Effects Of Different Ways Of Emotion Regulation On Memory

This paper focuses its attention on the research of the relationship betweenemotion regulation and cognition, which is a hot issue in recent years. Setting outfrom the different ways of emotion regulation, with memory as an importantcognitive way, it probes into how the antecedent-focused emotion regulation andresponse-focused emotion regulation, decreased emotion regulation and increasedemotion regulation affect memory systematically by two experiments. The memoryinvestigates in this research is the incidental memory during emotion regulation andwe label it in two major index: memory and memory-estimate (metamemory),memory includes visual memory and auditory memory, and metamemory includesvisual metamemory and auditory metamemory. The result reveals that: (1)Reappraisal and rumination have no impact on memory; expressive suppression andexpressive revealing have prominent effects on memory as expressive suppressionaffects auditory memory and expressive revealing affects both visual and auditorymemory. (2) Reappraisal, rumination and expressive revealing have no impact onmetamemory; expressive suppression has prominent impact on metamemory as itaffects auditory metamemory. (3) There is neither sexual nor specialty difference inthe impacts that different emotion regulation ways have on memory. (4) There is nosexual but specialty difference in the impacts that different emotion regulation wayshave on metamemory, and we found that the science students'total score ofmetamemory is higher than the arts students.