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Determine whether cognitive reappraisal regulates emotion through appraisal shifts rather than attentional deployment when visual gaze is held constant.

January 1, 2010EmotionOpen Access

Seeing, thinking, and feeling: Emotion-regulating effects of gaze-directed cognitive reappraisal.

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Determine whether cognitive reappraisal regulates emotion through appraisal shifts rather than attentional deployment when visual gaze is held constant.
Conducted a randomized within-subjects laboratory experiment in 54 participants exposed to unpleasant visual stimuli.
Instructed participants to increase emotion, decrease emotion, or passively view images while holding eye gaze fixed on a circumscribed area of each picture.
Assessed emotional intensity ratings, facial electromyography via corrugator muscle activity, and autonomic arousal across conditions.
Reappraisal to increase emotion significantly elevated emotional intensity ratings, corrugator muscle activity, and autonomic arousal compared to passive viewing despite fixed gaze.
Reappraisal to decrease emotion significantly reduced self-reported emotional intensity and diminished corrugator activity, with the corrugator reduction occurring specifically when gaze was fixed on arousing information.

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Randomized experiment demonstrates emotional modulation via cognitive reappraisal in healthy individuals during fixed gaze, indicating appraisal changes drive emotion regulation.

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Heather L. Urry (2010) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a0a8b7ae7a7b397ee7376bf https://doi.org/10.1037/a0017434

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Randomized experiment demonstrates emotional modulation via cognitive reappraisal in healthy individuals during fixed gaze, indicating appraisal changes drive emotion regulation.

Seeing, thinking, and feeling: Emotion-regulating effects of gaze-directed cognitive reappraisal.

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Seeing, thinking, and feeling: Emotion-regulating effects of gaze-directed cognitive reappraisal.

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