Situation selection for the regulation of emotion responses: Non-meaningful choice options retain partial physiological regulatory impact
| Autor: | Elise S. Dan-Glauser, Simon Thuillard |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Emotions 050105 experimental psychology Task (project management) Arousal 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Order (exchange) Physiology (medical) Emotion regulation strategy Negative experience Non-meaningful choice Physiological arousal Situation selection Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Selection (genetic algorithm) General Neuroscience Regulation of emotion 05 social sciences Mean age Heart Physiological responses Emotional Regulation Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Female Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | International journal of psychophysiology, vol. 162, pp. 130-144 |
| ISSN: | 1872-7697 |
| Popis: | Situation selection consists in choosing an upcoming emotional situation in order to regulate emotions. It was found to be a strategy with powerful effects on emotional negative experience and physiological arousal. Situation selection is supposed to be efficient through the empowering effect of choice itself. In the present study, we wanted to replicate results on Situation selection efficiency and explore its limits by examining the implications of a non-meaningful choice procedure preceding the emotional trigger, expecting that even this non-meaningful choice would be regulatory. Sixty-one participants (40 females, mean age 21.4 years) were presented with emotional pictures, either with no particular instruction (no regulation) or with the task to make a choice between two options. This task was either a classical Situation selection task, with the label corresponding to the image that could be later seen (Word Situation selection), or non-meaningful options (Non-word Situation selection). The effect of Situation selection for negative experience was replicated. Effects on physiological arousal showed reduced heart rate and respiratory rate at the end of the viewing period, particularly for positive viewing. In negative viewing, Non-word Situation selection did not reduce negative experience, but did reinforce the calming effect of Situation selection on heart and respiratory rate. These results confirm Situation selection as a valid emotion regulation strategy, particularly regarding physiological arousal. Significant understanding of the options seems to constitute a strategic part of the regulation on the full spectrum of emotion responses but is not mandatory if only some specific physiological responses are targeted. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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