Trait anger is related to the ability to recognize facial emotions—but only in men
Anna Montag,
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Anette Kersting,
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Thomas Suslow
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et al.
Frontiers in Psychology,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
16
Published: March 19, 2025
Trait
anger
is
defined
as
a
personality
dimension
of
proneness.
Previous
research
based
on
multimodal
stimuli
suggests
that
trait
could
be
linked
to
poor
emotion
decoding.
The
present
investigation
examined
the
relationship
between
and
decoding
ability
for
men
women.
An
recognition
task
with
images
emotional
faces
expressing
anger,
disgust,
fear,
sadness,
surprise,
or
happiness
was
administered
249
young
adults
(125
women).
Participants
completed
State–Trait
Anger
Expression
Inventory
(STAXI-2)
along
other
self-report
instruments.
Unbiased
hit
rate
calculated
assess
accuracy.
Women
reported
more
than
men.
In
men,
but
not
in
women,
related
negative
affect
variables.
There
were
no
sex
differences
facial
emotions.
For
negatively
correlated
overall
performance
specifically
fear
disgust—even
when
controlling
relevant
person
recognition.
Compared
low
high
appear
worse
at
recognizing
expressions
which
are
emotions
indicating
being
threatened
rejection.
Language: Английский
Identifying Basic Emotions and Action Units from Facial Photographs with ChatGPT
Journal of Nonverbal Behavior,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: April 25, 2025
Language: Английский
Neural mechanisms underlying the interactive exchange of facial emotional expressions
Published: Aug. 6, 2024
Facial
emotional
expressions
are
crucial
in
face-to-face
social
interactions
and
recent
findings
have
highlighted
their
interactive
nature.
However,
the
neural
mechanisms
behind
this
remain
unclear.
This
EEG
study
investigated
whether
exchange
of
facial
modulates
socio-emotional
processing.
Participants
(N
=
41)
directed
a
expression
(angry,
neutral,
happy)
at
virtual
agent
then
responded
with
further
or
remained
neutral
(control
condition).
We
assessed
subjective
experience
(valence,
arousal),
EMG
(Zygomaticus,
Corrugator),
ERPs
(EPN,
LPP)
elicited
by
agent’s
response.
Replicating
previous
findings,
we
found
that
an
happy
was
experienced
as
more
pleasant
increased
Zygomaticus
activity
when
participants
had
initiated
interaction
compared
to
angry
expression.
On
level,
resulted
greater
LPP
than
but
only
not
agent.
These
suggest
sending
increases
salience
enhances
processing
received
return,
indicating
setting
alters
brain
responds
stimuli.
Language: Английский
Impact of Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, and Basal Metabolic Rate on PTSD, Depression, and Emotional Instability
Tianyi Lyu,
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Haonan Qian,
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Sung-Pil Chung
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et al.
Brain Sciences,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
14(11), P. 1071 - 1071
Published: Oct. 27, 2024
Objective:
This
study
aimed
to
investigate
the
potential
associations
between
physical
activity,
sedentary
behavior,
and
basal
metabolic
rate
(BMR)
with
post-traumatic
stress
disorder
(PTSD),
major
depressive
(MDD),
emotional
instability
(EI)
using
bidirectional
Mendelian
randomization
(MR).
Additionally,
it
sought
identify
key
molecular
mechanisms
underlying
through
a
comprehensive
bioinformatic
analysis.
Methods:
MR
analyses
utilizing
genome-wide
association
(GWAS)
data
were
conducted
estimate
effects
of
BMR
on
PTSD,
MDD,
EI.
Sensitivity
performed
assess
robustness
findings.
Concurrently,
analysis
was
executed
gene
expression
datasets
(GSE53987
GSE21138)
derived
from
emotionally
unstable
patients.
encompassed
differential
differentially
expressed
genes
(DEGs),
followed
by
an
functional
enrichment
uncover
pathways
associated
Results:
The
revealed
that
increased
activity
may
have
protective
effect
against
albeit
inconsistent
MDD
Sedentary
behavior
demonstrated
minimal
or
identified
114
DEGs
EI,
YWHAB,
SRRM2,
MST1,
HDAC10,
HSPA1A
highlighted
as
significant
genes.
these
unveiled
potentially
involved
in
pathology
instability.
Conclusions:
Physical
appears
protect
whereas
its
EI
are
less
definitive.
findings
offer
deeper
understanding
pinpointing
specific
serve
therapeutic
targets.
Further
research
is
warranted
elucidate
intricate
interactions
mechanisms.
Language: Английский