How pushing a thought out of consciousness can bring it back with a vengeance.
It sometimes feels like our minds are not on the same team as us. I want to go to sleep, but it wants to keep me awake rerunning events from my childhood. I want to forget the lyrics from that stupid 80s pop song but it wants to repeat them over and over again ad nauseam.[More]
Emotion Review is a new fully peer reviewed scholarly journal published by SAGE Publications in association with the International Society for Research on Emotion (ISRE) from 2009
Its unique aim will be to publish a combination of theoretical, conceptual, and review papers — often with commentaries — to enhance debate about critical issues in emotion theory and research. Emotion Review will publish work across a wide interdisciplinary field of research that traverses many disciplines. In this respect, the journal will be open to publishing work in anthropology, biology, computer science, economics, history, humanities, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, physiology, political science, psychiatry, psychology, sociology, and in other areas where emotion research is active.
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Explore your feelings, and how they affect your behaviour, with this new series on the psychology of the emotions.
We tend to think
of our emotions as having laws unto themselves, but one psychological researcher
has suggested that our emotions do follow certain general rules.
This
post begins a new series on the psychology of emotions with Professor Nico Frijda's
twelve laws of the emotions (Fridja,
2006). As for most laws there are exceptions, but these have been
synthesised from years of psychological research and hold true much of the time...[more]
From Psyblog
Automatic Emotion Regulation
Source: Social and Personality Psychology Compass
How do people effectively regulate their emotional reactions? Why are some people better at this than others? Most prior research has addressed these questions by focusing on deliberate forms of emotion regulation. We argue that this focus has left out an important aspect of emotion regulation, namely, automatic emotion regulation (AER). Our review of the behavioral literature suggests that AER is pervasive in everyday life, and has far-reaching consequences for individuals’ emotions. However, the behavioral literature has yet to address the mechanisms underlying the observed effects. Because it is difficult to directly measure the processes involved in AER, evidence from neuroscientific studies is particularly helpful in addressing these questions. Our review of the neuroscientific literature suggests distinct neural bases for different types of AER, which provides important clues about the cognitive and behavioral processes that might be involved in AER.
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