Psychological flexibility: What we know, what we do not know, and what we think we know

JD Doorley, FR Goodman, KC Kelso… - Social and …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Psychological flexibility is the tendency to respond to situations in ways that facilitate valued
goal pursuit. Psychological flexibility is particularly useful when challenges arise during goal …

What do we know about aging and emotion regulation?

DM Isaacowitz - Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2022‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Older adults report surprisingly positive affective experience. The idea that older adults are
better at emotion regulation has emerged as an intuitively appealing explanation for why …

Ecological momentary assessment: A meta-analysis on designs, samples, and compliance across research fields

C Wrzus, AB Neubauer - Assessment, 2023‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Ecological Momentary Assessments (ie, EMA, repeated assessments in daily life) are
widespread in many fields of psychology and related disciplines. Yet, little knowledge exists …

Face masks reduce emotion-recognition accuracy and perceived closeness

F Grundmann, K Epstude, S Scheibe - PloS one, 2021‏ - journals.plos.org
Face masks became the symbol of the global fight against the coronavirus. While face
masks' medical benefits are clear, little is known about their psychological consequences …

Integrating empathy and interpersonal emotion regulation

J Zaki - Annual review of psychology, 2020‏ - annualreviews.org
When individuals experience empathy, they often seek to bolster others' well-being. But
what do empathizers want others to feel? Though psychologists have studied empathy and …

Why do people regulate their emotions? A taxonomy of motives in emotion regulation

M Tamir - Personality and social psychology review, 2016‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Emotion regulation involves the pursuit of desired emotional states (ie, emotion goals) in the
service of superordinate motives. The nature and consequences of emotion regulation …

Emotion regulation strategy selection in daily life: The role of social context and goals

T English, IA Lee, OP John, JJ Gross - Motivation and emotion, 2017‏ - Springer
Recent studies have begun to document the diversity of ways people regulate their
emotions. However, one unanswered question is why people regulate their emotions as …

The distancing-embracing model of the enjoyment of negative emotions in art reception

W Menninghaus, V Wagner, J Hanich… - Behavioral and Brain …, 2017‏ - cambridge.org
Why are negative emotions so central in art reception far beyond tragedy? Revisiting
classical aesthetics in the light of recent psychological research, we present a novel model …

Agency and motivation in adulthood and old age

J Heckhausen, C Wrosch… - Annual review of …, 2019‏ - annualreviews.org
This review addresses conceptual and empirical research about how individual agency and
motivation influences development during adulthood and old age. The major life-span …

Emotion regulation is motivated.

M Tamir, A Vishkin, T Gutentag - Emotion, 2020‏ - psycnet.apa.org
Because emotion regulation is a motivated process, one must adopt a motivational
perspective to understand it. We build on the distinction between goal setting (ie, selecting …