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  • Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Exercise Science

Background:

  • Physical exercise offers psychological benefits, potentially modulating emotional reactivity.
  • Existing research primarily focuses on acute exercise effects, leaving long-term impacts unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the effects of a 12-week exercise intervention on emotional reactivity.
  • To assess both self-reported and neural indices of emotional responses.

Main Methods:

  • Physically inactive young adults were randomized into an exercise or control group.
  • Emotional reactivity was measured using self-reports and event-related potentials (late positive potential - LPP) at baseline, 6, and 12 weeks.

Main Results:

  • The 12-week intervention did not alter self-reported or neural emotional reactivity at the group level.
  • Exploratory analysis indicated improved cardiorespiratory fitness correlated with enhanced LPP responses to positive stimuli.

Conclusions:

  • Long-term exercise may not substantially change emotional reactivity in healthy individuals, especially subjective experience.
  • Neural measures might be more sensitive to exercise-induced emotional modulation, particularly with fitness improvements.
  • Acute and long-term exercise effects on emotional reactivity may involve different underlying mechanisms.