Reconsidering reappraisal: in emotionally intense contexts, people choose distraction or minimizing over reconstrual to regulate others’ emotions

Abstract Prior research has established that people use reappraisal to regulate others’ emotions in higher-emotional intensities but use distraction in lower-emotional intensities. However, research has not compared different reappraisal subtypes, such as reconstrual versus minimizing. In three pre-...

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Main Authors: Vicky Xu, Kit S. Double, Carolyn MacCann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer 2024-01-01
Series:Discover Psychology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/s44202-023-00111-4