Strategies People Employ For Regulating Emotions Affect Memory For Event, According To A New Study Attempting to control one's reactions to an event has "cognitive costs" that weaken memory The way people go about controlling their reactions to emotional events affects their memory of the event, according to new research published in the September issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology published by the American Psychological Association (APA). That people can regulate the …showed first 75 words of 776 total…

…showed last 75 words of 776 total…work to the field, Drs. Richards and Gross conducted a naturalistic study of emotion regulation and memory. Consistent with the experimental results, they found that people who tended to rely on expressive suppression in everyday life remembered fewer of the emotional events of their lives as compared to people who did not tend to rely on expressive suppression. As expected, however, the tendency to regulate emotions via reappraisal was not associated with any memory impairment.