Emotion regulation contagion drives reduction in negative intergroup emotions.

ABSTRACT: When emotions occur in groups, they sometimes impact group behavior in undesired ways. Reducing group's emotions with emotion regulation interventions can be helpful, but may also be a challenge, because treating every person in the group is often infeasible. One solution is to treat a fraction of a group, and then hope the effect of the treatment will spread to other group members. To test the viability of this option, we designed an experiment to examine the impact of emotion regulation applied to different proportions of groups of six Israeli participants (N = 2659) who shared real-time responses to negative emotions-inducing political stimuli. Before interacting with each other, we treated different proportions of each group with an emotion regulation intervention called cognitive reap

SUBMITTER: Pinus M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11799416 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature