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MENTAL BURDENS

Sometimes the heaviest burdens are not even ours. Constantly absorbing other people’s fears, worries, and emotional chaos can slowly trap us inside their reality. Learning when to listen, and when to let go, is also a form of self-preservation.

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MENTAL BURDENS

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Does Your Child Blame Everyone Else? Here's How to Help 🐒

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DATE: May 22, 2026 at 10:00AM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG

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TITLE: You don’t just think about politics, you physically feel it in your body

URL: https://www.psypost.org/you-dont-just-think-about-politics-you-physically-feel-it-in-your-body/

A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that political emotions are not just abstract thoughts, but are distinctly felt physical experiences that shape democratic engagement. The research provides evidence that people feel politically driven emotions differently in their bodies compared to everyday emotions. These physical sensations reliably predict whether someone will actually participate in political actions like voting or protesting.

Scientists recognize that emotions drive political engagement and public division. Yet, the way people physically experience these feelings remains mostly unexplored in political science. Typically, political emotions are measured by asking people to rate their feelings on a simple numerical scale. This approach treats emotions as detached mental states.

The authors of this study argue that physical sensations form the core of any emotional experience. When people feel an emotion, they experience interoceptive states, which are the brain’s internal perceptions of signals from inside the body, like a racing heart or a tense stomach. The researchers wanted to map these self-aware, physical feelings, known as somatosensory experiences, to see what a state of political anger or political hope actually feels like in the human body.

Andrea Vik, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for the Politics of Feeling at Royal Holloway and the School of Advanced Study, University of London, helped lead the research. She explained how her academic background inspired the project.

“It really started during my master’s, when I took a political psychology course with Dr. Bert Bakker at the University of Amsterdam, and I became hooked on the question of how emotions shape political behavior,” Vik told PsyPost. “At the same time, I was fascinated by the body’s role in all of this: what our physiology can tell us that self-reports can’t. Then Professor Manos Tsakiris, who leads the Centre for the Politics of Feelings and is the senior author on this paper, introduced me to the emBODY-tool, a body-mapping method, and things clicked into place.”

Understanding these bodily sensations can shed light on how political contexts alter basic psychological responses. To explore these physical patterns, the researchers conducted a study with 992 adult participants from the United States. The sample was designed to be nationally representative in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, and political party affiliation. The median age of the participants was 46 years, and the group included exactly 50 percent women.

The scientists used a validated digital mapping technique called the emBODY tool to measure physical reactions. During the experiment, participants viewed digital silhouettes of the human body and used a coloring tool to indicate exactly where they felt physical sensations. They painted regions red to show increased activation, such as warmth or tension, and they used blue to show decreased activation, such as numbness or physical heaviness.

First, the participants completed this mapping task for five everyday, nonpolitical emotions, which included anger, anxiety, depression, disgust, and hope. Later in the study, participants repeated the exact same mapping process for the political versions of these five emotions. For the political emotions, participants were asked to choose a contemporary political issue from a list that personally made them feel the specific emotion before coloring the body silhouette. They also rated the overall intensity of their emotional response on a numerical scale from zero to 100.

The body maps revealed that adding a political context to an emotion changes how that emotion is physically experienced. For instance, everyday depression tends to cause a sensation of numbness or reduced activation in the arms and legs. Political depression, in contrast, showed a much more widespread pattern of physical activation across the whole body.

Political disgust also produced an entirely different physical map compared to everyday disgust. Everyday disgust, such as the natural physical reaction to spoiled food, tends to be felt heavily in the stomach and throat. When participants mapped political disgust, the physical sensation looked remarkably similar to anger, with high activation concentrated in the head and upper body.

Vik noted that this finding stood out during the analysis. “In this project, we only pre-registered our research questions, because we had no strong predictions about whether politics would alter the embodied signature of an emotion. Either direction, political emotions being similar or different, would have been meaningful,” she said.

“So I was struck by just how much the political context changed how emotions are embodied, particularly how disgust shifted away from something like straightforward pathogen avoidance (such as reacting to something physically repulsive) and towards something closer to moral outrage,” Vik continued. “That shift matters, I think, because it suggests that political context doesn’t just intensify or weaken your emotions. It can fundamentally transform what kind of emotional experience you’re having.”

