Emotion regulation reduces loss aversion and decreases amygdala responses to losses.

ABSTRACT: Emotion regulation strategies can alter behavioral and physiological responses to emotional stimuli and the neural correlates of those responses in regions such as the amygdala or striatum. The current study investigates the brain systems engaged when using an emotion regulation technique during financial decisions. In decision making, regulating emotion with reappraisal-focused strategies that encourage taking a different perspective has been shown to reduce loss aversion as observed both in choices and in the relative arousal responses to actual loss and gain outcomes. In the current study, we find using fMRI that behavioral loss aversion correlates with amygdala activity in response to losses relative to gains. Success in regulating loss aversion also correlates with the reduction in am

SUBMITTER: Sokol-Hessner P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3594725 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature