Taking the mystery away from shared intentionality: The straightforward view and its empirical implications

Frontiers in Psychology, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 14

Опубликована: Март 30, 2023

Ordinary language in Western and non-Western cultures individuates shared mental states or experiences as unitary interpersonal events that belong to more than one individual. However, a default assumption modern thought is that, this regard, ordinary either illusory merely metaphorical: state experience can only person. This called Cartesian eliminativism often taken be foundational psychology. It follows any view contradicts priori suspected of being “mysterious,” i.e., not meeting scientific standards. paper suggests the very opposite may case. The straightforward explains how individuals assemble whole whose components are distributed among participants. naturalistic advantages such brought light by focusing on developmental science. Since it early emotions, goals, attention relying domain-general, associative processes, parsimonious current psychological theories. Indeed, abandons cumbersome postulates (i) multi-level recursive mindreading (ii) special, conceptually elusive phenomenal quality. I outline distinctive predictions discuss accounts for functions states. As reductionist, non-eliminativist approach, promises viable also cognitive scientists who have so far worked within framework due lack rigorous sufficiently developed alternative.

Язык: Английский

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Bayesianism and wishful thinking are compatible

Nature Human Behaviour, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 8(4), С. 692 - 701

Опубликована: Фев. 23, 2024

Язык: Английский

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The Journey of the Default Mode Network: Development, Function, and Impact on Mental Health

Biology, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 14(4), С. 395 - 395

Опубликована: Апрель 10, 2025

The Default Mode Network has been extensively studied in recent decades due to its central role higher cognitive processes and relevance for understanding mental disorders. This neural network, characterized by synchronized coherent activity at rest, is intrinsically linked self-reflection, exploration, social interaction, emotional processing. Our of the DMN extends beyond humans non-human animals, where it observed various species, highlighting evolutionary basis adaptive significance throughout phylogenetic history. Additionally, plays a crucial brain development during childhood adolescence, influencing fundamental processes. literature review aims provide comprehensive overview DMN, addressing structural, functional, aspects, as well impact from infancy adulthood. By gaining deeper organization function we can advance our knowledge mechanisms that underlie cognition, behavior, health. This, turn, lead more effective therapeutic strategies range neuropsychiatric conditions.

Язык: Английский

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The Development of Emotion Reasoning in Infancy and Early Childhood

Annual Review of Developmental Psychology, Год журнала: 2020, Номер 2(1), С. 503 - 531

Опубликована: Дек. 15, 2020

Historically, research characterizing the development of emotion recognition has focused on identifying specific skills and age periods, or milestones, at which these abilities emerge. However, advances in raise questions about whether this conceptualization accurately reflects how children learn about, understand, respond to others’ emotions everyday life. In review, we propose a developmental framework for emergence reasoning—that is, develop ability make reasonably accurate inferences predictions states other people. We describe holds promise building upon extant research. Our review suggests that use term can be misleading imprecise, with processes interest better characterized by reasoning. also highlight succeed many tasks myriad processes. This new framing emotional open lines inquiry humans navigate their social worlds.

Язык: Английский

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Expertise in emotion: A scoping review and unifying framework for individual differences in the mental representation of emotional experience.

Psychological Bulletin, Год журнала: 2021, Номер 147(11), С. 1159 - 1183

Опубликована: Ноя. 1, 2021

Expertise refers to outstanding skill or ability in a particular domain. In the domain of emotion, expertise observation that some people are better at range competencies related understanding and experiencing emotions, these may help them lead healthier lives. These individual differences represented by multiple constructs including emotional awareness, clarity, complexity, granularity, intelligence. derive from different theoretical perspectives, highlight competencies, operationalized measured ways. The full set relationships between has not yet been considered, hindering scientific progress translation findings aid mental physical well-being. this article, we use scoping review procedure integrate within shared conceptual space. Scoping reviews provide principled means synthesizing large diverse literature transparent fashion, enabling identification similarities as well gaps inconsistencies across constructs. Using domain-general accounts guide, build unifying framework for emotion apply describe how understand experience their own emotions. Our approach offers opportunities identify potential mechanisms encouraging future research on those educational clinical interventions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

Язык: Английский

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Social emotional ability development (SEAD): An integrated model of practical emotion-based competencies

Motivation and Emotion, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 46(2), С. 226 - 253

Опубликована: Янв. 9, 2022

Social emotional abilities (i.e., specific skills), defined as the set of cognitive abilities, emotion-based knowledge, and behavioral competencies skill levels) that facilitate adaptively employing prosocial processes behaviors "actions"), such regulation sympathetic empathetic response behaviors, is contemporarily modeled measured intelligence. This conceptualization can be problematic, however, two concepts are not same traditional methods measuring intelligence have limited practical utility. The social ability development (SEAD) theoretical model introduced in this treatise represents a pragmatic simplified approach to competency abstracted from constructs intelligence, sociocultural learning theory. Further, SEAD reaches beyond individual unit analysis explore, conceptualize, differentiate, investigate, define hierarchal, bi-directional, contextual nature dimensions within close relationships. Implications for how used by researchers, practitioners, educators, individuals, families, couples across broad spectrum domains interventions discussed.

