Humorous Coping and Serious Reappraisal: Short-Term and Longer-Term Effects

The management of unhelpful negative emotions has been addressed by two literatures, one focused on coping via humor, and the other focused on emotion regulation. In the present study, we directly compared humorous coping with conventional (serious) reappraisal. We expected humorous coping to be mor...

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Main Authors: Andrea C. Samson, Alana L. Glassco, Ihno A. Lee, James J. Gross
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PsychOpen 2014-08-01
Series:Europe's Journal of Psychology
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Online Access:http://ejop.psychopen.eu/article/view/730