Your emotion or mine: Labeling feelings alters emotional face perception- An ERP study on automatic and intentional affect labeling

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUL, 2013, Pages

  Herbert, Cornelia ^a   Sfaerlea, Anca ^a   Blumenthal, Terry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect labeling; Emotion regulation; Event related brain potentials; Face processing; Language as context; Perspective taking; Self other discrimination; Social cognition; Social context

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ANGER; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; EMOTIONAL STIMULUS; EMOTIONALITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE AFFECT SCHEDULE; SELF CONCEPT; STIMULUS; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 84933677217     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00378     Document Type: Article

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