کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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891264 | 914030 | 2012 | 6 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |

Emotion regulation (ER) strategies differ in when and how they influence emotion experience, expression, and concomitant cognition. However, no study to date has directly compared cognition in individuals who have a clear disposition for either cognitive or behavioural ER strategies. The present study compared selective attention to angry faces in groups of high trait-suppressors (people who are hiding emotional reactions in response to emotional challenge) and high trait-reappraisers (people who cognitively reinterpret emotional events). Since reappraisers are also low trait-anxious and suppressors are high trait-anxious, high and low anxious control groups, both being low in trait-ER, were also included. Attention to angry faces was assessed using an emotional dot-probe task. Trait-reappraisers and high-anxious individuals both showed attentional biases towards angry faces. Trait-reappraisers’ vigilance for angry faces was significantly more pronounced compared to both trait-suppressors and low anxious controls. We suggest that threat prioritization in high trait-reappraisal may allow deeper cognitive processing of threat information without being associated with psychological maladjustment.
► We compared attention to angry faces in trait-suppressors and trait-reappraisers.
► Reappraisers were vigilant for angry faces, similar to high anxious controls.
► Reappraisers were more threat-vigilant than suppressors and low anxious controls.
► This threat-vigilance may allow deeper processing of threat in reappraisers.
► Reappraisers likely exhibit threat-vigilance without psychological maladjustment.
Journal: Personality and Individual Differences - Volume 52, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages 61–66