Examining the effects of emotion regulation on the ERP response to highly negative social stigmas
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In order to determine if highly negative stigma is a more salient cue than other negative emotional, non-stigmatized cues, participants underwent electroencephalography while passively viewing or actively regulating their emotional response to images of highly negative stigmatized (e.g., homeless individuals, substance abusers) or highly negative non-stigmatized (e.g., a man holding a gun, an injured person) individuals. Event-related potential (ERP) analyses focused on the N2 (associated with detecting novelty), the early positive potential (associated with processing emotion), and a sustained late positive potential (associated with modulating regulatory goals). A salience effect for highly negative stigma was revealed in the early positive potential, with higher magnitude ERP responses to images of highly negative stigmatized as compared to highly negative non-stigmatized individuals 355 ms poststimulus onset. Moreover, the amplitude of this effect was predicted by individual differences in implicit bias. Our results also demonstrated that the late positivity response was not modulated by regulatory goals (passively view versus to reappraise) for images of highly negative stigmatized individuals, but was for images of highly negative, non-stigmatized individuals (replicating previous findings). Our findings suggest that the neural response to highly negative stigma is salient and rigid.
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Studies showed decreased LPP amplitudes after suppression and after reappraisal of negative emotional stimuli.
“Studies showed decreased LPP amplitudes after suppression (e.g., [35]) and after reappraisal of negative emotional stimuli (e.g., [36,37,38] but see [39,40]).”
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The present LPP results are in line with results from Krendl et al. and Grecucci, but contrary to the majority of earlier studies which showed a decreased LPP for reappraisal.
“Our results are in line with results from Krendl et al. [39], or Grecucci [40], but contrary to the majority of earlier studies which showed a decreased LPP for reappraisal [36,37,66].”
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- Authors
- Krendl, A. C., Zucker, H. R., & Kensinger, E. A.
- Affiliations
- Indiana University Bloomington (US)
- Boston College (US)
- Corresponding author
- Krendl, Anne C.
- Venue
- Social Neuroscience
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2016-03-28
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 349-360
- ISSN
- 1747-0919 (ISSN-L)
- 1747-0927
- PMC
- PMC5615847
- OpenAlex
- W2300224410
- Cited by
- 24
- References
- 39
- Citations by year
- 2025: 3 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 1
- FWCI
- 4.75
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Social Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (MH080833)
- NRSA training grant (1F32AG034039)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Keywords
- emotion regulation, social stigma, negative stigma, salience, late positive potential, N2, implicit bias, cognitive reappraisal, regulatory objectives
- MeSH terms
- Analysis of Variance, Brain, Electroencephalography, Emotions, Evoked Potentials, Female, Humans, Male, Neuropsychological Tests, Social Perception, Visual Perception, Young Adult, Executive Function, Emotional Intelligence, Social Stigma
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