Perceived effects of other people’s emotion regulation on their vicarious emotional response

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• 作者：Belén López-Pérez ; Janice Sanchez ; Brian Parkinson
• 关键词：Vicarious emotions ; Regulatory strategies ; Reappraisal ; Rumination ; Social perception
• 刊名：Motivation and Emotion
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：41
• 期：1
• 页码：113-121
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• 刊物类别：Behavioral Science
• 刊物主题：Psychology, general; Personality and Social Psychology; Clinical Psychology;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1573-6644
• 卷排序：41

文摘

Across two studies, we investigated how friends’ typically used emotion regulation strategies (rumination or reappraisal) influence judgements about their vicarious emotions (sympathy, tenderness, and personal distress) when presented with a photograph of a suffering toddler. Results of both studies demonstrated that participants reporting on a ruminative friend indicated that their friend would feel greater personal distress and less tenderness and would perceive the toddler as experiencing more need and pain than participants reporting on a reappraising friend. These results are consistent with the behavioural trajectories associated with rumination and reappraisal, and are discussed in light of their implications for interpersonal emotion regulation.