title: Acclimation during space flight: effects on human emotion.
abstract: Recently, studies on the extent to which spaceflight affects the psychology of individuals has received attention. In order to reveal the mental challenges that humans face in space, we need practical viewpoints to integrate the psychological effects, behavior, performance and the environment itself for space exploration. The present review discusses the individual variables related to space psychology and manned spaceflight, in addition to their growing trends. These items include patterns of emotional changes in extreme environments and the approaches to evaluating emotions. Moreover, the review concludes with suggested future research on emotion during spaceflight and its analogs. These data and information are needed to plan for the exploration of the Moon and Mars, along with contributions to the construction of the international space station (ISS) and astronaut training.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023 China ; School of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875 China ; Research Center of Emotion Regulation, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875 China.
authors.forename: Qing
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023 China ; School of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875 China ; Research Center of Emotion Regulation, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875 China.
authors.forename: Ren-Lai
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou, 730000 China.
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.affiliation: China Astronaut Research and Training Center, Beijing, 100094 China.
authors.forename: Xiao-Ping
authors.initials: XP
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: China Astronaut Research and Training Center, Beijing, 100094 China.
authors.forename: Shan-Guang
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Chen
keywords: Emotion; Physiology; Space flight; Weightlessness