APS

2023 APS Annual Convention

How Does Language Shape Emotion? Insights from Recent Findings

Sunday, May 28, 2023 · Washington, DC

Oral · Personality/Emotion

This symposium will discuss recent findings demonstrating bidirectional interactions between language and emotion. Studies from healthy, developmental, and clinical populations will attempt to unravel contributions of language to emotion representation and regulation, with implications for mental health.

Chairs & Discussants

  • Eleanor PalserChair
    UCSF

Presentations

  1. The Role of Linguistic Categories in Shaping Affective ExperienceKevin Ochsner
  2. Affect Labeling Increases the Intensity of Positive EmotionsChristian Waugh
  3. What Words Help Us Feel Better? Opposite Impacts of Emotion Naming and Linguistic Distancing on Emotion RegulationErik Nook
  4. When Words Fail Us: Developmental and Clinical Insights into Language and Emotion RegulationEleanor Palser