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2017 Annual Conference Abstracts Society for Affective Science 4th Annual Conference • April 27-29, 2017 • Westin Waterfront Hotel • Boston, MA Contents: Thematic Flash Talks ........................................................................................................................... 2 Poster Session A .................................................................................................................................17 Poster Session B ................................................................................................................................34 Poster Session C ................................................................................................................................50 Author Index ........................................................................................................................................67 Thematic Flash Talks: Friday, April 28, 2017 8:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m. ..............................................................Psychopathology and Neurodegeneration 8:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m. .................................................................................................Emotion Perception 8:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m. ...........................................................................................................Development Saturday, April 29, 2017 8:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m. ....................................................................................................Stress and Health 8:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m. ...................................Cognition and Emotion: Prediction, Decision, and Retrieval 8:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m. .................................................................................................Emotion Regulation Hot Topic Session: Saturday, April 29, 2017 4:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. .............................................................................. Emotion in Intractable Conflicts Poster Schedule: Poster Session A Thursday, April 27, 2017 5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m. ..............................................................................................Assemble your poster 6:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m. .....................................................................................................Author present 8:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. ............................................................................................. Take down your poster Poster Session B Friday, April 28, 2017 12:00 noon-1:00 p.m. ............................................................................................Assemble your poster 1:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. ..........................................................................................................Poster viewing 5:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m. ......................................................................................................Author present 7:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. ............................................................................................. Take down your poster Poster Session C Saturday, April 29, 2017 12:00 noon-1:00 p.m. ............................................................................................Assemble your poster 1:00 p.m.-4:15 p.m. ..........................................................................................................Poster viewing 2:45 p.m.-4:15 p.m. ......................................................................................................Author present 4:15 p.m.-5:15 p.m. ............................................................................................. Take down your poster 1 2017 Annual Conference • Thematic Flash Talks Society for Affective Science Thematic Flash Talks THE PROSPECTIVE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EMOTION Friday, April 28, 2017 DYNAMICS AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGICAL SYMPTOMS Marlies Houben, Peter Kuppens 8:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m. KU Leuven - University of Leuven Descriptors: emotion dynamics, psychological well-being, psychopathology Research has shown that, next to how people usually feel, the way people’s Psychopathology and Neurodegeneration emotions change and fluctuate over time is also linked to their psychological well-being. Indeed, a large scale meta-analysis (Houben, Van Den Noortgate, & Kuppens, 2015) has shown that emotions that are more variable over time, that show more abrupt changes from one time point to the next and that are more self-predictive or inert CRAVING PREDICTS DRUG USE: A QUANTITATIVE META- over time are linked to poor psychological well-being and more psychopathology. ANALYSIS However, the nature and direction of this relationship is unclear. Therefore, the goal of this study was to obtain more insight into the reciprocal prospective relationships Hedy Kober, Rebecca G. Boswell between emotion dynamical patterns and psychopathological symptoms. We used Yale University data from 178 participants that participated in a multi-wave longitudinal study. First, Descriptors: craving, drug use, substance use disorders we examined concurrent relationships between patterns of emotional instability and inertia on the one hand, and depressive symptoms and borderline personality Craving – defined as “a strong desire” – has been a focus of both Eastern disorder (BPD) symptoms on the other hand. Next, we examined whether these and Western philosophies for centuries. Presently, craving is studied as a new emotion dynamical patterns could prospectively predict a change in symptoms one DSM5 diagnostic criterion for Substance Use Disorders (SUDs), which are the year later. The reverse direction was also explored. Results revealed that in line most prevalent, costly, and deadly form of psychopathology. Nevertheless, the with previous research, emotional inertia was mainly linked to depressive symptoms, exact role of craving in drug taking has been hotly debated, especially the role of and emotional instability was linked to BPD symptoms (ps < .01). Moreover, results cue-induced craving in response to drug-related cues (e.g., others drinking/smoking, showed that symptoms mainly predicted a change in dynamic patterns (ps < .05), paraphernalia). To resolve this, we conducted a meta-analysis assessing the but not the other way around, shedding light on the temporal sequence of influence prospective predictive effects of drug cue exposure and craving on drug use and between emotion dynamics and symptoms. relapse. Across >350 statistics, from >120 studies, representing >16,500 drug users, we found that drug craving, cue reactivity, and cue-induced craving significantly predicted drug use and relapse with a medium effect size. Subsequent analyses revealed that cue-induced craving predicted drug use measured immediately, as well as relapse up to 1 year later. Effects held for both treatment-seeking and non- CORTISOL ADMINISTRATION MODULATES PREMOTOR treatment-seeking drug users, and were comparable across drug types. Conservative CORTEX ACTIVATION AND NEGATIVE MEMORY BIAS IN publication-bias analysis suggests that over 320,000 studies with null results would DEPRESSED WOMEN WITH HISTORY OF EARLY LIFE need to be published to render the meta-analytic results null. Methodologically, this ADVERSITY highlights an important role for meta-analyses in addressing issues of replicability across entire fields of study. Theoretically, results suggest a strong motivational and Heather C. Abercrombie1, Carlton P. Frost1, Erin C. Walsh2, Maggie C. Sampe1, M. causal role for craving in drug taking behavior. In turn, this has significant clinical Daniela. Cornejo1, Roxanne M. Hoks1, Charlotte O. Ladd1, Rasmus M. Birn1 implications for the treatment of SUDs. 1University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2University of North Carolina Descriptors: cortisol, depression, emotional memory Acute cortisol elevation may be neurocognitively beneficial in depressed IDENTIFYING THE MOOD BRIGHTENING BENEFITS OF individuals. Seventy-five women (32 depressed, 14 previously depressed & 29 SOCIAL INTERACTION IN CURRENT AND REMITTED never-depressed) with varying levels of prior childhood abuse participated in a memory encoding task for emotional pictures during 2 fMRI scans separated by MAJOR DEPRESSION 1 week. One hour prior to scans, women received either placebo or 20 mg cortisol Erin S. Sheets1, Michael F. Armey2 (CORT). Free recall for pictures was tested 2 days after each scan. Women with 1Colby College, 2Butler Hospital & Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown greater levels of depression showed more biased recall of unpleasant relative to University pleasant pictures encoded during placebo, r(74)=.38, p<.001. CORT abolished this relation; there was no correlation between depression severity & recall bias for Descriptors: depression, mood brightening, loneliness pictures encoded during CORT, r(74)=.08, n.s. This effect of CORT was due to a Behavioral treatment models, particularly behavioral activation, indicate that reduction in recall bias only in depressed women with severe childhood emotional depressed individuals gain affective benefits from social interactions, even when abuse, F(2,74)=5.63, p<.01. In women with (vs. without) childhood emotional abuse, an individual’s social motivation is minimal. The present study is the first to examine CORT affected activation in premotor cortex (BA6; Group X Drug interaction p<.01, the effects of objective social proximity (being alone or with others) on positive and corrected), which predicted recall bias for pictures encoded during CORT, r(74)=.26, negative emotional states in a sample of currently depressed, previously depressed, p<.03. These findings suggest that cortisol elevation is psychologically beneficial in
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