Summit

2024 APS Global Psychological Science Summit · 2024

The Power of Emotion Beliefs: We Reflect More When Believing Emotions Are Controllable

Virtual · October 2024

Posters · Cognitive Science

  • Yikai Xu
    NYU
  • Michael Sun
    Dartmouth University
  • William Tsai
    New York University

Abstract

Believing emotions are controllable can influence how people ruminate. In this daily-dairy study, emotion-control beliefs were found to predict greater daily self-reflection (b = .05, p<.05) but not brooding upon experiencing negative affect. This is the first intensive longitudinal study to demonstrate the influence of emotion-control beliefs on rumination.

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