Why Do People Regulate Their Emotions? A Taxonomy of Motives in Emotion Regulation

By Maya Tamir. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2016

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Negative emotionality and aggression in violent offenders: The moderating role of emotion dysregulation (2017, background): “…to disengage from self-awareness (including emotional awareness), and focus on immediate or short-term considerations that can either be hedonic (i.e., feel better, or numbing the negative emotional experience) or instrumental (i.e., getting revenge) (Baumeister et al., 1994; see also Tamir, 2016).”
New Directions in Self-Regulation: The Role of Metamotivational Beliefs (2018, neutral): “In particular, they have focused on how people effectively manage their goals by regulating their thoughts (Flavell, 1979), emotions (Tamir, 2016), and behaviors (Carver & Scheier, 1998).”
The Role of Empathy and Compassion in Conflict Resolution (2019, background): “The motivation to feel an emotion can stem from the hedonic desire to feel good or from the desire to feel emotions that may serve the attainment of goals, such as the motivation to feel anger in order to win a negotiation (Tamir, 2009, 2015).”
A Taxonomy of Knowledge Gaps for Wikimedia Projects (First Draft) (2020, methodology): “for emotions, clustering algorithms, or educational objectives) [16, 33, 156], we will use this term to define the final product of our work throughout the manuscript.”
Beyond good and bad: Challenging the suggested role of emotions in customer experience (CX) research (2020, neutral): “Emotion goals occur when there is a discrepancy between a current and desired state, and this differs from emotion regulation strategies (Tamir, 2016).”
Transcending the “good & bad” and “here & now” in emotion regulation: Costs and benefits of strategies across regulatory stages (2020, background): “A further recent study shed light on conservatives’ engagement meaning change selection patterns (Cohen, Pliskin, & Halperin, 2019).”