title: Effects of instructed emotion regulation on valence, arousal, and attentional measures of affective processing.
abstract: Cognitive control of emotion has been investigated using tasks prompting participants to increase or decrease emotional responding to affective pictures. This study provides a more comprehensive evaluation of responding in this task by including: pleasant and unpleasant pictures, increase and decrease instructions, additional physiological measures, and a fully randomized design. Findings suggest that control efforts did modulate higher-level affective responses indexed by self-reported valence and expressive facial muscles, but not lower-level affective responses indexed by startle blink and heart rate. Similarly, electrocortical measures evidenced expectable affective responses and control-related activity, but no modulation of affective patterns due to the control efforts.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306-4301, USA. ebernat@fsu.edu
authors.forename: Edward M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Bernat
authors.forename: Meredith
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cadwallader
authors.forename: Dongju
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Seo
authors.forename: Nathalie
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Vizueta
authors.forename: Christopher J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Patrick
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001143:Arousal / Q000502:physiology*; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D001931:Brain Mapping; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D003463:Cues; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004576:Electromyography / Q000379:methods; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D018913:Event-Related Potentials, P300; D005260:Female; D005712:Galvanic Skin Response / Q000502:physiology; D006339:Heart Rate / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D010775:Photic Stimulation / Q000379:methods; D011930:Reaction Time; D055815:Young Adult