Marcela C Otero

Biographic Data

ID202299
NAMEMarcela C Otero
GIVEN NAMESMarcela C
FAMILY NAMEOtero
SIGNATUREOTERO M C
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Berkeley
ORCID0000-0003-2280-4555
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS9
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Does Positivity Resonance Signify Love? Markers of Positivity Resonance in Long‐Term Married Couples Relate to Trait and State Love

    Open AccessJocelyn Lai, Marcela C Otero et al.ARTICLEPersonal Relationships2025References: 10

    Positivity resonance is a collective emotion experienced by two or more individuals during moments of shared positive affect; it is theorized to constitute the experience of love, yet this claim has not been empirically tested. Using archival data from 148 long‐term married couples, we examined whether dyad‐level indicators of positivity resonance are linked to dyad‐level indicators of trait and state love. Trait love was assessed as a latent var…

  • Positivity resonance in long-term married couples

    Open AccessJenna L Wells, Claudia M Haase et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…2022Cited by: 4

    The Positivity Resonance Theory of coexperienced positive affect describes moments of interpersonal connection characterized by shared positive affect, caring nonverbal synchrony, and biological synchrony. The construct validity of positivity resonance and its longitudinal associations with health have not been tested. The current longitudinal study examined whether positivity resonance in conflict interactions between 154 married couples predict…

  • Shared emotions in shared lives

    Open AccessCasey L Brown, K H Chen et al.ARTICLEEmotion2021

    Motivated by collective emotions theories that propose emotions shared between individuals predict group-level qualities, we hypothesized that co-experienced affect during interactions is associated with relationship quality, above and beyond the effects of individually experienced affect. Consistent with positivity resonance theory, we also hypothesized that co-experienced positive affect would have a stronger association with relationship quali…

  • Physiological linkage during shared positive and shared negative emotion

    Open AccessK H Chen, Kuan-Hua Chen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…2021Cited by: 5

    Physiological linkage refers to the degree to which peoples' physiological responses change in coordinated ways. Here, we examine whether and how physiological linkage relates to incidents of shared emotion, distinguished by valence. Past research has used an "overall average" approach and characterized how physiological linkage over relatively long time periods (e.g., 10-15 min) reflects psychological and social processes (e.g., marital satisfac…

  • Behavioral indices of positivity resonance associated with long-term marital satisfaction

    Open AccessMarcela C Otero, Jenna L Wells et al.ARTICLEEmotion2019

    Positivity resonance-defined as a synthesis of shared positive affect, mutual care and concern, plus behavioral and biological synchrony-is theorized to contribute to a host of positive outcomes, including relationship satisfaction. The current study examined whether, in long-term married couples, behavioral indices of positivity resonance (rated using a new behavioral coding system) are associated with concurrent shared positive affect using a w…

  • Emotion

    Robert W Levenson, Sandy J Lwi et al.CHAPTERHandbook of Psychophysiology2016

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  • Insular atrophy and diminished disgust reactivity

    Open AccessAlice Verstaen, Janet A Eckart et al.ARTICLEEmotion2016

    Disgust is an emotion that helps us deal with potential contamination (Rozin & Fallon, 1987). It produces a distinctive facial expression (e.g., wrinkled nose) and a physiological response that is accompanied by strong visceral sensations (e.g., nausea). Given the important role that the anterior insula plays in processing and integrating visceral information (Craig, 2009), it is likely to be centrally involved in disgust. Despite this, few studi…