Conservatism positively predicted fading affect bias in the 2016<scp>US</scp>presidential election at low, but not high, levels of negative affect

Gibbons, Jeffrey A.; Dunlap, Spencer; LeRoy, Stephanie; Thomas, Taylor E.

doi:10.1002/acp.3741

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“…Gibbons et al (2017) showed a similar negative relation between the FAB and depression, but the FAB decreased slightly across the first three quintiles of depression, and it decreased much more across the last two quintiles of depression, disappearing far into the highest quintile of depression. Similarly, Gibbons, Thomas, and Dunlap (2018) showed that depression decreased from the second to the fifth quintile but then disappeared far into the highest quintile of depression.…”

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confidence: 92%

Rehearsal partially mediates the negative relations of the fading affect bias with depression, anxiety, and stress

Gibbons

Lee

2019

Applied Cognitive Psychology

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The fading affect bias (FAB) is defined by unpleasant affect fading faster than pleasant affect. The FAB persists across several cultures and event types, and it is positively related to healthy outcomes and negatively related to unhealthy outcomes.Although the notion of the FAB as a healthy process fits well with contemporary theoretical perspectives, such as self-enhancement theory, few studies have (a) examined and established reliable relations between the FAB and psychological distress variables and (b) established overall rehearsal as a mediator of these relations. We examined and found reliable, negative relations between psychological distress and the FAB for combined data from several studies examining different event types.We also examined and showed that overall rehearsal partially mediated these relations. These findings help legitimize the relation of psychological distress and FAB as a reliable scientific phenomenon, show that the FAB results from cognitive mechanisms, and support therapeutic emotional memory reinterpretation.

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Rehearsal partially mediates the negative relations of the fading affect bias with depression, anxiety, and stress

Gibbons

Lee

2019

Applied Cognitive Psychology

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“…The data for the presidential election study came from four events (pleasant and unpleasant non-political events as well as the 2016 Presidential election [84] event and a comparably, but opposite, emotionally intense event) provided by 310 participants [85]. The data from the relationship study came from 12 events (3 pleasant and 3 unpleasant relationship events as well as 3 pleasant and 3 unpleasant non-relationship events) provided by 239 participants from the relationship study [86].…”

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“…Although the political study was conducted within 3 months of the 2016 Presidential election, the other studies limited participants to events no older than 1 year. The time between initial event occurrence and test was only obtained in the election study [85].…”

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The fading affect bias (FAB) is strongest for Jews and Buddhists and weakest for participants without religious affiliations: An exploratory analysis

Gibbons¹,

Lee²,

Fernandez³

et al. 2021

World J. Adv. Res. Rev.

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The fading affect bias (FAB) is a robust phenomenon where unpleasant affect fades faster than pleasant affect. The FAB is believed to be coping mechanism designed to make life appear pleasant in the face of hardships and adversities. The FAB persists across several cultures and many event types (e.g., alcohol, religious, and death), even though low FAB has been demonstrated for social media events, videogame events, and events labeled as religious, but not spiritual. Although religion is also believed to make life more satisfying by providing existential meaning and social connectedness for their followers, research to date, has not examined religious differences in the FAB. Therefore, we examined the FAB using 2 measures of fading affect across participants’ self-reported religious affiliations and we found robust FAB effects for all categories except for an extremely small sample of Islamic followers. The FAB effects were strongest for Jewish and Buddhist affiliations and they were weakest for participants who did not report a well-known religious affiliation. The findings extend the literature on the FAB to religious belief systems. Future research should replicate the current study, examine the FAB for larger samples of Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and Jews, and test explanations for differential FAB effects across religious affiliations.

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“…Similarly, although the FAB has emerged for memories of events associated with current relationships, it was not found for memories of past failed relationships (Zengel et al, 2019). A smaller FAB was also seen for memories of playing video games compared to non‐video game memories (Gibbons & Bouldin, 2019), and for memories of the 2016 presidential election compared to non‐political events (Gibbons et al, 2020). Thus, recent research into the FAB has shown that it is not necessarily universal across all types of events experienced, as it appears that characteristics of the event can moderate the extent to which usual healthy coping processes operate upon memories for those events.…”

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The COVID‐19 pandemic disrupted the healthy fading of emotions in autobiographical memory mediated via in‐person social disclosures

Muir,

Brown

2023

Applied Cognitive Psychology

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We explore the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic in the United Kingdom upon the fading affect bias in autobiographical memory, which describes the greater fading of negative emotional intensity over time compared to positive. Across two studies we show that the magnitude of the FAB is smaller for pandemic‐related events compared to pandemic‐unrelated events. The FAB is thought to represent the result of healthy coping processes operating on autobiographical memory and our results indicate that these processes were disrupted, to a certain extent, by the pandemic. These effects were mediated by frequent in‐person social disclosures of pleasant pandemic‐unrelated events, which was, in turn, associated with less fading of positive affect. Further, the FAB for both pandemic‐related and unrelated events was mediated by disclosures via social media. Together, these results highlight the potential effectiveness of using various modes of communication to facilitate emotional regulation processes in autobiographical memory.

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Conservatism positively predicted fading affect bias in the 2016USpresidential election at low, but not high, levels of negative affect

Cited by 4 publications

References 70 publications

Rehearsal partially mediates the negative relations of the fading affect bias with depression, anxiety, and stress

Rehearsal partially mediates the negative relations of the fading affect bias with depression, anxiety, and stress

The fading affect bias (FAB) is strongest for Jews and Buddhists and weakest for participants without religious affiliations: An exploratory analysis

The COVID‐19 pandemic disrupted the healthy fading of emotions in autobiographical memory mediated via in‐person social disclosures

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