Other emotions showed more subtle changes or remained largely similar to their everyday counterparts. Political hope produced weaker physical activation than everyday hope, possibly because political hope is mixed with adversarial feelings toward political opponents. Political anxiety was generally similar to everyday anxiety but featured slightly less sensation in the stomach area, leaning more toward mental vigilance.

The scientists also looked at how individual political differences influenced these physical sensations. Political party affiliation altered the physical experience of these emotions. Democrat-leaning participants reported stronger bodily sensations for negative political emotions compared to Republican-leaning participants. For political anger, anxiety, depression, and disgust, Democrat-leaning individuals showed much higher physical activation, primarily concentrated in the head and upper torso.

When examining how these physical feelings impact real-world behavior, the researchers found a strong link to democratic participation. The physical intensity and physical spread of a political emotion across the body reliably predicted whether a person engaged in real political activities. These activities included voting in elections, signing petitions, posting online advocacy messages, or attending public protests.

Interestingly, the physical intensity of political emotions did not predict affective polarization. Affective polarization refers to the intense emotional dislike or distrust of people belonging to an opposing political party. This suggests that the physical urge of a political emotion drives people toward taking civic action rather than simply disliking the opposing side.

“I hope it gives people a moment to reflect on how their emotions are embodied, and how politics shapes that,” Vik said. “We tend to think of political emotions as something we can simply rate: how angry are you, on a scale of one to ten? But emotions are so much more than a number.”

“They are felt and lived through the body, the butterflies in your stomach, the tension in your chest, the weight in your limbs,” Vik added. “What we find is that politics changes those bodily experiences of anger, anxiety, disgust, and hope. And it may be that embodied experience, not the number someone gives on a survey, that actually moves people to participate. Our bodies, it turns out, are part of our politics too.”

While the study provides extensive evidence regarding how we physically feel politics, the authors acknowledge several boundaries to their findings. The research relies on a cross-sectional design, meaning the data was collected at a single point in time. Because of this, the scientists cannot definitively prove that the physical sensation of an emotion directly causes political action.

Vik emphasized the need for measured interpretations of the results. “I want to be careful not to overstate the effects. This is an initial study, and the findings should be read as such,” Vik said. “There are some important limitations to our study: achieving true equivalence in emotional intensity across political and non-political conditions is inherently difficult, the U.S. context may represent a particularly strong case given the salience of partisan identity, and establishing causal direction will require longitudinal designs. But I’d rather readers see those as directions than dealbreakers.”

Despite these cautions, the researchers said that understanding physical emotional responses could reshape political science. “The practical significance, I think, is real,” Vik said. “If political emotions are embodied, and if that embodiment shapes political behavior in ways that self-reported intensity does not capture, it has genuine implications for how we study political emotions going forward. If political participation depends partly on how politics is felt in the body, then inequalities in that felt experience, who gets to feel it, who has learned not to, whose embodied responses have been suppressed or dismissed, are not just personal.”

“They are political,” she added. “They shape who acts, and whose voices are heard. Democracy may depend less on what people think than on what they are able to feel.”

The concept of “ideological bodies” is one area where the authors urge caution. “The finding I think is most vulnerable to misinterpretation is what we call ‘ideological bodies,’ the pattern where Democrat-leaning participants reported stronger and more widespread bodily sensations than Republican-leaning participants for negative political emotions,” Vik said.

“Some might read this as suggesting that one group is more emotional and therefore less rational, a notion that has long been debunked, but stubbornly persists. I want to preempt that: embodying emotions more or less says nothing about your rationality or moral character.”

“What it reflects is that political worldviews are potentially lived not just in how we think, but in how we feel the world from the inside,” she continued. “Here, our case selection and study design also matter; partisan divides might be especially stark in the US, and at the time of data-collection democrats were ‘electoral losers’, so we don’t know how this finding holds up in other contexts.”

Looking ahead, the research team plans to expand their focus to different demographics and societal issues. “The very concrete next steps are a project on how young men experience relative deprivation, i.e., the feeling that their group is unfairly worse off than others, in their bodies, and the consequences this has for violent extremism,” Vik said.

“My long-term goal is to build a fuller picture of how political emotions live in both the brain and the body, and how that shapes our politics,” Vik said. “I’d love to see that knowledge used in ways that are relevant for evidence-based communication, analysis, and policy, whether that’s building emotional resilience in populations, resilience to radicalization, or knowledge resilience to combat misinformation.”

