Automatic emotion regulation during anger provocation

Mauss, Iris B.; Cook, Crystal L.; Gross, James J.

doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2006.07.003

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“…Future research could examine whether automatically activated and pursued emotion regulation goals (e.g., emotion regulation goals activated through priming, cf. Mauss, Cook, & Gross, 2007) cause similar attentional effects.…”

Section: Disgust and Attention To Cleanliness 14 Discussionmentioning

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On the role of goal relevance in emotional attention: Disgust evokes early attention to cleanliness

Vogt

Lozo

Koster

et al. 2010

Cognition and Emotion

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Section: Disgust and Attention To Cleanliness 14 Discussionmentioning

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On the role of goal relevance in emotional attention: Disgust evokes early attention to cleanliness

Vogt

Lozo

Koster

et al. 2010

Cognition and Emotion

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“…For example, Mauss and colleagues [6] found that participants who were primed with words that evoked control rather than suppression of emotion were less likely to experience feelings of anger after anger induction. Williams and colleagues further found that priming participants with reappraisal goals reduced heart rate responses to an anxiety-inducing emotional challenge [7], suggesting that highorder strategies can be primed without reported awareness.…”

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“…Although this research has been productive, influential models of emotion regulation have emphasized a wider range of processes with which emotional responses are continuously regulated, both before and after the occurrence of an emotional event, as well as below and above various thresholds of awareness [2,5]. For example, in the heat of the moment, when rapid responses are required, one may use more implicit and less cognitively taxing regulatory strategies, as recent research in implicit regulatory processes suggests [6][7][8]. Current emotion regulation models also include a number of additional regulatory strategies, such as voluntary distraction of attention, situation selection, and rumination (for a review, see [2,8]).…”

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Affect-biased attention as emotion regulation

Todd

Cunningham

Anderson

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Trends in Cognitive Sciences

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“…Using a priming effect we wanted to manipulate implicit cognitive emotion regulation strategies (i.e., reappraisal vs. rumination) and tested its effects on the vicarious emotional responses. Priming emotion regulation has been widely used to study the effect of different emotion regulation strategies (Mauss et al, 2007;Scrull & Wyer, 1979;Williams et al, 2009). In this study participants were asked to complete a word search puzzle to prime the different cognitive emotion regulation strategies (i.e.…”

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The role of cognitive emotion regulation on the vicarious emotional response

López‐Pérez¹,

Ambrona

2014

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Perceiving another in need may provoke two possible emotional responses: empathic concern and personal distress. This research aims to test whether different emotion regulation strategies (i.e., reappraisal and rumination) may lead to different vicarious emotional responses (i.e., empathic concern and personal distress). In this sense, we hypothesized that reappraisal may lead to a greater feeling of empathic concern, whereas rumination may lead to a higher feeling of personal distress. To test the hypotheses we used experimental instructions (Study 1) and a priming procedure (Study 2) to manipulate the emotion regulation strategies. The results supported our hypotheses. Furthermore in the rumination condition the emotional experience was described as being more negative and more highly arousing than in the reappraisal condition. We discuss the effect of these two forms of cognitive emotion regulation on empathic concern and personal distress.Keywords: emotion regulation; rumination; reappraisal; empathic concern; personal distress. EMOTION REGULATION AND VICARIOUS RESPONSES 3The role of cognitive emotion regulation on the vicarious emotional response When perceiving another in need a person may experience different emotional responses towards the victim/s. Two of the most common emotional reactions are empathic concern and personal distress (see Batson, 2011). These two emotional reactions differ in their focus (i.e., other-oriented and self-oriented, respectively) and may lead to different motivations to help (i.e., altruism and egoism, respectively) (see Batson, 2011; Davis, 1994). Apart from these dissimilarities, empathic concern and personal distress may have different correlates on behavior as well. Empirical studies have shown relationships between personal distress and a host of social and psychological difficulties, including deficits in self-regulation (Eisenberg et al., 1996;Guthrie et al., 1997;Valiente et al., 2004), low emotional regulation and greater negative affect (Eisenberg & Okum, 1996). Conversely, empathic concern has more positive effects as it is related to moral reasoning (Hoffman, 2001), prosocial behavior (Eisenberg & Miller, 1987) and a more adaptive form of emotion regulation (Eisenberg & Fabes, 1992).A variety of personal, social, and contextual/situational factors may influence the likelihood of an observer experiencing personal distress rather than empathic concern when witnessing another in need. These include the degree to which the observer identifies with the suffering person, the meaning assigned to the vicarious distress or the attribution of responsibility for the pain (Batson, 2011; Decety, 2011; Decety & Lamm, 2009). Eisenberg and Eggum (2009) suggest that some important predictors of personal distress are high affective arousal and weak emotional regulation.Thus, when facing someone in distress without adequate regulation of the vicarious emotional response the observer is likely to become over-aroused and experience personal distress (Eisenberg & Eggum, 2...

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Automatic emotion regulation during anger provocation

Cited by 238 publications

References 66 publications

On the role of goal relevance in emotional attention: Disgust evokes early attention to cleanliness

On the role of goal relevance in emotional attention: Disgust evokes early attention to cleanliness

Affect-biased attention as emotion regulation

The role of cognitive emotion regulation on the vicarious emotional response

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