Jove
Visualize
Contact Us
JoVE
x logofacebook logolinkedin logoyoutube logo
ABOUT JoVE
OverviewLeadershipBlogJoVE Help Center
AUTHORS
Publishing ProcessEditorial BoardScope & PoliciesPeer ReviewFAQSubmit
LIBRARIANS
TestimonialsSubscriptionsAccessResourcesLibrary Advisory BoardFAQ
RESEARCH
JoVE JournalMethods CollectionsJoVE Encyclopedia of ExperimentsArchive
EDUCATION
JoVE CoreJoVE BusinessJoVE Science EducationJoVE Lab ManualFaculty Resource CenterFaculty Site
Terms & Conditions of Use
Privacy Policy
Policies

Related Experiment Videos

Second Language Use Facilitates Implicit Emotion Regulation via Content Labeling.

Carmen Morawetz1, Yulia Oganian2, Ulrike Schlickeiser3

  • 1Department of Education and Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, BerlinGermany; Center for Cognitive Neuroscience Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, BerlinGermany.

Frontiers in Psychology
|April 1, 2017
PubMed
Summary
This summary is machine-generated.

Related Concept Videos

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by
Same author

Patterns of Ongoing Thought Are Associated With Emotion Regulation and Negative Affect in Daily Life.

Affective science·2026
Same author

Emotion regulation success involves systematic gradient-based reconfigurations of large-scale activation patterns in the human brain.

PLoS biology·2026
Same author

Testing the Role of Temporal Attention in Speech: Pretarget Alpha Predicts Memory Encoding Rather Than Effects of Linguistic Focus.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience·2026
Same author

When we want to know the bad news: exploring information-seeking for unavoidable pain stimuli.

Cognition & emotion·2025
Same author

Increased GM-WM in a prefrontal network and decreased GM in the insula and the precuneus are associated with reappraisal usage and reduced perceived stress: A data fusion approach.

Neuropsychologia·2025
Same author

Neural emotion regulation during pregnancy: An fMRI study investigating a transdiagnostic mental health factor in healthy first-time pregnant women.

Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.)·2025
Same journal

From silenced shock to strategic resilience: a longitudinal qualitative study of nurse residents' trajectory in coping with patient verbal abuse.

Frontiers in psychology·2026
Same journal

Validation of the Internet Addiction Test (IAT) for forest firefighters: implications for human-technology interaction and occupational safety in the future of work.

Frontiers in psychology·2026
Same journal

Development and validation of the football emotion scale for Chinese youth players: a psychometric study.

Frontiers in psychology·2026
Same journal

From online engagement to offline action: how social media environmental engagement shapes university students' pro-environmental citizenship through intrinsic motivation and personal norms.

Frontiers in psychology·2026
Same journal

The multidimensional inventory of religious/spiritual wellbeing in Hungarian language: psychometric properties and initial validation.

Frontiers in psychology·2026
Same journal

Effects of occupational factors on depression in Chinese veterans: a fsQCA study based on 2022 CFPS data.

Frontiers in psychology·2026
See all related articles

Bilinguals using their second language (L2) showed enhanced emotion regulation through content labeling, but not emotion labeling, with images. Explicit emotion regulation (reappraisal) remained effective in both L1 and L2 contexts.

Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Second Language Acquisition

Background:

  • Previous research indicates bilinguals experience less emotional impact from negative stimuli in their second language (L2) compared to their native language (L1).
  • This L2 effect is often linked to increased emotional distance and cognitive control during L2 processing.
  • The current study investigates emotion regulation strategies in an L2 context using non-linguistic stimuli.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine how explicit (cognitive reappraisal) and implicit (content labeling, emotion labeling) emotion regulation strategies are affected in an L2 (English) context for German native speakers.
  • To determine if the L2 advantage in emotion regulation extends to non-linguistic stimuli like images.
  • To test the hypothesis that L2 use enhances emotion regulation due to increased emotional distance and cognitive control.
Keywords:
L2 advantagecontent labelingemotion regulationemotional distancereappraisal

Related Experiment Videos

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a classic emotion regulation paradigm with German native speakers proficient in English (L2).
  • Assessed subjective emotional state ratings during cognitive reappraisal, content labeling, and emotion labeling using images presented in both L1 (German) and L2 (English).
  • Compared the effectiveness of different emotion regulation strategies across language contexts.

Main Results:

  • Affective responses to images did not significantly differ based on the language context (L1 vs. L2).
  • Content labeling was more effective in the L2 (English) than in the L1 (German).
  • Emotion labeling effectiveness did not differ between L1 and L2 contexts.
  • Explicit emotion regulation (reappraisal) was effective in both L1 and L2 contexts.

Conclusions:

  • The study found an L2 advantage for emotion regulation specifically through content labeling, suggesting L2 context alters underlying sub-processes.
  • Emotion labeling effectiveness was not influenced by the language context.
  • Explicit emotion regulation via reappraisal remains a robust strategy regardless of the language context.
  • These findings highlight language-dependent effects on specific implicit emotion regulation strategies.