“And perhaps most of all, I hope it can contribute in some way to societies that are better able to channel emotions and frustrations constructively, into participation rather than disenchantment, and into something positive both for individuals and for our democracies.”

The study, “Politics embodied: How politics shapes and is shaped by the bodily experience of emotions,” was authored by Andrea Vik, Alejandro Galvez-Pol, Sohee Park, and Manos Tsakiris.

URL: https://www.psypost.org/you-dont-just-think-about-politics-you-physically-feel-it-in-your-body/

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Emotional Smarts: Less of a Buffer Against Rudeness Than Thought

New studies show high emotional intelligence doesn't always stop people from reacting to rudeness. Find out what really happens.

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DATE: May 19, 2026 at 06:00AM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG

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TITLE: Negative emotions tied to sexual experiences take longer to fade than everyday memories

URL: https://www.psypost.org/negative-emotions-tied-to-sexual-experiences-take-longer-to-fade-than-everyday-memories/

A recent study published in Applied Cognitive Psychology suggests that negative emotions linked to everyday memories fade faster than those tied to sexual experiences. The findings provide evidence that while the human brain tends to soften the blow of bad memories over time as a healthy coping mechanism, this emotional fading happens more slowly for emotionally charged intimate encounters.

Scientists wanted to better understand a psychological phenomenon known as the Fading Affect Bias or FAB. This concept describes the way unpleasant emotions tied to past events tend to fade from our memory more quickly than pleasant emotions.

Jeffrey A. Gibbons, a psychology professor at Christopher Newport University, wanted to expand upon previous research examining this concept. He and his team designed a study to investigate how attachment and sexual behavior influence this natural coping mechanism.

“The original study published in 2021 on this topic was driven by an interest in determining if the FAB (faster fading of unpleasant than pleasant fading affect) was related to sexual behavior,” Gibbons said. “We found that the FAB was high when participants with high partner-esteem were describing both sexual and non-sexual events, but it was particularly high when these high partner-esteem participants described sexual events.”

Past research compared relationship events to non-relationship events, or compared romantic sexual experiences to romantic non-sexual experiences. However, previous studies never directly compared sexual events to non-sexual, non-romantic events.

“As that study compared the FAB across romantic relationship events and non-romantic relationship events, and Zengel and colleagues examined the FAB across sexual romantic and non-sexual, romantic relationship events, we compared the FAB across sexual, romantic relationship events and non-sexual, non-romantic events,” Gibbons said. “We were filling a gap in the literature.”

The researchers recruited 272 participants between the ages of 18 and 30 using an online survey platform. The sample was predominantly female, Caucasian, and heterosexual. Before providing details about their memories, participants answered a series of psychological questionnaires.

These surveys measured a wide range of personal characteristics, including neuroticism, which refers to a tendency to experience negative emotions like worry or anger. Participants also reported on their current levels of depression, anxiety, and stress.

Other surveys assessed their self-esteem, relationship satisfaction, sexual satisfaction, and potential indicators of compulsive sexual behaviors. The researchers also measured the participants’ sense of attachment to their mothers, fathers, and close friends. They utilized the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule to evaluate the participants’ current emotional states.

Next, the researchers asked each participant to recall and describe eight specific events from the past three months. These included two pleasant sexual events, two unpleasant sexual events, two pleasant non-sexual events, and two unpleasant non-sexual events.

The non-sexual events were explicitly non-romantic. For each of the eight memories, participants rated how they felt at the exact time the event happened on a specific scale. They then rated how they currently felt about the event at the time of the survey.

The scale ranged from a negative three for very unpleasant to a positive three for very pleasant. By comparing these two numbers, the researchers could calculate exactly how much the emotion had faded over the past three months. Participants also indicated how often they rehearsed these memories.

Rehearsal in this context means actively thinking about the event or talking about it with others. Participants rated the frequency of their rehearsals on a scale ranging from zero to six.

The scientists found a strong fading affect bias across the memories. This means negative feelings generally faded much faster than positive ones. The exact type of event played a significant role in the results.

