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Taking Familiar Others’ Perspectives to Regulate Our Own Emotion: An Event-Related Potential Study

Current research on emotion regulation has mainly focused on Gross’s cognitive strategies for regulating negative emotion; however, little attention has been paid to whether social cognitive processes can be used to regulate both positive and negative emotions. We considered perspective-taking as an...

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Autores principales: Lei, Yi, Wang, Yajie, Wang, Chaolun, Wang, Jinxia, Lou, Yixue, Li, Hong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6660283/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31379635
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01419
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author Lei, Yi
Wang, Yajie
Wang, Chaolun
Wang, Jinxia
Lou, Yixue
Li, Hong
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Wang, Chaolun
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description Current research on emotion regulation has mainly focused on Gross’s cognitive strategies for regulating negative emotion; however, little attention has been paid to whether social cognitive processes can be used to regulate both positive and negative emotions. We considered perspective-taking as an aspect of social cognition, and investigated whether it would affect one’s own emotional response. The present study used a block paradigm and event-related potential (ERP) technology to explore this question. A 3 (perspective: self vs. pessimistic familiar other vs. optimistic familiar other) × 3 (valence: positive vs. neutral vs. negative) within-group design was employed. Thirty-six college students participated and considered their own or target others’ feelings about pictures with different valences. Results showed that positive emotional responses were more neutral under a pessimistic familiar other perspective, and more positive under an optimistic familiar other perspective, and vice versa for negative emotional responses. In ERP results, compared with a self-perspective, taking familiar others’ perspectives elicited reductions in P3 (370–410 ms) and LPP (400–800 ms) difference waves. These findings suggested that taking a pessimistic or optimistic familiar other perspective affects emotion regulation by changing later processing of emotional information.
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spelling pubmed-66602832019-08-02 Taking Familiar Others’ Perspectives to Regulate Our Own Emotion: An Event-Related Potential Study Lei, Yi Wang, Yajie Wang, Chaolun Wang, Jinxia Lou, Yixue Li, Hong Front Psychol Psychology Current research on emotion regulation has mainly focused on Gross’s cognitive strategies for regulating negative emotion; however, little attention has been paid to whether social cognitive processes can be used to regulate both positive and negative emotions. We considered perspective-taking as an aspect of social cognition, and investigated whether it would affect one’s own emotional response. The present study used a block paradigm and event-related potential (ERP) technology to explore this question. A 3 (perspective: self vs. pessimistic familiar other vs. optimistic familiar other) × 3 (valence: positive vs. neutral vs. negative) within-group design was employed. Thirty-six college students participated and considered their own or target others’ feelings about pictures with different valences. Results showed that positive emotional responses were more neutral under a pessimistic familiar other perspective, and more positive under an optimistic familiar other perspective, and vice versa for negative emotional responses. In ERP results, compared with a self-perspective, taking familiar others’ perspectives elicited reductions in P3 (370–410 ms) and LPP (400–800 ms) difference waves. These findings suggested that taking a pessimistic or optimistic familiar other perspective affects emotion regulation by changing later processing of emotional information. Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-06-21 /pmc/articles/PMC6660283/ /pubmed/31379635 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01419 Text en Copyright © 2019 Lei, Wang, Wang, Wang, Lou and Li. http://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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Taking Familiar Others’ Perspectives to Regulate Our Own Emotion: An Event-Related Potential Study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6660283/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31379635
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01419
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