CAREER: The Effects of Process Facilitation on Emotion Regulation

职业：过程促进对情绪调节的影响

• 批准号: 1554683
• 负责人: Kateri McRae
• 金额: $ 73.79万
• 依托单位: University of Denver
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-06-01 至 2023-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1554683&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Effects; Process; Facilitation; Emotion

We can try to change our emotions by changing our thoughts, but sometimes this is not successful. This CAREER project tests the innovative prediction that certain thoughts engage neural processes to improve our ability to regulate emotions under certain conditions. The researcher, Dr. Kateri McRae, at the University of Denver, will examine whether what a person is doing and what parts of their brain are most active, just before changing their thinking, will matter. When a task uses cognitive processes that overlap with brain regions used during emotion regulation, then the regulation that follows will be easier and more effective. The educational portion of the CAREER projects has two parts. First, undergraduate students will partner with community members to develop multimedia resources about emotions and emotion regulation that will be available via the internet. Second, outreach to the community and underrepresented students will focus on teaching them about making valid conclusions from psychological science, and learning what neuroscience measures in particular can tell us. The potential benefits of this project include discovering the conditions that allow people to manage their emotions. Benefits also include educating a large community about emotion regulation, neuroscience, and the scientific method.The central hypothesis of this CAREER proposal is that overlapping cognitive and neural processes pave a path for emotion regulation by enhancing cognitive reappraisal. Central to this hypothesis is that rather than being passive victims of their emotions, people have tools they can use to influence their emotions. This project tests the hypothesis that three cognitive processes facilitate subsequent emotion regulation. The first process involves our brains' tendency to resolve conflict quickly and efficiently. This project examines the effects of cognitive processes involved in emotional conflict resolution. The second process is decreasing self-focus and thus emotional responses. The third process involves top-down emotion generation, such as that generated via language or rich narratives. Validated experimental manipulations are used with multiple measures of affect across six laboratory experiments. Each of the three candidate processes will be manipulated in their own study. Psychophysiological measures (e.g., electrodermal activity, heart rate, respiration) and self-reports will be used, and their effects on cognitive reappraisal examined. Three fMRI neuroimaging studies (one per process) will test the hypothesis that overlapping neural processes characterize effective precursors of cognitive reappraisal. Lastly, a large-scale neuroimaging analysis will collapse across the three fMRI studies to identify brain regions that are common to successful cognitive reappraisal across contexts. The educational dissemination plan includes having undergraduate students work with community members to develop multimedia presentations, and discussing neuroscience research methods focusing on valid and accurate conclusions. The implications include a better understanding of processes that lead to efficient emotion regulation, thereby enhancing personal well-being and productivity. The implications also include facilitating better understanding of psychological science across a variety of populations.

我们可以尝试通过改变我们的想法来改变我们的情绪，但有时这并不成功。 这个CAREER项目测试了一个创新的预测，即某些思想参与神经过程，以提高我们在某些条件下调节情绪的能力。丹佛大学的研究人员Kateri麦克雷博士将检查一个人在改变想法之前正在做的事情以及他们大脑中最活跃的部分是否重要。当一项任务使用的认知过程与情绪调节过程中使用的大脑区域重叠时，随后的调节将更容易，更有效。职业项目的教育部分有两个部分。首先，本科生将与社区成员合作开发有关情绪和情绪调节的多媒体资源，这些资源将通过互联网提供。其次，对社区和代表性不足的学生的宣传将集中在教他们如何从心理科学中得出有效的结论，并学习神经科学的措施，特别是可以告诉我们什么。这个项目的潜在好处包括发现允许人们管理情绪的条件。好处还包括教育一个大社区关于情绪调节，神经科学和科学方法。这个CAREER建议的中心假设是，重叠的认知和神经过程通过增强认知重新评估为情绪调节铺平了道路。这一假设的核心是，人们不是被动地成为情绪的受害者，而是有工具可以用来影响自己的情绪。该项目测试的假设，三个认知过程促进随后的情绪调节。第一个过程涉及我们的大脑快速有效地解决冲突的倾向。这个项目研究了情感冲突解决中认知过程的影响。第二个过程是减少自我关注，从而减少情绪反应。第三个过程涉及自上而下的情感生成，例如通过语言或丰富的叙述产生的情感。经过验证的实验操作与跨六个实验室实验的影响的多个措施。三个候选过程中的每一个都将在各自的研究中进行操作。心理生理测量（例如，将使用皮肤电活动、心率、呼吸）和自我报告，并检查它们对认知重新评价的影响。三个功能磁共振成像神经成像研究（每个过程一个）将测试的假设，重叠的神经过程的特征有效的前体认知重新评价。 最后，一个大规模的神经成像分析将在三个功能磁共振成像研究中崩溃，以确定在不同背景下成功认知重新评估的共同大脑区域。教育传播计划包括让本科生与社区成员合作开发多媒体演示文稿，并讨论神经科学研究方法，重点是有效和准确的结论。 其影响包括更好地了解导致有效情绪调节的过程，从而提高个人福祉和生产力。其影响还包括促进更好地理解各种人群的心理科学。