What Do People Want to Feel and Why? : Pleasure and Utility in Emotion Regulation  

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Tamir, Maya

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Current Directions in Psychological Science vol. 18 no. 02 (Apr. 2009), page 101-105.
Topik: Emotion Regulation; Self-Regulation; Emotion; Motivation
Fulltext: 08. What Do People Want to Feel and Why - Pleasure and Utility in Emotion Regulation.pdf (120.94KB)

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It is typically assumed that people always want to feel good. Recent evidence, however, demonstrates that people want to feel unpleasant emotions, such as anger or fear, when these emotions promote the attainment of their long-term goals. If emotions are regulated for instrumental reasons, people should want to feel pleasant emotions when immediate benefits outweigh future benefits, but when future benefits outweigh immediate benefits, people may refer to feel useful emotions, even if they are unpleasant. In this article, I describe an instrumental account of emotion regulation, review empirical evidence relevant to it, and discuss its implications for promoting adaptive emotional experiences.

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