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Implicit emotional regulation strategy
Affect labeling is an implicit emotional regulation strategy that can be simply described as "putting feelings into words". Specifically, it refers to the idea that explicitly labeling one's, typically negative, emotional state results in a reduction of the conscious experience, physiological response, and/or behavior resulting from that emotional state. For example, writing about a negative experience in one's journal may improve one's mood. Some other examples of affect labeling include discussing one's feelings with a therapist, complaining to friends about a negative experience, posting one's feelings on social media or acknowledging the scary aspects of a situation. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Affect labelingA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Affect labeling: The role of timing and intensityInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Laws, etcThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Neural Correlates of Dispositional Mindfulness During Affect LabelingCited 602 times
- Go sideways: Mechanisms of mindfulness meditationA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Emotional self-regulationA closely related topic
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Neural Correlates of Dispositional Mindfulness During Affect Labeling
Putting Feelings Into Words: Affect Labeling as Implicit Emotion Regulation
Stem–loop RNA labeling can affect nuclear and cytoplasmic mRNA processing
Affect labeling enhances exposure effectiveness for public speaking anxiety
The common and distinct neural bases of affect labeling and reappraisal in healthy adults
How does fluorescent labeling affect the binding kinetics of proteins with intact cells?
Your emotion or mine: labeling feelings alters emotional face perception—an ERP study on automatic and intentional affect labeling
Advancing understanding of affect labeling with dynamic causal modeling
🆕 Influential since 2022
Affect labeling: The role of timing and intensity
Current and lasting effects of affect labeling on late positive potential (LPP) amplitudes elicited by negative events
Tasting and labeling meat substitute products can affect consumers’ product evaluations and preferences
Changes in neural activity during the combining affect labeling and reappraisal
Diminished negative emotion regulation through affect labeling and reappraisal: insights from functional near infrared spectroscopy on lateral prefrontal cortex activation
📚 Books worth reading
Laws, etcUnited States · 1789- 📕Tax administrationUnited States. General Accounting Office · 1986
Museum materialitiesSandra Dudley, Sandra H. Dudley · 2009
Celiac diseasePeter H. R. Green, Rory Jones · 2006- 📕Plant chemical genomicsGlenn R. Hicks, Stéphanie Robert · 2014
Taking sidesBrent D. Slife · 1996
Taking sidesEileen L. Daniel · 1993
Computational Visual MediaShi-Min Hu · 2012
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