Book contents
- Heart to Heart
- Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction
- Heart to Heart
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 What’s at the Heart of Emotions?
- Chapter 2 Words and Concepts
- Chapter 3 Facial Activity and Emotion Expression
- Chapter 4 Explaining Emotional Influence
- Chapter 5 Regulating Emotions
- Chapter 6 Social Functions
- Chapter 7 Groups, Teams and Crowds
- Chapter 8 Working with Emotions
- Chapter 9 Reorientation
- References
- Index
- Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction
Chapter 5 - Regulating Emotions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 October 2019
- Heart to Heart
- Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction
- Heart to Heart
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 What’s at the Heart of Emotions?
- Chapter 2 Words and Concepts
- Chapter 3 Facial Activity and Emotion Expression
- Chapter 4 Explaining Emotional Influence
- Chapter 5 Regulating Emotions
- Chapter 6 Social Functions
- Chapter 7 Groups, Teams and Crowds
- Chapter 8 Working with Emotions
- Chapter 9 Reorientation
- References
- Index
- Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction
Summary
People often regulate their emotions when attempting to influence other people. For example, I may try to maintain calm about what is happening to avoid making you worried, or alternatively work up my anger or disappointment to make you worry more. In both these cases, regulation of my emotion serves to regulate your emotions. This chapter focuses on both intrapersonal and interpersonal emotion regulation and their intended and actual consequences. When two people try to regulate each other’s emotions at the same time, their emotions may converge or diverge, producing increasingly compatible orientations or escalating clashes of perspective. In some case of mutual regulation, interactants may successfully achieve regulatory effects that neither individual could have achieved separately.
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- Heart to HeartHow Your Emotions Affect Other People, pp. 194 - 214Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019