Abstract
Associations Between Linguistic Markers of Emotion Regulation and Cardiovascular Disease-Related Inflammation
Highlights
Cognitive reappraisal is an adaptive strategy to regulate one’s emotions, that involves changing the meaning of an emotionally evocative stimulus [1, 2, 3]
Cognitive reappraisal can be implemented in several ways; one tactic of interest is psychological distancing
We aimed to investigate the relationship between implicit linguistic distancing and a health biomarker strongly associated with cardiovascular disease risk (i.e., C-reactive protein (CRP))
Summary
Cognitive reappraisal is an adaptive strategy to regulate one’s emotions, that involves changing the meaning of an emotionally evocative stimulus [1, 2, 3]. Cognitive reappraisal can be implemented in several ways; one tactic of interest is psychological distancing. