2022
J Affect Disord. 2022 Aug 15;311:239-246. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2022.05.109
Body image dissatisfaction and interoceptive sensibility significantly predict postpartum depressive symptoms
Background: During pregnancy women experience rapid and unique changes in body weight, shape and size over a relatively short time period. While research focused on the role of external bodily…
Int J Paediatr Dent. 2022 Feb 13. doi: 10.1111/ipd.12958
Breathing out dental fear: A feasibility crossover study on the effectiveness of diaphragmatic breathing in children sitting on the dentist's chair
Background: Anxiety related to the dental context is a clinically significant challenge. In children, dental fear is often accompanied by disruptive and uncooperative behaviours that can render treatment difficult. Although…
Front Psychol . 2022 Nov 17;13:1034454. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1034454. eCollection 2022
Bringing social interaction at the core of organizational neuroscience
Organizations are composed of individuals working together for achieving specific goals, and interpersonal dynamics do exert a strong influence on workplace behaviour. Nevertheless, the dual and multiple perspective of interactions…
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Building the physical and psychological self: from a bodily to a spoken interpersonal dialogue
In this review, we propose that interpersonal bodily interactions represent a fertile ground in which the bodily and psychological self is developed, gradually allowing for forms of more abstract and…
Soc Neurosci. 2022 Apr;17(2):170-180. doi: 10.1080/17470919.2022.2050295
Cardiac deceleration following positive and negative feedback is influenced by competence-based social status
Previous studies indicate that neurophysiological signatures of feedback processing might be enhanced when participants are assigned a low-status position. Error commission and negative feedback can evoke responses in the peripheral…
Nat Hum Behav. 2022 Mar;6(3):392-403. doi: 10.1038/s41562-021-01258-7
Conspiracy mentality and political orientation across 26 countries
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People differ in their general tendency to endorse conspiracy theories (that is, conspiracy mentality). Previous research yielded inconsistent findings on the relationship between conspiracy mentality and political orientation, showing a…
Behav Sci (Basel). 2022 Feb 2;12(2):33. doi: 10.3390/bs12020033
Effects of mind-body interventions on adolescents' cooperativeness and emotional symptoms
Background: Mind-body interventions may support the development of adolescents' self-regulation and provide a protective effect against maladaptive outcomes, e.g., internalizing and externalizing problems. The present study aimed at evaluating the…
Sci Rep . 2022 Dec 14;12(1):21585. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-26016-1
Embodying the avatar of an omnipotent agent modulates the perception of one’s own abilities and enhances feelings of invulnerability
Immersive virtual reality can give people the illusion of owning artificial bodies (i.e., avatars) and controlling their actions. Tellingly, people appear to adhere to the newly embodied entities not just…
Int J Psychophysiol. 2022 Jul;177:34-42. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2022.04.001
Interoceptive influences on the production of self-serving lies in reputation risk conditions
Bodily signals influence high-order cognitive and emotional processes, including social decision making. Here, we examined whether individual differences in the capacity to read signals from inside (interoception) and outside the…
J Cogn Neurosci. 2022 Mar 31;34(5):897-915. doi: 10.1162/jocn_a_01834
Midfrontal theta transcranial alternating current stimulation facilitates motor coordination in dyadic human-avatar interactions
Synchronous interpersonal motor interactions require moment-to-moment prediction and proactive monitoring of the partner's actions. Neurophysiologically, this is highlighted by an enhancement of midfrontal theta (4-7 Hz) oscillations. In this study,…
R Soc Open Sci . 2022 Aug 31;9(8):220061. doi: 10.1098/rsos.220061. eCollection 2022 Aug
Morality in the flesh: on the link between bodily self-consciousness, moral identity and (dis)honest behaviour
The sense of owning a body (ownership) and controlling its actions (agency) are two main pillars of bodily self-consciousness (BSC). Although studies suggest that BSC signals and morality may be…
Front Integr Neurosci. 2022 Jul 22;16:953928. doi: 10.3389/fnint.2022.953928
Neuromodulating the performance monitoring network during conflict and error processing in healthy populations: Insights from transcranial electric stimulation studies
