How emotions facilitate and impair self-regulation

By Roy F. Baumeister, Anne L. Zell, D. Tice. 2007

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The Impact of Developing Social Perspective-taking Skills on Emotionality in Middle and Late Childhood (2011, background): “Previous research indicates that strong emotional responses may interfere with cognitive activity and that absent or weak emotional responses may fail to stimulate cognitions that are essential for effective self-regulation (Baumeister et al., 2007).”
Can employees be emotionally drained by witnessing unpleasant interactions between coworkers? A diary study of induced emotion regulation (2012, background): “It has been suggested that positive emotions may even recharge depleted resources (Baumeister et al., 2007), although regulating extreme positive emotions can also be draining (e.g., controlling tears of joy).”
Entrepreneurs' dispositional positive affect: The potential benefits – and potential costs – of being “up” (2012, background): “These mechanisms are likely to be complex (Baum et al., 2001), and to involve a wide range of mediating variables, including several aspects of self-regulation discussed previously (Baumeister et al., 2007b; Mischel, 1996; Peake et al., 2002).”