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  • Title: Effects of instructed emotion regulation on valence, arousal, and attentional measures of affective processing.
    Author: Bernat EM, Cadwallader M, Seo D, Vizueta N, Patrick CJ.
    Journal: Dev Neuropsychol; 2011; 36(4):493-518. PubMed ID: 21516545.
    Abstract:
    Cognitive control of emotion has been investigated using tasks prompting participants to increase or decrease emotional responding to affective pictures. This study provides a more comprehensive evaluation of responding in this task by including: pleasant and unpleasant pictures, increase and decrease instructions, additional physiological measures, and a fully randomized design. Findings suggest that control efforts did modulate higher-level affective responses indexed by self-reported valence and expressive facial muscles, but not lower-level affective responses indexed by startle blink and heart rate. Similarly, electrocortical measures evidenced expectable affective responses and control-related activity, but no modulation of affective patterns due to the control efforts.
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