Implicit emotion regulation: feeling better without knowing why

Koole, Sander L.; Webb, Thomas L.; Sheeran, Paschal

doi:10.1016/j.copsyc.2014.12.027

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“…Although emotion regulation is usually considered as an explicit and deliberate process (Gross, ) accumulating evidence shows that emotion regulation often operates on more automatic or implicit levels (Mauss, Bunge, & Gross, ; Gyurak, Gross, & Etkin, ; Koole & Rothermund, ; Urbain, Sato, Pang, & Taylor, ; Taylor et al, ). Automatic emotion regulation (AER) processes are frequently required in daily life, helping us prevent emotional context from interfering with the ongoing activities, for instance, by efficiently offsetting the impact of negative or unwanted emotional responses with minimal attentional resources (see Koole, Webb, & Sheeran, for a review).…”

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Converging function, structure, and behavioural features of emotion regulation in very preterm children

Urbain

Sato

Hammill

et al. 2019

Human Brain Mapping

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Children born very preterm (VPT; <32 weeks' gestational age) are at high risk for emotional regulation and social communication impairments. However, the underlying neurobiological correlates of these difficulties remain poorly understood. Using a multimodal approach, including both magnetoencephalographic and structural magnetic resonance imaging, we investigated the functional, structural, and behavioural characteristics of socio-emotional processing in 19 school-age children born VPT and 21 age-matched term-born (TB) children (7-13 years). Structural MRI analyses were conducted on a subset of these groups (16 VPT and 21 age-matched TB). Results showed that the inhibition of aversive socio-emotional stimuli was associated with a sustained reduction of right frontoparietal functional brain activity in children born VPT children. Moreover, whole brain structural analyses showed that reductions of cortical thickness or volume in these regions were associated with poor socioemotional performance in children born VPT. Hence, our results suggest that functional and structural alterations encompassing the frontoparietal areas might be a biological marker of less efficient emotion regulation processes/performance in school-age children born VPT. These findings open up novel avenues to investigate the potential impact of such atypicalities, and in particular, those related to the atypical maturation of the medial prefrontal regions, on the frequent development of psychiatric disorders in this vulnerable population.

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confidence: 99%

Converging function, structure, and behavioural features of emotion regulation in very preterm children

Urbain

Sato

Hammill

et al. 2019

Human Brain Mapping

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“…Automatic emotion regulation occurs when emotional stimuli are unexpected or distracting from an ongoing task (e.g., Mauss, Bunge, & Gross, ), and is much less studied than intentional emotion regulation. Automatic emotion regulation is an essential process helping to offset the impact of negative or unwanted emotional stimuli with limited attentional resources (see Koole, Webb, & Sheeran, for a review). Emotional stimuli are very salient and tend to receive preferential processing (e.g., Batty & Taylor, ; Vuilleumier & Schwartz, ); thus, the cognitive control to inhibit this distraction is a critical skill for appropriate social behavior.…”

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Inhibition in the face of emotion: Characterization of the spatial‐temporal dynamics that facilitate automatic emotion regulation

Taylor

Robertson

Keller

et al. 2018

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Emotion regulation mediates socio-cognitive functions and is essential for interactions with others. The capacity to automatically inhibit responses to emotional stimuli is an important aspect of emotion regulation; the underlying neural mechanisms of this ability have been rarely investigated. Forty adults completed a Go/No-go task during magnetoencephalographic (MEG) recordings, where they responded rapidly to either a blue or purple frame which contained angry or happy faces. Subjects responded to the target color in an inhibition (75% Go trials) and a vigilance condition (25% Go trials). As expected, inhibition processes showed early, sustained activation (200-450 ms) in the right inferior frontal gyrus (IFG). Emotion-related inhibition processes showed greater activity with angry faces bilaterally in the orbital-frontal gyri (OFG) starting at 225 ms and temporal poles from 250 ms, with right hemisphere dominance. The presence of happy faces elicited earlier activity in the right OFG. This study demonstrates that the timing of inhibition processes varies with the emotional context and that there is much greater activation in the presence of angry faces. It underscores the importance of the right IFG for inhibition processes, but the OFG in automatic emotion regulation.

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“…Thanks to their various interactions, we can predict the various states of the organism and behavior of a person in a vast spectrum of situations, e.g. assimilation and implementation of other people's intentions, self-regulation after the threat of death, performing analytical vs. holistic tasks, the pace of returning to equilibrium after adverse events, the quality of romantic relationships and job satisfaction Kazén, Baumann, & Kuhl, 2003Kazén et al, 2015;Koole, Kuhl, Jostmann, & Finkenauer, 2005;Koole, Webb, & Sheeran, 2015;Quirin, Bode, & Kuhl, 2011;Wojdylo, Baumann, & Kuhl, 2017). For example, the cooperation of the object recognition system (OR -a vigilance system that is responsible for detecting every percept in the internal and external world, e.g., thing, pain, emotion, person, etc.…”

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Reaching goals through different means: will and cognition in the action of people with low and high action control

Hryniewicz¹,

Borchet²

2019

Current Issues in Personality Psychology

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BackgroundWhen observing how people strive to achieve their goals, we can discern two main styles. Some people accomplish their goals mainly through strong will while others may need additional and compound plans to rely on. Two different modes of implemen-tation of intentional behavior are explored.Participants and procedureTwo correlational studies on young Polish adults (N = 227 and N = 516) were performed. Structural equations and modeling techniques using the partial least squares (PLS) method were used to verify the predictions.ResultsThe first investigation revealed that the intention of saving money is achieved through the mechanism of implementation inten-tion. It was found that people with a low level of action control (state-orientation) and people with a high level of action control (action-orientation) implement a similar level of saving behavior. However, they do so in different ways. Action-oriented partic-ipants also seemed to make plans, and these plans supported goal attainment, though this process did not affect behavior to the same degree as for state-oriented participants. The results are discussed, drawing on the Julius Kuhl Action Control Theory as well as its explication which is the Theory of Personality Systems Interactions.ConclusionsThe present research indicates that cognitive mechanisms may compensate for volitional deficits (planning behavior) in people with low action control, whereas in the case of people with a high level of action control their will (intensification of intentions) plays a crucial role.

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Implicit emotion regulation: feeling better without knowing why

Cited by 88 publications

References 42 publications

Converging function, structure, and behavioural features of emotion regulation in very preterm children

Converging function, structure, and behavioural features of emotion regulation in very preterm children

Inhibition in the face of emotion: Characterization of the spatial‐temporal dynamics that facilitate automatic emotion regulation

Reaching goals through different means: will and cognition in the action of people with low and high action control

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