Whose emotion is it? Measuring self-other discrimination in romantic relationships during an emotional evaluation paradigm.

ABSTRACT: In healthy subjects, emotional stimuli, positive stimuli in particular, are processed in a facilitated manner as are stimuli related to the self. These preferential processing biases also seem to hold true for self-related positive stimuli when compared to self-related negative or other-related positive stimuli suggesting a self-positivity bias in affective processing. The present study investigates the stability of this self-positivity bias and its possible extension to the emotional other in a sample of N = 147 participants including single participants (n = 61) and individuals currently in a romantic relationship (n = 86) reporting moderate to high levels of passionate love. Participants were presented a series of emotional and neutral words that could be related to the reader's self (e

SUBMITTER: Meixner F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6155531 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature