PSYC18H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: The Emotions, Sympathetic Nervous System
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Our attempts to influence which emotions we have, when we have them, and how we experience and express these emotions. Citations of keyword emotion regulation boom in 90s. Then we need to attend (to have effect on us) then appraise (think about it) - Attention and appraisal assessment of stimulus (constructive and appraisal models) Attentional deployment change attention; visual avoidance; think about other things. Cognitive change (reappraise) reframing or restructuring, change your thinking. Response modulation (change behaviors) hide feelings, physiological changes, eating, drinking, smoking. Experimental: - expose ppl to emotion induction, ask to use particular strategy (vs a control), asses emotional responses and test whether responses are different when using strategy vs control. Yields causal info on short-term outcomes of a given strategy in the lab. Individual difference approaches: - ask participants about the emotions they experience in daily life, measure how much they use a particular strategy.
