Emotional distress regulation takes precedence over impulse control: if you feel bad, do it!

By D. Tice, Ellen Bratslavsky, Roy F. Baumeister. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2001

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Emotion-based Dispositions to Rash Action: Positive and Negative Urgency (2008, neutral): “If one is born with a predisposition to experience emotional states in unusually intense ways (Larsen, Billings, & Cutler, 1996), one would tend to experience more occasions in which one is less able to take full advantage of one's cognitive resources than would other individuals (Muraven & Baumeist”
Lay Theories of Emotion Transience and the Search for Happiness: A Fresh Perspective on Affect Regulation (2009, neutral): “…hold only when people believe emotion is transient, whereas mood-repair views that posit that a negative (vs. a positive) mood increases immediate affect regulation (Tice et al. 2001) are likely to hold when people believe that emotion is lasting, unless actions are undertaken to improve feelings.”
Affect sensitivity and affect regulation in dealing with positive and negative affect (2007, background): “of “volitional strength” (e.g., Tice, Bratslavsky, & Baumeister, 2001 ), PSI theory diVerentiates the ability to reduce feelings of hopelessness and anxiety (i.e., self-relaxation) and to overcome feelings of listlessness (i.e., self-motivation).”
Education for sustainable development beyond attitude change (2009, background): “For instance, people who believe that they cannot influence their emotions are unlikely to engage in emotion regulation (e.g., Tice et al., 2001 ), even if they agree that emotional constraint is preferable.”
Violence restrained: Effects of self-regulation and its depletion on aggression (2007, neutral): “Sleep and negative aVect have likewise each been linked to both self-regulation failure and aggression (Averill, 1982; Hindelang, 1976; Hindelang, Gottfredson, & Garofalo, 1978; Parrott, Garnham, Wesnes, & Pincock, 1996; Rand, Klaus, & Taylor, 1983; Tice, Bratslavsky, & Baumeister, 2001 ).”
Behavioral Consequences of Affect: Combining Evaluative and Regulatory Mechanisms (2005, background): “Since past research has shown that affect regulation can produce strong effects on behavior (e.g., Tice et al. 2001; Zillmann 1988) even when there is no direct attempt to mitigate potential affect congruent effects (i.e., to shut down AE’s effect), it is assumed that AR can overcome the AE effects…”
Experiential Avoidance and Emotion Regulation in Borderline Personality Disorder (2011, background): “Indeed, an emerging line of research findings has suggested that, when people are emotionally distressed, they tend to focus their coping resources on eliminating distress (Muraven et al. 1998; Tice et al. 2001 ).”
Bikinis Instigate Generalized Impatience in Intertemporal Choice (2008, background): “Additionally, we have ruled out explanations in terms of mood/arousal (Mick and Faure 1998; Rook and Gardner 1993; Tice et al. 2001), presence of individuals (Luo 2005), attractiveness of female models (Wilson and Daly 2004), cognitive load (Hinson et al. 2003; Shiv and Fedorikhin 1999), mate…”
Mechanisms of Self-Control Failure: Motivation and Limited Resources (2003, background): “Despite these findings, one could argue that the exertion of self-control leads to negative moods or frustration (Leith & Baumeister, 1996; Tice et al., 2001), loss of self-efficacy (Bandura, 1997), learned helplessness (Seligman, 1975), or some other phenomenon that results in poorer performance.”