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Misery is not miserly: sad and self-focused individuals spend moreCynthia E Cryder
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Psychol Sci 19:525-30. 2008..For example, economic theories of spending may benefit from incorporating psychological theories -- specifically, theories of emotion and the self -- into their models...
Healthy and unhealthy emotion regulation: personality processes, individual differences, and life span developmentOliver P John
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 1650, USA
J Pers 72:1301-33. 2004..e., increases in the use of reappraisal and decreases in the use of suppression)...- How to bite your tongue without blowing your top: implicit evaluation of emotion regulation predicts affective responding to anger provocationIris B Mauss
Department of Psychology, University of Denver, Denver, CO 80208, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 32:589-602. 2006..These findings suggest that implicit positive evaluation of emotion regulation is associated with successful, automatic, and physiologically adaptive down-regulation of anger... - Individual differences in cognitive reappraisal: experiential and physiological responses to an anger provocationIris B Mauss
Department of Psychology, University of Denver, 2155 South Race Street, Denver, CO 80208, USA
Int J Psychophysiol 66:116-24. 2007..These findings suggest that reappraisers are successful at down-regulating negative emotions, even in the context of a potent negative emotion such as anger... - Cardiovascular, electrodermal, and respiratory response patterns to fear- and sadness-inducing filmsSylvia D Kreibig
Department of Psychology, Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Psychophysiology 44:787-806. 2007..Findings are discussed in terms of the fight-flight and conservation-withdrawal responses and possible limitations of a valence-arousal categorization of emotion in affective space... - Hiding feelings: the acute effects of inhibiting negative and positive emotionJ J Gross
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, California 94305 2130, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 106:95-103. 1997..On the basis of these findings, we suggest several ways emotional inhibition may influence psychological functioning... - Revealing feelings: facets of emotional expressivity in self-reports, peer ratings, and behaviorJ J Gross
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, California 94305 2130, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 72:435-48. 1997..These studies demonstrate the importance of a multifaceted approach to emotional expressivity and have implications for the understanding of personality and emotion... - Emotion and aging: experience, expression, and controlJ J Gross
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, California 94305 2130, USA
Psychol Aging 12:590-9. 1997..Results are interpreted in terms of increasingly competent emotion regulation across the life span... - Mapping the domain of expressivity: multimethod evidence for a hierarchical modelJ J Gross
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305 2130, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 74:170-91. 1998..These findings support a hierarchical model of individual differences in emotional expressivity... - Antecedent- and response-focused emotion regulation: divergent consequences for experience, expression, and physiologyJ J Gross
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305 2130, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 74:224-37. 1998..However, reappraisal decreased disgust experience, whereas suppression increased sympathetic activation. These results suggest that these 2 emotion regulatory processes may have different adaptive consequences... - Individual differences in two emotion regulation processes: implications for affect, relationships, and well-beingJames J Gross
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, California 94305 2130, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 85:348-62. 2003..Study 5 shows that using reappraisal is related positively to well-being, whereas using suppression is related negatively... - Emotion regulation: affective, cognitive, and social consequencesJames J Gross
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, California 94305 2130, USA
Psychophysiology 39:281-91. 2002..Suppression also increases physiological responding for suppressors and their social partners. This review concludes with a consideration of five important directions for future research on emotion regulation processes... - The neural bases of distraction and reappraisalKateri McRae
Stanford University, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 22:248-62. 2010..Taken together, these data suggest that distraction and reappraisal differentially engage neural systems involved in attentional deployment and cognitive reframing and have different emotional consequences... 
