Publications by authors named "Gabriel A Leon"
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates the effects of face masks on emotion recognition, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, using a task that assessed responses to both masked and unmasked faces showing emotions like fear, sadness, and anger.
- Participants included 119 college students, 30 children, and 31 fathers, with some undergoing neuroimaging while performing the task; results showed less accurate emotion recognition for masked faces, particularly sad ones.
- Neural responses indicated greater activation in areas of the brain associated with emotion processing when viewing sad masked faces, and among fathers, this activation correlated with stress and depression; overall findings highlight the impact of mask-wearing on emotional understanding across various age groups.
Background: Positive affect synchrony, or the reciprocal exchange of positive affect during free play, can scaffold infants' socioemotional development. However, parental stress may compromise the expression and exchange of positive affect within families. The current study assesses whether parenting stress and hair cortisol are associated with positive affect synchrony during a triadic play interaction.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals ( people with minoritized sexual orientation and/or gender identities) have limited legal rights and access to resources because of their marginalized status in society. These limitations are associated with notable health disparities and increase experiences of minority stress. For those in a romantic relationship, being able to communicate and cope with one's partner-dyadic coping-can help buffer stress' deleterious effects on well-being.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Vignettes are commonly used to assess health care decision making when it is impractical or unethical to use experimental methods. We sought to determine whether decisions made in response to hypothetical vignettes requiring medical decisions for self or parents related to reported future likelihoods of engaging in similar behaviors.
Method: Respondents ( = 1,862) were adults recruited in person in general community settings.