The Fading Affect Bias and Its Moderators and Mediators
A special issue of Behavioral Sciences (ISSN 2076-328X). This special issue belongs to the section "Cognition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 662
Special Issue Editor
Interests: autobiographical memory; memory for emotional events; memory (recognition) and believability of news media; encoding specificity; linking objective memory measures and self-report measures
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The fading affect bias (FAB) is the faster fading unpleasant effect on autobiographical event memories. FAB is positively related to healthy/positive/helpful variables and negatively related to unhealthy/negative/harmful variables; hence, it has been deemed a healthy coping outcome/mechanism. FAB has also been examined across a variety of moderators and one such moderator is the event type. Specifically, FAB has been examined across alcohol and non-alcohol events, religious and non-religious events, death and non-death events, social media and non-social media events, videogame and non-videogame events, presidential and non-political events, romantic and non-romantic events, and coronavirus and non-coronavirus events. In addition, FAB has been moderated by various variables, including social rehearsals, depression, anxiety, neuroticism, positive religious coping, spirituality, narcissism, immature and mature death attitudes, addiction, parental risk of physically abusing a child, political conservatism, social media use, videogame use, internet addiction, partner esteem, attachment and coronaphobia. Furthermore, FAB has primarily been mediated by social rehearsals. This Special Issue aims to present some of the newest variables to moderate and mediate FAB and FAB effects.
Please submit your proposals and any questions to the Special Issue Guest Editors by 30 September 2024. Notification of acceptance will be provided by 15 October 2024.
Dr. Jeffrey Gibbons
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- fading affect bias
- moderators
- mediators
- emotion regulation
- healthy coping mechanism
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