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2021 APS Virtual Convention · 2021

Use Your (Own) Words: Exposure to Emotion Labels Improves Naturalistic Emotion Differentiation

Virtual · May 2021

Posters · Clinical Science

  • T. H. Stanley Seah
    Kent State University
  • Karin Coifman
    Kent State University

Abstract

Emotion differentiation is positively associated with psychological health. However, less is known regarding whether it may be enhanced. Utilizing an experimental design and experience-sampling, we found that initial exposure to experimenter-generated emotion labels led to increased specificity of naturalistic emotion language use and decreased negative affect across 14 days.

Psychopathology