title: Emotion regulation and memory: the cognitive costs of keeping one's cool.
abstract: An emerging literature has begun to document the affective consequences of emotion regulation. Little is known, however, about whether emotion regulation also has cognitive consequences. A process model of emotion suggests that expressive suppression should reduce memory for emotional events but that reappraisal should not. Three studies tested this hypothesis. Study 1 experimentally manipulated expressive suppression during film viewing, showing that suppression led to poorer memory for the details of the film. Study 2 manipulated expressive suppression and reappraisal during slide viewing. Only suppression led to poorer slide memory. Study 3 examined individual differences in typical expressive suppression and reappraisal and found that suppression was associated with poorer self-reported and objective memory but that reappraisal was not. Together, these studies suggest that the cognitive costs of keeping one's cool may vary according to how this is done.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Stanford University, USA. jane2000@u.washington.edu
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Richards
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Gross
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D003071:Cognition; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D012094:Repression, Psychology