Papers by Christopher Nocera
LTD, but rather its persistent impairment, that is associated with the transition to addiction. T... more LTD, but rather its persistent impairment, that is associated with the transition to addiction. This persistent impairment in LTD could explain the loss of control on drug intake observed in Addict rats. LTD in the NAC is considered important in rescaling synapses that were enhanced during acquisition of motor responses and cuereward associations (31, 32), allowing those synapses to encode future associations and restore flexibility to neuronal circuits. The persistent inability to rescale synapses in Addict animals may render drug-seeking behavior consistently resistant to modulation by environmental contingencies, finally resulting in loss of control over drug intake. Thus, the major behavioral difference between Addict and Non-Addict animals, similar to that in humans (1), is their capacity to adjust their drug intake as a function of environmental contingencies. Non-Addicts can stop seeking drugs if they know that the drug is not available, if it requires an excessively high wor...
ACR North American Advances, 2011
clicking here. colleagues, clients, or customers by , you can order high-quality copies for your ... more clicking here. colleagues, clients, or customers by , you can order high-quality copies for your If you wish to distribute this article to others here. following the guidelines can be obtained by Permission to republish or repurpose articles or portions of articles ): November 19, 2011 www.sciencemag.org (this infomation is current as of The following resources related to this article are available online at http://www.sciencemag.org/content/328/5986/1712.full.html version of this article at: including high-resolution figures, can be found in the online Updated information and services, http://www.sciencemag.org/content/suppl/2010/06/22/328.5986.1712.DC1.html can be found at: Supporting Online Material http://www.sciencemag.org/content/328/5986/1712.full.html#ref-list-1 , 8 of which can be accessed free: cites 24 articles This article http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/collection/psychology Psychology subject collections: This article appears in the following
Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 2013
In recent years, the field of emotion regulation has advanced current conceptualizations of many ... more In recent years, the field of emotion regulation has advanced current conceptualizations of many forms of psychopathology. Difficulties with emotion regulation have been detected via self-report in several anxiety and depressive disorders, and in particular, generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). However, there is a paucity of research examining emotion regulation ability in this population, leaving open the possibility that self-report measures reflect an individual's perception of his/her emotion regulation skills rather than skills themselves. The present study examined the utility of an ability-based measure of emotional intelligence in the assessment of emotion-related deficits in GAD as well as the concordance between the ability-based measure and selfreports of emotion regulation skills. Results revealed that individuals with GAD demonstrated significantly more difficulty regulating their emotions than control participants did on both ability-based and self-report measures. Further, these measures showed a moderate concordance with each other. Findings suggest it will be important to integrate ability-based measurement of emotion-related deficits with other assessment modalities.
Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 2014
ABSTRACT In recent years, the field of emotion regulation has advanced current conceptualizations... more ABSTRACT In recent years, the field of emotion regulation has advanced current conceptualizations of many forms of psychopathology. Difficulties with emotion regulation have been detected via self-report in several anxiety and depressive disorders, and in particular, generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). However, there is a paucity of research examining emotion regulation ability in this population, leaving open the possibility that self-report measures reflect an individual’s perception of his/her emotion regulation skills rather than skills themselves. The present study examined the utility of an ability-based measure of emotional intelligence in the assessment of emotion-related deficits in GAD as well as the concordance between the ability-based measure and self-reports of emotion regulation skills. Results revealed that individuals with GAD demonstrated significantly more difficulty regulating their emotions than control participants did on both ability-based and self-report measures. Further, these measures showed a moderate concordance with each other. Findings suggest it will be important to integrate ability-based measurement of emotion-related deficits with other assessment modalities.
Science, Jan 1, 2010
Touch is both the first sense to develop and a critical means of information acquisition and envi... more Touch is both the first sense to develop and a critical means of information acquisition and environmental manipulation. Physical touch experiences may create an ontological scaffold for the development of intrapersonal and interpersonal conceptual and metaphorical knowledge, as well as a springboard for the application of this knowledge. In six experiments, holding heavy or light clipboards, solving rough or smooth puzzles, and touching hard or soft objects nonconsciously influenced impressions and decisions formed about unrelated people and situations. Among other effects, heavy objects made job candidates appear more important, rough objects made social interactions appear more difficult, and hard objects increased rigidity in negotiations. Basic tactile sensations are thus shown to influence higher social cognitive processing in dimension-specific and metaphor-specific ways.
Emotion (Washington, …, Jan 1, 2009
People often encounter difficulty when making conscious attempts to regulate their emotions. We p... more People often encounter difficulty when making conscious attempts to regulate their emotions. We propose that nonconscious self-regulatory processes may be of help in these difficult circumstances, because nonconscious processes are not subject to the same set of limitations as are conscious processes. Two experiments examined the effects of nonconsciously operating goals on people's emotion-regulatory success. In Experiment 1, participants engaged in an anxiety-eliciting task who had a reappraisal emotion-control goal primed and operating nonconsciously achieved the same decrease in physiological reactivity as those explicitly instructed to reappraise, compared to a control group. In Experiment 2, the effect of nonconscious reappraisal priming on physiological reactivity was shown to be most pronounced for those who do not habitually use reappraisal strategies. The findings highlight the potential importance of nonconscious goals for facilitating emotional control in complex real-world environments, and have implications for contemporary models of emotion-regulation.
People often encounter difficulty when making conscious attempts to regulate their emotions. We p... more People often encounter difficulty when making conscious attempts to regulate their emotions. We propose that nonconscious self-regulatory processes may be of help in these difficult circumstances because nonconscious processes are not subject to the same set of limitations as are conscious processes. Two experiments examined the effects of nonconsciously operating goals on people's emotion regulatory success. In Experiment 1, participants engaged in an anxiety-eliciting task. Participants who had a reappraisal emotion control goal primed and operating nonconsciously achieved the same decrease in physiological reactivity as those explicitly instructed to reappraise. In Experiment 2, the effect of nonconscious reappraisal priming on physiological reactivity was shown to be most pronounced for those who do not habitually use reappraisal strategies. The findings highlight the potential importance of nonconscious goals for facilitating emotional control in complex real-world environments and have implications for contemporary models of emotion regulation.
Talks by Christopher Nocera
Despite our opaque understanding of how the experience of religious rituals results in an indoctr... more Despite our opaque understanding of how the experience of religious rituals results in an indoctrination of ideological thought and acceptance of unique tenets of life, we do surmise that these processes occur in an automated nonconscious fashion. In order to shed light on what might facilitate the adoption of such powerful doctrine, we conducted several studies, and isolated unique components common to ceremonial practices, such as kneeling during pray or listening to the fixed tempo of the readings/songs, and show that experiences of rituals, although ostensibly irrelevant to the focal task, induce one’s susceptibility to social persuasion on subsequent judgments. For instance, when participants evaluated art work within a social setting, those who had previously been physically positioned to mimic ritual participation, conformed significantly more to the artwork ratings of others than did those not in such positions. Within a second study, utilizing the same artwork paradigm, participants who evaluated artwork, while an almost inaudible rhythmic tempo sound play in the background, conformed significantly more to the artwork ratings of others than did those subjects who did not have such a sound.
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