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Cognitive and Physiological Correlates of Emotion Regulation: Is Reappraisal a Teachable Skill?

Volokhov, Rachael N.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1212754868

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2008, Master of Arts, Case Western Reserve University, Psychology.
The ability to regulate one's emotions is an integral part of social behavior. One emotion regulation strategy, known as reappraisal, is characterized by cognitively evaluating an emotional stimulus to reduce its emotional impact. This study was designed to determine what emotion regulation strategies people naturally use in emotional situations and to test whether reappraisal is an ability that can be taught. Participants (50 men, 63 women) were shown a negative and a positive film clip, an experimental group received reappraisal training, and two more negative and positive clips were shown. Participants with high baseline respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) naturally used more reappraisal than those with low RSA, but low RSA participants made greater advances in reappraisal use after training. Increased behavioral inhibition was associated with increased self-reported negative affect and decreased arousal to the negative films, while increased behavioral activation was related to greater sympathetic activation to the positive films.
Heath Demaree, PhD. (Committee Chair)
Julie Exline, PhD (Committee Member)
Douglas Detterman, PhD (Committee Member)
63 p.
Psychology
emotion regulation

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  • Volokhov, R. N. (2008). Cognitive and Physiological Correlates of Emotion Regulation: Is Reappraisal a Teachable Skill? [Master's thesis, Case Western Reserve University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1212754868

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Volokhov, Rachael. Cognitive and Physiological Correlates of Emotion Regulation: Is Reappraisal a Teachable Skill? 2008. Case Western Reserve University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1212754868.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Volokhov, Rachael. "Cognitive and Physiological Correlates of Emotion Regulation: Is Reappraisal a Teachable Skill?" Master's thesis, Case Western Reserve University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1212754868

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