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J Pers Soc Psychol. 2008 Dec;95(6):1526-40.Click here to read Links
Working memory capacity and the self-regulation of emotional expression and experience.
Schmeichel BJ, Volokhov RN, Demaree HA.
Department of Psychology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-4235, USA. schmeichel@tamu.edu
This research examined the relationship between individual differences in working memory capacity and the self-regulation of emotional expression and emotional experience. Four studies revealed that people higher in working memory capacity suppressed expressions of negative emotion (Study 1) and positive emotion (Study 2) better than did people lower in working memory capacity. Furthermore, compared to people lower in working memory capacity, people higher in capacity more capably appraised emotional stimuli in an unemotional manner and thereby experienced (Studies 3 and 4) and expressed (Study 4) less emotion in response to those stimuli. These findings indicate that cognitive ability contributes to the control of emotional responding.
Working memory capacity and the self-regulation of emotional expression and experience.
Schmeichel BJ, Volokhov RN, Demaree HA.
Department of Psychology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-4235, USA. schmeichel@tamu.edu
This research examined the relationship between individual differences in working memory capacity and the self-regulation of emotional expression and emotional experience. Four studies revealed that people higher in working memory capacity suppressed expressions of negative emotion (Study 1) and positive emotion (Study 2) better than did people lower in working memory capacity. Furthermore, compared to people lower in working memory capacity, people higher in capacity more capably appraised emotional stimuli in an unemotional manner and thereby experienced (Studies 3 and 4) and expressed (Study 4) less emotion in response to those stimuli. These findings indicate that cognitive ability contributes to the control of emotional responding.
medicalstudent | 3 years ago
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If I may wax esoteric on this a little bit, there's precedent in occult, Gnostic, and Hermetic philosophy that, I think, serve to validate the idea that those frameworks were really metaphorical methods of doing just what we're doing here with cognitive fun.
For example, The Kybalion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kybalion, full text online around about) was published in 1912 and claims to be the first documentation of secret Hermetic philosophy in thousands of years... more likely a result of a late 19th-cent. New Thought interpretation of such, but whatever. In there it describes methods of mental conjuring and development alongside the conscious restructuring of mood and control of emotion. It's a fascinating read and holds some real nuggets of wisdom of how best to utilize your greater cognitive power.
Imagine this alongside Aleister Crowley, who said in 'Magick Without Tears' that the study of the Qabbalah was the best training for memory, and who also wrote this bizarre and brilliant piece of occult esoterica:
http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib536.html
In which he describes a form of basic subitizing... he also goes on about the formation of mood around will, as an expansion of these skills and techniques.
IMHO, this is just science getting around to what mystics of gnosis (that is to say, those who merged the spiritual principal with the improvement of the self and mind) knew all along about the mastery of the individual and the completeness of the human mind through its self-conscious development and control.
For example, The Kybalion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kybalion, full text online around about) was published in 1912 and claims to be the first documentation of secret Hermetic philosophy in thousands of years... more likely a result of a late 19th-cent. New Thought interpretation of such, but whatever. In there it describes methods of mental conjuring and development alongside the conscious restructuring of mood and control of emotion. It's a fascinating read and holds some real nuggets of wisdom of how best to utilize your greater cognitive power.
Imagine this alongside Aleister Crowley, who said in 'Magick Without Tears' that the study of the Qabbalah was the best training for memory, and who also wrote this bizarre and brilliant piece of occult esoterica:
http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib536.html
In which he describes a form of basic subitizing... he also goes on about the formation of mood around will, as an expansion of these skills and techniques.
IMHO, this is just science getting around to what mystics of gnosis (that is to say, those who merged the spiritual principal with the improvement of the self and mind) knew all along about the mastery of the individual and the completeness of the human mind through its self-conscious development and control.
bizarrojenkz | 3 years ago
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Without reading the paper, this seems to be a case of executive control. You could also make the case for high WMC subjects exhibiting less impulsive tendencies. The relevance of Autism is also a possible line of attack... but... I should read the paper :)
cognitivefun | 3 years ago
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Many of my friends exhibit tendencies that could be read as symptomatic of aspergers but, in my opinion, have more to do with high intelligence.
Given a high working memory capacity, people may use it to suppress emotional expression more often than enhance it. The greater expressiveness of lower WMC subjects is an unavoidable consequence of emotional incontinence!
Given a high working memory capacity, people may use it to suppress emotional expression more often than enhance it. The greater expressiveness of lower WMC subjects is an unavoidable consequence of emotional incontinence!
cevapcici | 3 years ago
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this study is quite interesting.
how could the reluctance of emotional expression contribute to the social interaction and, more specifically, to the nature of relationship formation between +WMC subjects and others?
how could the reluctance of emotional expression contribute to the social interaction and, more specifically, to the nature of relationship formation between +WMC subjects and others?
medicalstudent | 3 years ago
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LaGrange123 | 3 years ago
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interesting interpretation, i would agree.
which is more mature, love or sex?
(before you respond with "love"...appreciate that it requires emotion)
which is more mature, love or sex?
(before you respond with "love"...appreciate that it requires emotion)
medicalstudent | 3 years ago
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? | 3 years ago
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That's pretty interesting. Mental and sexual maturity are vastly different, but are lumped into a single word and used interchangeably in everyday speech. The extend of confusion probably stretches as far as the law.
cognitivefun | 3 years ago
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