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All in the mind's eye? Anger rumination and reappraisal
Ray, R. D., Wilhelm, F. H., & Gross, J. J. (2008). All in the mind's eye? Anger rumination and reappraisal.
Level B Experiment doi:10.1037/0022-3514.94.1.133
What this study supports
Supports the claim that, relative to reappraisal, rumination led to greater anger experience, more cognitive perseveration and greater sympathetic activation. Short-term laboratory outcomes.
- Who was studied
- Two laboratory studies in which participants recalled a recent anger-provoking event and ruminated or reappraised; the abstract does not state the sample sizes.
- Design
- Experiment
- Level of evidence
- Controlled studies: randomised or experimental designs, and syntheses of correlational work.
Claims that rest on it
Each claim states what the site asserts, at what strength, and with what caveat.
EmpiricalLevel BConfidence MODERATE
Relative to reappraisal, ruminating on an anger-provoking event led to greater anger experience, more cognitive perseveration and greater sympathetic activation, and angry rumination is described as a risk factor for aggression that temporarily reduces self-control.
- Scope
- Laboratory recall of anger-provoking events and a theoretical synthesis.
- Caveat
- Short-term laboratory outcomes; the self-control account comes from a theoretical model.
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