“The average person should know that the participants in our study emotionally regulated better (i.e., higher FAB) for non-sexual, non-romantic events than for sexual, romantic events,” Gibbons told PsyPost. This finding suggests that emotions tied to sexual experiences tend to linger longer and resist fading compared to everyday occurrences.

The authors also looked at how different personality and lifestyle factors predicted the strength of the emotional fading. Healthy adaptive characteristics positively predicted the fading bias. Participants with high self-esteem and strong emotional intelligence showed a stronger tendency to let go of negative emotions.

Gibbons explained that “strong appreciation of one’s romantic partner leads to the same healthy degree of emotion regulation (i.e., high FAB) as strong bonds to a close friend, one’s mother or an appreciation of one’s self, but the absence of romantic partner appreciation along with the lack of bonds to a close friend or one’s mother or self-appreciation relate to very poor emotion regulation.” The participants with these positive traits held onto positive emotions more effectively.

The study also revealed complex interactions between sexual addiction and sexual satisfaction. When participants reported high sexual addiction but low sexual satisfaction, the fading bias was surprisingly large.

“One surprising result is that people show a high FAB (good emotion regulation) when they are addicted to sex, but they are not sexually satisfied,” Gibbons said. “We suggested that this result may be due to participants knowing that they should not be enjoying sex when they are driven to think and engage in a high level of sex that is beyond their control.”

The researchers also looked at how thinking or talking about memories affected the emotional fading process. They found that mental rehearsal, or simply thinking about the events privately, was the primary driver of the fading bias. Talking about the events with others did not have the same mediation effect.

The scientists suggest this happens because sex is a private and intimate topic. People often feel uncomfortable sharing sexual experiences socially with friends or family. As a result, privately processing these memories becomes the main way individuals cope with the associated emotions.

The researchers noted a few limitations in their study design. Because the experiment took place online, participants had the option to select a non-applicable answer for several relationship questions, resulting in some lost data. The demographic makeup of the sample was also a limitation, as women made up nearly seventy percent of the participants.

Additionally, the unique design of the study made it difficult to match it directly against past works. Researchers hope to address these issues in the future.

“As we were filling a gap in the literature, we did not replicate previous procedures, which is a limitation because we had no basis for an exact comparison,” Gibbons said. “However, the current study provided many interesting results, which can be examined using diary studies, rather than a retrospective study, which is another limitation.”

Moving forward, the researchers hope to track how people process emotional events over time as they happen. Doing so would provide evidence of how these feelings naturally unfold.

“As with most of our retrospective studies, we plan to replicate the current study using a longitudinal diary procedure in the future to potentially discover if FAB precedes (and could possibly lead to) positive perceptions about one’s partner, close friend, or oneself or if these positive perceptions precede (and could lead to) the FAB,” Gibbons said. This type of ongoing tracking could clarify the direct cause and effect of these emotional processes.

To accomplish this, the experimental setup might need to change from a virtual setting to a physical one. Doing so would likely improve participant retention.

“We would likely need to run such a diary study in person because we have not had great success running longitudinal diary studies online, as participants have not completed the entire study at a high rate,” Gibbons added. “We do have plans to study the FAB across many different contexts, which have not been investigated previously.”

The study, “The Relation of Sexual Activity and Attachment to the Fading Affect Bias Across Sexual and Non-Sexual Events,” was authored by Jeffrey A. Gibbons, Brenna McManus, Ella White, Zach Alam, John Tucker, and Emily Pappalardo.

URL: https://www.psypost.org/negative-emotions-tied-to-sexual-experiences-take-longer-to-fade-than-everyday-memories/

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DATE: May 19, 2026 at 06:00AM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG

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TITLE: Negative emotions tied to sexual experiences take longer to fade than everyday memories

URL: https://www.psypost.org/negative-emotions-tied-to-sexual-experiences-take-longer-to-fade-than-everyday-memories/

A recent study published in Applied Cognitive Psychology suggests that negative emotions linked to everyday memories fade faster than those tied to sexual experiences. The findings provide evidence that while the human brain tends to soften the blow of bad memories over time as a healthy coping mechanism, this emotional fading happens more slowly for emotionally charged intimate encounters.

Scientists wanted to better understand a psychological phenomenon known as the Fading Affect Bias or FAB. This concept describes the way unpleasant emotions tied to past events tend to fade from our memory more quickly than pleasant emotions.

