While covering all commentaries, our response specifically focuses on the following issues:
How can the hypothesis of emotional distancing (qua art framing) be compatible with …

Theatrical magic is designed to elicit negative emotions such as feelings of vulnerability,
loss of control, apprehension, fear, confusion, and bafflement. This commentary suggests …

We thank the commentators for an extraordinarily diverse and constructive set of comments.
Nearly all applaud our goal of sketching a unified science of change, even while raising …

Abstract The Distancing-Embracing model does not have the conceptual resources to
explain artistic misunderstandings and the emotional consequences of historical learning in …

In addition to endogenously produced opiates, which are part of normal affiliative
neurocircuitry and attachment formation, exogenous opiates–such as drugs of addiction and …

Interest in children's temper tantrums has been renewed in the context of childhood
irritability and the new diagnosis of disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD) in the …

In the Distancing-Embracing model, an explanation is proposed for the apparent paradox
that is the enjoyment of negative emotional states in art reception. Here, we argue for the …

Background: Parenting is a process of being a parent to one's offspring. This process
enables the couple to plan for a child, give birth to it and care for it throughout. Before the …

In accord with social neuroscience's progression to include interactive experimental
paradigms, parents' brains have been activated by emotionally charged infant stimuli …

As evidence for the second process of the Embracing factor, the target article characterizes
being moved as a mixed emotion linked to sadness through metonymy. We question these …