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| Robert W LevensonSummaryAffiliation: University of California Country: USA Publications
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Self-conscious emotion deficits in frontotemporal lobar degenerationVirginia E Sturm
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1650, USA
Brain 129:2508-16. 2006..Disrupted self-conscious emotions in FTLD patients may have clinical importance because these deficits may underlie some of the socially inappropriate behaviours that are common in these patients...- Difficulty does not account for emotion-specific heart rate changes in the directed facial action taskRobert W Levenson
Department of Psychology, University of California Berkeley, 94720 1650, USA
Psychophysiology 39:397-405. 2002.... - Blood, sweat, and fears: the autonomic architecture of emotionRobert W Levenson
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720 1650, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1000:348-66. 2003.... 
Mutual gaze in Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal and semantic dementia couplesVirginia E Sturm
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 1650, USA
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 6:359-67. 2011..These results point to subtle differences between the three types of dementia in the social realm that help to illuminate the nature of the disease process and could aid in differential diagnosis...
Physiological down-regulation and positive emotion in marital interactionJoyce W Yuan
Department of Psychology, University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Emotion 10:467-74. 2010..The finding was quite robust, suggesting that the undoing effect of positive emotion generalizes across age, sex, and marital satisfaction. The advantages of using positive emotion as an emotion regulation strategy are discussed...- Emotion regulation deficits in frontotemporal lobar degeneration and Alzheimer's diseaseMadeleine S Goodkind
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, 3210 Tolman Hall, 1650, Berkeley, CA 94720 1650, USA
Psychol Aging 25:30-7. 2010..These findings illuminate specific problems that these patients have in the emotional realm... - Greater emotional empathy and prosocial behavior in late lifeJocelyn A Sze
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 5050, USA
Emotion 12:1129-40. 2012..Empathic concern partially mediated the age-related differences in prosocial behavior. Results are discussed in terms of our understanding both of adult development and of the nature of these vital aspects of human emotion... - Anger and sadness in response to an emotionally neutral film: evidence for age-specific associations with well-beingClaudia M Haase
Institute of Personality and Social Research, University of California, Berkeley 94720 5050, USA
Psychol Aging 27:305-17. 2012..Results are discussed in terms of the functions that anger and sadness are thought to serve and the control opportunities afforded in midlife and late life that render these functions differentially adaptive... - Diminished disgust reactivity in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementiaJanet A Eckart
Department of Psychology, University of California, 3210 Tolman Hall 1650, Berkeley, CA 94720 1650, USA
Neuropsychologia 50:786-90. 2012..We discuss the implications of these findings for bvFTD patients' problems in social functioning and their typical patterns of neurodegeneration... - Emotion recognition across cultures: the influence of ethnicity on empathic accuracy and physiological linkageJosé Angel Soto
Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Emotion 9:874-84. 2009..Our findings for empathic accuracy supported the cultural equivalence model, while those for physiological linkage provided some support for the cultural advantage model... - Greater sadness reactivity in late lifeBenjamin H Seider
Institute of Personality and Social Research, University of California, 4143 Tolman Hall 5050, Berkeley, CA 94720 5050, USA
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 6:186-94. 2011..The age differences that were found were maintained even after controlling for pre-film self-reported sadness and for personal experiences of loss. These findings support the notion that sadness reactivity is heightened with age... - Relationship satisfaction and emotional language in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer disease patients and spousal caregiversElizabeth A Ascher
Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord 24:49-55. 2010..FTD caregivers also used more negative words than AD caregivers and controls. We interpret these findings as reflecting challenges that the behavioral changes in FTD create for maintaining a healthy marital bond... - Diminished self-conscious emotional responding in frontotemporal lobar degeneration patientsVirginia E Sturm
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 1650, USA
Emotion 8:861-9. 2008..Diminished self-conscious emotional responding likely contributes significantly to social inappropriateness and other behavioral abnormalities in FTLD... - Meditation and the startle response: a case studyRobert W Levenson
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 1650, USA
Emotion 12:650-8. 2012..These results from a single highly expert meditator indicate that these 2 kinds of meditation can differentially alter the magnitude of a primitive defensive response... - Do tests of executive functioning predict ability to downregulate emotions spontaneously and when instructed to suppress?Anett Gyurak
Institute of Personality and Social Research, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 5050, USA
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 9:144-52. 2009.... - The emotional brain: combining insights from patients and basic scienceHoward J Rosen
Department of Neurology, University of California, Memory and Aging Center, 350 Parnassus Ave, Suite 905, Box 1207, San Francisco, CA 94143 1207, USA
Neurocase 15:173-81. 2009..A thorough understanding of emotional dysfunction in neurological disease will require a sophisticated approach to studying emotion, which takes into account these various processes and links them to neuroanatomical changes... - Effects of aging on experimentally instructed detached reappraisal, positive reappraisal, and emotional behavior suppressionMichelle N Shiota
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287 1104, USA
Psychol Aging 24:890-900. 2009..We discuss these findings in terms of their implications for emotion theory and for promoting successful aging... - Cultural and temperamental variation in emotional responseJeanne L Tsai
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Emotion 6:484-97. 2006..Together, these findings suggest that the relative influence of cultural and temperamental factors on emotion varies by response component... - Social information processing and cardiac predictors of adolescent antisocial behaviorJoseph C Crozier
