Neural and behavioral effects of regulating emotional responses to errors during an implicit racial bias task.

ABSTRACT: Affect regulation plays a key role in several theories of racial bias reduction. Here, we tested whether engaging in emotion regulation strategies while performing an implicit racial bias task (Weapons Identification Task; WIT) would alter neural and behavioral manifestations of bias. Participants either suppressed or reappraised in a positive light the distress associated with making errors during the WIT, while an electroencephalogram (EEG) was recorded. We hypothesized that engaging in emotion regulation strategies would reduce the distress associated with making errors indicative of bias, resulting in smaller error-related negativity (ERN) amplitude during errors and increased expression of racial bias. Results of within-subjects comparisons (Experiment 1) generally supported these pre

SUBMITTER: Levsen MP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6257995 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature