Putting feelings into words, or “affect labeling,” can attenuate our emotional experiences.
However, unlike explicit emotion regulation techniques, affect labeling may not even feel like …

Expertise refers to outstanding skill or ability in a particular domain. In the domain of
emotion, expertise refers to the observation that some people are better at a range of …

Why are negative emotions so central in art reception far beyond tragedy? Revisiting
classical aesthetics in the light of recent psychological research, we present a novel model …

Emotion differentiation, which involves experiencing and labeling emotions in a granular
way, has been linked with well-being. It has been theorized that differentiating between …

Behavioral dysregulation that may manifest as the use of maladaptive behaviors aimed at
regulating or avoiding distress, despite potential negative health consequences, is central to …

Despite widespread assumptions that emoji represent emotions, research findings show that
we do not process emoji in a way which we would expect for emotional stimuli. As such, we …

Research has shown that how well people can differentiate between different emotional
states is an essential requirement for adaptive emotion regulation. People with low levels of …

Emotion differentiation, the ability to make fine-grained distinctions between emotional
states, has mainly been studied as a trait. In this research, we examine within-person …

Emotion differentiation captures the detail with which people describe their emotional
experiences. A compelling body of research has linked low and negative emotion …

Previous research has found that individuals vary greatly in emotion differentiation, that is,
the extent to which they distinguish between different emotions when reporting on their own …