“…In contrast, suppression of emotion experience, referring to the downregulation of feelings (Webb et al, 2012), is likely a maladaptive strategy, because mothers who suppress their emotions would not fully experience the rewarding effects of infant laughing. There is experimental evidence that enhancement intensifies positive emotion experience (Karreman, Laceulle, Hanser, & Vingerhoets, 2017;Moutsiana et al, 2014), whereas suppression diminishes emotional experience (Ohira et al, 2006; although not confirmed by other studies : Hofmann, Rauch, & Gawronski, 2007;Karreman et al, 2017). Most previous experimental research focused on enhancement and suppression of emotion expression (e.g., showing as much as you can vs. not showing visible signs of your feelings) instead of emotion experience (e.g., giving in to vs. not paying attention to your feelings) (e.g., Bonanno, Papa, Lalande, Westphal, & Coifman, 2004;Gyurak, Goodkind, Kramer, Miller, & Levenson, 2012).…”