The effect of induced humility on anger and P3b responses to frustrating events.

Eddie Harmon-Jones, Qian Wang, Douglas J Angus, Kinga Szymaniak, Geneva Lorraine, Sophie Quynh Chau Vu, Cindy Harmon-Jones

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Eddie Harmon-JonesSchool of Psychology, The University of New South Wales, Mathews Bldg., Sydney, New South Wales, 2052, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-4771-3043

Qian WangSchool of Psychology, The University of New South Wales, Mathews Bldg., Sydney, New South Wales, 2052, Australia.

Douglas J AngusSchool of Psychology, Bond University, Gold Coast, Queensland, 4226, Australia.

Kinga SzymaniakSchool of Psychology, The University of New South Wales, Mathews Bldg., Sydney, New South Wales, 2052, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-5887-9028

Geneva LorraineSchool of Psychology, The University of New South Wales, Mathews Bldg., Sydney, New South Wales, 2052, Australia.

Sophie Quynh Chau VuSchool of Psychology, The University of New South Wales, Mathews Bldg., Sydney, New South Wales, 2052, Australia.

Cindy Harmon-JonesSchool of Psychology, Western Sydney University, Bankstown, New South Wales, 2200, Australia.

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Australian Research Council DP210102351

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Abstract

Past correlational research has suggested that humility is negatively related to anger. The current experiment tested the hypothesis that a humility induction, compared to neutral and pride inductions, would reduce anger as measured by self-report and P3b to frustrating events. Participants (N = 124) were randomly assigned to undergo either humility, neutral, or pride inductions. After these inductions, participants performed a task that has been found to evoke anger and larger P3b responses to frustrating events. Self-reported anger was lower to the frustrative events after the humility induction compared to the neutral and pride inductions. P3b was larger in amplitude to frustrating events compared to other events; however, it did not differ between emotion conditions. This dissociation between self-reported (explicit) and psychophysiological (implicit) responses to frustration may have occurred because humility increased the downregulation of explicit but not implicit anger responses.

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AngerEvent-Related Potentials, P300FrustrationAdolescentAdultElectroencephalographyFemaleHumansMaleSelf ReportYoung AdultangerERPhumilityP3bprideRewP

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PMID41844543

DOI10.1093/scan/nsag013

PMCPMC13071401

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