Emotional intensity influences pre-implementation and implementation of distraction and reappraisal.

ABSTRACT: Although emotional intensity powerfully challenges regulatory strategies, its influence remains largely unexplored in affective-neuroscience. Accordingly, the present study addressed the moderating role of emotional intensity in two regulatory stages--implementation (during regulation) and pre-implementation (prior to regulation), of two major cognitive regulatory strategies--distraction and reappraisal. According to our framework, because distraction implementation involves early attentional disengagement from emotional information before it gathers force, in high-intensity it should be more effective in the short-term, relative to reappraisal, which modulates emotional processing only at a late semantic meaning phase. Supporting findings showed that in high (but not low) intensity, distr

SUBMITTER: Shafir R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4590533 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature