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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Affective Science

Background:

  • Cognitive processes can be enhanced by engaging related processes.
  • Emotion regulation strategies, like reappraisal, aim to modify emotional responses.
  • Mentalizing, or understanding others' mental states, is a related cognitive process.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if mentalizing during reappraisal enhances emotion regulation.
  • To determine if mentalizing reduces perceived difficulty and negative affect during reappraisal.
  • To examine the influence of cognitive context on reappraisal effectiveness.

Main Methods:

  • Participants used reinterpretation to reappraise negative images.
  • Two conditions: self-based reappraisal and mentalizing-based reappraisal (adopting a friend's perspective).
  • Online and retrospective ratings of negative affect and reappraisal difficulty were collected.

Main Results:

  • Retrospective reports indicated mentalizing reduced difficulty and negative affect.
  • Online reports suggested mentalizing increased perceived difficulty and negative affect.
  • No consistent facilitative effect of mentalizing on reappraisal was observed.

Conclusions:

  • Mentalizing's effect on reappraisal depends on the reporting timeframe (online vs. retrospective).
  • Individuals may perceive mentalizing as helpful for reappraisal in retrospect, despite online challenges.
  • Findings underscore the significance of cognitive context and self-report methods in emotion regulation research.