Lasting effects of cognitive emotion regulation: neural correlates of reinterpretation and distancing.

ABSTRACT: Reinterpretation and distancing are two cognitive reappraisal tactics, used to regulate one's emotions in response to emotion-eliciting stimuli or situations. Relatively less is known about their (differential) lasting effects on emotional responding and related neural correlates. This functional magnetic resonance imaging study investigated 85 healthy females, participating in a 2-day cognitive emotion regulation experiment. On the first day, participants were instructed to passively look at, reinterpret or distance from repeatedly presented aversive pictures. One week later, they were re-exposed to the same stimuli without regulation instruction, in order to assess lasting effects. The main outcome measures comprised ratings of negative feelings and blood-oxygen-level-dependent responses

SUBMITTER: Hermann A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7943369 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature