Research Square
July 4, 2025
Erika Blair, David Chester
People frequently turn to others to help regulate their emotions in what is referred to as inter personal emotion regulation (IER). Mindfulness entails an intra personal strategy of turning inward to facilitate emotion regulation. Yet little research has examined the relationships between these distinct regulation strategies and their consequences for aggression. The current study aims to...
Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience
December 1, 2023
Hadley Rahrig, Liangsuo Ma, Kirk Warren Brown et al.
Mindfulness can produce neuroplastic changes that support adaptive cognitive and emotional functioning. Recently interest in single-exercise mindfulness instruction has grown considerably because of the advent of mobile health technology. Accordingly, the current study sought to extend neural models of mindfulness by investigating transient states of mindfulness during single-dose exposure to...
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
July 23, 2021
Hadley Rahrig, James M. Bjork, Camila Tirado et al.
17 citations
Reactive aggression, a hostile retaliatory response to perceived threat, has been attributed to failures in emotion regulation. Interventions for reactive aggression have largely focused on cognitive control training, which target top-down emotion regulation mechanisms to inhibit aggressive impulses. Recent theory suggests that mindfulness training (MT) improves emotion regulation via both...
Entropy (Basel, Switzerland)
February 21, 2020
Klee Irwin, Marcelo Amaral, David Chester
We modify the simulation hypothesis to a self-simulation hypothesis, where the physical universe, as a strange loop, is a mental self-simulation that might exist as one of a broad class of possible code theoretic quantum gravity models of reality obeying the principle of efficient language axiom. This leads to ontological interpretations about quantum mechanics. We also discuss some...
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
May 24, 2018
Alexandra Martelli, David Chester, Kirk Warren Brown et al.
31 citations
Social rejection is a distressing and painful event that many people must cope with on a frequent basis. Mindfulness-defined here as a mental state of receptive attentiveness to internal and external stimuli as they arise, moment-to-moment-may buffer such social distress. However, little research indicates whether mindful individuals adaptively regulate the distress of rejection-or the neural...