title: Implicit emotion regulation affects outcome evaluation.
abstract: Efficient implicit emotion regulation processes, which run without awareness, are important for human well-being. In this study, to investigate the influence of implicit emotion regulation on psychological and electrophysiological responses to gains and losses, participants were required to select between two Chinese four-character idioms to match the meaning of the third one before they performed a monetary gambling task. According to whether their meanings were related to emotion regulation, the idioms fell into two categories. Event-related potentials and self-rating emotional experiences to outcome feedback were recorded during the task. Priming emotion regulation reduced subjective emotional experience to both gains and losses and the amplitudes of the feedback-related negativity, while the P3 component was not influenced. According to these results, we suggest that the application of implicit emotion regulation effectively modulated the subjective emotional experience and the motivational salience of current outcomes without the cost of cognitive resources. This study implicates the potential significance of implicit emotion regulation in decision-making processes.
authors.affiliation: Sichuan Research Center of Applied Psychology, Chengdu Medical College, Chengdu 610500, Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, Laboratory of Cognition and Mental Health, Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences, Chongqing 402160, and Institute of Affective and Social Neuroscience, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 5108060, China.
authors.forename: Qiwei
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: Sichuan Research Center of Applied Psychology, Chengdu Medical College, Chengdu 610500, Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, Laboratory of Cognition and Mental Health, Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences, Chongqing 402160, and Institute of Affective and Social Neuroscience, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 5108060, China.
authors.forename: Ping
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.affiliation: Sichuan Research Center of Applied Psychology, Chengdu Medical College, Chengdu 610500, Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, Laboratory of Cognition and Mental Health, Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences, Chongqing 402160, and Institute of Affective and Social Neuroscience, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 5108060, China Sichuan Research Center of Applied Psychology, Chengdu Medical College, Chengdu 610500, Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, Laboratory of Cognition and Mental Health, Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences, Chongqing 402160, and Institute of Affective and Social Neuroscience, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 5108060, China gurl@psych.ac.cn.
authors.forename: Ruolei
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gu
authors.affiliation: Sichuan Research Center of Applied Psychology, Chengdu Medical College, Chengdu 610500, Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, Laboratory of Cognition and Mental Health, Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences, Chongqing 402160, and Institute of Affective and Social Neuroscience, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 5108060, China.
authors.forename: Wenbo
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.affiliation: Sichuan Research Center of Applied Psychology, Chengdu Medical College, Chengdu 610500, Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, Laboratory of Cognition and Mental Health, Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences, Chongqing 402160, and Institute of Affective and Social Neuroscience, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 5108060, China Sichuan Research Center of Applied Psychology, Chengdu Medical College, Chengdu 610500, Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, Laboratory of Cognition and Mental Health, Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences, Chongqing 402160, and Institute of Affective and Social Neuroscience, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 5108060, China.
authors.forename: Yue-jia
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Luo
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001364:Awareness / Q000502:physiology*; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology; D003657:Decision Making / Q000502:physiology*; D004569:Electroencephalography / Q000379:methods; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D005071:Evoked Potentials / Q000502:physiology*; D030141:Feedback, Psychological / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D005715:Gambling / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation / Q000502:physiology; D012201:Reward; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: P3; emotional experience; event-related potential (ERP); feedback-related negativity (FRN); implicit emotion regulation; outcome evaluation