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APS Virtual Poster Showcase · 2020

Emotion Beliefs, Emotion Regulation, and Emotional Experiences in Daily Life

Virtual · June 2020

Poster Sessions · Clinical Science

  • Elizabeth Kneeland
    Harvard Medical School
  • Fallon Goodman
    University of South Florida
  • John Dovidio
    Yale University

Abstract

The current study adopted an experience sampling approach to examine how emotion malleability beliefs related to daily affect and emotion regulation among individuals with at least moderate depression (N=84). Results demonstrated that individuals who held more malleable emotion beliefs reported decreased negative affect and greater daily use of cognitive reappraisal.

Emotion