Aggression And Memory: Impression Analysis

To understand emotion regulation, we must first discuss what emotions are which can be broken down into two core features. According to Gross (2013) these core features are “when it occurs” and “its multifaceted nature” (Gross, 2013, 4). Emotions are believed to occur when “an individual attends to and evaluates (appraises) a situation as being relevant to a particular type of currently active goal” (Gross, 2013, 4) this reaction that the person has to situation is what is called an emotion. The other core feature to emotions is that they have many aspects to them; they affect so many different parts of our body so they cannot just be limited to a reaction in the brain. Our emotions cause us “to act in certain ways (and not act in others) include …show more content…
Stated in the study is, “those randomly assigned to hide their feelings during the film showed poorer memory for its auditory and visual details” (Richards & Gross, 2000, 414). However in this study they did not test for the affect of age on the participant’s memory. A following study to Richards and Gross (2000) is the study done by Kim and Yi (2013), in this study the effect of memory suppression on memory was measured by dividing participants into two groups, a think group and a no think group (Kim & Yi, 2013). They found that suppression did cause poorer memory in their participants. They showed object images to test individuals’ ability to identify suppressed items from their memory (Kim & Yi, 2013). They divided their groups up into a baseline group, a think group and a no think group. They concluded that participants identified significantly fewer objects in the think and no think categories than in the baseline group (Kim & Yi, …show more content…
Fredrickson (2001) in her research evaluates the effects of positive emotions on people’s mental well-being and how positive emotions can positively affect someone’s life. Positive emotions often “serve as markers of people flourishing or optimal well-being” (Fredrickson, 2001, 218). Positive emotion, in Fredrickson’s research, can broaden mindsets. These mindsets “carry indirect and long-term adaptive benefits because broadening builds enduring personal resources, which function as reserves to be drawn on later to manage future threats” (Fredrickson, 2001, 220). These positive emotions can help people to strengthen their attention, cognition and action, as well as well as build social, intellectual and physical resources (Fredrickson, 2001). Although positive emotions can help to protect us from potential dangers we might face, they can also pose their own