What Parts of Reappraisal Make Us Feel Better? Dissociating the Generation of Reappraisals from Their Implementation.

ABSTRACT: Although reappraisal has been shown to be a highly successfully emotion regulation strategy, it requires several sequential steps, and it is still unclear when in the reappraisal process emotion changes. We experimentally dissociated the generation of reappraisals from their implementation and hypothesized that the biggest emotional effects would occur during implementation. In Study 1, participants (N = 106) saw a negative image and generated either just positive reappraisals (GEN ++) or positive and negative reappraisals (GEN +-). They then saw the image again and implemented either their positive reappraisals (for the GEN ++ and half of the GEN +- trials) or negative reappraisals (for the other half of GEN +- trials). Although there were small and significant changes in emotion w

SUBMITTER: Waugh CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9398897 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature