Emotion Perception and Regulation

Scope: Recognition of emotional signals (face, voice, body), affective priming, cognitive reappraisal, expressive suppression, emotion regulation strategies.

Out of scope: Specific emotions as states (fear, happiness, disgust, anger, sadness — HED handles these as stimulus/state labels); affect as a trait; mood.

This category contains 5 processes.


Affective priming

Process ID: hed_affective_priming

Facilitation or interference in evaluating a target by a valence-related prime.

Tasks

The following tasks engage this process:

Fundamental references

  • Fazio, Sanbonmatsu, Powell & Kardes (1986) Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 50:229–238

Recent references

  • Herring, White, Jabeen, Hinojos, Terrell, Reyes, Schubert & Crites (2013) Psychological Bulletin 139:1062–1089


Cognitive reappraisal

Process ID: hed_cognitive_reappraisal

Reinterpretation of an emotional stimulus to change its affective impact.

Tasks

The following tasks engage this process:

Fundamental references

  • Gross (1998) Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 74:224–237

Recent references

  • Buhle, Silvers, Wager, Lopez, Onyemekwu, Kober, Weber & Ochsner (2014) Cerebral Cortex 24:2981–2990


Emotion recognition

Process ID: hed_emotion_recognition

Also known as: Emotion perception — Broader term; recognition is the operationalized form (identification of a named emotion category).

Identification of emotional states from cues such as facial expression or vocal prosody.

Tasks

The following tasks engage this process:

Fundamental references

  • Ekman & Friesen (1976) Pictures of Facial Affect


Emotion regulation

Process ID: hed_emotion_regulation

Processes by which individuals influence which emotions they have, when, and how they experience and express them.

Tasks

The following tasks engage this process:

Fundamental references

  • Gross (1998) Review of General Psychology 2:271–299


Expressive suppression

Process ID: hed_expressive_suppression

Inhibition of outward behavioral expression of emotion.

Tasks

The following tasks engage this process:

Fundamental references

  • Gross & Levenson (1993) Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 64:970–986