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PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Volume 23, Issue 4, Pages 346-353Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0956797612438559
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cognitive appraisal; emotional control; facial expressions; evoked potentials; social cognition
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The social environment requires people to quickly form contextually appropriate social evaluations. Models of social cognition suggest that this ability depends on the interaction of automatic and controlled evaluative systems. However, controlled processes, such as reappraisal of an initial response, have rarely been studied in the context of social evaluation. In the two studies reported here, participants reappraised or simply observed angry or neutral faces. In Study 1, reappraisal modulated evaluations of angry faces on explicit as well as implicit behavioral levels. In Study 2, reappraisal altered both early and late phases of evaluative electrocortical processing. These studies suggest that controlled processes, such as reappraisal, can quickly and substantially modulate early evaluative processes in the context of biologically significant social stimuli.
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