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Engaging in an experiential processing mode increases positive emotional response during recall of pleasant autobiographical memories.


ABSTRACT: It is important to identify effective emotion regulation strategies to increase positive emotion experience in the general population and in clinical conditions characterized by anhedonia. There are indications that engaging in experiential processing (direct awareness of sensory and bodily experience) bolsters positive emotion experience but this has not been extensively tested during memory recall. To further test this notion, 99 community participants recalled two positive autobiographical memories. Prior to the second recall, participants either underwent an experiential, analytical, or distraction induction (n = 33 per condition). Subjective happiness and sadness ratings and heart rate variability (HRV) response were measured during each recall. Greater spontaneous use of experiential processing during the first memory was associated with greater happiness experience, but was unrelated to HRV and sadness experience. Inducing experiential processing increased happiness experience relative to both the analytical and distraction conditions (but had no impact on sadness experience). There was a significant difference in HRV between conditions. The experiential condition led to a trend-significant increase, and the other conditions a non-significant decrease, in HRV from the first to the second memory. These results suggest that engaging in experiential processing is an effective way to up-regulate positive emotion experience during positive memory recall.

SUBMITTER: Gadeikis D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5390771 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Engaging in an experiential processing mode increases positive emotional response during recall of pleasant autobiographical memories.

Gadeikis Darius D   Bos Nikita N   Schweizer Susanne S   Murphy Fionnuala F   Dunn Barnaby B  

Behaviour research and therapy 20170221


It is important to identify effective emotion regulation strategies to increase positive emotion experience in the general population and in clinical conditions characterized by anhedonia. There are indications that engaging in experiential processing (direct awareness of sensory and bodily experience) bolsters positive emotion experience but this has not been extensively tested during memory recall. To further test this notion, 99 community participants recalled two positive autobiographical me  ...[more]

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