Your presence soothes me: a neural process model of aversive emotion regulation via social buffering.

ABSTRACT: The reduction of aversive emotions by a conspecific's presence-called social buffering-is a universal phenomenon in the mammalian world and a powerful form of human social emotion regulation. Animal and human studies on neural pathways underlying social buffering typically examined physiological reactions or regional brain activations. However, direct links between emotional and social stimuli, distinct neural processes and behavioural outcomes are still missing. Using data of 27 female participants, the current study delineated a large-scale process model of social buffering's neural underpinnings, connecting changes in neural activity to emotional behaviour by means of voxel-wise multilevel mediation analysis. Our results confirmed that three processes underlie human social buffering: (i

SUBMITTER: Mulej Bratec S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7328019 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature