Department of Psychology, Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
Department of Psychology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, P.O.B. 653, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
Psychol Res. 2024 Jul;88(5):1629-1636. doi: 10.1007/s00426-024-01966-5. Epub 2024 Apr 16.
Emotion regulation is essential for psychological well-being. One strategy that is commonly researched is reappraisal. Individual differences regarding the tendency to use reappraisal, as well as its implications for affective experience, were extensively studied. In recent years, interest has emerged in the choice to use reappraisal, based on stimuli properties. Recently, we suggested that reappraisal is related to emotion recognition processes. Emotion recognition (and affective labeling, as an explicit form of emotion recognition) is regarded as a form of emotion regulation, however, the relations between emotion recognition and reappraisal have not been previously investigated. The aim of the current study was to explore the relationship between reappraisal affordances (the opportunities of re-interpretation that are inherent in a stimulus) and emotion recognition.
For this purpose, we used the Categorized Affective Picture Database, a database that provides data regarding the emotional category of each picture, agreement levels for each category, and intensity ratings. Agreement levels were used to assess the certainty regarding the emotion evoked by the pictures.
Findings suggest that reappraisal affordance is predicted by both agreement levels and intensity, in negative pictures alone. In negative pictures, intensity was negatively correlated with the difficulty to reappraise.
These findings strengthen the hypothesis regarding the relationship between emotion recognition and reappraisal, and provide evidence for the role of emotion recognition in reappraisal affordances.
情绪调节对于心理健康至关重要。其中一种被广泛研究的策略是情绪重评。人们对使用情绪重评的倾向以及其对情感体验的影响存在个体差异，这些差异也得到了广泛研究。近年来，人们对基于刺激特性的情绪重评选择产生了兴趣。最近，我们提出情绪重评与情绪识别过程有关。情绪识别（以及情感标签，作为一种明确的情绪识别形式）被视为一种情绪调节形式，然而，情绪识别和情绪重评之间的关系尚未得到研究。本研究旨在探讨情绪重评的诱发可能性（刺激中固有的重新解释机会）与情绪识别之间的关系。
为此，我们使用了分类情感图片数据库，该数据库提供了每张图片的情感类别、每个类别的确信程度以及强度评级数据。确信程度用于评估图片所引发的情感的确定性。
研究结果表明，在消极图片中，仅同意程度和强度可预测情绪重评的诱发可能性。在消极图片中，强度与情绪重评的难度呈负相关。
这些发现加强了情绪识别和情绪重评之间关系的假设，并为情绪识别在情绪重评诱发可能性中的作用提供了证据。
