Abstract
In the present research, we assessed the effects of culture on the ability to regulate affective neural responses. Using an event-related potential design focusing on the centroparietal late positive potential (LPP), we found that cultural groups differed in their ability to intentionally regulate these responses. As a group, European Americans demonstrated successful up-regulation of the LPP in response to positive and negative valence images, as did participants from Mexican cultural backgrounds who also showed successful down-regulation of the LPP in response to positive valence images. As a group, participants from Chinese cultural backgrounds did not show evidence of successful up- or down-regulation of LPP responses. This work confirms and extends preliminary findings of cultural variation in emotion regulation abilities. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 283-296 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | Emotion |
Volume | 21 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 2021 |
Keywords
- cultural neuroscience
- culture
- emotion regulation
- event-related potentials
- late positive potential
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Psychology