Positive emotional reactions to loved names Lucas, Ignacio Sánchez-Adam, Alicia Vila Castellar, Jaime Guerra Muñoz, Pedro María This is a non-reviewed, non-corrected version. It doesn't include figures. The final version of the manuscript can be consulted at DOI: 10.1111/psyp.13363 Studies concerning personal attachment have successfully used loved familiar faces to prompt positive affective and physiological reactions. On the other hand, the processing of emotional words has been associated with a pattern of peripheral and central physiological responses equivalent to those found with affective pictures. The objective of this study was to assess whether the passive viewing of loved names would produce a pattern of subjective and physiological reactivity similar to that produced by the passive viewing of loved faces. The results showed that compared to neutral (unknown) and famous names, loved names produced a biphasic pattern of heart rate deceleration-acceleration, heightened skin conductance and zygomaticus muscle activity, inhibition of corrugator muscle activity, and potentiation of the startle reflex response. This pattern of physiological responses was accompanied by subjective reports of higher positive affect and arousal for loved names than for neutral and famous ones. These findings highlight not only the similarity but also the differences between the affective processing of identity recognition by loved faces and names. 2024-02-05T11:18:07Z 2024-02-05T11:18:07Z 2019-03-18 journal article Lucas, I., Sánchez‐Adam, A., Vila, J., & Guerra, P. (2019). Positive emotional reactions to loved names. Psychophysiology, 56(7), e13363. https://hdl.handle.net/10481/88250 10.1111/psyp.13363 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ open access Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License Psychophysiology