Emotion regulation and attitudes toward FARC-EP ex-combatants and Venezuelan migrants: effects of a reappraisal training.

ABSTRACT: Colombia faces the dual challenge of integrating into civil life two large segments of population; more than fourteen thousand FARC-EP ex-combatants, as part of the peace agreement to end the five-decade conflict between that armed group and the Colombian Government, and nearly two million Venezuelan migrants. Successful integration heavily depends on fostering public acceptance of these groups. Prior research by Halperin et al. (Psychol Sci 24:106-11, 2013) and Hurtado-Parrado et al. (Front Psychol 10: 1-9, 2019) demonstrated the effectiveness of reappraisal training, a brief emotion-regulation intervention, in reducing negative emotions (e.g., anger, irritability, fear) and aggressive attitudes (e.g., support for war or opposition to the peace process), while increasing conciliatory atti

SUBMITTER: Medina LG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11983846 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature