Emotion Regulation Flashcards
What is emotional regulation?
The set of processes whereby people seek to redirect the spontaneous flow of their emotions”
What do methods of mood regulation include?
Cognitive appraisal
Controlled breathing
Progressive muscle relaxation
Stress-induced eating
Distraction
What does Gross and Thompson’s Process Model of emotion-regualtion include?
Situation section, modulation, attention deployment, cognitive change and response modulation
What did Van Dillen and Koole find about attentional deployment?
Overwhelming the limited working memory capacity (via distraction) leaves little room to process negative emotional information
What did Heslenfind find about attentional deployment?
A demanding task activates parts of the working memory system (the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex)
This has the effect of dampening negative emotion at the physiological (i.e., amygdala) and experiential (self-report) levels
What did Rothermund find about AD?
Attentional counter-regulation
Directing attention to information opposite in valence to the current state
What two types of reappraisal strategies did Ochsner and Gross find?
Reintegration and distancing
What would fMRI data suggest that successful reappraisal is associated with?
Engagement of cognitive control regions
Prefrontal cortex
Dorsal for reinterpretation strategies
Medial for distancing strategies
Anterior cingulate
A dampening of negative affect
Activation reductions in the amygdala
Increases in positive affect
Increased activation in the nucleus accumbens
What are the limitations of emotion regulation research?
Blurry boundary between emotion generation and emotion regulation
Behavioral emotion-regulation strategies (e.g., cursing when you hit your thumb) are not well-researched
Effectiveness of emotion regulation is determined by complex interactions of individual, strategy, and situation
People do not often use emotion-regulation strategies, even if trained
Individual differences in ability to use a given strategy?
