Midterm 3 Emotion Study Guide Part 1

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Gross and John's study on emotion-regulation strategies

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High neuroticism = less regulation of emotions

Low Neuroticism = More regulation of emotions

People Watched stressful film clips, while maintaining a straight face

This caused an elevation in sympathetic nervous system arousal (they got nervous/upset)

When one person wasn't aware the others had been asked to keep straight face, they feel tension.

CONCLUSION: it is psychologically costly to deny emotion

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Secure/Autonomous (Classifications based on the adult attachment interview (adult attachment styles))

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Talk about childhood objectively

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Preoccupied (Classifications based on the adult attachment interview (adult attachment styles))

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incoherent accounts of experiences of childhood, and overwhelmed by the emotions

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Dismissing (Classifications based on the adult attachment interview (adult attachment styles))

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distant, abstract account of childhood, unable to recall the events, and idealize or overrationalize the memories.

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Positive (Big five personality traits most related to positive emotions)

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Extraversion

Agreeableness (trusting and sympathetic)

Conscientiousness (ambitious)

Openness (open minded)

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Negative (Big five personality traits most related to positive emotions)

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Neuroticism (anxious, hostile, depressed)

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Harker and Keltner's yearbook smiles study

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Intensity of women's smiles in Mills College yearbook pictures predicts the personality and life outcomes 31 years later at age 52

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Pennebaker's studies of writing about negative experiences

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People were either: raped, in a hurricane, or at 9/11

People generally felt negative while describing the experiences but overtime showed a reduction in autonomic arousal and better physical health

Why?: Organizing and articulating thoughts, thereby putting the experience into a memory file called "dealt with"

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Fonagy's Concept of Reflexive Function

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Indicate parent's abilities to reflect on their own and their children's internal mental experiences, this creates a physical and psychological experience of comfort and safety for their children

This helps parents better respond to their childrens needs and develop empathy for them

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A longitudinal study by Asendorpf et. al about whether childhood emotionality predicts later life outcomes

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children followed from 4 to 6 until 23

compared the top 15% most aggressive and inhibited children

inhibited children were most likely to: be inhibited as a young adult, be late for a stable relationship and their first job

aggressive children were less agreeable, conscientious, open to exercise. They also were underachievers and delinquents

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Definitions of internalizing and externalizing disorders

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internalized: depression and anxiety (acting in)

externalized: disruptive behavior (acting out)

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the stress diathesis hypothesis

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stressors lead to emotional disorders

but not every stressor creates emotional disorders

so some people must be more vulnerable than others

things that lead to emotional disorders often:

- conflict between parents

- parents have disorders

- disorganized attachment

- hostile/abusive parents

- poverty