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Investigating the Neural Systems That Support the Beneficial Effects of Positive Emotion on Stress Regulation

NCT04496258 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 99

Last updated 2024-08-27

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Summary

For this study, community participants visited the PI's psychophysiology lab for a single experimental session. In this study, participants completed a brief mood measure, followed by a task training in which a research assistant described and gave examples of cognitive reappraisal in response to negative images. Participants were then randomly assigned to positive or neutral emotion induction conditions, delivered by virtual reality. Then, participants completed an event-related, picture-based cognitive reappraisal task for 23 minutes. Following the task, participants once again responded to a mood measure, completed post-task questionnaires (individual difference measures) and answered a series of questions regarding the task they completed, including difficulty of regulation, or any images that were personally relevant.

The investigators predicted that the positive emotion induction would result in powerful effects on self-reported emotion, which may or may not interact with the cognitive reappraisal condition.

Conditions

  • Behavior

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Positive Emotion Induction

Participants are expected to have a positive emotional response to the more positive beach scene.

BEHAVIORAL

Neutral Emotion Induction

Participants are expected to have a neutral emotional response to the neutral office scene.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of Denver

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Kateri McRae, Ph.D. · University of Denver

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
55 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-10-05
Primary Completion
2022-04-14
Completion
2022-04-14

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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