Using Reappraisal To Regulate Unpleasant Emotional Episodes: Goals and Timing Matter

Emotion

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 782-797

  Urry, Heather L ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cognitive reappraisal; emotion regulation; timing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GOAL ATTAINMENT; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MOOD CHANGE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; TIME; UNPLEASANT SENSATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; COGNITION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; GOALS; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 72449168460     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017109     Document Type: Article

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