PSYC201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Social Emotions, Ambivalence, Headache
2 Jun 2018
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Lecture 11: Emotion Regulation and Reflecting Feelings –
Emotion Regulation
• We receive little training in how to manage and feed back emotions
• “The processes by which individuals influence which emotions they have,
when they have them and how they experience and express these emotions”
(Gross, 1998)
• Can be automatic or controlled
• Can be conscious or unconscious
• Can be effective at various points in the emotion generative process
Model of emotion generation - Gross (1998)
• Emotional response tendencies
o Behavioural (e.g. flight or fight – what we do in response)
o Experiential (e.g. the experience of being angry)
o Physiological
• We have particular emotional cues, this influences the emotional response that
you have
• We evaluate our emotional responses (judgements) and modulate/change the
way we react to the emotion
Family of origin –
• Our family of origin plays an important role in the development of emotion
regulation
• Individuals often repeat the patterns of childhood
• May be helpful or not so helpful
• Parents model emotions to child, can influence emotion regulation via good
parenting (parents are sensitive, pick up emotional cues and reflect them back)
How to people deal with emotions?
• Lack of emotional awareness – ‘what emotion? I’m totally fine’
• Lack of emotional clarity – ‘I’m not upset! I just have a headache’
• Difficulties controlling impulses – ‘you are a …!’ yelling, throwing things etc.
• Extreme distress and escalation – ‘It hurts too much, I can’t stand this, I will
never stop crying’
• Difficulties engaging in goal directed behaviour when distressed – ‘I can’t
focus! I couldn’t make it to uni today’
• Avoidance of emotion – ‘where is that glass of wine? I’m too busy to think
about it’
• Non-acceptance of emotions – ‘I feel guilty for feeling this way. I shouldn’t be
angry’
• Overanalysing and problem solving – ‘What are all the reasons I feel this
way? What are all the solutions to my problems?’
Common themes:
• Emotions judged as right or wrong
• Idea that emotions are awful, bad and we cannot stand them
• We need to get rid of unpleasant emotions in some way
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Document Summary
Lecture 11: emotion regulation and reflecting feelings . Family of origin : our family of origin plays an important role in the development of emotion regulation. Individuals often repeat the patterns of childhood: may be helpful or not so helpful, parents model emotions to child, can influence emotion regulation via good parenting (parents are sensitive, pick up emotional cues and reflect them back) I"m totally fine": lack of emotional clarity i"m not upset! I"m too busy to think: non-acceptance of emotions i feel guilty for feeling this way. What are all the solutions to my problems?". Common themes: emotions judged as right or wrong, we need to get rid of unpleasant emotions in some way. Idea that emotions are awful, bad and we cannot stand them. Vs: emotions are not good or bad there is no right or wrong, the emotion is already there, emotions are just feelings they come and go.
