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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Affective Science
  • Health Psychology

Background:

  • Effective emotion regulation is crucial for psychological adaptation.
  • Cognitive reappraisal is a promising strategy for down-regulating negative emotions.
  • Individual differences in reappraisal use and their impact on emotional and physiological responses remain unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the association between individual differences in cognitive reappraisal and responses to anger-inducing situations.
  • To compare the experiential and physiological profiles of individuals high versus low in reappraisal.

Main Methods:

  • Participants were categorized as high or low in cognitive reappraisal.
  • Anger was induced in a laboratory setting.
  • Emotion experience (self-reported anger, positive, and negative emotions) and cardiovascular responses (cardiac output, ventricular contractility, total peripheral resistance) were assessed.

Main Results:

  • High reappraisers reported less anger and negative emotion, and more positive emotion compared to low reappraisers.
  • High reappraisers exhibited greater cardiac output and ventricular contractility.
  • High reappraisers demonstrated lesser total peripheral resistance.

Conclusions:

  • Individual differences in cognitive reappraisal are linked to more adaptive emotion experience and cardiovascular responding.
  • Cognitive reappraisal appears effective in down-regulating negative emotions, even during potent anger induction.
  • Findings support the adaptive value of cognitive reappraisal for emotional and physiological well-being.