Delayed effects of acute stress on cognitive emotion regulation

Langer, Katja; Wolf, Oliver T.; Jentsch, Valerie L.

doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2020.105101

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“…Together with this work, our findings might indicate that cortisol protects an individual from high intensive negative affective states via boosted emotion regulation capacities. Consistent with this speculation, recent studies from our lab showed acute stress to promote reappraisal (Langer et al, 2020) and distraction success (Langer et al, 2021) 30 and 90 min after stress exposure, respectively. Importantly, in both studies the regulatory improvements were linked to cortisol increases in response to the stressor, implying that the beneficial effects of stress on cognitive emotion regulation may be primarily mediated via GC mechanisms.…”

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“…In particular, we hypothesized reduced arousal, enhanced valence and success ratings as well as increases in pupil dilations (as an index of enhanced regulatory effort) after hydrocortisone compared to placebo administration. Furthermore, we expected cortisol to exert time-and strategy-dependent effects on emotion regulation success (Jentsch et al, 2019;Langer et al, 2020Langer et al, , 2021.…”

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Cortisol promotes the cognitive regulation of high intensive emotions independent of timing

Langer

Jentsch

Wolf

2021

Eur J of Neuroscience

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Failures to cognitively downregulate negative emotions are a crucial risk factor for mental disorders. Previous studies provide evidence for a stress‐induced improvement of cognitive emotion regulation possibly mediated via glucocorticoid actions. Cortisol can initialize immediate non‐genomic as well as delayed genomic effects on cognitive control functioning, but its distinct effects on emotion regulation processes remain to be shown. Here, we sought to characterize time‐dependent effects of oral cortisol administration on cognitive emotion regulation outcomes. We expected cortisol to improve emotion regulation success. Possible interactions with the delay between cortisol treatment and emotion regulation, strategy use and intensity of the emotional stimuli were examined. Eighty‐five healthy men received either 10 mg hydrocortisone or a placebo in a double‐blind, randomized design 30 or 90 min prior to an emotion regulation paradigm, in which they were asked to downregulate their emotional responses towards low and high intensive negative pictures via reappraisal or distraction. Affective ratings and pupil dilation served as outcome measures. Reduced arousal, enhanced valence ratings as well as increases in pupil dilations indexing the cognitive regulatory effort indicated successful downregulation of negative emotions evoked by high intensive but not low intensive negative pictures. Cortisol significantly reduced arousal ratings when downregulating high intensive negative emotions via distraction and (at a trend level) via reappraisal, independent of timing, demonstrating a beneficial effect of cortisol on subjective regulatory outcomes. Taken together, this study provides initial evidence suggesting that cortisol promotes the cognitive control of high intensive negative emotions both, 30 and 90 min after treatment.

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Cortisol promotes the cognitive regulation of high intensive emotions independent of timing

Langer

Jentsch

Wolf

2021

Eur J of Neuroscience

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“…By contrast, at +90 min after TSST offset, rather the emotion regulation strategy distraction seems to be increasingly used (Langer et al, 2021).…”

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Effects of gender and personality on everyday moral decision-making after acute stress exposure

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Wüst

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Psychoneuroendocrinology

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“…A further potential limitation is the chosen passive control condition as we cannot rule out that watching the videos unintendedly leads to either stress induction or relaxation. However, the videos’ contents have been rated as being low arousing in previous studies [ 65 , 66 ]. Moreover, this task is better suited than other potential control tasks in which participants are instructed to do nothing at all, which are–in our opinion–more likely to induce relaxation and which are also much more difficult to control.…”

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“…The content of the video is landscapes and PLOS ONE animals. These videos have been successfully used in previous studies and evaluated as being non-arousing [65,66].…”

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Physiological stress in response to multitasking and work interruptions: Study protocol

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Background The biopsychological response patterns to digital stress have been sparsely investigated so far. Important potential stressors in modern working environments due to increased digitalization are multitasking and work interruptions. In this study protocol, we present a protocol for a laboratory experiment, in which we will investigate the biopsychological stress response patterns to multitasking and work interruptions. Methods In total, N = 192 healthy, adult participants will be assigned to six experimental conditions in a randomized order (one single-task, three dual-task (two in parallel and one as interruption), one multitasking, and one passive control condition). Salivary alpha-amylase as well as heart rate as markers for Sympathetic Nervous System Activity, heart rate variability as measure for Parasympathetic Nervous System (PNS) activity, and cortisol as measure for activity of the hypothalamic-pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis will be assessed at six time points throughout the experimental session. Furthermore, inflammatory markers (i.e., IL-6, C-reactive protein (CRP), and secretory immunoglobulin-A) will be assessed before and after the task as well as 24 hours after it (IL-6 and CRP only). Main outcomes will be the time course of these physiological stress markers. Reactivity of these measures will be compared between the experimental conditions (dual-tasking, work interruptions, and multitasking) with the control conditions (single-tasking and passive control). Discussion With this study protocol, we present a comprehensive experiment, which will enable an extensive investigation of physiological stress-responses to multitasking and work interruptions. Our planned study will contribute to a better understanding of physiological response patterns to modern (digital) stressors. Potential risks and limitations are discussed. The findings will have important implications, especially in the context of digital health in modern working and living environments.

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Delayed effects of acute stress on cognitive emotion regulation

Cited by 24 publications

References 53 publications

Cortisol promotes the cognitive regulation of high intensive emotions independent of timing

Cortisol promotes the cognitive regulation of high intensive emotions independent of timing

Effects of gender and personality on everyday moral decision-making after acute stress exposure

Physiological stress in response to multitasking and work interruptions: Study protocol

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