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The negativity bias, revisited: Evidence from neuroscience measures and an individual differences approach by Norris, Catherine J.

“…Past research has provided support for the existence of a negativity bias, the tendency for negativity to have a stronger impact than positivity…”
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Purpose in life predicts better emotional recovery from negative stimuli by Schaefer, Stacey M, Morozink Boylan, Jennifer, van Reekum, Carien M, Lapate, Regina C, Norris, Catherine J, Ryff, Carol D, Davidson, Richard J

“…Purpose in life predicts both health and longevity suggesting that the ability to find meaning from life's experiences, especially when confronting life's…”
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The current status of research on the structure of evaluative space by Norris, Catherine J., Gollan, Jackie, Berntson, Gary G., Cacioppo, John T.

“…The structure of evaluative space shapes emotional life and must be capable of an astonishing range of emotional experience and expression. In this article, we…”
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In the eye of the beholder: individual differences in perceived social isolation predict regional brain activation to social stimuli by Cacioppo, John T, Norris, Catherine J, Decety, Jean, Monteleone, George, Nusbaum, Howard

“…Prior research has shown that perceived social isolation (loneliness) motivates people to attend to and connect with others but to do so in a self-protective…”
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Effects of positive and negative affect on electromyographic activity over zygomaticus major and corrugator supercilii by Larsen, Jeff T., Norris, Catherine J., Cacioppo, John T.

“…Pleasant stimuli typically elicit greater electromyographic (EMG) activity over zygomaticus major and less activity over corrugator supercilii than do…”
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Socially excluded individuals fail to recruit medial prefrontal cortex for negative social scenes by Powers, Katherine E, Wagner, Dylan D, Norris, Catherine J, Heatherton, Todd F

“…Converging behavioral evidence suggests that people respond to experiences of social exclusion with both defensive and affiliative strategies, allowing them to…”
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Brief Mindfulness Meditation Improves Attention in Novices: Evidence From ERPs and Moderation by Neuroticism by Norris, Catherine J, Creem, Daniel, Hendler, Reuben, Kober, Hedy

“…Past research has found that mindfulness meditation training improves executive attention. Event-related potentials (ERPs) have indicated that this effect…”
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Corrigendum: Brief Mindfulness Meditation Improves Attention in Novices: Evidence From ERPs and Moderation by Neuroticism by Norris, Catherine J, Creem, Daniel, Hendler, Reuben, Kober, Hedy

“…[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2018.00315.]…”
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Accentuate the Positive, Eliminate the Negative: Reducing Ambivalence Through Instructed Emotion Regulation by Norris, Catherine J., Wu, Emily

“…Ambivalence, the simultaneous experience of positivity and negativity, is a conflicting, uncomfortable, arousing state but is a necessary catalyst for behavior…”
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The interaction of social and emotional processes in the brain by Norris, Catherine J, Chen, E Elinor, Zhu, David C, Small, Steven L, Cacioppo, John T

“…Social stimuli function as emotional barometers for the immediate environment are the catalysts for many emotional reactions, and have inherent value for…”
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Do Individual Differences and Aging Effects in the Estimation of Geographical Slant Reflect Cognitive or Perceptual Effects? by Dean, Abigail M., Oh, Jaehyun, Thomson, Christopher J., Norris, Catherine J., Durgin, Frank H.

“…Several individual differences including age have been suggested to affect the perception of slant. A cross-sectional study of outdoor hill estimation (N =…”
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Negativity bias in false memory: moderation by neuroticism after a delay by Norris, Catherine J., Leaf, Paula T., Fenn, Kimberly M.

“…The negativity bias is the tendency for individuals to give greater weight, and often exhibit more rapid and extreme responses, to negative than positive…”
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Feeling Good and Bad About Nothing at All: Evidence That the Status Quo Can Elicit Mixed Feelings by Norris, Catherine J, Larsen, Jeff T

“…Sometimes we come out ahead and sometimes we fall behind. Sometimes the status quo is maintained and we end up where we began. The status quo can be…”
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Ambivalence toward healthy and unhealthy food and moderation by individual differences in restrained eating by Norris, Catherine J., Do, Elena, Close, Emma, Deswert, Sky

“…Food may be a particularly ambivalent stimulus, as it may be associated with high feelings of both positivity and negativity (objective ambivalence), in…”
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Corrugator Muscle Responses Are Associated With Individual Differences in Positivity-Negativity Bias by Neta, Maital, Norris, Catherine J, Whalen, Paul J

“…Corrugator supercilii muscle activity is considered an objective measure of valence because it increases in response to negatively valenced facial expressions…”
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Political homophily, bifurcated social reality, and perceived legitimacy of the 2020 US presidential election results: A four‐wave longitudinal study by Blanchar, John C., Norris, Catherine J.

“…We report the results from a four‐wave longitudinal study (N = 951–1349) investigating perceptions of the 2020 US Presidential Election as legitimate…”
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Neuroticism is associated with larger and more prolonged electrodermal responses to emotionally evocative pictures by Norris, Catherine J., Larsen, Jeff T., Cacioppo, John T.

“…Elevated neuroticism is associated with increased psychological reactivity to stressors. Research on individual differences and physiological reactivity (e.g.,…”
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Twice the negativity bias and half the positivity offset: Evaluative responses to emotional information in depression by Gollan, Jackie K, Hoxha, Denada, Hunnicutt-Ferguson, Kallio, Norris, Catherine J, Rosebrock, Laina, Sankin, Lindsey, Cacioppo, John

“…Abstract Background and objectives Humans have the dual capacity to assign a slightly pleasant valence to neutral stimuli (the positivity offset) to encourage…”
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The evaluative space grid: A single-item measure of positivity and negativity by Larsen, Jeff T., Norris, Catherine J., McGraw, A. Peter, Hawkley, Louise C., Cacioppo, John T.

“…The authors introduce the evaluative space grid (ESG), a two-dimensional grid that provides a single-item measure of positivity and negativity. In Study 1, ESG…”
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Counterfactual thinking and reward processing: An fMRI study of responses to gamble outcomes by Henderson, Sarah E., Norris, Catherine J.

“…The process of comparing obtained outcomes to alternative possible outcomes, known as counterfactual thinking, is inescapable in daily life; however, the…”
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