Instructions matter: a comparison of baseline conditions for cognitive emotion regulation paradigms

The choice of a meaningful baseline condition is a crucial issue for each experimental design. In the case of cognitive emotion regulation, it is common to either let participants passively view emotional stimuli without any further specific instructions or to instruct them to actively attend to and...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kersten eDiers, Fanny eWeber, Burkhard eBrocke, Alexander eStrobel, Sabine eSchönfeld
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00347/full