Interoception and Emotion Regulation
A special issue of Behavioral Sciences (ISSN 2076-328X). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Psychology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 18 August 2026 | Viewed by 392
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Emotion regulation (ER) is central to mental health and social functioning. It is primarily guided by two broad sources of signals: external social cues and internal bodily cues. The latter is more fundamental, as bodily signals are crucial ingredients of emotions. Consistently, emerging frameworks from embodied cognitive science and predictive processing theory are shifting our understanding toward this fundamental level—interoception—the sensing, integration, and interpretation of signals originating from the internal state of the body. However, the specific role of interoception in ER remains underexplored.
This Special Issue seeks to advance this line of inquiry by examining how interoception shapes emotional experience, supports regulation, and influences mental health outcomes, as well as the underlying neural mechanisms. While growing evidence links interoceptive abnormalities to a range of emotional disorders, to what extent interoception influences these disorders through ER remains unclear.
We invite submissions of original research (employing multimodal methods such as behavioral, physiological, and neuroimaging techniques), rigorous reviews, theoretical models, and methodological papers. We hope for contributions from a range of disciplines spanning psychology, cognitive neuroscience, computational neuroscience, physiology, psychiatry, and philosophy. By integrating interdisciplinary perspectives, this Special Issue seeks to establish a theoretical and empirical foundation for novel interoception-based interventions.
Dr. Yafei Tan
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- interoception
- emotions
- emotion regulation
- mental health
- mental disorders
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