Acceptance promotes effective emotion regulation through experiencing intensive unpleasant reactions to negative social stimuli: an fMRI study

Abstract

Acceptance is an emotion regulation (ER) strategy that allows us to be open to on-going emotional experiences without trying to modify or suppress them (Williams & Lynn, 2010). Neuroimaging studies of acceptance are somewhat inconsistent but pointed out the role of executive prefrontal regions, the posterior cingulate and the precuneus (Goldin et al., 2019; Messina et al., 2021).