Neurophysiological responses to emotional faces predict dynamic fluctuations in affect in adolescents.

ABSTRACT: The ability to accurately identify and interpret others' emotions is critical for social and emotional functioning during adolescence. Indeed, previous research has identified that laboratory-based indices of facial emotion recognition and engagement with emotional faces predict adolescent mood states. Whether socioemotional information processing relates to real-world affective dynamics using an ecologically sensitive approach, however, has rarely been assessed. In the present study, adolescents (N = 62; ages 13-18) completed a Facial Recognition Task, including happy, angry, and sad stimuli, while EEG data were acquired. Participants also provided ecological momentary assessment (EMA) data probing their current level of happiness, anger, and sadness for 1-week, resulting in indices of em

SUBMITTER: Letkiewicz AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10939961 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature