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Emotion Regulation in Adulthood: Timing Is Everything

James J. Gross
- 01 Dec 2001 - 
- Vol. 10, Iss: 6, pp 214-219
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In this article, a review focuses on two widely used strategies for down-regulating emotion: Reappraisal and suppression, both of which come early in the emotion-generative process.
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Emotions seem to come and go as they please. However, we actually hold considerable sway over our emotions: We influence which emotions we have and how we experience and express these emotions. The process model of emotion regulation described here suggests that how we regulate our emotions matters. Regulatory strategies that act early in the emotion-generative process should have quite different outcomes than strategies that act later. This review focuses on two widely used strategies for down-regulating emotion. The first, reappraisal, comes early in the emotion-generative process. It consists of changing how we think about a situation in order to decrease its emotional impact. The second, suppression, comes later in the emotion-generative process. It involves inhibiting the outward signs of emotion. Theory and research suggest that reappraisal is more effective than suppression. Reappraisal decreases the experience and behavioral expression of emotion, and has no impact on memory. By contrast, suppress...

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TL;DR: The emerging field of emotion regulation studies how individuals influence which emotions they have, when they have them, and how they experience and express them as mentioned in this paper, and characterizes emotion in terms of response tendencies.
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The review suggests that reappraisal, which involves changing how we think about a situation, is more effective than suppression in regulating emotions.