence bias include nonverbal signals (faces and scenes), overlooking an inherent ambiguity in verbal signals. This study identified 32 words with dual-valence ambiguity (i.e., relatively high intersubject variability in valence ratings and relatively slow response times) and length-matched clearly valenced words (16 positive, 16 negative). Preregistered analyses demonstrated that the words-based valence bias correlated with the bias for faces,
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