Prefrontal tDCS Attenuates Self-Referential Attentional Deployment: A Mechanism Underlying Adaptive Emotional Reactivity to Social-Evaluative Threat

Prefrontal tDCS Attenuates Self-Referential Attentional Deployment: A Mechanism Underlying Adaptive Emotional Reactivity to Social-Evaluative Threat

Social-evaluative threat (SET) – a situation in which one could be negatively evaluated by others – elicits profound (psycho)physiological reactivity which, if chronically present and not adaptively regulated, has deleterious effects on mental and physical health. Decreased self-awareness and increa...

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Main Authors: Jens Allaert, Maide Erdogan, Alvaro Sanchez-Lopez, Chris Baeken, Rudi De Raedt, Marie-Anne Vanderhasselt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Subjects:
tDCS
self-referential processing
attentional deployment
emotional reactivity
social-evaluative threat
DLPFC
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2021.700557/full

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