Trial reportCognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience2019
Acceptance versus reappraisal: Behavioral, autonomic, and neural effects.
Trial report in Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 45 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
45 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Comparing reappraisal and acceptance strategies to understand the neural architecture of emotion regulation: a meta-analytic approach.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Pooled it
- Use of autobiographical stimuli as a mood manipulation procedure: Systematic mapping review.PloS one · 2022Pooled it
- Emotion regulation and peripheral psychophysiological correlates in the management of induced pain: A systematic review.PloS one · 2021Pooled it
- Psychophysiological Effects of Downregulating Negative Emotions: Insights From a Meta-Analysis of Healthy Adults.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Pooled it
- Neural mechanisms of mindfulness-based stress reduction in asthma.Scientific reports · 2026Trial
- Dismantling the Component-Specific Effects of Yogic Breathing: Feasibility of a Fully Remote Three-Arm RCT with Virtual Laboratory Visits and Wearable Physiology.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Trial
- The impact of emotion regulation strategies on experiential and physiological responses to negative emotional videos.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2026Article
- Task-evoked network connectivity and pain regulation success in chronic low back pain.Neuroimage. Reports · 2026Article
- The Short-Term Versus Long-Term Effects of Acceptance and Moderation by Stimulus Arousal Level.Psychophysiology · 2026Article
- Virtual EMO-Mind: Exploring the Benefits of Virtual Mindfulness for Heart Rate Variability and Emotional Skills in Young Students.Applied psychophysiology and biofeedback · 2026Article
- Common and distinct neurofunctional signatures of dynamic naturalistic emotion regulation strategies.Nature communications · 2026Article
- When breath lifts your mood: Dynamic everyday links between breathing, affect, and emotion regulation in remitted depression.Journal of affective disorders · 2026Article
- Emotion Regulation in Children and Adolescents with Social Anxiety Disorder: Differences in Strategy Use and Repertoire Compared to Specific Phobias and Healthy Controls.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2026Article
- Autonomic regulation during cognitive reappraisal in major depressive disorder: a study of fMRI correlates.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Look Fear in the Eyes: The Influence of Emotion Regulation on Spider Size Estimation-A Pupillometry Study.Psychophysiology · 2025Article
- Investigating social exclusion, affect and emotion regulation in young people using the ostracism online paradigm.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Reviewing Psychological Practices to Enhance the Psychological Resilience Process for Individuals with Chronic Pain: Clinical Implications and Neurocognitive Findings.Current pain and headache reports · 2025Review
- Implementation of Mindfulness-Based Emotion Regulation Strategies: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Affective science · 2025Review
- Neural correlates of pain acceptance and the role of the cerebellum: Functional connectivity and anatomical differences in individuals with headaches versus matched controls.European journal of pain (London, England) · 2025Article
- Engagement and Disengagement: From the Basic Science of Emotion Regulation to an Anxiety Spectrum.Psychophysiology · 2025Review
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Abstract
Emotion regulation (ER) is an important skill for well-being. Cognitive reappraisal is a goal-oriented cognitive change strategy. Acceptance involves decentering from immediate habits of reactivity, observing moment-to-moment shifts in thoughts, emotions, and sensations. These two regulation strategies are thought to have different effects on emotion; however, no study has examined the differential effects of reappraisal and acceptance on behavioral, autonomic, and brain responses in the context of ideographic personally salient negative self-beliefs. Thirty-five right-handed, healthy adults were presented idiographic negative self-beliefs embedded in autobiographical scripts. We measured negative emotion ratings, autonomic psychophysiology, and functional magnetic resonance imaging blood oxygen-level dependent responses while participants read neutral statements, reacted to their own negative self-beliefs, and implemented reappraisal and acceptance strategies. Compared with react, reappraisal resulted in significantly lesser negative emotion and respiration rate; no differences in heart rate and skin conductance level; greater brain responses implicated in cognitive control, language, and social cognition; and lesser amygdala responses. Compared with react, acceptance resulted in significantly lesser negative emotion, respiration rate, and heart rate; no difference in skin conductance level; and greater brain responses in networks implicated in cognitive control and attention. Compared with acceptance, reappraisal resulted in significantly lesser negative emotion; no difference in respiration rate and skin conductance level; higher heart rate; greater brain responses in brain regions implicated in cognitive control; and lesser brain responses in amygdala. Reappraisal is more effective than acceptance in down-regulating negative emotion, but may require greater recruitment of autonomic, cognitive, and brain resources. ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT02036658.
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