Summit
2025 APS Global Psychological Science Summit · 2025
Get What You Need: Need Fulfillment As Implicit Emotion Regulation for Conflict Resolution
- Maayan Katzir
Bar Ilan University - Neta Raz
Bar Ilan University - Anna Dorfman
Bar Ilan University
Abstract
We propose that need fulfillment serves as implicit emotion regulation thus promoting conflict resolution. Across four experiments (N = 1,341) we found that fulfilling status and justice needs—by perpetrators or others—reduced anger and increased reconciliation willingness in work-related conflicts.
Conflict