The Influence of Emotion Regulation on Social Interactive Decision-Making

Although adequate emotion regulation is considered to be essential in every day life, it is especially important in social interactions. However, the question as to what extent two different regulation strategies are effective in changing decision-making in a consequential socially interactive conte...

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Published in:Emotion (Washington, D.C.) D.C.), 2010-12, Vol.10 (6), p.815-821
Main Authors: van't Wout, Mascha, Chang, Luke J, Sanfey, Alan G
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Affectivity. Emotion
Biological and medical sciences
Cognition. Intelligence
Decision Making
Decision making. Choice
Emotional Regulation
Emotions
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Human
Humans
Interpersonal Relations
Male
Personality. Affectivity
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Repression, Psychology
Social Interaction
Social interactions. Communication. Group processes
Social psychology
Strategies
Young Adult
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Summary:Although adequate emotion regulation is considered to be essential in every day life, it is especially important in social interactions. However, the question as to what extent two different regulation strategies are effective in changing decision-making in a consequential socially interactive context remains unanswered. We investigated the effect of expressive suppression and emotional reappraisal on strategic decision-making in a social interactive task, that is, the Ultimatum Game. As hypothesized, participants in the emotional reappraisal condition accepted unfair offers more often than participants in the suppression and no-regulation condition. Additionally, the effect of emotional reappraisal influenced the amount of money participants proposed during a second interaction with partners that had treated them unfairly in a previous interaction. These results support and extend previous findings that emotional reappraisal as compared to expressive suppression, is a powerful regulation strategy that influences and changes how we interact with others even in the face of inequity.
ISSN:1528-3542
1931-1516
DOI:10.1037/a0020069