MINI REVIEW article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Health Psychology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1575002
Impact of Emotion Regulation on Emotional Experiences Following Social Rejection: An ERP Study
Provisionally accepted
- 1West Anhui University, Lu'an, China
- 2Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China
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Social rejection elicits potent emotional responses with significant mental health implications. This event-related potential (ERP) study characterised the neurochronometry of emotion regulation during social rejection. Key findings revealed that (1) linear mixed-effects modeling confirmed attention transfer significantly reduced late positive potential (LPP) amplitudes versus cognitive reappraisal and non-regulation across all time windows; (2) the superiority of attention transfer was most pronounced during the early/mid-processing stages, achieving rapid disengagement from rejection stimuli; (3) enhanced suppression under social rejection reflected context-dependent regulatory dynamics. Attention transfer demonstrates contextually optimized efficacy for rapid threat disengagement during social rejection. However, EEG source localization limitations preclude definitive conclusions regarding dorsolateral prefrontal cortex(DLPFC) engagement; future studies should employ multimodal approaches (e.g., fMRI-EEG) to verify neuroanatomical mechanisms.
Keywords: cognitive reappraisal, Attention transfer, social rejection, Emotion Regulation, Event-related potentials
Received: 11 Feb 2025; Accepted: 13 Aug 2025.
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* Correspondence: Xie Dengfeng, West Anhui University, Lu'an, China
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