Emotion regulation of others' positive and negative emotions is related to distinct patterns of heart rate variability and situational empathy.

ABSTRACT: Although emotion regulation has been proposed to be crucial for empathy, investigations on emotion regulation have been primarily limited to intrapersonal processes, leaving the interpersonal processes of self-regulation rather unexplored. Moreover, studies showed that emotion regulation and empathy are related with increased autonomic activation. How emotion regulation and empathy are related at the autonomic level, and more specifically during differently valenced social situations remains an open question. Healthy adults viewed a series of short videos illustrating a target who was expressing positive, negative, or no emotions during a social situation (Positive, Negative, or Neutral Social Scenes). Prior to each video, participants were instructed to reappraise their own emotions (Up-r

SUBMITTER: Jauniaux J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7774949 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature