Conveners
Emotions and motivation 2
- Pietro Cipresso (Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università di Torino)
Il decision making morale è frequentemente associato all’empatia, ma il ruolo specifico dell’empatia affettiva di tratto rimane poco esplorato. Il presente studio ha indagato l’influenza di elevati livelli di empatia affettiva sulle scelte morali, considerando i tratti borderline di personalità (BP), noti per la loro accentuata sensibilità emotiva. Un campione di 78 partecipanti non clinici è...
Questo studio indaga l’influenza della manipolazione del muscolo facciale zigomatico, attivo quando sorridiamo, su percezione e memoria a lungo termine di volti emotivi.
Nell’Esperimento 1, i partecipanti hanno valutato la valenza di volti arrabbiati, neutri e felici mentre tenevano una penna tra i denti (attivazione zigomatico) oppure tra le labbra (inibizione zigomatico). I risultati hanno...
Disgust plays a critical role in shaping moral behavior, particularly in situations involving violations of social or bodily norms. While traditional cognitive-behavioral approaches often struggle to modulate maladaptive disgust responses, recent neuromodulation techniques offer promising alternatives. In a series of studies, we investigated whether transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation...
Adjusting to minor psychosocial stressors, such as public speaking, is crucial for promoting health and well-being. However, not everyone manages this effectively, which can lead to chronic stress, illness, and affective psychopathology. According to the perseverative cognition hypothesis, repetitive negative thinking like worry and rumination prolongs stress-related affective and...
Introduction: Empathy, comprising both affective and cognitive components, crucially relies on empathic accuracy (EA)—the ability to correctly recognize others' emotions. Emotional contagion, facilitated by facial mimicry, enhances EA by improving emotional understanding. The enfacement illusion, a visuo-tactile multisensory paradigm, has been shown to modulate self–other boundaries,...
The ability to perceive, interpret, and regulate internal bodily signals - known as interoception - is fundamental to emotional regulation, decision-making, and well-being. Altered interoception has been increasingly recognized as a central feature of eating disorders (EDs) such as anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa (BN), and binge-eating disorder (BED).
Training methods designed to...
