Expressive suppression can effectively reduce negative emotions under specific conditions

Expressive suppression can effectively reduce negative emotions under specific conditions

Published in the Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, a new study reveals that expressive suppression reduces negative emotions at both experiential and expressive levels, challenging long standing assumptions about its ineffectiveness. Jessica L. Jones and colleagues investigated the experiential effects of expressive suppression, a strategy within the broader domain of emotion regulation. Emotion regulation refers to the processes by whic…