Conveners
Talk Session 10: Emotion Regulation
- Anita Deak (University of Pécs, Hungary)
A growing body of literature in affective psychology proposes that individuals use several emotion regulation (ER) strategies in a single emotional episode to cope with their arising feelings. Historically, the relationship between ER and negative affective conditions of anxiety has been of considerable theoretical and clinical interest, which connection gets more and more attention in...
Humor is a way of modifying negative emotions and it helps to cope with stress. Different humor styles have shown to be differently correlated with positive or negative mental health effects, depending on the humor style being used. In this research we investigated the relationship between humor styles and cognitive emotion regulation strategies. 95 participants filled in the Hungarian version...
In psychological practice, scientific literature, and general belief, the view that thought suppression is non-adaptive or even harmful prevails. This belief, present at least since Freud's time, was reinforced by early studies demonstrating the paradoxical effects of thought suppression. Currently, there are three main sources of evidence for the ineffectiveness or harmfulness of thought...
