How and When Does Emotional Expression Help?

By E. Kennedy-Moore, J. Watson. 2001

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Philosophy

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It's not that bad: Social challenges to emotional disclosure enhance adjustment to stress (2004, background): “Kennedy-Moore and Watson (2001) have dubbed this reciprocal relation between emotional experience and emotional expression the ‘‘paradox of distress’’.”
The positive effect of expressing negative emotions on knowledge creation capability and performance of project teams (2016, background): “Emotional expression helps to communicate individuals' immediate and genuine responses to issues and events in the workplace (Weiss and Cropanzano, 1996), through verbal and nonverbal behaviors that represent internal feelings (Kennedy-Moore and Watson, 2001).”
We have emotions but can’t show them! Authoritarian leadership, emotion suppression climate, and team performance (2020, background): “It is difficult, even for individuals with a heightened sense of control, to perfectly manage or hide their emotions (Gross and John, 2003; Kennedy-Moore and Watson, 2001).”
The Importance of Being Flexible (2004, background): “There are times, however, when expressing emotion may be harmful (Gross & Munoz, 1995; Kennedy-Moore & Watson, 2001 ).”
Demystifying Men's Emotional Behavior: New Directions and Implications for Counseling and Research (2005, background): “However, expressing distressful emotions to a confidant might also threaten the expresser’s self-esteem by causing him or her to feel vulnerable ( Kennedy-Moore & Watson, 2001 ).”
Assessing emotion regulation repertoires: The Regulation of Emotion Systems Survey (2017, background): “Rather than simply being the opposite of Suppression, Engagement involves actively engaging with an emotion by amplifying expressive dynamics in order to moderate the emotional experience (Kennedy-Moore & Watson, 2001).”
The social consequences of expressive suppression. (2003, background): “Kennedy-Moore and Watson (2001) recently reviewed extensive evidence that expressing upsetting emotions can help reduce the intensity of those emotions, limit intrusive thoughts, and increase insight and a sense of meaning, thereby making the negative emotions less aversive.”
Sharing Tourism Experiences (2017, background): “…that simply recommending positive consumption experiences can boost consumers’ postevaluation satisfaction and future brand loyalty; they also found that the mental processes of sharing experiences provide extensive benefits that are derived from “letting it out” (Kennedy-Moore and Watson 2001).”
Relationship Quality and Virtuousness (2013, background): “Emotional expression refers to observable verbal and nonverbal behaviors that communicate or symbolize felt, internal emotional experience (Kennedy-Moore & Watson, 2001).”
The Politics of Emotion in Everyday Life: “Appropriate” Emotion and Claims on Identity (2005, background): “Kennedy-Moore and Watson (2001) discussed the paradox of expressing distress.”
Religiousness and depression: evidence for a main effect and the moderating influence of stressful life events. (2003, background): “*Klaas, D. (1998). Testing two elements of spirituality in depressed and nondepressed elders.”
The Interpersonal Dynamics of Emotion: Toward an Integrative Theory of Emotions as Social Information (2018, background): “Several studies have shown that expressions of sadness, worry, and fear can elicit sympathetic emotions in observers, which may in turn motivate supportive responses (Eisenberg et al., 1989; Kennedy-Moore & Watson, 2001).”