“…Taken together, emotion regulation researchers tend to conclude that the advantages of negative emotion expression outweigh its disadvantages (Graham et al, 2008;Gross, 2014). This reasoning is also popular in folk (Rodriguez, 2013) and clinical (Kennedy-Moore & Watson, 2001) discourse. Here, we suggest that the picture remains incomplete without also considering the consequences of negative emotion expression for the wider society of the expresser.…”