Turn down the volume or change the channel? Emotional effects of detached versus positive reappraisal

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 416-429

  Shiota, Michelle N ^a   Levenson, Robert W ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; Emotion regulation; Nonverbal expression; Psychophysiology; Reappraisal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; THINKING;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEX FACTORS; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84874498297     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0029208     Document Type: Article

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