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Phenomenal, bodily and brain correlates of fictional reappraisal as an implicit emotion regulation strategy

Makowski, D., Sperduti, M., Pelletier, J., Blondé, P., La Corte, V., Arcangeli, M., Zalla, T., Lemaire, S., Dokic, J., Nicolas, S., & Piolino, P.

Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 2019

The same images, presented as real photographs or as staged fiction, measured at three levels at once: what people reported feeling, what their bodies did, and what their brains did. The paper reports the correlates of fictional reappraisal at each level, and treats it as an emotion-regulation strategy nobody has to choose to use.

• DOI: 10.3758/S13415-018-00681-0
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Keywords: Emotion Regulation · Fiction · Reality Beliefs · Psychophysiology

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Makowski, D., Sperduti, M., Pelletier, J., Blondé, P., La Corte, V., Arcangeli, M., Zalla, T., Lemaire, S., Dokic, J., Nicolas, S., & Piolino, P. (2019). Phenomenal, bodily and brain correlates of fictional reappraisal as an implicit emotion regulation strategy. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.3758/S13415-018-00681-0

See also

• Cognitive neuropsychology of implicit emotion regulation through fictional reappraisal — Makowski, D. (2018)
• The paradox of fiction: Emotional response toward fiction and the modulatory role of self-relevance — Sperduti, M., Arcangeli, M., Makowski, D., Wantzen, P., Zalla, T., Lemaire, S., Dokic, J., Pelletier, J., & Piolino, P. (2016)
• The distinctive role of executive functions in implicit emotion regulation — Sperduti, M., Makowski, D., Arcangeli, M., Wantzen, P., Zalla, T., Lemaire, S., Dokic, J., Pelletier, J., & Piolino, P. (2017)