Язык: Английский

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Emotion Perception in Hadza Hunter-Gatherers

Scientific Reports, Год журнала: 2020, Номер 10(1)

Опубликована: Март 2, 2020

It has long been claimed that certain configurations of facial movements are universally recognized as emotional expressions because they evolved to signal information in situations posed fitness challenges for our hunting and gathering hominin ancestors. Experiments from the last decade have called this particular evolutionary hypothesis into doubt by studying emotion perception a wider sample small-scale societies with discovery-based research methods. We replicate these newer findings Hadza Northern Tanzania; semi-nomadic hunters gatherers who live tight-knit social units collect wild foods large portion their diet, making them particularly relevant population testing hypotheses about emotion. Across two studies, we found little evidence universal perception. Rather, consistent people infer meaning using knowledge embrained cultural learning.

Язык: Английский

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Emotion Naming Impedes Both Cognitive Reappraisal and Mindful Acceptance Strategies of Emotion Regulation

Affective Science, Год журнала: 2021, Номер 2(2), С. 187 - 198

Опубликована: Апрель 20, 2021

Friends and therapists often encourage people in distress to say how they feel (i.e., name their emotions) with the hope that identifying emotions will help them cope. Although lay some psychological theories posit emotion naming should facilitate subsequent regulation, there is little research directly testing this question. Here, we report on two experimental studies test evoked by aversive images impacts regulation of those emotions. In study 1 (N = 80), participants were randomly assigned into one four between-subjects conditions which either (i) passively observed images, (ii) named these made feel, (iii) regulated reappraising meaning or (iv) both Analyses self-reported negative affect revealed impeded via reappraisal. Participants who before reported feeling worse than without naming. Study 2 60) replicated findings a within-participants design, demonstrated also mindful acceptance, showed effects unrelated measure social desirability, thereby mitigating concern experimenter demand. Together, show impact opposes common intuitions: instead facilitating reappraisal constructing an instance specific category giving it may "crystalize" one's affective experience make more resistant modification.The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s42761-021-00036-y.

Язык: Английский

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The Role of Interoceptive Sensibility and Emotional Conceptualization for the Experience of Emotions

Frontiers in Psychology, Год журнала: 2021, Номер 12

Опубликована: Ноя. 18, 2021

The theory of constructed emotions suggests that different psychological components, including core affect (mental and neural representations bodily changes), conceptualization (meaning-making based on prior experiences semantic knowledge), are involved in the formation emotions. However, little is known about their role experiencing In current study, we investigated how individual differences interoceptive sensibility emotional (as potential correlates these components) interact to moderate three important aspects experiences: intensity (strength emotion felt), arousal (degree activation), granularity (ability differentiate with precision). To this end, participants completed a series questionnaires assessing underwent two experience tasks, which included standardized material (emotion differentiation task; ED task) self-experienced episodes (day reconstruction method; DRM). Correlational analysis showed were related each other. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) revealed independent factors referred as monitoring. Sensibility factor, interpreted beliefs accuracy an detecting internal physiological states, predicted higher for negative words. Monitoring tendency focus states individual, was negatively intensity. Additionally, scores more strongly associated greater well-being adaptability measures than scores. Our results indicate processes underlying contribute experiencing.

Язык: Английский

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Emotion Differentiation and Youth Mental Health: Current Understanding and Open Questions

Frontiers in Psychology, Год журнала: 2021, Номер 12

Опубликована: Авг. 6, 2021

A growing body of research identifies emotion differentiation—the ability to specifically identify one’s emotions—as a key skill for well-being. High differentiation is associated with healthier and more effective regulation emotions, low has been documented in several forms psychopathology. However, the lion’s share this focused on adult samples, even though approximately 50% mental disorders onset before age 18. This review curates what we know about development its implications youth health. I first published studies investigating how develops across childhood adolescence, as well testing relations between health samples. Emerging evidence suggests that actually falls counterintuitive pattern merits further investigation. Additionally, find health, but some instability results emerged. then open questions limit our current understanding differentiation, including (i) lack clarity valid measurement (ii) potential third variables could explain mental-health (e.g., mean negative affect, IQ, personality, circularity outcomes), (iii) clear mechanistic models regarding it facilitates conclude discussion future directions can address work toward interventions treat (or prevent)

Язык: Английский

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