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

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT04496258

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Brief summary

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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.

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT04496258
Recruitment status
Completed
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Not applicable
Lead sponsor
University of Denver
Other
Enrollment
99 participants

Conditions and interventions

Conditions

Interventions

Behavioral

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range
18 Years to 55 Years
Sex
All
Healthy volunteers
Accepts healthy volunteers

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Study timeline

Start date
Oct 4, 2021
Primary completion
Apr 13, 2022
Completion
Apr 13, 2022
Last update posted
Aug 26, 2024

2021 – 2022

United States locations

U.S. sites
1
U.S. states
1
U.S. cities
1
Facility City State ZIP Site status
The University of Denver, Frontier Hall Denver Colorado 80208

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