Department of Psychology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708 0085, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 117:253-67. 2008..In addition, deviant SIP mediated the effects of elevated HRR reactivity and elevated RHR on antisocial behavior (for male and female participants)... - We can work it out: age differences in relational pronouns, physiology, and behavior in marital conflictBenjamin H Seider
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 5050, USA
Psychol Aging 24:604-13. 2009..These findings indicate that the emotional aspects of marital quality are expressed in the natural language of couples engaged in conversation... - Coherence between emotional experience and physiology: does body awareness training have an impact?Jocelyn A Sze
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 1650, USA
Emotion 10:803-14. 2010..We conclude that the coherence between subjective and cardiac aspects of emotion is greater in those who have specialized training that promotes greater body awareness... - The tie that binds? Coherence among emotion experience, behavior, and physiologyIris B Mauss
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 2130, USA
Emotion 5:175-90. 2005..These findings provide new evidence about response system coherence in emotions... - Subjective, behavioral, and physiological reactivity to ethnically matched and ethnically mismatched film clipsNicole A Roberts
Department of Psycholgy, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Emotion 6:635-46. 2006.... - Exploring the basis for gender differences in the demand-withdraw patternSarah R Holley
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720 5050, USA
J Homosex 57:666-84. 2010..These results offer further evidence that an often-observed difference in heterosexual relationships may result from social conventions that afford men greater power and women less power... - Behavioral inhibition and amplification during emotional arousal: a comparison of two age groupsUte Kunzmann
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Psychol Aging 20:144-58. 2005..Voluntary emotion regulation might be one domain of human performance that is spared from age-related losses... - The impact of orbital prefrontal cortex damage on emotional activation to unanticipated and anticipated acoustic startle stimuliNicole A Roberts
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, P O Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 4:307-16. 2004..Thus, orbitofrontal damage may compromise the ability to anticipate physiologically the onset of aversive stimuli, despite intact or enhanced emotional responses when such stimuli occur unexpectedly... - Recognition of emotion in the frontal and temporal variants of frontotemporal dementiaHoward J Rosen
Department of Neurology, University of California, Memory and Aging Center, San Francisco, Calif, USA
Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 17:277-81. 2004..These results suggest that damage to frontal lobe regions in FTD may lead to more profound impairment in recognition of emotion than when damage is more limited to the temporal lobe... - The effects of depression on the emotional responses of Spanish-speaking LatinasJeanne L Tsai
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Building 420 Jordan Hall, Stanford, California 94305, USA
Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol 9:49-63. 2003..The findings also suggest that, for Latinas, depression may selectively alter expressions that serve interpersonal functions... - Turn down the volume or change the channel? Emotional effects of detached versus positive reappraisalMichelle N Shiota
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, P O Box 871104, Tempe, AZ 85287 1104, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 103:416-29. 2012..Implications for our understanding of emotion regulation processes, and for emotion theory more broadly, are discussed... - Birds of a feather don't always fly farthest: similarity in Big Five personality predicts more negative marital satisfaction trajectories in long-term marriagesMichelle N Shiota
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University Main Capmpus, Tempe, AZ 85287 1104, USA
Psychol Aging 22:666-75. 2007..Results are discussed in terms of the different life tasks faced by young, midlife, and older adults, and the implications of these tasks for the "ingredients" of marital satisfaction... - Cultures of moderation and expression: emotional experience, behavior, and physiology in Chinese Americans and Mexican AmericansJosé A Soto
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Emotion 5:154-65. 2005..Few cultural differences were found in emotional behavior or physiology, suggesting that these aspects of emotion are less susceptible to cultural influence... - Correlates of gay and lesbian couples' relationship satisfaction and relationship dissolutionJohn Mordechai Gottman
Psychology Department, University of Washington, Seattle 98195, USA
J Homosex 45:23-43. 2003..Results supported previous findings that satisfaction and stability in gay and lesbian relationships are related to similar emotional qualities as in heterosexual relationships... - Emotion comprehension in the temporal variant of frontotemporal dementiaHoward J Rosen
Department of Neurology, Memory and Aging Center, University of California at San Francisco, 350 Parnassus Avenue, Suite 800, Box 1207, San Francisco, CA 94143 1207, USA
Brain 125:2286-95. 2002..These results have implications both for the clinical presentation in tvFTD patients and for the study of the neuroanatomical basis of emotion... - Expressive suppression during an acoustic startleTim Hagemann
Department of Organizational Psychology, University of Dortmund, 44227 Dortmund, Germany
Psychophysiology 43:104-12. 2006..Results indicated that startle suppression increased sympathetic activation. These findings extend prior work on emotion suppression, and suggest that inhibiting other biologically based responses also may be physiologically taxing... - Neuroanatomical correlates of impaired recognition of emotion in dementiaHoward J Rosen
University of California at San Francisco Department of Neurology, Memory and Aging Center, 350 Parnassus Avenue, Suite 706, Box 1207, San Francisco, CA 94143 1207, USA
Neuropsychologia 44:365-73. 2006....
Research Grants
- PREDOCTORAL TRAINING CONSORTIUM IN AFFECTIVE SCIENCERobert Levenson; Fiscal Year: 2007..abstract_text> ..
- EMOTION AND AGE--REACTION, REGULATION AND UNDERSTANDINGRobert Levenson; Fiscal Year: 2007..Finally, using the longitudinal data it should be possible to test the notion that gender differences, which are quite large in the realm of emotion early in life, diminish with age. ..
- EMOTION AND AGE--REACTION, REGULATION AND UNDERSTANDINGRobert Levenson; Fiscal Year: 2007..Finally, using the longitudinal data it should be possible to test the notion that gender differences, which are quite large in the realm of emotion early in life, diminish with age. ..