Automatic coping mechanisms in committed relationships: Increased interpersonal trust as a response to stress

On the dynamics of implicit emotion regulation: Counter-regulation after remembering events of high but not of low emotional intensity

“…A core criterion of a regulation process is its adaptive responsiveness to situational and motivational demands (e.g., Brandtstädter & Rothermund, 2002;Heckhausen & Gollwitzer, 1987;Kuhl, 2000). For instance, encountering difficulties during goal pursuit might trigger self-regulation processes that stabilise commitment to the current goal (e.g., goal shielding, increasing the importance of the goal; Fishbach, Friedman, & Kruglanski, 2003;Fishbach, Zhang, & Trope, 2010;Koranyi & Rothermund, 2012b;Shah, Friedman, & Kruglanski, 2002) and that prepare the person to successfully cope with the problematic situation (e.g., energisation and mutual trust; Koranyi & Rothermund, 2012a;Wright & Brehm, 1989).…”

Motivation and affective processing biases in risky decision making: A counter-regulation account

“…Automatic counter-regulation in affective processing might thus contribute to the adaptability of decision making processes by supporting a balanced processing as well as it does in various other fields of behavior as for instance implicit emotion regulation (DeWall et al, 2011;Koole & Kuhl, 2008;Koole & Rothermund, 2011;Quirin et al, 2011;Schwager & Rothermund, submitted for publication), relationship initiation and maintenance (Jostmann, Karremans, & Finkenauer, 2011;Koranyi & Rothermund, 2012a), and goal pursuit (Moore, Ferguson, & Chartrand, 2011).…”

How activating cognitive content shapes trust: A subliminal priming study

“…Every day we choose to trust doctors, teachers, employers, colleagues, airlines, neighbors, traders, and others. Trust equally affects the effectiveness of large markets and entire economies (Bolton, Greiner, & Ockenfels, in press), as well as every person's microcosm of friendships (Crocker & Canevello, 2008), committed relationships (Koranyi & Rothermund, 2012), and family ties (Conley, Moors, Ziegler, & Feltner, 2011). As a result, for decades trust has been in the focus of research in economics (e.g.…”