Better Not to Know? Emotion Regulation Fails to Benefit from Affective Cueing

Often we know whether an upcoming event is going to be good or bad. But does that knowledge help us regulate ensuing emotions? To address this question, we exposed participants to alleged social feedback that was either positive or negative. On half the trials, a preceding cue indicated the feedback...

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Main Authors: Liu, Siwei, Vanderhasselt, Marie-Anne, Zhou, Juan, Schirmer, Annett
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5122596/