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Emotion regulation: affective, cognitive, and social consequences.

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Gross, James J.·2002·Psychophysiology

Abstract

One of life's great challenges is successfully regulating emotions. Do some emotion regulation strategies have more to recommend them than others? According to Gross's (1998, Review of General Psychology, 2, 271-299) process model of emotion regulation, strategies that act early in the emotion-generative process should have a different profile of consequences than strategies that act later on. This review focuses on two commonly used strategies for down-regulating emotion. The first, reappraisal, comes early in the emotion-generative process. It consists of changing the way a situation is construed so as to decrease its emotional impact. The second, suppression, comes later in the emotion-generative process. It consists of inhibiting the outward signs of inner feelings. Experimental and individual-difference studies find reappraisal is often more effective than suppression. Reappraisal decreases emotion experience and behavioral expression, and has no impact on memory. By contrast, suppression decreases behavioral expression, but fails to decrease emotion experience, and actually impairs memory. Suppression also increases physiological responding for suppressors and their social partners. This review concludes with a consideration of five important directions for future research on emotion regulation processes.

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    Suppression requires self-monitoring and self-corrective action throughout an emotional event.

    “Suppression is a form of emotion regulation that requires selfmonitoring and self-corrective action throughout an emotional event.”
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    Emotions involve coordinated behavioral, experiential, and physiological response tendencies.

    “In either case, emotions call forth a coordinated set of behavioral, experiential, and physiological response tendencies that together influence how we respond to perceived challenges and opportunities.”
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    The personal meaning assigned to a situation strongly influences which experiential, behavioral, and physiological response tendencies are generated.

    “The personal meaning that is assigned to the situation is crucial because it powerfully influences which experiential, behavioral, and physiological response tendencies will be generated in that particular situation.”
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    The suppression and reappraisal constructs measured as habitual individual differences are the same constructs manipulated in the laboratory experiments.

    “These individual-difference findings converge with the results of our experimental studies, and suggest that whereas suppression is cognitively costly, reappraisal is not.”
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Authors
Gross, J. J.
Affiliations
Stanford University (US)
Corresponding author
Gross, James J.
Venue
Psychophysiology
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2002-05
Volume
39
Issue
3
Pages
281-291
ISSN
  • 0048-5772 (ISSN-L)
  • 1469-8986
OpenAlex
W2128126978
Cited by
4,890
References
73
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FWCI
5.54
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Psychophysiology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
National Institute of Mental Health (MH 58147)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Emotions and Moral Behavior
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
Keywords
emotion regulation, cognitive reappraisal, expressive suppression, process model of emotion regulation, emotional experience, emotional expression, memory impairment, individual differences
MeSH terms
Affect, Cognition, Emotions, Humans, Psychophysiology, Social Behavior

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