ArticleAffective science2021
Foreign Language Processing Undermines Affect Labeling.
Article in Affective science, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Affect labeling down-regulates amygdala only in a dominant native language.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Affect Labeling During Pictorial Encoding Enhances Their Recognition and Reduces Amygdalar Responses to Negative Pictures.Brain and behavior · 2026Article
- Native and non-native language contexts differently modulate mood-driven electrodermal activity.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Language and Emotion: Introduction to the Special Issue.Affective science · 2021Article
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Abstract
Identifying emotional states and explicitly putting them into words, known as affect labeling, reduces amygdala activation. Crucially, bilinguals do not only label emotions in their native language; they sometimes do it in their foreign language as well. However, one's foreign languages are less emotional and more cognitively demanding than one's native language. Because of these differences, it is unclear whether labeling emotions in a foreign language will also cause downregulation of affect. Here, 26 unbalanced bilinguals were scanned while labeling emotional faces either in their native or foreign languages. Results on affect labeling in a foreign language revealed that not only did it not reduce amygdala activation, but it also evoked higher activation than affect labeling in a native language. Overall, foreign language processing undermines affect labeling, and it suggests that the language in which people name their emotions has important consequences in how they experience them Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s42761-021-00039-9.
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