Attenuation processes in positive social emotion upregulation: Disentangling functional role of ventrolateral prefrontal cortex.

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Participants did not increase positive affect after compared to before the experiment ( Figure 2 A, Table S1 ; PANAS-P, before: 56.4 ± 12.4, after: 56.7 ± 13.4, paired one-tailed t-test, t 19 = 0.13, p = 0.89), but showed a trend decrease in negative affect (PANAS-N, before: 20.5 ± 3.1, after: 19.4 ± 2.3, paired one-tailed t-test, t 19 = 1.72, p = 0.051).

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