Less is more: Morphometric and psychological differences between low and high reappraisers.

ABSTRACT: Emotion regulation plays a crucial role in an individual's well-being, as it is known that deficits in regulating emotions can lead to psychological and psychiatric disorders. Cognitive reappraisal is widely considered to be an adaptive and effective emotion-regulation strategy. People are more or less able to apply it, but it is still not clear how reappraisal affects brain structures and the psychological profile of individuals. In our study we thus aimed to explore the impact of applying reappraisal at both the neural and the psychological level. Source-based morphometry (SBM), a whole-brain multivariate method based on the Independent Component Analysis that extracts patterns of covariation of gray matter ("independent networks"), was applied to the MRI images of 37 participants. In or

SUBMITTER: Pappaianni E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7613187 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature