How do people regulate feelings?
• We have found that people have hundreds of different strategies for influencing how they feel and how others feel. These strategies can be aimed at making themselves or others feel better or worse than they currently feel. For example, a carer who is feeling very happy might try to make herself feel more neutral in order to break difficult news.
• Affect regulation strategies can involve thoughts e.g., thinking about a situation differently, or behaviours e.g., doing something nice as a distraction.
• Sometimes people regulate their emotional expressions (face, tone and posture), rather than their feelings. For example, they may fake a smile, or suppress their anger.
• Affect regulation strategies can involve thoughts e.g., thinking about a situation differently, or behaviours e.g., doing something nice as a distraction.
• Sometimes people regulate their emotional expressions (face, tone and posture), rather than their feelings. For example, they may fake a smile, or suppress their anger.
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