文档介绍：EMOTION REGULATION IN EVERYDAY LIFE 1
Gross, ., Richards, ., & John, . (in press). Emotion
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Emotion Regulation in Everyday Life
James J. Gross
Stanford University
Jane M. Richards
University of Texas at Austin
Oliver P. John
University of California, Berkeley
Address correspondence to James Gross, Department of Psychology, Stanford University,
Stanford, CA 94305-2130. Email: ******@; Phone: 650-723-1281.
Website: /~psyphy/. This research was supported by NIH
Grant MH58147. The authors would like to thank Shane Dizon, Mimy Eng, Lisa Feldman
Barrett, Robert Levenson, Melissa Mueller, Jon Rottenberg, Hilary Stamper, Christy Telch,
Jeanne Tsai, and Shirley Wang for their help with this research.
EMOTION REGULATION IN EVERYDAY LIFE 2
Sometimes, our emotions lead us to do the oddest things. Grown men pull over so they
can brawl over which driver is the bigger idiot. Parents lose their cool and bark hateful things at
their children that they later regret. Adolescents who were best friends before a jealous spat vow
never to speak again. And children tantrum as if on cue at the supermarket candy display.
Moments such as these are reminders of the fundamental role that emotion regulation
plays in civilized life. Emotions can be helpful, providing crucial information about the state of
our interactions with the world (Clore, 1994) or speeding our responses in life-threatening
situations (Frijda, 1986). However, we frequently experience strong emotions that need to be
managed if we are to keep our appointments, careers, and friendships. Indeed, essful
emotion regulation is a prerequisite for adaptive functioning. To get along with others, we must
be