affect

Emotional framing of news headlines influences engagement, donations, and memory

Negativity captures attention and motivates people to read and share news. However, negative messaging can harm mental health, bias and distort memory, and discourage action to address a crisis. We tested an alternate route to increasing …

Frontoparietal functional connectivity moderates the link between time spent on social media and subsequent negative affect in daily life

Evidence on the harms and benefits of social media use is mixed, in part because the effects of social media on well-being depend on a variety of individual difference moderators. Here, we explored potential neural moderators of the link between time …

Momentary associations between affect and alcohol use in the daily lives of college students

**Objective:** Alcohol is theorized to be motivated by desires to regulate negative affect and/or to enhance positive affect. We tested the association between momentary affect and alcohol use in the daily lives of college students, hypothesizing …