ArticleAffective science2025
Cognitive Reappraisal is More Effective for Regulating Emotions than Moods.
Article in Affective science, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Childhood Trauma and Social Skills in Residential Care Youth: the Roles of Coping Strategies and Self-efficacy.Journal of child & adolescent trauma · 2026Article
- From executive control to social emotions: mediation analysis of theory of mind linking executive functions to envy but not Schadenfreude.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Physical activity and HRQoL among adolescents: the mediating roles of cognitive reappraisal and stress self-management.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
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Abstract
Cognitive reappraisal is one of the most commonly used and effective emotion regulation strategies. This is partly because reappraisal targets a key characteristic of emotion - namely, what an emotion is about (i.e., intentionality). It is commonly assumed that whereas emotions have intentionality because they are about something, mood states do not have intentionality because they are typically not about anything in particular. Given that reappraisal targets intentionality, and mood states theoretically lack intentionality, we hypothesized that reappraisal would be less effective in regulating moods than in regulating emotions. We tested this hypothesis in two studies, one in which we assessed naturally occurring experiences and regulation in daily life (Study 1, Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s42761-025-00310-3.
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