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Despite this fact, little is known regarding brain activation and responses to stressful emotional stimuli. The present study utilised event\u2010related potentials (ERPs) to investigate whether individual differences in emotional responses toward neutral and negative emotional stimuli related to COVID\u201019 are related to self\u2010reported PTG levels. A total of 77 participants were analysed: 21 in the high PTG group and 56 in the control group. The amplitude of the N2 was smaller in the high PTG group compared to the control group under both negative and neutral conditions. When viewing the negative emotion pictures (vs. neutral pictures), the N2 amplitude significantly decreased for the high PTG group in the right occipital and frontal\u2010parietal areas, whereas no significant change was observed among the control group. In the time window Late Positive Potential (LPP) 600\u20131000\u00a0ms, emotional stimuli and the group interaction were significant. Viewing negative pictures (vs. neutral pictures) decreased the LPP 600\u20131000\u00a0ms amplitudes for the control group, mainly originating from the brain's frontal regions. However, there were no such significant differences for the PTG group. Due to the limited sample size and cultural differences, the applicability of these results to other regions or countries needs to be verified. The presented findings suggest that the impact of PTG during emotional response is reflected in both bottom\u2010up (evidenced by the early ERP components) and top\u2010down (evidenced by the later ERP components) processes. 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