Bottom-up and top-down processes in emotion generation: common and distinct neural mechanismsKevin N Ochsner
Department of Psychology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
Psychol Sci 20:1322-31. 2009..These findings provide a neural foundation for emotion theories that posit multiple kinds of appraisal processes and help to clarify mechanisms underlying clinically relevant forms of emotion dysregulation...- The social consequences of expressive suppressionEmily A Butler
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, California 94305-2130, USA
Emotion 3:48-67. 2003..In Study 2, suppression had a negative impact on the regulators' emotional experience and increased blood pressure in both regulators and their partners. Suppression also reduced rapport and inhibited relationship formation... - The experience of emotionLisa Feldman Barrett
Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467, USA
Annu Rev Psychol 58:373-403. 2007..We then discuss the role of such experiences in the economy of the mind and behavior... - For better or for worse: neural systems supporting the cognitive down- and up-regulation of negative emotionKevin N Ochsner
Department of Psychology, Columbia University, 369 Schermerhorn Hall, New York, NY 10027, USA
Neuroimage 23:483-99. 2004.... - The social costs of emotional suppression: a prospective study of the transition to collegeSanjay Srivastava
Department of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 1227, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 96:883-97. 2009.... - Self-representation in social anxiety disorder: linguistic analysis of autobiographical narrativesBarrett Anderson
San Jose State University, Department of Psychology, Dudley Moorehead Hall 157, One Washington Square, San Jose, CA 95192, USA
Behav Res Ther 46:1119-25. 2008..These findings support cognitive models of SAD, and suggest that autobiographical memory of social situations in SAD may influence current and future thinking, emotion, and behavioral avoidance... - Sadness and amusement reactivity differentially predict concurrent and prospective functioning in major depressive disorderJonathan Rottenberg
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, California 94305-2130, USA
Emotion 2:135-46. 2002..Loss of the context-appropriate modulation of emotion in depression may reflect a core feature of emotion dysregulation in this disorder... - Emotion regulation and memory: the cognitive costs of keeping one's coolJ M Richards
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 79:410-24. 2000..Together, these studies suggest that the cognitive costs of keeping one's cool may vary according to how this is done... - Attention and emotion: does rating emotion alter neural responses to amusing and sad films?C A Hutcherson
Department of Psychology, Jordan Hall, Building 420, Stanford, CA 94305 2130, USA
Neuroimage 27:656-68. 2005.... - The neural bases of emotion regulation: reappraisal and suppression of negative emotionPhilippe R Goldin
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
Biol Psychiatry 63:577-86. 2008.... - All in the mind's eye? Anger rumination and reappraisalRebecca D Ray
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 94:133-45. 2008..These findings provide compelling new evidence that how one thinks about an emotional event can shape the emotional response one has... - Signaling threat: how situational cues affect women in math, science, and engineering settingsMary C Murphy
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Jordan Hall, Bldg 420, 450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Psychol Sci 18:879-85. 2007..Men were unaffected by this situational cue. The implications for understanding vulnerability to social identity threat, particularly among women in MSE settings, are discussed... - The up- and down-regulation of amusement: experiential, behavioral, and autonomic consequencesNicole R Giuliani
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Emotion 8:714-9. 2008..This finding is a critical extension of the growing literature on the voluntary regulation of emotion, and has the potential to help us better understand how people use humor in the service of coping and social goals... - Loving-kindness meditation increases social connectednessCendri A Hutcherson
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 2130, USA
Emotion 8:720-4. 2008..These results suggest that this easily implemented technique may help to increase positive social emotions and decrease social isolation... - Individual differences in typical reappraisal use predict amygdala and prefrontal responsesEmily M Drabant
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
Biol Psychiatry 65:367-73. 2009..Such spontaneous emotion regulation might play an important role in normal and pathological responses to the emotional challenges of everyday life... - Neural bases of social anxiety disorder: emotional reactivity and cognitive regulation during social and physical threatPhilippe R Goldin
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 2130, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 66:170-80. 2009.... - Anterior cingulate cortex volume and emotion regulation: is bigger better?Nicole R Giuliani
Psychology Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Biol Psychol 86:379-82. 2011..Expressive suppression, negative affect, and age were not related to dACC volume. These findings indicate that individual differences in cognitive reappraisal are related to individual differences in dACC volume in healthy participants... - Experiential, autonomic, and neural responses during threat anticipation vary as a function of threat intensity and neuroticismEmily M Drabant
