When Asking “Why” Does Not Hurt Distinguishing Rumination From Reflective Processing of Negative Emotions

By Ethan Kross, O. Ayduk, Walter Mischel. Psychology Science, 2005

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Event self-importance, event rehearsal, and the fading affect bias in autobiographical memory (2006, methodology): “Interestingly, one may be able to use merge the Kross et al. (2005) self-distancing/ self- immersion idea with Bryant’s (2003) savoring notion to account at least partially for the FAB.”
Seeing the Forest Beyond the Trees: A Construal-Level Approach to Self-Control (2008, result): “…of temporal discounting models by suggesting that psychological distance dimensions beyond time should have analogous effects, a claim supported by preliminary research findings (e.g., Kross et al., 2005; Libby et al., 2007; Principe & Zelazo, 1995; Pronin et al., 2008; Vohs & Heatherton, 2000).”
Listening to sad music in adverse situations: How music selection strategies relate to self-regulatory goals, listening effects, and mood enhancement (2015, background): “…found that “A why focus on emotions from a self-distanced perspective (distanced-why strategy) . . .” can enable “. . . ‘cool,’ reflective processing of emotions, in which individuals can focus on their experience without reactivating excessive ‘hot’ negative affect” (Kross et al., 2005, p. 709).”
Contagion of Entrepreneurial Passion: Effects on Employee Outcomes (2020, background): “We further propose that type 2 processing rationalizes and thus reduces the influence of the initial type 1 contagion effect (Kahneman, 2003; Kross et al., 2005) when emotional and identity displays are combined.”
Psychological Distance and Subjective Experience: How Distancing Reduces the Feeling of Difficulty (2012, unknown): “Our findings, along with the findings of Ayduk and Kross (2008) and Kross et al. (2005), suggest that psychological distance reduces negative feelings.”
History of Social Psychology: Insights, Challenges, and Contributions to Theory and Application (2010, background): “The dramatic effects shown in classic bystander intervention studies by Latané and Darley (1968) and Darley and Batson (1973) are cases in point.”
Self-Distancing: Theory, Research, and Current Directions (2017, background): “This shift in thought content, in turn, leads participants in the self-distanced group to report experiencing less distress (Kross & Ayduk, 2008; e.g., Kross et al., 2005; Mischowski et al., 2012; also see, Schartau, Dalgleish, & Dunn, 2009).”