Jeffrey A. Gibbons, a psychology professor at Christopher Newport University, wanted to expand upon previous research examining this concept. He and his team designed a study to investigate how attachment and sexual behavior influence this natural coping mechanism.

“The original study published in 2021 on this topic was driven by an interest in determining if the FAB (faster fading of unpleasant than pleasant fading affect) was related to sexual behavior,” Gibbons said. “We found that the FAB was high when participants with high partner-esteem were describing both sexual and non-sexual events, but it was particularly high when these high partner-esteem participants described sexual events.”

Past research compared relationship events to non-relationship events, or compared romantic sexual experiences to romantic non-sexual experiences. However, previous studies never directly compared sexual events to non-sexual, non-romantic events.

“As that study compared the FAB across romantic relationship events and non-romantic relationship events, and Zengel and colleagues examined the FAB across sexual romantic and non-sexual, romantic relationship events, we compared the FAB across sexual, romantic relationship events and non-sexual, non-romantic events,” Gibbons said. “We were filling a gap in the literature.”

The researchers recruited 272 participants between the ages of 18 and 30 using an online survey platform. The sample was predominantly female, Caucasian, and heterosexual. Before providing details about their memories, participants answered a series of psychological questionnaires.

These surveys measured a wide range of personal characteristics, including neuroticism, which refers to a tendency to experience negative emotions like worry or anger. Participants also reported on their current levels of depression, anxiety, and stress.

Other surveys assessed their self-esteem, relationship satisfaction, sexual satisfaction, and potential indicators of compulsive sexual behaviors. The researchers also measured the participants’ sense of attachment to their mothers, fathers, and close friends. They utilized the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule to evaluate the participants’ current emotional states.

Next, the researchers asked each participant to recall and describe eight specific events from the past three months. These included two pleasant sexual events, two unpleasant sexual events, two pleasant non-sexual events, and two unpleasant non-sexual events.

The non-sexual events were explicitly non-romantic. For each of the eight memories, participants rated how they felt at the exact time the event happened on a specific scale. They then rated how they currently felt about the event at the time of the survey.

The scale ranged from a negative three for very unpleasant to a positive three for very pleasant. By comparing these two numbers, the researchers could calculate exactly how much the emotion had faded over the past three months. Participants also indicated how often they rehearsed these memories.

Rehearsal in this context means actively thinking about the event or talking about it with others. Participants rated the frequency of their rehearsals on a scale ranging from zero to six.

The scientists found a strong fading affect bias across the memories. This means negative feelings generally faded much faster than positive ones. The exact type of event played a significant role in the results.

“The average person should know that the participants in our study emotionally regulated better (i.e., higher FAB) for non-sexual, non-romantic events than for sexual, romantic events,” Gibbons told PsyPost. This finding suggests that emotions tied to sexual experiences tend to linger longer and resist fading compared to everyday occurrences.

The authors also looked at how different personality and lifestyle factors predicted the strength of the emotional fading. Healthy adaptive characteristics positively predicted the fading bias. Participants with high self-esteem and strong emotional intelligence showed a stronger tendency to let go of negative emotions.

Gibbons explained that “strong appreciation of one’s romantic partner leads to the same healthy degree of emotion regulation (i.e., high FAB) as strong bonds to a close friend, one’s mother or an appreciation of one’s self, but the absence of romantic partner appreciation along with the lack of bonds to a close friend or one’s mother or self-appreciation relate to very poor emotion regulation.” The participants with these positive traits held onto positive emotions more effectively.

The study also revealed complex interactions between sexual addiction and sexual satisfaction. When participants reported high sexual addiction but low sexual satisfaction, the fading bias was surprisingly large.

“One surprising result is that people show a high FAB (good emotion regulation) when they are addicted to sex, but they are not sexually satisfied,” Gibbons said. “We suggested that this result may be due to participants knowing that they should not be enjoying sex when they are driven to think and engage in a high level of sex that is beyond their control.”

The researchers also looked at how thinking or talking about memories affected the emotional fading process. They found that mental rehearsal, or simply thinking about the events privately, was the primary driver of the fading bias. Talking about the events with others did not have the same mediation effect.

The scientists suggest this happens because sex is a private and intimate topic. People often feel uncomfortable sharing sexual experiences socially with friends or family. As a result, privately processing these memories becomes the main way individuals cope with the associated emotions.

