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  • Psycholinguistics
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Background:

  • Affect labeling, the process of identifying and verbalizing emotions, is known to reduce amygdala activation.
  • Bilingual individuals can label emotions in both their native and foreign languages.
  • Foreign languages are typically less emotional and more cognitively demanding than native languages.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether affect labeling in a foreign language downregulates affect.
  • To compare the neural effects of affect labeling in native versus foreign languages.

Main Methods:

  • fMRI scanning of 26 unbalanced bilinguals.
  • Participants labeled emotional faces in either their native or foreign language.

Main Results:

  • Affect labeling in a foreign language did not reduce amygdala activation.
  • Labeling emotions in a foreign language resulted in higher amygdala activation compared to the native language.
  • Foreign language processing appears to undermine the emotion-downregulating effect of affect labeling.

Conclusions:

  • The language used for affect labeling has significant consequences for emotional experience.
  • Processing emotions in a foreign language may intensify emotional responses rather than dampen them.