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Social reappraisal of emotions is linked with the social presence effect in the default mode network

INTRODUCTION: Social reappraisal, during which one person deliberately tries to regulate another’s emotions, is a powerful cognitive form of social emotion regulation, crucial for both daily life and psychotherapy. The neural underpinnings of social reappraisal include activity in the default mode n...

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Autores principales: Xie, Xiyao, Bertram, Teresa, Zorjan, Saša, Horvat, Marina, Sorg, Christian, Mulej Bratec, Satja
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10076786/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37032933
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1128916
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author Xie, Xiyao
Bertram, Teresa
Zorjan, Saša
Horvat, Marina
Sorg, Christian
Mulej Bratec, Satja
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Bertram, Teresa
Zorjan, Saša
Horvat, Marina
Sorg, Christian
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description INTRODUCTION: Social reappraisal, during which one person deliberately tries to regulate another’s emotions, is a powerful cognitive form of social emotion regulation, crucial for both daily life and psychotherapy. The neural underpinnings of social reappraisal include activity in the default mode network (DMN), but it is unclear how social processes influence the DMN and thereby social reappraisal functioning. We tested whether the mere presence of a supportive social regulator had an effect on the DMN during rest, and whether this effect in the DMN was linked with social reappraisal-related neural activations and effectiveness during negative emotions. METHODS: A two-part fMRI experiment was performed, with a psychotherapist as the social regulator, involving two resting state (social, non-social) and two task-related (social reappraisal, social no-reappraisal) conditions. RESULTS: The psychotherapist’s presence enhanced intrinsic functional connectivity of the dorsal anterior cingulate (dACC) within the anterior medial DMN, with the effect positively related to participants’ trust in psychotherapists. Secondly, the social presence-induced change in the dACC was related with (a) the social reappraisal-related activation in the bilateral dorsomedial/dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and the right temporoparietal junction and (b) social reappraisal success, with the latter relationship moderated by trust in psychotherapists. CONCLUSION: Results demonstrate that a psychotherapist’s supportive presence can change anterior medial DMN’s intrinsic connectivity even in the absence of stimuli and that this DMN change during rest is linked with social reappraisal functioning during negative emotions. Data suggest that trust-dependent social presence effects on DMN states are relevant for social reappraisal—an idea important for daily-life and psychotherapy-related emotion regulation.
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spelling pubmed-100767862023-04-07 Social reappraisal of emotions is linked with the social presence effect in the default mode network Xie, Xiyao Bertram, Teresa Zorjan, Saša Horvat, Marina Sorg, Christian Mulej Bratec, Satja Front Psychiatry Psychiatry INTRODUCTION: Social reappraisal, during which one person deliberately tries to regulate another’s emotions, is a powerful cognitive form of social emotion regulation, crucial for both daily life and psychotherapy. The neural underpinnings of social reappraisal include activity in the default mode network (DMN), but it is unclear how social processes influence the DMN and thereby social reappraisal functioning. We tested whether the mere presence of a supportive social regulator had an effect on the DMN during rest, and whether this effect in the DMN was linked with social reappraisal-related neural activations and effectiveness during negative emotions. METHODS: A two-part fMRI experiment was performed, with a psychotherapist as the social regulator, involving two resting state (social, non-social) and two task-related (social reappraisal, social no-reappraisal) conditions. RESULTS: The psychotherapist’s presence enhanced intrinsic functional connectivity of the dorsal anterior cingulate (dACC) within the anterior medial DMN, with the effect positively related to participants’ trust in psychotherapists. Secondly, the social presence-induced change in the dACC was related with (a) the social reappraisal-related activation in the bilateral dorsomedial/dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and the right temporoparietal junction and (b) social reappraisal success, with the latter relationship moderated by trust in psychotherapists. CONCLUSION: Results demonstrate that a psychotherapist’s supportive presence can change anterior medial DMN’s intrinsic connectivity even in the absence of stimuli and that this DMN change during rest is linked with social reappraisal functioning during negative emotions. Data suggest that trust-dependent social presence effects on DMN states are relevant for social reappraisal—an idea important for daily-life and psychotherapy-related emotion regulation. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-03-23 /pmc/articles/PMC10076786/ /pubmed/37032933 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1128916 Text en Copyright © 2023 Xie, Bertram, Zorjan, Horvat, Sorg and Mulej Bratec. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Xie, Xiyao
Bertram, Teresa
Zorjan, Saša
Horvat, Marina
Sorg, Christian
Mulej Bratec, Satja
Social reappraisal of emotions is linked with the social presence effect in the default mode network
title Social reappraisal of emotions is linked with the social presence effect in the default mode network
title_full Social reappraisal of emotions is linked with the social presence effect in the default mode network
title_fullStr Social reappraisal of emotions is linked with the social presence effect in the default mode network
title_full_unstemmed Social reappraisal of emotions is linked with the social presence effect in the default mode network
title_short Social reappraisal of emotions is linked with the social presence effect in the default mode network
title_sort social reappraisal of emotions is linked with the social presence effect in the default mode network
topic Psychiatry
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10076786/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37032933
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1128916
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