The researchers noted a few limitations in their study design. Because the experiment took place online, participants had the option to select a non-applicable answer for several relationship questions, resulting in some lost data. The demographic makeup of the sample was also a limitation, as women made up nearly seventy percent of the participants.

Additionally, the unique design of the study made it difficult to match it directly against past works. Researchers hope to address these issues in the future.

“As we were filling a gap in the literature, we did not replicate previous procedures, which is a limitation because we had no basis for an exact comparison,” Gibbons said. “However, the current study provided many interesting results, which can be examined using diary studies, rather than a retrospective study, which is another limitation.”

Moving forward, the researchers hope to track how people process emotional events over time as they happen. Doing so would provide evidence of how these feelings naturally unfold.

“As with most of our retrospective studies, we plan to replicate the current study using a longitudinal diary procedure in the future to potentially discover if FAB precedes (and could possibly lead to) positive perceptions about one’s partner, close friend, or oneself or if these positive perceptions precede (and could lead to) the FAB,” Gibbons said. This type of ongoing tracking could clarify the direct cause and effect of these emotional processes.

To accomplish this, the experimental setup might need to change from a virtual setting to a physical one. Doing so would likely improve participant retention.

“We would likely need to run such a diary study in person because we have not had great success running longitudinal diary studies online, as participants have not completed the entire study at a high rate,” Gibbons added. “We do have plans to study the FAB across many different contexts, which have not been investigated previously.”

The study, “The Relation of Sexual Activity and Attachment to the Fading Affect Bias Across Sexual and Non-Sexual Events,” was authored by Jeffrey A. Gibbons, Brenna McManus, Ella White, Zach Alam, John Tucker, and Emily Pappalardo.

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TITLE: Negative emotions tied to sexual experiences take longer to fade than everyday memories

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A recent study published in Applied Cognitive Psychology suggests that negative emotions linked to everyday memories fade faster than those tied to sexual experiences. The findings provide evidence that while the human brain tends to soften the blow of bad memories over time as a healthy coping mechanism, this emotional fading happens more slowly for emotionally charged intimate encounters.

Scientists wanted to better understand a psychological phenomenon known as the Fading Affect Bias or FAB. This concept describes the way unpleasant emotions tied to past events tend to fade from our memory more quickly than pleasant emotions.

Jeffrey A. Gibbons, a psychology professor at Christopher Newport University, wanted to expand upon previous research examining this concept. He and his team designed a study to investigate how attachment and sexual behavior influence this natural coping mechanism.

“The original study published in 2021 on this topic was driven by an interest in determining if the FAB (faster fading of unpleasant than pleasant fading affect) was related to sexual behavior,” Gibbons said. “We found that the FAB was high when participants with high partner-esteem were describing both sexual and non-sexual events, but it was particularly high when these high partner-esteem participants described sexual events.”

Past research compared relationship events to non-relationship events, or compared romantic sexual experiences to romantic non-sexual experiences. However, previous studies never directly compared sexual events to non-sexual, non-romantic events.

“As that study compared the FAB across romantic relationship events and non-romantic relationship events, and Zengel and colleagues examined the FAB across sexual romantic and non-sexual, romantic relationship events, we compared the FAB across sexual, romantic relationship events and non-sexual, non-romantic events,” Gibbons said. “We were filling a gap in the literature.”

The researchers recruited 272 participants between the ages of 18 and 30 using an online survey platform. The sample was predominantly female, Caucasian, and heterosexual. Before providing details about their memories, participants answered a series of psychological questionnaires.

These surveys measured a wide range of personal characteristics, including neuroticism, which refers to a tendency to experience negative emotions like worry or anger. Participants also reported on their current levels of depression, anxiety, and stress.

Other surveys assessed their self-esteem, relationship satisfaction, sexual satisfaction, and potential indicators of compulsive sexual behaviors. The researchers also measured the participants’ sense of attachment to their mothers, fathers, and close friends. They utilized the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule to evaluate the participants’ current emotional states.

Next, the researchers asked each participant to recall and describe eight specific events from the past three months. These included two pleasant sexual events, two unpleasant sexual events, two pleasant non-sexual events, and two unpleasant non-sexual events.

