Event‐related potential studies of emotional processing have focused on the late positive
potential (LPP), a sustained positive deflection in the ERP that is increased for emotionally�…

This textbook provides a complete overview of motivation and emotion, using an
overarching organizational scheme of how biological, psychological, and environmental�…

Event-related potentials (ERPs) bring many strengths to the study of emotion regulation,
including: direct measurement of neural activity, high temporal resolution, affordability and�…

Love typically decreases over time, sometimes leading to divorces. We tested whether
positively reappraising the spouse and/or up-regulating positive emotions unrelated to the�…

Despite the frequent need to down-regulate sexual desire, existing studies are scarce, and
focus on strategies that involve disengagement from processing sexual stimuli. Accordingly�…

Introduction Emotion regulation (ER) is a complex process that manifests gradually over
time. This study investigated the temporal dynamics of ER in modifying positive emotions in�…

Common wisdom suggests that knowledge is power. The present investigation tested the
boundary conditions of this quote by asking how knowledge, in the form of anticipatory�…

Human sociality and prosociality rely on social and moral feelings of empathy, compassion,
envy, schadenfreude, as well as on the preference for prosocial over antisocial others. We�…

Scientific research on romantic love has been relatively sparse but is becoming more
prevalent, as it should. Unfortunately, several misconceptions about romantic love are�…

Childhood trauma is associated with poor health outcomes in adulthood, largely due to the
impact of chronic stress on the body. Fortunately, there are certain protective characteristics�…