Gross2015 - Emotion Regulation, Current Status and Future Prospects §

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• Date read: 2023-02-27
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• Bibtex: @gross2015
• Bibliography: Gross, J. J. (2015). Emotion Regulation: Current Status and Future Prospects. Psychological Inquiry, 26(1), 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1080/1047840X.2014.940781

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• Emotion regulation is relevant when we experience emotion in undesirable ways and want to down- or up-regulate our emotional response.
• Sometimes regulating the emotion is itself the goal (“I want to feel less sad”) and sometimes there’s another value we seek
• Intrinsic (your own emotions) vs extrinsic (someone elses emotions) emotion regulation
• Five “families” of emotion regulation strategies
  • Situation selection (common strategy in CBT therapies)
  • Situation modification, in the external environment
  • Attentional deployment (e.g., distraction)
  • Cognitive change (changing appraisal)
  • Response modulation (using alcohol, drugs, cigarettes, exercise, deep breathing, food to alter you emotions)
• Three steps of emotion regulation:
  • Identifying a relevant situation
  • Selecting a strategy
  • Implementing the chosen strategy

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If mood is the “pervasive and sustained emotional climate”, then emotions are “fluctuating changes in emotional weather”

Modal model of emotion: