Physiological and cognitive consequences of suppressing and expressing emotion in dyadic interactions

Recent innovations in the field of interpersonal emotion regulation

“…Although interpersonal processes are closely linked with ER [1][2][3][4][5][6][7], most of the ER literature to date has focused on intrapersonal processes [8]. This stands in contrast to the fact that we are embedded within interpersonal networks; thus, most of the emotional stressors humans encounter are interpersonal in nature [1], and people may turn to numerous interpersonal strategies to manage their own and others' emotional experiences [10].…”

“…Emotions are most often [1], and most potently [2], elicited in social contexts, and social contexts influence ER strategy selection [3,4]. Furthermore, the use of intrapersonal strategies has social consequences [5][6][7]. For instance, compared with reappraisal, intrapersonal emotional expressive suppression leads to greater negative affect and heightened arousal in a conversation partner [5,6] and decreased memory of conversational utterances [7].…”

“…Furthermore, the use of intrapersonal strategies has social consequences [5][6][7]. For instance, compared with reappraisal, intrapersonal emotional expressive suppression leads to greater negative affect and heightened arousal in a conversation partner [5,6] and decreased memory of conversational utterances [7]. Although prevailing ER frameworks emphasize the relevance [1] and even central role [8] of interpersonal processes, the surge in ER research in the 1990s and 2000s focused predominantly on intrapersonal processes [8].…”

Psychophysiological Effects of Downregulating Negative Emotions: Insights From a Meta-Analysis of Healthy Adults

“…Figure 2 illustrates that there were a number of measures not included as too few studies were available. For example, measures of cardiac function that can be derived via impedance cardiography have received scant attention in the previous literature but provide promising results: Studies have shown that emotion regulation changed total peripheral resistance with medium to large effect sizes (Jamieson et al, 2012(Jamieson et al, , 2013Peters et al, 2014;Peters and Jamieson, 2016).…”

“…Of those, n = 68 entered our quantitative synthesis (for an overview see Table 3). The remaining 10 studies (Delgado et al, 2008;Driscoll et al, 2009;Jamieson et al, 2012Jamieson et al, , 2013Peters et al, 2014;Baur et al, 2015;Reinecke et al, 2015;Peters and Jamieson, 2016;Zaehringer et al, 2018;Kotwas et al, 2019) were not considered, as a meta-analysis on the respective combination of emotion regulation strategy and psychophysiological measure was not possible because the number of studies was too small. See Figure 1 for a PRISMA flowchart depiction of the screening and selection of studies.…”