Role of fantasy in emotional clarity and emotional regulation in empathy: A preliminary study.

Fantasy is the experience of identifying with characters in movies, novels, plays, and other fictional situations. In social contexts, individuals take on the perspective of others by sensing their emotions through empathy. During this process, perspective-taking and emotional sharing affect one's metacognition, which deals with the distinction between and the understanding of one's emotions (clarity) and their regulation (repair); previous studies have primarily focused on these processes.

Short-term stress enhances individuals' adaptive behaviors: a near-infrared spectroscopy study.

Few studies have examined the influence of short-term stress on neural networks underlying impulsivity in reward/punishment behavior. The influence of short-term stress on neural networks in a sample of female participants was investigated. Participants in the experimental group first completed a speech task intended to induce stress.