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      Antecedent- and response-focused emotion regulation: divergent consequences for experience, expression, and physiology.

      Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
      Adaptation, Psychological, Adult, Affect, physiology, Cognition, Female, Health Status, Humans, Life Change Events, Male, Mental Health

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          Using a process model of emotion, a distinction between antecedent-focused and response-focused emotion regulation is proposed. To test this distinction, 120 participants were shown a disgusting film while their experiential, behavioral, and physiological responses were recorded. Participants were told to either (a) think about the film in such a way that they would feel nothing (reappraisal, a form of antecedent-focused emotion regulation), (b) behave in such a way that someone watching them would not know they were feeling anything (suppression, a form of response-focused emotion regulation), or (c) watch the film (a control condition). Compared with the control condition, both reappraisal and suppression were effective in reducing emotion-expressive behavior. However, reappraisal decreased disgust experience, whereas suppression increased sympathetic activation. These results suggest that these 2 emotion regulatory processes may have different adaptive consequences.

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          10.1037/0022-3514.74.1.22

          Adaptation, Psychological,Adult,Affect,physiology,Cognition,Female,Health Status,Humans,Life Change Events,Male,Mental Health

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