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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Social Psychology

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  • Face recognition varies significantly in neurologically intact individuals.
  • Emotion regulation strategies are diverse, including adaptive and maladaptive approaches.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between individual differences in emotion regulation strategies and face recognition abilities.
  • To determine if adaptive (cognitive reappraisal) versus maladaptive (expressive suppression, catastrophizing) strategies impact face memory and matching.

Main Methods:

  • Three experiments utilized face-memory and face-matching paradigms with varying conditions.
  • Participants' emotion regulation strategies were assessed.
  • Performance metrics included accuracy, misidentifications, and false positives.

Main Results:

  • High levels of expressive suppression correlated with lower face memory accuracy and increased false positives.
  • Cognitive reappraisal did not show significant associations with face recognition performance.
  • Increased use of maladaptive strategies, particularly catastrophizing, was linked to poorer face-matching performance and higher false positive rates.

Conclusions:

  • Expressive suppression and maladaptive emotion regulation strategies negatively impact face recognition.
  • These findings underscore the intricate connection between emotion regulation and cognitive functions like facial recognition.