Emotion-Regulation Choice
@article{Sheppes2011EmotionRegulationC, title={Emotion-Regulation Choice}, author={Gal Sheppes and Susanne Scheibe and Gaurav Suri and James Jonathan Gross}, journal={Psychological Science}, year={2011}, volume={22}, pages={1391 - 1396} }
Despite centuries of speculation about how to manage negative emotions, little is actually known about which emotion-regulation strategies people choose to use when confronted with negative situations of varying intensity. On the basis of a new process conception of emotion regulation, we hypothesized that in low-intensity negative situations, people would show a relative preference to choose to regulate emotions by engagement reappraisal, which allows emotional processing. However, we expected…Â
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