Psychology Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Neuroimage 55:401-10. 2011.... - For better or worse? Stress inoculation effects for implicit but not explicit anxietyMichael D Edge
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Depress Anxiety 26:831-7. 2009..low) ELS is associated with greater self-reported anxiety. This study tested the hypothesis that stress inoculation effects are evident for implicit (nonconscious) but not explicit (conscious) aspects of anxiety... - Effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) on emotion regulation in social anxiety disorderPhilippe R Goldin
Department of Psychology, Jordan Hall, Building 420, Stanford, CA 94305 2130, USA
Emotion 10:83-91. 2010..These changes might facilitate reduction in SAD-related avoidance behaviors, clinical symptoms, and automatic emotional reactivity to negative self-beliefs in adults with SAD... - Harnessing the need for immediate gratification: cognitive reconstrual modulates the reward value of temptationsEran Magen
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Emotion 7:415-28. 2007..These studies demonstrate that cognitive reconstrual can be used to modify reward contingencies, so that succumbing to temptation becomes less appealing, and resisting temptation becomes more appealing... - Individual differences in trait rumination and the neural systems supporting cognitive reappraisalRebecca D Ray
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, 450 Serra Mall, Building 420, Stanford, CA 94305 2130, USA
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 5:156-68. 2005..These findings clarify relations between rumination and emotion regulation processes and may have important implications for mood and anxiety disorders... - Neural mechanisms of cognitive reappraisal of negative self-beliefs in social anxiety disorderPhilippe R Goldin
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305 2130, USA
Biol Psychiatry 66:1091-9. 2009..Despite its relevance, little is known about the neural bases and temporal features of cognitive reappraisal in patients with SAD... - Optimism in close relationships: How seeing things in a positive light makes them soSanjay Srivastava
Department of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 1227, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 91:143-53. 2006..In a 1-year follow-up, men's optimism predicted relationship status. Effects of optimism were mediated by the optimists' perceived support, which appears to promote a variety of beneficial processes in romantic relationships... - The tie that binds? Coherence among emotion experience, behavior, and physiologyIris B Mauss
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 2130, USA
Emotion 5:175-90. 2005..These findings provide new evidence about response system coherence in emotions... - The neural bases of amusement and sadness: a comparison of block contrast and subject-specific emotion intensity regression approachesPhilippe R Goldin
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 2130, USA
Neuroimage 27:26-36. 2005.... - The cognitive control of emotionKevin N Ochsner
Department of Psychology, Columbia University, Schermerhorn Hall, 1190 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027, USA
Trends Cogn Sci 9:242-9. 2005..Taken together, the results suggest a functional architecture for the cognitive control of emotion that dovetails with findings from other human and nonhuman research on emotion... - Emotion regulation and culture: are the social consequences of emotion suppression culture-specific?Emily A Butler
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Emotion 7:30-48. 2007..These findings suggest that many of suppression's negative social impacts may be moderated by cultural values... - Interdependent self-construal and neural representations of self and motherRebecca D Ray
Vanderbilt University, Department of Psychology, 204 Wilson Hall, Nashville, TN 37204, USA
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 5:318-23. 2010..This suggests that those with greater interdependent self-construals may rely more upon episodic memory, reflected appraisals, or theory of mind to incorporate social information to make judgments about themselves... - Rethinking feelings: an FMRI study of the cognitive regulation of emotionKevin N Ochsner
Stanford University, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 14:1215-29. 2002..These findings support the hypothesis that prefrontal cortex is involved in constructing reappraisal strategies that can modulate activity in multiple emotion-processing systems... - Social anxiety and response to touch: incongruence between self-evaluative and physiological reactionsF H Wilhelm
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
Biol Psychol 58:181-202. 2001.... - Hedonic and instrumental motives in anger regulationMaya Tamir
Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
Psychol Sci 19:324-8. 2008..These findings support a functional view of emotion regulation, and demonstrate that in certain contexts, individuals may choose to experience emotions that are instrumental, despite short-term hedonic costs... - Same situation--different emotions: how appraisals shape our emotionsMatthias Siemer
Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124, USA
Emotion 7:592-600. 2007..Together, these findings suggest that appraisals may be necessary and sufficient to determine different emotional reactions toward a particular situation... - Cognitive reappraisal of negative affect: converging evidence from EMG and self-reportRebecca D Ray
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
Emotion 10:587-92. 2010.... - Attention and emotion influence the relationship between extraversion and neural responseC A Hutcherson
