Tell the Participant: ‘You Are Very Angry.’ Then Wait. That's ‘Affect Labeling.’ And It Works.

Robert A. Creo

doi:10.1002/alt.21748

Affect Labeling Reduces Emotional Eating Behaviors among Female Undergraduates with Bulimic Tendencies : Comparisons with Cognitive Reappraisal and Psychological Education

The Korean Journal of Clinical Psychology ◽

10.15842/kjcp.2018.37.1.008 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 37 (1) ◽

pp. 91-103 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Seongin Lee ◽

Hyejeen Lee

Keyword(s):

Emotional Eating ◽

Eating Behaviors ◽

Cognitive Reappraisal ◽

Affect Labeling ◽

Psychological Education

Affect Labeling can Reduce Negative Emotions: Evidences from Autonomic Nervous Activity

Acta Psychologica Sinica ◽

10.3724/sp.j.1041.2013.00715 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 45 (7) ◽

pp. 715-724

Author(s):

Xuejun BAI ◽

Pengfei YUE

Keyword(s):

Negative Emotions ◽

Nervous Activity ◽

Autonomic Nervous Activity ◽

Affect Labeling ◽

Autonomic Nervous

Putting Feelings Into Words: Affect Labeling as Implicit Emotion Regulation

Emotion Review ◽

10.1177/1754073917742706 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 116-124 ◽

Cited By ~ 43

Author(s):

Jared B. Torre ◽

Matthew D. Lieberman

Keyword(s):

Emotion Regulation ◽

Regulatory Process ◽

Emotional Experiences ◽

Affect Labeling ◽

Implicit Emotion Regulation

Putting feelings into words, or “affect labeling,” can attenuate our emotional experiences. However, unlike explicit emotion regulation techniques, affect labeling may not even feel like a regulatory process as it occurs. Nevertheless, research investigating affect labeling has found it produces a pattern of effects like those seen during explicit emotion regulation, suggesting affect labeling is a form of implicit emotion regulation. In this review, we will outline research on affect labeling, comparing it to reappraisal, a form of explicit emotion regulation, along four major domains of effects—experiential, autonomic, neural, and behavioral—that establish it as a form of implicit emotion regulation. This review will then speculate on possible mechanisms driving affect labeling effects and other remaining unanswered questions.

Deficits in Degraded Facial Affect Labeling in Schizophrenia and Borderline Personality Disorder

PLoS ONE ◽

10.1371/journal.pone.0154145 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 11 (6) ◽

pp. e0154145 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Annemiek van Dijke ◽

Mascha van ‘t Wout ◽

Julian D. Ford ◽

André Aleman

Keyword(s):

Borderline Personality Disorder ◽

Personality Disorder ◽

Borderline Personality ◽

Facial Affect ◽

Affect Labeling

Effects of Affctive Ambiguity on Emotion Regulation through Affect Labeling

10.31234/osf.io/45rdu ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Miyu Matsuguma ◽

Mariko Shirai ◽

Makoto Miyatani ◽

Takashi Nakao

Keyword(s):

Emotion Regulation ◽

Facial Expressions ◽

Skin Conductance ◽

Skin Conductance Level ◽

Stimulus Presentation ◽

Future Research ◽

Emotional States ◽

Affect Labeling ◽

Emotion Word ◽

Skin Conductance Responses

Putting feelings into words, called affect labeling, has been shown to attenuate emotional responses. However, labeling ambiguous emotional states may reduce the emotion regulation effect because it is difficult to categorize such feelings. Conversely, it may prove more effective by reducing feelings of uncertainty. The current study aimed to investigate how affect labeling in affective ambiguity influences emotion regulation effects on the subjective intensity of feelings, skin conductance level, and skin conductance response. Participants were asked to rate the intensity of their feelings after being presented with images of clear facial expressions for the prototypical condition and morphed facial expressions for the ambiguous condition. In addition, participants assigned to the labeling group selected the emotion word that best matched their own feelings during the stimulus presentation. As a result, affect labeling increased skin conductance responses during presentation only in the prototypical condition, suggesting the possibility of different effects according to affective ambiguity. However, both subjective and physiological responses did not decline, contrary to previous research. We discuss the consequences and the experimental characteristics, and propose a direction for future research.

Let's talk about feelings: Differential consequences of four methods of affect labeling

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e514472015-569 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Ida Jane Griesemer ◽

Erik Nook ◽

Ajay Satpute ◽

Rivka Friedlander ◽

Kevin Ochsner

Keyword(s):

Affect Labeling

Affect labeling in the age of social media

Nature Human Behaviour ◽

10.1038/s41562-018-0487-0 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 20-21 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Matthew D. Lieberman

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Affect Labeling

Foreign Language Processing Undermines Affect Labeling

Affective Science ◽

10.1007/s42761-021-00039-9 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Marc-Lluís Vives ◽

Víctor Costumero ◽

César Ávila ◽

Albert Costa

Keyword(s):

Foreign Language ◽

Language Processing ◽

Affect Labeling

Impaired facial affect labeling and discrimination in patients with deficit syndrome schizophrenia

Schizophrenia Research ◽

10.1016/j.schres.2010.01.016 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 118 (1-3) ◽

pp. 146-153 ◽

Cited By ~ 38

Author(s):

Gregory P. Strauss ◽

Shaida S. Jetha ◽

Sylvia A. Ross ◽

Lisa A. Duke ◽

Daniel N. Allen

Keyword(s):

Facial Affect ◽

Affect Labeling ◽

Deficit Syndrome

Healing Words: Using Affect Labeling to Reduce the Effects of Unpleasant Cues on Symptom Reporting in IBS Patients

International Journal of Behavioral Medicine ◽

10.1007/s12529-014-9449-8 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 22 (4) ◽

pp. 512-520 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Elena Constantinou ◽

Katleen Bogaerts ◽

Lukas Van Oudenhove ◽

Jan Tack ◽

Ilse Van Diest ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Symptom Reporting ◽

Affect Labeling