In the new paper, Line Kruse shows how prediction of depression for the DCT replicates across languages, including English, Italian, Spanish, German, Filipino and Russian. Chinese was the odd one out, potentially due to small sample size (4/4).

The Demonstrative Choice Task is a simple taske where participants are shown words word and for each given a simple choice between "this" or "that". The task has no right or wrong responses, but across participants, we find highly structured behaviour: www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

Contrary to our hypothesis, we found no difference between positive and negative inner speech. Heart rate variability analyses suggest both an upregulation of sympathetic and down-regulation of parasympathetic responses are involved in the increased heart rate. (4/5)

We asked participants to talk to themselves in either a positive self-encouraging manner, in a negative self-degrading manner or to perform inner counting as a neutral control condition. We found that both positive and negative inner speech resulted in an increased heart rate of 1-2 BPM.. (2/5)

Heart talk! Does emotional inner speech have a direct influence on cadiac physiology? Across two experiments we test to see if emotional inner speech alters heart rate. The short version is: Yes! It does. (1/5)

In our new preprint we show (and replicate) that emotional inner speech leads to increased heart rate relative to non-emotional inner speech, while controlling for movement. With Line Kruse, Xinyi Yan, Paula Samide, Anja F. Meerwald, David T. Fjendbo & Johanne S.K. Nedergaard osf.io/preprints/ps...

Want to know what inner speech does to your heart? Or just want to chat with Johanne Nedergaard and yours truly at #CogSci2024? Come by our poster (P2-EE-386) 13-14.15 and/or read the proceedings here: escholarship.org/content/qt8f...