RETHINKING POSITIVE EMOTION REGULATION

Grant number: DE160100761 | Funding period: 2017 - 2019

Completed

Abstract

This project aims to explore and challenge assumptions about the ‘right way’ to regulate emotions, articulating a new theoretical perspective on appropriate expression and suppression of positive emotion. People generally assume there are social benefits to expressing positive emotion and social costs to suppressing positive emotion. This project introduces a new perspective on emotion regulation that recognises that different contexts may call for different strategies. The project plans to test whether the positive emotions we think bring us closer can actually worsen social relations, and whether suppressing positive emotion, long believed to have negative social effects, can bring people ..

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When Trust Goes Wrong: A Social Identity Model of Risk Taking

Tegan Cruwys, Katharine H Greenaway, Laura J Ferris, Joanne A Rathbone, Alexander K Saeri, Elyse Williams, Stacey L Parker, Melissa X-L Chang, Nicholas Croft, William Bingley, Laura Grace

2021-01-01

Risk taking is typically viewed through a lens of individual deficits (e.g., impulsivity) or normative influence (e.g., peer press..

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Social Identity Mapping Online

Sarah Bentley, Katharine H Greenaway, S Alexander Haslam, Tegan Cruwys, Niklas K Steffens, Catherine Haslam, Ben Cull

2020-02-01

Social identities play an important role in many aspects of life, not least in those pertaining to health and well-being. Decades ..

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Are "they" out to get me? A social identity model of paranoia

Katharine H Greenaway, S Alexander Haslam, William Bingley

2019-10-01

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The Source Model of Group Threat: Responding to Internal and External Threats

Katharine H Greenaway, Tegan Cruwys

2019-02-01

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Exploring Cultural Differences in the Extent to Which People Perceive and Desire Control

Matthew J Hornsey, Katharine H Greenaway, Emily A Harris, Paul G Bain

2019-01-01

In a seminal theory piece, Weisz and colleagues argued that control over one's environment was less attainable and desirable in Ja..

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The Intersection of Goals to Experience and Express Emotion

Katharine H Greenaway, Elise K Kalokerinos

2019-01-01

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Winners are grinners: Expressing authentic positive emotion enhances status in performance contexts

Katharine H Greenaway, Elise K Kalokerinos, Sean C Murphy, Thomas McIlroy

2018-09-01

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Context is Everything (in Emotion Research)

Katharine H Greenaway, Elise K Kalokerinos, Lisa A Williams

2018-06-01

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Do people turn to visible reminders of group identity under stress?

Katharine H Greenaway, Lara B Aknin

2018-04-01

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Context matters: Explicit and implicit reminders of ingroup privilege increase collective guilt among foreigners in a developing country

Katharine H Greenaway, Kylie Fisk, Nyla R Branscombe

2017-12-01

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Cognition in context: Social inclusion attenuates the psychological boundary between self and other

Sarah V Bentley, Katharine H Greenaway, S Alexander Haslam

2017-11-01

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Context Shapes Social Judgments of Positive Emotion Suppression and Expression

Elise K Kalokerinos, Katharine H Greenaway, James P Casey

2017-02-01

It is generally considered socially undesirable to suppress the expression of positive emotion. However, previous research has not..

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Suppress for success? Exploring the contexts in which expressing positive emotion can have social costs

Katharine H Greenaway, Elise K Kalokerinos

2017-01-01