Making Meaning out of Negative Experiences by Self-Distancing

By Ethan Kross, O. Ayduk. 2011

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Literature and Literary Theory

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RESILIENCE TRAINING THAT CAN CHANGE THE BRAIN (2018, background): “Selfdistancing, for example by reinterpreting the negative experience as if it had happened to a friend, can also help reduce rumination (see Kross & Ayduk, 2011; Nolen-Hoeksema et al., 2008; Wisco & Nolen-Hoeksema, 2010).”
Improving Acute Stress Responses (2013, positive): “In other words, emotionally charged stimuli are presented, and participants are instructed to reinterpret the stimuli (e.g., “The images are fake”) or distance themselves from the stimuli (e.g., by adopting a third-person perspective; Kross & Ayduk, 2011; Ochsner & Gross, 2008).”
Interacting with Nature Improves Cognition and Affect for Individuals with Depression (2012, positive): “Alternatively, recent studies have demonstrated that people can reflect upon negative experiences either adaptively or maladaptively (Aldao and Nolen-Hoeksema, 2010; Kross and Ayduk, 2011).”
A social mindfulness approach to understanding experienced customer mistreatment: A within-person field experiment (2017, background): “To this end, Hargrove, Winslow, and Kaplan (2013) summarized various exercises that can be used to promote service employees’ emotion regulation, including self-distancing (Kross & Ayduk, 2011) and mindfulness (Erisman & Roemer, 2010) activities.”
Math Anxiety: Past Research, Promising Interventions, and a New Interpretation Framework (2018, background): “…recently we have seen an application of appraisal theory toward the interpretation of more commonplace stress (Blascovich & Mendes, 2010; Jamieson, Mendes, & Nock, 2013), health (Idler & Kasl, 1991; Kaplan & Camacho, 1983), and broad emotion regulation (Kross & Ayduk, 2011; Ochsner & Gross, 2008).”
Unpacking Emotion Differentiation (2015, background): “…feelings and bodily sensations arise, instead of letting these experiences dominate attention or dictate how to behave, high differentiators are better able to distance themselves (a concept referred to as defusion, Hayes, Strosahl, & Wilson, 1999, or self-distancing, Kross & Ayduk, 2011).”
A meta-analysis of correlations between depression and first person singular pronoun use (2017, methodology): “In terms of treatment, this metaanalysis provides confidence in the estimate of the effect size, such that cutting edge research on linguistic strategies to cope with depression are more informed (Kross & Ayduk, 2008, 2011; Kross et al., 2014; Zimmermann et al., 2016).”
Emotion Regulation: Current Status and Future Prospects (2015, positive): “…to no regulation, reappraisal leads to decreased levels of negative emotion experience (Feinberg, Willer, Antonenko, & John, 2012; Gross, 1998a; Kross & Ayduk, 2011; Lieberman, Inagaki, Tabibnia, & Crockett, 2011; Ray, McRae, Ochsner, & Gross, 2010; Szasz, Szentagotai, & Hofmann, 2011;…”
Mindfulness Broadens Awareness and Builds Eudaimonic Meaning: A Process Model of Mindful Positive Emotion Regulation (2015, background): “…proliferation, mindful attention is thought to extinguish habitual negative reactions (Bishop et al., 2004) – a primarily eliminative account that accords with a substantial literature on the regulatory benefits of psychological distance in the face of negative experience (Kross & Ayduk, 2011).”