The emerging field of emotion regulation studies how individuals influence which emotions they have, when they have them, and how they experience and express them. This review takes an evolutionary perspective and characterizes emotion in terms of response tendencies. Emotion regulation is defined and distinguished from coping, mood regulation, defense, and affect regulation. In the…
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Review of General Psychology is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Cultural Differences and Values, Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology, Social and Intergroup Psychology.
| Publisher | SAGE |
|---|---|
| Reference style | Author–year (Harvard) Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Review of General Psychology, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | Cultural Differences and Values Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology Social and Intergroup Psychology Social Representations and Identity Behavioral Health and Interventions |
| ISSN | 1089-2680 |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 3.65 |
| h-index | 159 |
| i10-index | 697 |
| Total citations | 134,064 |
| Top institutions publishing here | University of Toronto |
| Journal website | journals.sagepub.com |
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The greater power of bad events over good ones is found in everyday events, major life events (e.g., trauma), close relationship outcomes, social network patterns, interpersonal interactions, and learning processes. Bad emotions, bad parents, and bad feedback have more impact than good ones, and bad information is processed more thoroughly than good. The self is…
Confirmation bias, as the term is typically used in the psychological literature, connotes the seeking or interpreting of evidence in ways that are partial to existing beliefs, expectations, or a hypothesis in hand. The author reviews evidence of such a bias in a variety of guises and gives examples of its operation in several practical…
This article opens by noting that positive emotions do not fit existing models of emotions. Consequently, a new model is advanced to describe the form and function of a subset of positive emotions, including joy, interest, contentment, and love. This new model posits that these positive emotions serve to broaden an individual's momentary thought-action repertoire,…
Psychology has increasingly turned to the study of psychosocial resources in the examination of well-being. How resources are being studied and resource models that have been proffered are considered, and an attempt is made to examine elements that bridge across models. As resource models span health, community, cognitive, and clinical psychology, the question is raised…