Affective shifts: mood, emotion and well-being

Mitchell, Jonathan

doi:10.1007/s11229-021-03312-3

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“…This might suggest that the variation of certain emotions is more intrinsically linked to participants' estimate of emotion regulation ability. Interestingly, amusement and disgust are the emotions more strongly linked to events 57,76 . However, the more specific prediction arising from the considerations around cognitive control, namely that symptoms of psychopathology should correlate with the efficacy of distancing, was not found.…”

Section: Limitationsmentioning

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Distancing alters the controllability of emotional states by altering both intrinsic stability and extrinsic sensitivity

Malamud

Huys

2023

Preprint

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Our mental health is influenced by the emotional states we experience. Emotional states, in turn, depend on external experiences and internal processes that determine the form and persistence of emotional states. Emotion regulation strategies aim to alter emotional states and are an important element of evidence-based, effective psychotherapeutic interventions. However, the mechanisms by which emotion regulation works remain incompletely understood. Here, we combine experimental induction of momentary emotions with formal dynamical system theory to study how emotion regulation strategies influence emotion dynamics. Participants (N=109) repeatedly reported their multidimensional emotional state while watching brief validated emotional video clips. Participants were then randomized to either an emotion regulation (distancing) or control intervention before watching further video clips. Dynamical and controllability features were inferred from participants' emotion ratings using a Kalman Filter, which captures how emotions evolve, interact, and are affected by external inputs. First, we showed that the Kalman filter provided an adequate account of the data. Emotions were maintained across stimuli, interacted and were richly influenced by emotional stimuli. Second, distancing had a dual effect: It reduced the (external) controllability of emotional states both by stabilizing specific emotional dynamics and by reducing the driving force external emotional stimuli exerted. These results provide a novel, quantitative approach to characterizing how emotions are controlled and how a distancing intervention alters emotional experience. The quantitative characterization of specific psychotherapeutic interventions may help better understand and target interventions.

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Section: Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Distancing alters the controllability of emotional states by altering both intrinsic stability and extrinsic sensitivity

Malamud

Huys

2023

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“…SMT can maintain or elicit a particular mood, as well as elicit an emotional response. An emotional shift, in which one affective state changes into another, could cause this 45 . Working memory performance may be affected by emotional valence, arousal, and motivational variables all at once.…”

Section: Stieger and Wunderl 28mentioning

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Social Media and Working Memory - A Review

Dikshit,

Kiran

2023

JEOH

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Social media is a part of daily today life which is growing more and more widespread. Many individuals have mobile phones and often use social media. This review paper explores the impact of social media on working memory, a critical cognitive function. It discusses the widespread use of social media, its emotional influence, and its potential effects on cognitive processes. It highlights factors contributing to this complex relationship, including the type of engagement and platform design. Research indicates that using social media expands the possibility of becoming addicted. Excessive social media usage affects emotional well-being by strengthening negative feelings such as fear of missing out, melancholy, increased loneliness, anger, irritation, and anxiety. According to earlier research, the subject of whether using social media negatively affects our working memory has been raised. They cause numerous issues in our daily lives while they do the task. This literature review’s data came from a comprehensive database search of relevant previously published articles. A total of 25 papers were extracted from databases of which 10 were found relevant and hence chosen to be part of this review. The review revealed that online social media has a high potential to affect the cognitive functioning ‘working memory’ of people who spend their time on online social media platforms. The paper proposes interventions such as cognitive training, mindfulness practices, and digital detox programs to counter potential negative effects. Overall, it emphasizes the need for ongoing interdisciplinary research to better understand and address the interaction between social media and cognitive functions.

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“…Another crucial difference is that moods are not directed at concrete objects. Rather, the object of a mood, like depression, is the appraisal of the total environment in a particular evaluative light (Mitchell, 2021 ).…”

Section: Understanding the Influence Of Emotions On Digital Well-beingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Using SMT may cause an emotional reaction but it may also maintain or cause a particular mood. This could happen via an affective shift where one affective state shifts to another (Mitchell, 2021 ). It is possible to experience different kinds of affective shifts.…”

Section: On the Emotional Affordances Of Social Media Technologies (S...mentioning

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Emotions and Digital Well-Being: on Social Media’s Emotional Affordances

Steinert

Dennis

2022

Philos. Technol.

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Social media technologies (SMTs) are routinely identified as a strong and pervasive threat to digital well-being (DWB). Extended screen time sessions, chronic distractions via notifications, and fragmented workflows have all been blamed on how these technologies ruthlessly undermine our ability to exercise quintessential human faculties. One reason SMTs can do this is because they powerfully affect our emotions. Nevertheless, (1) how social media technology affects our emotional life and (2) how these emotions relate to our digital well-being remain unexplored. Remedying this is important because ethical insights into (1) and (2) open the possibility of designing for social media technologies in ways that actively reinforce our digital well-being. In this article, we examine the way social media technologies facilitate online emotions because of emotional affordances. This has important implications for evaluating the ethical implications of today’s social media platforms, as well as for how we design future ones.

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Affective shifts: mood, emotion and well-being

Cited by 8 publications

References 32 publications

Distancing alters the controllability of emotional states by altering both intrinsic stability and extrinsic sensitivity

Distancing alters the controllability of emotional states by altering both intrinsic stability and extrinsic sensitivity

Social Media and Working Memory - A Review

Emotions and Digital Well-Being: on Social Media’s Emotional Affordances

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