The Effects of Cognitive Reappraisal and Expressive Suppression on Memory of Emotional Pictures
In the field of emotion research, the influence of emotion regulation strategies on memory with emotional materials has been widely discussed in recent years. However, existing studies have focused exclusively on regulating negative emotion but not positive emotion. Therefore, in the present study,...
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| description | In the field of emotion research, the influence of emotion regulation strategies on memory with emotional materials has been widely discussed in recent years. However, existing studies have focused exclusively on regulating negative emotion but not positive emotion. Therefore, in the present study, we investigated the influence of emotion regulation strategies for positive emotion on memory. One hundred and twenty college students were selected as participants. Emotional pictures (positive, negative and neutral) were selected from Chinese Affective Picture System (CAPS) as experimental materials. We employed a mixed, 4 (emotion regulation strategies: cognitive up-regulation, cognitive down-regulation, expressive suppression, passive viewing) × 3 (emotional pictures: positive, neutral, negative) experimental design. We investigated the influences of different emotion regulation strategies on memory performance, using free recall and recognition tasks with pictures varying in emotional content. The results showed that recognition and free recall memory performance of the cognitive reappraisal groups (up-regulation and down-regulation) were both better than that of the passive viewing group for all emotional pictures. No significant differences were reported in the two kinds of memory scores between the expressive suppression and passive viewing groups. The results also showed that the memory performance with the emotional pictures differed according to the form of memory test. For the recognition test, participants performed better with positive images than with neutral images. Free recall scores with negative images were higher than those with neutral images. These results suggest that both cognitive reappraisal regulation strategies (up-regulation and down-regulation) promoted explicit memories of the emotional content of stimuli, and the form of memory test influenced performance with emotional pictures. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c10866b871dc4895b667fb074f75c8982022-12-21T17:31:07ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782017-11-01810.3389/fpsyg.2017.01921285819The Effects of Cognitive Reappraisal and Expressive Suppression on Memory of Emotional PicturesYan Mei WangJie ChenBen Yue HanIn the field of emotion research, the influence of emotion regulation strategies on memory with emotional materials has been widely discussed in recent years. However, existing studies have focused exclusively on regulating negative emotion but not positive emotion. Therefore, in the present study, we investigated the influence of emotion regulation strategies for positive emotion on memory. One hundred and twenty college students were selected as participants. Emotional pictures (positive, negative and neutral) were selected from Chinese Affective Picture System (CAPS) as experimental materials. We employed a mixed, 4 (emotion regulation strategies: cognitive up-regulation, cognitive down-regulation, expressive suppression, passive viewing) × 3 (emotional pictures: positive, neutral, negative) experimental design. We investigated the influences of different emotion regulation strategies on memory performance, using free recall and recognition tasks with pictures varying in emotional content. The results showed that recognition and free recall memory performance of the cognitive reappraisal groups (up-regulation and down-regulation) were both better than that of the passive viewing group for all emotional pictures. No significant differences were reported in the two kinds of memory scores between the expressive suppression and passive viewing groups. The results also showed that the memory performance with the emotional pictures differed according to the form of memory test. For the recognition test, participants performed better with positive images than with neutral images. Free recall scores with negative images were higher than those with neutral images. These results suggest that both cognitive reappraisal regulation strategies (up-regulation and down-regulation) promoted explicit memories of the emotional content of stimuli, and the form of memory test influenced performance with emotional pictures.http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01921/fullemotion regulationcognitive reappraisalexpressive suppressionemotional picturesmemory |
| spellingShingle | Yan Mei Wang Jie Chen Ben Yue Han The Effects of Cognitive Reappraisal and Expressive Suppression on Memory of Emotional Pictures Frontiers in Psychology emotion regulation cognitive reappraisal expressive suppression emotional pictures memory |
| title | The Effects of Cognitive Reappraisal and Expressive Suppression on Memory of Emotional Pictures |
| title_full | The Effects of Cognitive Reappraisal and Expressive Suppression on Memory of Emotional Pictures |
| title_fullStr | The Effects of Cognitive Reappraisal and Expressive Suppression on Memory of Emotional Pictures |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Effects of Cognitive Reappraisal and Expressive Suppression on Memory of Emotional Pictures |
| title_short | The Effects of Cognitive Reappraisal and Expressive Suppression on Memory of Emotional Pictures |
| title_sort | effects of cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression on memory of emotional pictures |
| topic | emotion regulation cognitive reappraisal expressive suppression emotional pictures memory |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01921/full |
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