Department of Investigation, Liaoning Police College, Dalian, China.
School of Educational Science, Yangzhou University, Dalian, China.
Soc Neurosci. 2024 Feb;19(1):37-48. doi: 10.1080/17470919.2024.2340806. Epub 2024 Apr 10.
Implicit emotion regulation provides an effective means of controlling emotions triggered by a single face without conscious awareness and effort. Crowd emotion has been proposed to be perceived as more intense than it actually is, but it is still unclear how to regulate it implicitly. In this study, participants viewed sets of faces of varying emotionality (e.g. happy to angry) and estimated the mean emotion of each set after being primed with an expressive suppression goal, a cognitive reappraisal goal, or a neutral goal. Faster discrimination for happy than angry crowds was observed. After induction of the expressive suppression goal instead of the cognitive reappraisal goal, augmented N170 and early posterior negativity (EPN) amplitudes, as well as attenuated late positive potential (LPP) amplitudes, were observed in response to happy crowds compared to the neutral goal. Differential processing of angry crowds was not observed after the induction of both regulatory goals compared to the neutral goal. Our findings thus reveal the happy-superiority effect and that implicit induction of expressive suppression improves happy crowd emotion recognition, promotes selective coding, and successfully downregulates the neural response to happy crowds.
内隐情绪调节为在无意识和不费力的情况下控制由单个面孔引发的情绪提供了一种有效手段。有人提出，群体情绪会被感知为比实际更强烈，但目前尚不清楚如何对其进行内隐调节。在这项研究中，参与者观看了不同情绪（例如，快乐到愤怒）的面孔集，然后在表达抑制目标、认知重评目标或中性目标的引导下，对每组面孔的平均情绪进行估计。观察到对快乐的人群的反应比对愤怒的人群的反应更快。与中性目标相比，在诱导表达抑制目标而不是认知重评目标后，对快乐的人群的反应中观察到增强的 N170 和早期后负向（EPN）振幅，以及减弱的晚期正性（LPP）振幅。与中性目标相比，在诱导两种调节目标后，对愤怒的人群的反应中未观察到差异处理。因此，我们的研究结果揭示了快乐优势效应，即内隐表达抑制的诱导可以改善对快乐的人群的情绪识别，促进选择性编码，并成功下调对快乐的人群的神经反应。
