Poems, prayers, and songs influence our affective state. A main characteristic of such linguistic rituals are structural parallelisms; more precisely, repetitions of semantic, syntactic, or phonological aspects. In the current project, linguistic and neurophysiological methods are used to examine the influence that structural parallelisms in linguistic rituals have on emotion regulation. Our hypothesis is that, on the individual level, structural parallelisms may lead to a feeling of subjective control and so support emotion regulation. In our study, emotion regulation will be examined in a cross-modal priming task. We will measure the facilitating effect that structural parallelisms have on behavioural responses and event-related brain potentials.