Lopez-Perez, B. and Ambrona, T (2015) The role of cognitive emotion regulation on the vicarious emotional response. Motivation and Emotion, 39. pp. 299-308. ISSN Online ISSN 1573-6644 Print ISSN 0146-7239
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Abstract
Perceiving another in need may provoke two possible emotional responses: empathic concern and personal distress. This research aims to test whether different emotion regulation strategies (i.e., reappraisal and rumination) may lead to different vicarious emotional responses (i.e., empathic concern and personal distress). In this sense, we hypothesized that reappraisal may lead to a greater feeling of empathic concern, whereas rumination may lead to a higher feeling of personal distress. To test the hypotheses we used experimental instructions (Study 1) and a priming procedure (Study 2) to manipulate the emotion regulation strategies. The results supported our hypotheses. Furthermore in the rumination condition the emotional experience was described as being more negative and more highly arousing than in the reappraisal condition. We discuss the effect of these two forms of cognitive emotion regulation on empathic concern and personal distress.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information and Comments: | The final publication is available at http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11031-014-9452-z |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Human and Digital Sciences > School of Psychology |
| Depositing User: | Belen Lopez-Perez |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Jul 2016 09:21 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Jan 2018 13:39 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/1570 |
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