期刊
EMOTION
卷 17, 期 1, 页码 169-186出版社
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/emo0000222
关键词
context; emotion expression; emotion regulation; expressive suppression; positive emotion
资金
- Marie Sklodowska-Curie individual fellowship under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme [704298]
- Australian Research Council [DE160100761]
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research: Social Interactions, Identity, and Well-being Program
- Marie Curie Actions (MSCA) [704298] Funding Source: Marie Curie Actions (MSCA)
- Australian Research Council [DE160100761] Funding Source: Australian Research Council
It is generally considered socially undesirable to suppress the expression of positive emotion. However, previous research has not considered the role that social context plays in governing appropriate emotion regulation. We investigated a context in which it may be more appropriate to suppress than express positive emotion, hypothesizing that positive emotion expressions would be considered inappropriate when the valence of the expressed emotion (i.e., positive) did not match the valence of the context (i.e., negative). Six experiments (N = 1,621) supported this hypothesis: when there was a positive emotion-context mismatch, participants rated targets who suppressed positive emotion as more appropriate, and evaluated them more positively than targets who expressed positive emotion. This effect occurred even when participants were explicitly made aware that suppressing targets were experiencing mismatched emotion for the context (e.g., feeling positive in a negative context), suggesting that appropriate emotional expression is key to these effects. These studies are among the first to provide empirical evidence that social costs to suppression are not inevitable, but instead are dependent on context. Expressive suppression can be a socially useful emotion regulation strategy in situations that call for it.
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