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| Title |
A Distant Brain is Better Than an Immersed Brain: Frontal Brain Asymmetry and Self- Distanced and Self-Immersed Emotional Expression
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| Type of Resource |
still image
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| Date Created |
2009-05-18
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| Digital Origin |
born digtal
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| Rights Statement |
http://digital.uwyo.edu/copyright.htm
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| Keyword (topic) |
prefrontal cortex (PFC)
emotional coping
emotional regulation
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| Series Title |
Undergrauate Research Day 2009
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| Creator(s) |
Yaple, Zachary
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| Contributor(s) |
Schwab, Nicholas
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| Publisher |
University of Wyoming
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| Place of publication |
Laramie, Wyoming
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| Language |
eng
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| Summary |
A large body of work on the prefrontal cortex (PFC) indicates that asymmetric activation within the PFC is associated with success in emotion regulation (Jackson, et al., 2003), emotional coping (Master, et al., in press) and psychological well-being (Urry, et al., 2004). However these studies have all been correlational, leaving several unanswered questions concerning the mediating processes between frontal asymmetry and emotion regulation, coping, and psychological well-being. While not directly tested within their research on self-distant and self-immersed emotional recall, Kross and colleges findings strongly suggest that individual differences in habitual use of either self-distant vs. self-immersed emotional recall might explain individual differences in either adaptive emotional expression or maladaptive rumination. Such an individual difference may help explain the relationship between individual differences in neural processes and emotion regulation and psychopathology (Davidson, Jackson, & Kalin, 2000). Based on previous research concerning self-distanced and self-immersed emotional expression and frontal asymmetry, we hypothesize that greater relative left PFC activation will be associated with self-distanced emotional expression conversely greater relative right PFC activation will be associated with self-immersed emotional expression. We also predict that frontal asymmetry scores during emotional expression will mediate self-reported depressive affect and recounting/reconstruing statements made after emotional recall. The study proposed here will test these hypotheses by replicating the method used by Kross and Ayduk while EEG is recorded during emotional recall and essay writing.
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| Notes |
From - Undergraduate Research Day 2009 - Celebration of Research - Abstracts
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