Fig. 1

Results indicate successful experimentally assessed ER: Participants reported less intense basic emotions (upper left panel) and showed less intense activity of the M. corrugator supercilii in the emotion regulation condition (upper right panel), as well as less arousal (lower right panel) as compared to the passive viewing condition towards both, the threatening, and the sad film clip. However, there were no differences in valence ratings between the passive viewing and the emotion regulation condition.