The performance monitoring system is fundamentally important for adapting one’s own behavior in conflicting and error-prone, highly demanding circumstances. Flexible behavior requires that neuronal populations optimize information processing through efficient…
Exp Brain Res. 2022 Apr;240(4):1205-1217. doi: 10.1007/s00221-022-06324-8
Peripersonal Space from a multisensory perspective: the distinct effect of the visual and tactile components of Visuo-Tactile stimuli
Peripersonal Space (PPS) is defined as the space close to the body where all interactions between the individual and the environment take place. Behavioural experiments on PPS exploit multisensory integration,…
Int J Environ Res Public Health . 2022 Sep 1;19(17):10913. doi: 10.3390/ijerph191710913
Predictive Factors of Anxiety, Depression, and Health-Related Quality of Life in Community-Dwelling and Institutionalized Elderly during the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 health emergency and restrictive measures have increased psychological problems, particularly anxiety and depression, in the general population. However, little is known about mental health conditions and the possible…
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Jan 20;19(3):1142. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19031142
Psychotherapeutic techniques for distressing memories: A comparative study between EMDR, Brainspotting, and Body Scan Meditation
Objectives: We explored the effects of a single 40-min session of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Brainspotting (BSP), and Body Scan Meditation (BSM) in the processing of distressing memories…
MetroXRAINE 2022, doi: 10.1109/MetroXRAINE54828.2022.9967538.
Pupil dilation and self-reported emotional response to IAPS pictures: the role of emotional regulation and trait mindfulness
Mindfulness has been associated with reduced emotional reactivity, with meditators showing an increased pupillary contraction and a weaker dilation to negative stimuli with respect to non-meditators. However, the role of…
iScience. 2022 Apr 27;25(5):104320. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.104320
Reduced ownership over a virtual body modulates dishonesty
Although studies suggest that even higher-order functions can be embodied, whether body awareness may bias moral decisions toward (dis)honesty remains underinvestigated. Here, we tested if the Sense of body Ownership…
Neurosci Biobehav Rev . 2022 Nov;142:104900. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104900
Social, Affective, and Non-Motoric Bodily Cues to the Sense of Agency: A Systematic Review of the Experience of Control
While the Sense of Agency (SoA) - the experience of controlling actions - is linked to motoric processes, the effects of non-motoric cues remain uncertain. We performed a systematic review…
J Neurosci. 2022 Mar 16;42(11):2298-2312. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0706-21.2022
Somatosensory evoked potentials reveal reduced embodiment of emotions in autism
Consistent with current models of embodied emotions, this study investigates whether the somatosensory system shows reduced sensitivity to facial emotional expressions in autistic compared with neurotypical individuals, and whether these…
Front. Integr. Neurosci., 13 September 2022. doi.org/10.3389/fnint.2022.956510
The analgesic power of pleasant touch in individuals with chronic pain: Recent findings and new insights
This mini-review covers recent works on the study of pleasant touch in patients with chronic pain and its potential use as a treatment. While experiments have demonstrated that pleasant touch,…
Front. Integr. Neurosci., 02 September 2022, doi.org/10.3389/fnint.2022.963422
The impact of mindfulness meditation on social and moral behavior: Does mindfulness enhance other-oriented motivation or decrease monetary reward salience?
This perspective article provides an overview of the impact of mindfulness meditation (MM) on social and moral behavior. In mindfulness research, prosocial behavior has been operationalized as helping behavior, altruistic…
Cereb Cortex. 2022 Feb 24;bhac063. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhac063
The performance monitoring system is attuned to others' actions during dyadic motor interactions
Interpersonal motor interactions require the simultaneous monitoring of one's own and one's partner's actions. To characterize how the action monitoring system tracks self and other behavior during synchronous interactions, we…
Mindfulness. 2022 Jan 22. doi: 10.1007/s12671-021-01797-0
The two arrows of pain: Mechanisms of pain related to meditation and mental states of aversion and identification
Objectives: According to the core Buddhist psychology models of the “two arrows of pain” and “co-dependent origination,” pain is the resultant of bodily and mental factors, which can be regulated…
Fragilità contemporanee. Fenomenologie della violenza e della vulnerabilità (Mimesis Editore)
