Summit

2025 APS Global Psychological Science Summit · 2025

Get What You Need: Need Fulfillment As Implicit Emotion Regulation for Conflict Resolution

Virtual · October 2025

Poster · Social Psychology

  • 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.

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