Examining emotion reactivity to politically polarizing media in a randomized controlled trial of mindfulness training versus active coping training.

ABSTRACT: Emotional appraisals of political stimuli (e.g., videos) have been shown to drive shared neural encoding, which correspond to shared, yet divisive, interpretations of such stimuli. However, mindfulness practice may entrain a form of emotion regulation that de-automatizes social biases, possibly through alteration of such neural mechanisms. The present study combined a naturalistic neuroimaging paradigm and a randomized controlled trial to examine the effects of short-term mindfulness training (MT) (n = 35) vs structurally equivalent Cognitive Reappraisal training (CT) (n = 37) on politically-situated emotions while evaluating the mechanistic role of prefrontal cortical neural synchrony. Participants underwent functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) recording while viewing inflammator

SUBMITTER: Rahrig H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11822039 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature