DiGiovanni Ana M, Ochsner Kevin N
Columbia University, New York, NY USA.
Affect Sci. 2024 Sep 7;5(3):173-178. doi: 10.1007/s42761-024-00260-2. eCollection 2024 Sep.
The Future of Affective Science Special Issues illuminate where the field of Affective Science is headed in coming years, highlighting exciting new directions for research. Many of the articles in the issues emphasized the importance of studying emotion regulation, and specifically, social emotion regulation. This commentary draws on these articles to argue that future research needs to more concretely focus on the aspects of social emotion regulation, which have been underexplored in affective science. Specifically, we discuss the importance of focusing on social goals, strategies and tactics, and outcomes relevant to social emotion regulation interactions, more closely considering these processes for all individuals involved. To do so, we draw on research from neighboring subdisciplines of psychology that have focused on the social aspects of interactions. Moreover, we underscore the need to better integrate components of the process model of social emotion regulation and approach empirical inquiry more holistically, in turn illuminating how piecemeal investigations of these processes might lead to an incomplete or incorrect understanding of social emotion regulation. We hope this commentary supplements the research in the special issues, further highlighting ways to advance the field.
《情感科学的未来》特刊阐明了情感科学领域在未来几年的发展方向，突出了令人兴奋的新研究方向。该特刊中的许多文章都强调了研究情绪调节，特别是社会情绪调节的重要性。本评论借鉴这些文章的观点，认为未来的研究需要更具体地关注社会情绪调节的各个方面，而这些方面在情感科学中尚未得到充分探索。具体而言，我们讨论了关注社会目标、策略和战术以及与社会情绪调节互动相关的结果的重要性，更密切地考虑所有相关个体的这些过程。为此，我们借鉴了心理学相邻子学科中关注互动社会方面的研究。此外，我们强调需要更好地整合社会情绪调节过程模型的各个组成部分，并更全面地进行实证研究，从而阐明对这些过程的零散研究可能如何导致对社会情绪调节的不完整或错误理解。我们希望本评论能补充特刊中的研究，进一步突出推动该领域发展的方法。
