Author: Jackson, D.C.; Malmstadt, J.R.; Larson, C.L.; Davidson, R.J.
Description: Despite the prominence of emotional dysfunction in psychopathology, relatively few experiments have explicitly studied emotion regulation in adults. The present study examined one type of emotion regulation: voluntary regulation of short-term emotional responses to unpleasant visual stimuli. In a sample of 48 college students, both eyeblink startle magnitude and corrugator activity were sensitive to experimental manipulation. Instructions to suppress negative emotion led to both smaller startle eyeblinks and decreased corrugator activity. Instructions to enhance negative emotion led to larger startle eyeblinks and increased corrugator activity. Several advantages of this experimental manipulation are discussed, including the use of both a suppress and an enhance emotion condition, independent measurement of initial emotion elicitation and subsequent regulation of that emotion, the use of a completely within-subjects design, and the use of naturalistic emotion regulation strategies.
Subject Headings: Emotion regulation; Eyeblink startle magnitude; Corrugator
Keywords: Suppression and enhancement of emotional responses to unpleasant pictures
Publication year: 2000
Journal or book title: Psychophysiology
Volume: 37
Issue: 4
Pages: 515-522
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Type: Journal Article
Serial number: 2474