Emotion regulation elicits cross-linguistically shared and language-specific forms of linguistic distancing
Kevin J. Holmes,
Lena Kassin,
Daniela Buchillon-Almeida
et al.
Abstract:Cognitively reappraising a stressful experience—reinterpreting the situation to blunt its emotional impact—is effective for regulating negative emotions. English speakers have been shown to engage in
linguistic distancing
when reappraising, spontaneously using words that are more abstract or impersonal. Across two preregistered studies (
N
= 299), we investigated whether such shifts in language use generalize to Spanish, a language proposed to offer unique tools fo… Show more
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