How childhood maltreatment alters perception and cognition–the predictive processing account of borderline personality disorder

P Herzog, T Kube, E Fassbinder - Psychological medicine, 2022 - cambridge.org
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a severe mental disorder, comprised of
heterogeneous psychological and neurobiological pathologies. Here, we propose a …

The influence of anxiety on exploration: A review of computational modeling studies

KP Chou, RC Wilson, R Smith - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Exploratory behaviors can serve an adaptive role within novel or changing environments.
Namely, they facilitate information gain, allowing an organism to maintain accurate beliefs …

[HTML][HTML] Burials and engravings in a small-brained hominin, Homo naledi, from the late Pleistocene: contexts and evolutionary implications

A Fuentes, M Kissel, P Spikins, K Molopyane, J Hawks… - eLife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Data from recent explorations in the Dinaledi subsystem illustrates one of the earliest
examples of a mortuary practice in hominins and offers the earliest evidence of multiple …

A computational neuroscience perspective on subjective wellbeing within the active inference framework

R Smith, LR Varshney… - International …, 2022 - internationaljournalofwellbeing.org
Understanding and promoting subjective wellbeing (SWB) has been the topic of increasing
research, due in part to its potential contributions to health and productivity. To date, the …

Impaired emotional awareness is associated with childhood maltreatment exposure and positive symptoms in schizophrenia

K Beals, LJ Torregrossa, R Smith, RD Lane… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Objectives Evidence suggests that emotional awareness—the ability to identify and label
emotions—may be impaired in schizophrenia and related to positive symptom severity …

Emotional awareness is correlated with ambulatory heart rate variability: A replication and extension

DP Spangler, HT Reis, CH Hsu, W Zareba… - Psychosomatic …, 2024 - journals.lww.com
Objective A positive association has previously been observed in healthy volunteers
between emotional awareness (EA), the ability to identify and describe emotional …

Higher emotional awareness is associated with greater domain-general reflective tendencies

R Smith, M Persich, RD Lane, WDS Killgore - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
The tendency to reflect on the emotions of self and others is a key aspect of emotional
awareness (EA)—a trait widely recognized as relevant to mental health. However, the …

Psychopathic tendencies are selectively associated with reduced emotional awareness in the context of early adversity

R Smith, AE Chuning, CA Tidwell, JJB Allen… - PLoS One, 2022 - journals.plos.org
It is unclear at present whether psychopathic tendencies are associated with lower or higher
levels of emotional awareness (EA). Given that psychopathy includes a proficiency for …

[PDF][PDF] Mental and emotional well-being awareness: towards a healthy behaviour and expectation

LLD Mallillin, GCL Atendido… - Asian J. Soc. Sci. Leg …, 2022 - universepg.com
The study identifies mental and emotional well-being awareness toward healthy behavior
and expectation. It focuses on challenges of awareness in mental and emotional well-being …

Early adversity and emotional awareness: A partial confirmation and extension of their relationship

R Smith, A Versluis, AE Chuning, JJB Allen… - Journal of Family …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Early adversity has been consistently linked to mental health outcomes, but the underlying
pathways remain unclear. One previous study found an association between early adversity …