Where is an emotion? Using targeted visceroception as a method of improving emotion regulation in healthy participants to inform suicide prevention initiatives: a randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

William James' 1884 paper "What is an emotion?" has generated much recent interest in affective science regarding somatic contributions to emotion. Studies of interoception ("sensing the physiological condition of the body") suggest that sensing specific parts of the body contributes to the production of emotion, namely when sensing the viscera (i.e. "visceroception" of the heart, gut or lungs). Improved visceroception has, for instance, been linked to increased emotional intensity, suggesting a role for interoception in emotion regulation that may pertain specifically to visceral bodily locations. Thus, in addition to asking James' question, "What is an emotion?", we ask, "Where is an emotion?". Further, there is an evidence base pointing to the connections between emot

SUBMITTER: Davey S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7362633 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature