The effect of cognitive reappraisal and expression suppression on sadness and the recognition of sad scenes: An event-related potential study.

ABSTRACT: Previous studies have found differences in the cognitive and neural mechanisms between cognitive reappraisal and expression suppression in the regulation of various negative emotions and the recognition of regulated stimuli. However, whether these differences are valid for sadness remains unclear. As such, we investigated the effect of cognitive reappraisal and expression suppression on sadness regulation and the recognition of sad scenes adopting event-related potentials (ERPs). Twenty-eight healthy undergraduate and graduate students took part in this study. In the regulation phase, the participants were asked to down-regulation, expressive suppression, or maintain their sad emotion evoked by the sad images, and then to perform an immediately unexpected recognition task involving the reg

SUBMITTER: Yan C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9537681 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature