Zwiky Esther, König Philine, Herrmann Rebekka Maria, Küttner Antonia, Selle Janine, Ptasczynski Lena Esther, Schöniger Konrad, Rutenkröger Mareike, Enneking Verena, Borgers Tiana, Klug Melissa, Dohm Katharina, Leehr Elisabeth J, Bauer Jochen, Dannlowski Udo, Redlich Ronny
Department of Psychology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany.
German Center for Mental Health (DZPG), Site Jena-Magdeburg-Halle, Halle (Saale), Germany.
Front Behav Neurosci. 2024 Jun 4;18:1396811. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2024.1396811. eCollection 2024.
As a source of audio-visual stimulation, movies expose people to various emotions. Interestingly, several genres are characterized by negative emotional content. Albeit theoretical approaches exist, little is known about preferences for specific movie genres and the neuronal processing of negative emotions.
We investigated associations between movie genre preference and limbic and reward-related brain reactivity to close this gap by employing an fMRI paradigm with negative emotional faces in 257 healthy participants. We compared the functional activity of the amygdala and the nucleus accumbens (NAcc) between individuals with a preference for a particular movie genre and those without such preference.
Amygdala activation was relatively higher in individuals with action movie preference ( = 0.013). Comedy genre preference was associated with increased amygdala ( = 0.038) and NAcc activity ( = 0.011). In contrast, crime/thriller preference (amygdala: ≤ 0.010, NAcc: = 0.036), as well as documentary preference, was linked to the decreased amygdala ( = 0.012) and NAcc activity ( = 0.015). The study revealed associations between participants' genre preferences and brain reactivity to negative affective stimuli. Interestingly, preferences for genres with similar emotion profiles (action, crime/thriller) were associated with oppositely directed neural activity. Potential links between brain reactivity and susceptibility to different movie-related gratifications are discussed.
作为视听刺激的一种来源，电影使人们接触到各种情绪。有趣的是，几种电影类型以负面情绪内容为特征。尽管存在理论方法，但对于特定电影类型的偏好以及负面情绪的神经处理知之甚少。
我们通过在257名健康参与者中采用带有负面情绪面孔的功能磁共振成像范式，研究电影类型偏好与边缘系统及奖赏相关脑反应性之间的关联，以填补这一空白。我们比较了偏好特定电影类型的个体与无此偏好的个体之间杏仁核和伏隔核（NAcc）的功能活动。
动作电影偏好者的杏仁核激活相对较高（P = 0.013）。喜剧类型偏好与杏仁核活动增加（P = 0.038）和伏隔核活动增加（P = 0.011）相关。相比之下，犯罪/惊悚片偏好（杏仁核：P ≤ 0.010，伏隔核：P = 0.036）以及纪录片偏好与杏仁核活动减少（P = 0.012）和伏隔核活动减少（P = 0.015）有关。该研究揭示了参与者的电影类型偏好与对负面情感刺激的脑反应性之间的关联。有趣的是，对具有相似情绪特征的类型（动作片、犯罪/惊悚片）的偏好与相反方向的神经活动相关。讨论了脑反应性与对不同电影相关满足感的易感性之间的潜在联系。
