Fight, Flight, or Rethink: Using Cognitive Reappraisal in Response to Anger and Anxiety
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Authors
Robledo, Gwendolyn
Issue Date
2019
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Thesis
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en_US
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Emotion regulation strategies are used as a way of managing one’s emotions in response
to adverse events. Cognitive Reappraisal is one strategy that has been shown to be a
healthy way of controlling emotions, while others have been shown to have negative
effects depending on the emotion. The purpose of this study is to explore the effects of
cognitive reappraisal on the induction of two high arousal emotions: anger and anxiety.
Cognitive reappraisal was used in a within-subject experimental design to test how
effective it is at mitigating anger and anxiety. We found that cognitive reappraisal led to
the participants feeling happier and calmer during the anxiety-induction task. The angerinduction
task, when reappraising, led to participants having higher ratings of anger,
anxiety, frustration, and nervousness and low ratings of happiness and calmness.
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