For example, if an individual with SAD has been wronged in some way and experiences the emotion of anger, instead of outwardly expressing thoughts and feelings about the situation, the person may actively inhibit signs of anger to avoid confrontation or potential rejection by others.
- What is an example of emotional regulation?
- What does it mean to modulate emotions?
- What is situation selection?
- What is situation modification?
What is an example of emotional regulation?
When your child has a meltdown, you may feel angry or even amused, but instead of yelling or laughing, you regulate your emotions in order to talk to your child calmly about how she could react instead. This is referred to as extrinsic emotion regulation.
What does it mean to modulate emotions?
Emotion modulation is changing the input-output relation between one of the (cognitive level) emotion components and subsequent (cognitive) component(s) in the process.
What is situation selection?
Situation selection involves choosing situations based on their likely emotional impact and may be less cognitively taxing or challenging to implement compared to other strategies for regulating emotion, which require people to regulate their emotions "in the moment"; we thus predicted that individuals who chronically ...
What is situation modification?
Situation modification involves changing aspects of a physical situation to change its emotional impact, without simply avoiding the situation.