background emotion regulation is a major and important incentive for substance abuse; in fact, substance abusers associate their abuse with the substance’s soothing nature. emotion regulation can be defined as the process, which enables individuals to regulate experiences and express emotions. objectives the goal of the current study was to evaluate the effectiveness of acceptance and commitmen...

Public opinion has a substantial impact on political actions. However, public opinion might be driven by temporary emotions. If these emotions cool off over time, public opinion might change as well. This paper analyses how emotions drive public opinion over time for the case of an environmental climate engineering technology, namely solar radiation management (SRM). SRM is a possible strategy ...

The present study aimed to understand the contributions of both the trait tendency to experience negative emotions and how one relates to such experience in predicting symptom change during participation in the Unified Protocol (UP), a transdiagnostic treatment for emotional disorders. Data were derived from a randomized controlled trial comparing the UP to a waitlist control/delayed-treatment ...

• Happy expressions signal more acceptance than other emotional expressions. • Angry expressions signal more rejection than other negative emotional expressions. • The predicted associations are reliable at presentation times of only 50 ms. • Effects are consistent across three conceptualizations of acceptance and rejection. • These findings help explain consequences of expressed emotions in dy...

Objective: to investigate how acceptance of illness affects chronic pain in terms of attention towards pain and fearful thinking of pain. Methods: 62 participants (50 women) with chronic pain carried a palmtop computer for two weeks. Eight times each day auditory signals were delivered to cue participants to complete questions about their experience. Results: Multilevel analyses indicated that ...

The relationship between a recipient's response to a disclosure of negative emotional experiences, and the resulting negative emotions, hesitation in self-disclosure (interpersonal and intra-personal hesitation), and negatively-confused thoughts of the person making the disclosure were investigated. Female undergraduates (N=271) were asked to write about angry or sad events in their interperson...

Clinically useful definitions of emotion regulation with respect to deliberate self-harm (referred to here as self-injury) focus on adaptive ways of responding to emotional distress rather than on the control of emotions or dampening of emotional arousal. According to one such definition, emotion regulation is a multifaceted construct involving a) the awareness, understanding, and acceptance of...