Abstract
Intensive self-reflection with affective imagery was expected to increase relative right hemispheric activation and intensify facial expressions of negative affect. Six individuals were encouraged to reflect on personal problems or concerns in two different ways. In one condition, they attended to feelings related to a personal problem and characterized their feelings using imagery. In a second condition, they explained a personal problem and characterized their thoughts using words. In the feeling-imagery condition, participants' parietal EEG indicated greater relative right hemispheric activation, resulting in a pattern of bilateral hemispheric activation. There were no differences between conditions in corrugator or zygomatic EMG. The increased involvement of the right hemisphere during intensive self-reflection may facilitate discrimination of affect-related physiological events and, thus, affective insight.
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