The non-sexual events were explicitly non-romantic. For each of the eight memories, participants rated how they felt at the exact time the event happened on a specific scale. They then rated how they currently felt about the event at the time of the survey.

The scale ranged from a negative three for very unpleasant to a positive three for very pleasant. By comparing these two numbers, the researchers could calculate exactly how much the emotion had faded over the past three months. Participants also indicated how often they rehearsed these memories.

Rehearsal in this context means actively thinking about the event or talking about it with others. Participants rated the frequency of their rehearsals on a scale ranging from zero to six.

The scientists found a strong fading affect bias across the memories. This means negative feelings generally faded much faster than positive ones. The exact type of event played a significant role in the results.

“The average person should know that the participants in our study emotionally regulated better (i.e., higher FAB) for non-sexual, non-romantic events than for sexual, romantic events,” Gibbons told PsyPost. This finding suggests that emotions tied to sexual experiences tend to linger longer and resist fading compared to everyday occurrences.

The authors also looked at how different personality and lifestyle factors predicted the strength of the emotional fading. Healthy adaptive characteristics positively predicted the fading bias. Participants with high self-esteem and strong emotional intelligence showed a stronger tendency to let go of negative emotions.

Gibbons explained that “strong appreciation of one’s romantic partner leads to the same healthy degree of emotion regulation (i.e., high FAB) as strong bonds to a close friend, one’s mother or an appreciation of one’s self, but the absence of romantic partner appreciation along with the lack of bonds to a close friend or one’s mother or self-appreciation relate to very poor emotion regulation.” The participants with these positive traits held onto positive emotions more effectively.

The study also revealed complex interactions between sexual addiction and sexual satisfaction. When participants reported high sexual addiction but low sexual satisfaction, the fading bias was surprisingly large.

“One surprising result is that people show a high FAB (good emotion regulation) when they are addicted to sex, but they are not sexually satisfied,” Gibbons said. “We suggested that this result may be due to participants knowing that they should not be enjoying sex when they are driven to think and engage in a high level of sex that is beyond their control.”

The researchers also looked at how thinking or talking about memories affected the emotional fading process. They found that mental rehearsal, or simply thinking about the events privately, was the primary driver of the fading bias. Talking about the events with others did not have the same mediation effect.

The scientists suggest this happens because sex is a private and intimate topic. People often feel uncomfortable sharing sexual experiences socially with friends or family. As a result, privately processing these memories becomes the main way individuals cope with the associated emotions.

The researchers noted a few limitations in their study design. Because the experiment took place online, participants had the option to select a non-applicable answer for several relationship questions, resulting in some lost data. The demographic makeup of the sample was also a limitation, as women made up nearly seventy percent of the participants.

Additionally, the unique design of the study made it difficult to match it directly against past works. Researchers hope to address these issues in the future.

“As we were filling a gap in the literature, we did not replicate previous procedures, which is a limitation because we had no basis for an exact comparison,” Gibbons said. “However, the current study provided many interesting results, which can be examined using diary studies, rather than a retrospective study, which is another limitation.”

Moving forward, the researchers hope to track how people process emotional events over time as they happen. Doing so would provide evidence of how these feelings naturally unfold.

“As with most of our retrospective studies, we plan to replicate the current study using a longitudinal diary procedure in the future to potentially discover if FAB precedes (and could possibly lead to) positive perceptions about one’s partner, close friend, or oneself or if these positive perceptions precede (and could lead to) the FAB,” Gibbons said. This type of ongoing tracking could clarify the direct cause and effect of these emotional processes.

To accomplish this, the experimental setup might need to change from a virtual setting to a physical one. Doing so would likely improve participant retention.

“We would likely need to run such a diary study in person because we have not had great success running longitudinal diary studies online, as participants have not completed the entire study at a high rate,” Gibbons added. “We do have plans to study the FAB across many different contexts, which have not been investigated previously.”

The study, “The Relation of Sexual Activity and Attachment to the Fading Affect Bias Across Sexual and Non-Sexual Events,” was authored by Jeffrey A. Gibbons, Brenna McManus, Ella White, Zach Alam, John Tucker, and Emily Pappalardo.

URL: https://www.psypost.org/negative-emotions-tied-to-sexual-experiences-take-longer-to-fade-than-everyday-memories/

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