#3287. Smiling wont necessarily make you feel better: Response-focused emotion regulation strategies have little impact on cognitive, behavioural, physiological, and subjective outcomes

October 2026publication date
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Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous);
Clinical Psychology;
Psychiatry and Mental Health;
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology;
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Abstract:
Response-focused emotion regulation (RF-ER) strategies may alter peoples evoked emotions, influencing intrapersonal outcomes. Researchers have found that participants engaging in expressive suppression experience increased sympathetic nervous system arousal, affect, and lowered memory accuracy. It is unclear, however, whether all RF-ER strategies exert maladaptive effects. We recorded electrodermal activity and self-reported affect throughout and participants completed memory tasks after the picture task. The generalizability of our findings may be limited to young, undergraduate women. Engaging in ES or ED may not differentially impact outcomes among young, undergraduate women, shedding doubt on a conclusion in past literature that specific strategies are categorically adaptive or maladaptive.
Keywords:
Affect; Emotion regulation; Expressive dissonance; Expressive suppression; Memory; Psychophysiology

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