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- The study explored how negative emotions affect the ability to process conflicts by using a Stroop task to induce negative affect in participants.
- Half of the participants were taught to use reappraisal techniques to manage their negative emotions while performing a subsequent task, while the other half did not receive guidance.
- Although overall conflict processing was similar between both groups, those who naturally employed reappraisal techniques showed significant improvement in conflict processing, indicating that reappraisal can enhance this ability regardless of negative emotions present.
Article Abstract
Negative affect facilitates conflict processing. Here we sought to assess whether symmetrically, its downregulation by means of reappraisal could lower it. To this end, 105 participants performed the confound-minimized Stroop task eliciting negative affect that was followed by a simple reward-related visual discrimination task. Conflict processing was induced with the former task. Half of them (experimental group) were instructed to use this second task to downregulate negative affect arising from the Stroop task. The other half (control group) did not receive these appraisal-related instructions. Group comparisons showed that negative affect and the conflict effect were similar for these two groups. However, when we added and modeled the subjective ratings related to emotion regulation, we found that conflict processing significantly improved for participants who reported using reappraisal spontaneously, and this gain occurred irrespective of negative affect. These results suggest that reappraisal can influence conflict processing but this change does not depend on negative affect.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9139397 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12050564 | DOI Listing |
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