Emotion regulation and naming feelings

Tests naming, accepting and holding back feelings, some of it in live conversation.

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  • Reveal

    Tests what naming a feeling does to it, and what hiding it from a partner costs: hiding it strained the conversation.

    Butler et al. · 2003

  • Welcome all

    Compares accepting a feeling with suppressing it.

In the catalogue

  1. The social consequences of expressive suppression.

    Butler et al. · 2003

    Experiment72 women in the first experiment and 84 in the secondCautions: Small sample · No later follow-up