That's not funny! - But it should be: effects of humorous emotion regulation on emotional experience and memory.

ABSTRACT: Previous research has shown that humorous reappraisal can reduce elicited negative emotions, suggesting that humor may be a functional strategy to cope with emotionally negative situations. However, the effect of humorous reappraisal on later memory about the emotion-eliciting situation is currently unknown, although this is crucial for more adaptive responding in future situations. To address this issue, we examined the effects of humorous reappraisal on both emotional experience and memory, compared to non-humorous rational reappraisal and a non-reappraisal control condition. Replicating previous findings, humorous reappraisal reduced evoked negative valence and arousal levels very effectively, and the down-regulation of experienced negative emotions was even more pronounced after humoro

SUBMITTER: Kugler L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4551820 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature