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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Emotion Regulation

Background:

  • Implementation intentions are known to help override impulsive emotional behavior.
  • It remains unclear if intentional processes or habit formation drives changes in emotional action tendencies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if forming implementation intentions is sufficient to modulate emotional action tendencies.
  • To determine if intentional processes alone can regulate implicit emotional responses.

Main Methods:

  • Participants were instructed on how to respond to affective stimuli.
  • A modified affective Simon task was used to measure emotional action tendencies.
  • Affective valence was irrelevant to the task itself.

Main Results:

  • An affective Simon effect was observed, indicating faster reactions when stimulus valence matched planned responses.
  • The direction of the affective Simon effect reversed when participants planned incongruent responses.
  • Implementation intentions modulated emotional action tendencies even without habit formation.

Conclusions:

  • Forming implementation intentions can directly regulate implicit emotional responses.
  • This regulation occurs independently of habit formation processes.
  • Findings have implications for dual-system models of emotion regulation.