Stanford University, CA, USA
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 3:71-9. 2008..These findings suggest that attentional focus does not influence the relationship between extraversion and neural response to positive (amusing) stimuli but does impact the response to negative (sad) stimuli... - Implicit theories of emotion: affective and social outcomes across a major life transitionMaya Tamir
Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 92:731-44. 2007..Together, these studies demonstrate that implicit theories of emotion can have important long-term implications for socioemotional functioning... - Healthy young women with serotonin transporter SS polymorphism show a pro-inflammatory bias under resting and stress conditionsCarolyn A Fredericks
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Brain Behav Immun 24:350-7. 2010.... - Crying threshold and intensity in major depressive disorderJonathan Rottenberg
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, California 94305-2130, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 111:302-12. 2002..The lack of emotional activation among clinically depressed participants who cried provides a tantalizing clue concerning how emotions are dysregulated in this disorder... - Business or pleasure? Utilitarian versus hedonic considerations in emotion regulationMaya Tamir
Department of Psychology, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chesnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
Emotion 7:546-54. 2007..excitement) before the task. These findings demonstrate that utilitarian considerations play an important, if underappreciated, role in emotion regulation... - Depression and emotional reactivity: variation among Asian Americans of East Asian descent and European AmericansYulia E Chentsova-Dutton
Department of Psychology, Colby College, Waterville, Maine, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 116:776-85. 2007..Thus, although depression may influence particular aspects of emotional reactivity across cultures (e.g., crying), the specific direction of this influence may depend on prevailing cultural norms regarding emotional expression... - Vagal withdrawal to a sad film predicts subsequent recovery from depressionJonathan Rottenberg
Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620 7200, USA
Psychophysiology 42:277-81. 2005..Depressed persons who exhibited a higher degree of vagal withdrawal to the sad film were more likely to recover from depression. Implications for the study of RSA in depression are discussed... - Autonomic recovery and habituation in social anxietyIris B Mauss
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-2130, USA
Psychophysiology 40:648-53. 2003..These results suggest minimal autonomic differences between HTSA and LTSA individuals, thus supporting theories of social anxiety that emphasize cognitive factors... - Emotion context insensitivity in major depressive disorderJonathan Rottenberg
Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620 7200, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 114:627-39. 2005..Overall, data provide partial support for the positive attenuation and ECI views. Depression may produce mood-state-dependent changes in emotional reactivity that are most pronounced in emotion experience reports... - Respiratory sinus arrhythmia, emotion, and emotion regulation during social interactionEmily A Butler
Family Studies and Human Development, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 0033, USA
Psychophysiology 43:612-22. 2006..Women with higher resting RSA experienced and expressed more negative emotion, and women who attempted to regulate their emotions either by suppressing or reappraising showed larger increases in RSA than controls... - Implicit anxiety measure predicts cardiovascular reactivity to an evaluated speaking taskBoris Egloff
Department of Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg Universitat Mainz, Germany
Emotion 2:3-11. 2002..These findings encourage the broader use of implicit measures to assess cardiovascular responses to threat... - Expressive suppression during an acoustic startleTim Hagemann
Department of Organizational Psychology, University of Dortmund, 44227 Dortmund, Germany
Psychophysiology 43:104-12. 2006..Results indicated that startle suppression increased sympathetic activation. These findings extend prior work on emotion suppression, and suggest that inhibiting other biologically based responses also may be physiologically taxing... - Mechanisms of virtual reality exposure therapy: the role of the behavioral activation and behavioral inhibition systemsFrank H Wilhelm
Institute for Psychology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Appl Psychophysiol Biofeedback 30:271-84. 2005..Results are discussed within the framework of E. B. Foa & M. J. Kozak's (1986) emotional processing theory of fear modification, suggesting different mechanisms underlying VR and in-vivo exposure treatments... - Does repressive coping promote resilience? Affective-autonomic response discrepancy during bereavementKarin G Coifman
Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 92:745-58. 2007..Results are discussed in terms of recent developments in cognitive and neuroimaging research suggesting that repressive coping may serve a protective function...
Research Grants
- Neural Mechanisms Underlying MBSR in Socially Phobic IndividualsJames Gross; Fiscal Year: 2007..Aim 3 investigates whether MBSR-related changes in attentional emotion regulation mediate MBSR treatment response (decreases in anxiety and increases in well-being) at post-treatment and at the 3-month follow-up. ..