Neural processing of emotional-intensity predicts emotion regulation choice.

ABSTRACT: Emotional-intensity is a core characteristic of affective events that strongly determines how individuals choose to regulate their emotions. Our conceptual framework suggests that in high emotional-intensity situations, individuals prefer to disengage attention using distraction, which can more effectively block highly potent emotional information, as compared with engagement reappraisal, which is preferred in low emotional-intensity. However, existing supporting evidence remains indirect because prior intensity categorization of emotional stimuli was based on subjective measures that are potentially biased and only represent the endpoint of emotional-intensity processing. Accordingly, this study provides the first direct evidence for the role of online emotional-intensity processing in pr

SUBMITTER: Shafir R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5141964 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature