Anhedonia and Emotion Regulation in Delay Discounting

This study focused on two research questions. First, it examined how one’s low regard for future reward can influence one’s time-bound decision making also known as temporal decision making. Second, it examined how the control (i.e. emotion regulation) of negative emotion also influenced temporal discounting. The study hypothesizes that 1) low anticipatory wanting and 2) employing suppression and reappraisal predict discounting behavior. TEPS was used to measure anticipatory and consummatory anhedonia whereas the emotion regulation task and delay discounting task were adapted from previous experimental studies and appropriately designed using Superlab 5. The data were collected from participants composed of 206 and was analyzed using process macro SPSS version 21. The results failed to show that the proposed predictors were directly associated with discounting. The author resolved to conditional indirect process analysis using different models. The initial pathway modeling showed a conditional indirect effect of anticipatory anhedonia on delay discounting mediated by negative affect and moderated by suppression condition (template 14 in Haye's Process model in SPSS 2013). This project designed two readily available experiment materials. First, the emotion regulation tasks in inducing negative affect derived from Dan-Galusser and Gross (2011) using IAPS (Lang, 1998) wherein 75 photos will be shown to participants. The other one is the delay discounting task using Philippine peso currency which is derived according to Rachlin, Raineri & Gross’s (1991) method of titrating hypothetical monetary rewards until the indifference points are reached in each delay time points

Hedonic tone and negative affect suppression: A conditional indirect pathway to delay dscounting

This study examined how pleasure predisposition and self-regulation influence discounting behavior, the devaluing of delayed rewards. It examined how low regard for future reward (i.e. anticipatory anhedonia) and how the control of negative emotion (i.e. emotion regulation) influence the preference for smaller-sooner reward than larger-later reward (i.e. discounting). It was hypothesized that low anticipatory wanting and employing suppression promotes greater discounting behavior whereas employing reappraisal inhibits discounting behavior. The data were collected from 206 participants and analyzed using H y s Process macro SPSS. The results showed a conditional indirect pathway leading to discounting. The findings suggest that the individuals with dispositional trait anticipatory anhedonia discount greater if they suppress their emotion when feeling down. Basing from the assumption that greater discounting arises after a cognitively effortful task, suppressing negative emotion as a cognitively effortful task, has shown to promote greater discounting. It has become more effortful to individuals with anticipatory anhedonia for demonstrating blunted negative reaction. In other words, the depletion of cognitive resources was not necessarily due to the amount of affect regulated, but with more effort involved in self-monitoring during the suppression blunted affect. The depleted executive control resulted to decreased attention for weighing both larger later and smaller sooner option. Decreased attention resources led to a tendency to prefer smaller sooner reward. The study suggests that individuals with anticipatory anhedonia discount greater when suppressing their blunted negative affect

Mental Help-Seeking Intention Among Atheists and Agnostics: Evidence From a Non-Western and Highly Religious Country

This study investigates the predictors of mental help-seeking intention among a minority religious group, atheists and agnostics, in a predominantly religious country, the Philippines, using an extended Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) model. The study tested whether TPB variables (i.e., mental health attitudes, descriptive and injunctive norms, and perceived behavioral control) and stigma-related variables (i.e., self-stigma, social stigma, and anticipated stigma for being atheistic and agnostic) can predict mental help-seeking intention. Results of an online cross-sectional survey (N=276) showed mental help-seeking attitudes and self-stigma are the strongest predictors of mental help-seeking intention. The findings highlighted that internal factors are salient in encouraging help-seeking among atheists and agnostics despite their highly religious, low religious diversity, and collectivistic environment. Implications point to the need for policies and programs to address the mental health needs of atheists and agnostics as religious minorities

Situational factors shape moral judgments in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern, and Western countries in a culturally diverse sample

This version of the article has been accepted for publication, after peer review (when applicable) and is subject to Springer Nature’s AM terms of use, but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements, or any corrections. The Version of Record is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/[insert DOI]The study of moral judgements often centers on moral dilemmas in which options consistent with deontological perspectives (i.e., emphasizing rules, individual rights, and duties) are in conflict with options consistent with utilitarian judgements (i.e., following the greater good based on consequences). Greene et al. (2009) showed that psychological and situational factors (e.g., the intent of the agent or the presence of physical contact between the agent and the victim) can play an important role in moral dilemma judgements (e.g., trolley problem). Our knowledge is limited concerning both the universality of these effects outside the United States and the impact of culture on the situational and psychological factors of moral judgements. Thus, we empirically tested the universality of the effects of intent and personal force on moral dilemma judgements by replicating the experiments of Greene et al. in 45 countries from all inhabited continents. We found that personal force and its interaction with intention, exert influence on moral judgements in the US and Western cultural clusters, replicating and expanding the original findings. Moreover, the personal force effect was present in all cultural clusters, suggesting it is culturally universal. The evidence for the cultural universality of the interaction effect was inconclusive in the Eastern and Southern cultural clusters (depending on exclusion criteria). We found no strong association between collectivism/individualism and moral dilemma judgements

Situational factors shape moral judgments in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern, and Western countries in a culturally diverse sample

Much research on moral judgment is centered on moral dilemmas in which deontological perspectives (i.e., emphasizing rules, individual rights and duties) are in conflict with utilitarian judgements (i.e., following the greater good defined through consequences). A central finding of this field Greene et al. showed that psychological and situational factors (e.g., the intent of the agent, or physical contact between the agent and the victim) play an important role in people’s use of deontological versus utilitarian considerations when making moral decisions. As their study was conducted with US samples, our knowledge is limited concerning the universality of this effect, in general, and the impact of culture on the situational and psychological factors of moral judgments, in particular. Here, we empirically test the universality of deontological and utilitarian judgments by replicating Greene et al.’s experiments on a large (N = X,XXX) and diverse (WEIRD and non-WEIRD) sample across the world to explore the influence of culture on moral judgment. The relevance of this exploration to a broad range of policy-making problems is discussed

Situational factors shape moral judgements in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern and Western countries in a culturally diverse sample

The study of moral judgements often centres on moral dilemmas in which options consistent with deontological perspectives (that is, emphasizing rules, individual rights and duties) are in conflict with options consistent with utilitarian judgements (that is, following the greater good based on consequences). Greene et al. (2009) showed that psychological and situational factors (for example, the intent of the agent or the presence of physical contact between the agent and the victim) can play an important role in moral dilemma judgements (for example, the trolley problem). Our knowledge is limited concerning both the universality of these effects outside the United States and the impact of culture on the situational and psychological factors affecting moral judgements. Thus, we empirically tested the universality of the effects of intent and personal force on moral dilemma judgements by replicating the experiments of Greene et al. in 45 countries from all inhabited continents. We found that personal force and its interaction with intention exert influence on moral judgements in the US and Western cultural clusters, replicating and expanding the original findings. Moreover, the personal force effect was present in all cultural clusters, suggesting it is culturally universal. The evidence for the cultural universality of the interaction effect was inconclusive in the Eastern and Southern cultural clusters (depending on exclusion criteria). We found no strong association between collectivism/individualism and moral dilemma judgements

Situational factors shape moral judgements in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern and Western countries in a culturally diverse sample.

From PubMed via Jisc Publications RouterHistory: received 2019-04-15, accepted 2022-02-14Publication status: aheadofprintThe study of moral judgements often centres on moral dilemmas in which options consistent with deontological perspectives (that is, emphasizing rules, individual rights and duties) are in conflict with options consistent with utilitarian judgements (that is, following the greater good based on consequences). Greene et al. (2009) showed that psychological and situational factors (for example, the intent of the agent or the presence of physical contact between the agent and the victim) can play an important role in moral dilemma judgements (for example, the trolley problem). Our knowledge is limited concerning both the universality of these effects outside the United States and the impact of culture on the situational and psychological factors affecting moral judgements. Thus, we empirically tested the universality of the effects of intent and personal force on moral dilemma judgements by replicating the experiments of Greene et al. in 45 countries from all inhabited continents. We found that personal force and its interaction with intention exert influence on moral judgements in the US and Western cultural clusters, replicating and expanding the original findings. Moreover, the personal force effect was present in all cultural clusters, suggesting it is culturally universal. The evidence for the cultural universality of the interaction effect was inconclusive in the Eastern and Southern cultural clusters (depending on exclusion criteria). We found no strong association between collectivism/individualism and moral dilemma judgements. [Abstract copyright: © 2022. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.

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Publisher correction: Situational factors shape moral judgements in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern and Western countries in a culturally diverse sample

Correction to: Nature Human Behaviour https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01319-5, published online 14 April 2022

Publisher correction:Situational factors shape moral judgements in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern and Western countries in a culturally diverse sample

Correction to: Nature Human Behaviour https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01319-5, published online 14 April 2022