Emotion Regulation Regulates More Than Emotion

Emotion Regulation Regulates More than Emotion: Associations of Momentary Emotion Regulation with Diurnal Cortisol in Current and Past Depression and Anxiety.

Maladaptive emotion regulation and dysregulated hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis functioning are characteristic of depression and anxiety. However, little research examines whether and how emotion regulation affects HPA axis functioning. We utilized an experience sampling methodology to examine associations between three emotion regulation strategies (problem solving, disengagement, an...

Emotion regulation predicts marital satisfaction: more than a wives' tale.

Emotion regulation is generally thought to be a critical ingredient for successful interpersonal relationships. Ironically, few studies have investigated the link between how well spouses regulate emotion and how satisfied they are with their marriages. We utilized data from a 13-year, 3-wave longitudinal study of middle-aged (40-50 years old) and older (60-70 years old) long-term married coupl...

Does language do more than communicate emotion?

Language can certainly communicate emotions, but growing research suggests that language also helps constitute emotion by cohering sensations into specific perceptions of "anger," "disgust," "fear," etc. The powerful role of language in emotion is predicted by a constructionist approach, which suggests that emotions occur when sensations are categorized using emotion category knowledge supporte...

Emotion Change the Things You Can: Emotion Regulation Is More Beneficial for People From Lower Than From Higher Socioeconomic Status

Perceiving emotion: There’s more than meets the eye

In the late 1800s, Jackson Hughlings [1] noted that the halting speech characteristic of aphasia that accompanied left hemisphere lesions was curiously attenuated when patients’ vocalizations were laced with emotional vigor. This surprising spared fluency for offensive language is at once an amusing neurological anecdote as well as a landmark finding in human ‘affective neuroscience’ — the stud...