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The efficiency of reappraisal and expressive suppression in regulating everyday affective experiences.

T. Meyer,T. Smeets,T. Giesbrecht,H. Merckelbach

2012 · DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2012.05.034
Psychiatry Research · 49 Citations

TLDR

Habitual reappraisal was associated with lowered emotional arousal (but not valence), both in terms of diurnal affect levels and positive and negative responses to the emotional provocation task, which suggests that the detrimental effects of expressive suppression are limited in duration.