ArticleEmotion (Washington, D.C.)2023
Affective language spreads between anxious children and their mothers during a challenging puzzle task.
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- Interparental Positivity Spillover Theory: How Parents' Positive Relational Interactions Influence Children.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2025Review
- Daily association between parent-adolescent emotion contagion: The role of parent-adolescent connectedness.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2025Article
- Leveraging Large Language Models to Estimate Clinically Relevant Psychological Constructs in Psychotherapy Transcripts.Computational psychiatry (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- The Emergence of Organized Emotion Dynamics in Childhood.Affective science · 2024Article
- The Promise of Affective Language for Identifying and Intervening on Psychopathology.Affective science · 2023Article
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Humans influence each other's emotions. The spread of emotion is well documented across behavioral, psychophysiological, and neuroscientific levels of analysis, but might this influence also be evident in language (e.g., are people more likely to use emotion words after hearing someone else use them)? The current study tests whether mothers and children influence each other's use of affective language. From 2018 to 2020, children aged 6-12 who met diagnostic criteria for anxiety disorders and their mothers (
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