title: Automatic emotion regulation in response inhibition: The temporal dynamics of emotion counter-regulation during a go/no-go task.
abstract: Recent behavioral studies indicate that emotion counter-regulation automatically allocates attention to events that are opposite in the valence to the experienced emotional state. The present study explored the effect of emotion counter-regulation on response inhibition by using ERPs in a go/no-go paradigm. We recruited 58 subjects and randomly assigned them to either the angry priming group (watching Nanjing Massacre movie clips) or the neutral priming group (watching "mending a computer" movie clips). The behavioral results revealed that participants in the angry priming group responded significantly more accurately to go happy and no-go angry faces than go angry and no-go happy faces. The analyses of ERPs revealed that the amplitudes of the no-go N2 and no-go P3 were significantly larger for the happy faces than for the angry faces in the angry priming group. However, no such effects were found in the neutral priming group. These results suggest that highly aroused angry emotion could prompt a priority response to happy emotion stimuli and restrict the responses to angry emotion stimuli through emotion counter-regulation.
authors: Department of Psychology, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China.
authors: Jing
authors: J
authors: Zhang
authors: Department of Psychology, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China.
authors: Caixia
authors: C
authors: Feng
authors: Department of Psychology, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China.
authors: Xiaoqin
authors: X
authors: Mai
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000786:Anger / Q000502:physiology; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D005071:Evoked Potentials; D005149:Facial Expression; D000066499:Facial Recognition / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007266:Inhibition, Psychological; D008297:Male; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D011930:Reaction Time; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Emotion counter-regulation; N2; P3; Response inhibition