Turning off hot feelings: Down-regulation of sexual desire using distraction and situation-focused reappraisal

Shafir, Roni; Zucker, Leemor; Sheppes, Gal

doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2018.07.007

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“…Previous ERP studies in the non-clinical population showed that the amplitude of the P300 and LPP components can be modulated by different emotion regulation strategies [30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38]. Due to the clinical relevance of emotions in daily life, numerous EEG studies have focused on down-regulation of P300 and LPP amplitudes in response to negative and positive emotions [30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38]. Although most studies point to a reduction of LPP amplitudes when participants try to down-regulate their negative emotions [30][31][32][33]39,40], other research studies have found no significant modulation of this component [35,38], or even a modulation in the opposite direction [41].…”

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Clinical and Neurophysiological Correlates of Emotion and Food Craving Regulation in Patients with Anorexia Nervosa

Mallorquí‐Bagué

Lozano‐Madrid

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Background: Difficulties in emotion regulation and craving regulation have been linked to eating symptomatology in patients with anorexia nervosa (AN), contributing to the maintenance of their eating disorder. Methods: To investigate clinical and electrophysiological correlates of these processes, 20 patients with AN and 20 healthy controls (HC) completed a computerized task during EEG recording, where they were instructed to down-regulate negative emotions or food craving. Participants also completed self-report measures of emotional regulation and food addiction. The P300 and Late Positive Potential (LPP) ERPs were analysed. Results: LPP amplitudes were significantly smaller during down-regulation of food craving among both groups. Independent of task condition, individuals with AN showed smaller P300 amplitudes compared to HC. Among HC, the self-reported use of re-appraisal strategies positively correlated with LPP amplitudes during emotional regulation task, while suppressive strategies negatively correlated with LPP amplitudes. The AN group, in comparison to the HC group, exhibited greater food addiction, greater use of maladaptive strategies, and emotional dysregulation. Conclusions: Despite the enhanced self-reported psychopathology among AN, both groups indicated neurophysiological evidence of food craving regulation as evidenced by blunted LPP amplitudes in the relevant task condition. Further research is required to delineate the mechanisms associated with reduced overall P300 amplitudes among individuals with AN.

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Clinical and Neurophysiological Correlates of Emotion and Food Craving Regulation in Patients with Anorexia Nervosa

Mallorquí‐Bagué

Lozano‐Madrid

Testa

et al. 2020

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“…Although it changes the way emotions are expressed, it does not reduce the emotional experience and can have negative cognitive and social consequences [11]. Even though there is an ongoing debate regarding whether love is an emotion or not [12–18], previous studies have shown that love can be regulated using emotion regulation strategies such as distraction and cognitive reappraisal [3, 7, 9, 19].…”

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“…Crucially, the less people believed they could control emotions, the less successful they were in regulating their emotions [35, 36]. Given that love can be regulated using emotion regulation strategies [3, 7, 9, 19], the same principles may hold for love regulation. Specifically, any perceptions that love cannot be regulated might keep people from applying love regulation in daily life.…”

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“…In previous studies about love regulation perceptions, most if not all participants were in love because they were either in a relationship or had recently experienced a romantic break-up [3, 9]. Because emotion regulation requires cognitive control [44] and because love can be regulated using similar regulation strategies [3, 7, 9, 19], love regulation will probably require cognitive control as well. But because it has been suggested that love is associated with reduced cognitive control [45], we expected that people who are in love think they can up- and down-regulate infatuation, attachment, and sexual desire less than people who are not in love (hypothesis 5c).…”

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Perceived ability to regulate love

Surti

Langeslag

2019

PLoS ONE

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Research has shown that romantic love can be regulated. We investigated perceptions about love regulation, because these perceptions may impact mental health and influence love regulation application. Two-hundred eighty-six participants completed a series of items online via Qualtrics that assessed perceived ability to up- and down-regulate, exaggerate and suppress the expression of, and start and stop different love types. We also tested individual differences in perceived love regulation ability. Participants thought that they could up- but not down-regulate love in general and that they could up-regulate love in general more than down-regulate it. Participants thought that they could up-regulate infatuation less than attachment and sexual desire. Participants also thought that they could exaggerate and suppress expressions of infatuation, attachment, and sexual desire, but that they could not start and stop infatuation and attachment, or start sexual desire. The more participants habitually used cognitive reappraisal, the more they thought that they could up- and down-regulate infatuation and attachment and up-regulate sexual desire. The more participants were infatuated with their beloved, the more they thought that they could up- but not down-regulate infatuation, attachment, and sexual desire. Finally, participants thought that they could up- and down-regulate happiness more than infatuation These findings are a first step toward the development of psychoeducation techniques to correct inaccurate love regulation perceptions, which may improve mental health and love regulation in daily life.

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Conceptualizations of Craving and the Pornography Craving Questionnaire: A Scoping Review

Way,

Kraus

2024

Curr Addict Rep

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Turning off hot feelings: Down-regulation of sexual desire using distraction and situation-focused reappraisal

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Clinical and Neurophysiological Correlates of Emotion and Food Craving Regulation in Patients with Anorexia Nervosa

Clinical and Neurophysiological Correlates of Emotion and Food Craving Regulation in Patients with Anorexia Nervosa

Perceived ability to regulate love

Conceptualizations of Craving and the Pornography Craving Questionnaire: A Scoping Review

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