Affect Labeling During Pictorial Encoding Enhances Their Recognition and Reduces Amygdalar Responses to Negative Pictures

Affect labeling, which entails identifying the emotional content of an event, is a critical strategy for implicit emotion regulation. Previous studies have shown that affect labeling influences the encoding memory stage of negative events. However, it remains unclear whether affect labeling during encoding of negative events affects subsequent memory stages related to these events, such as retrieval.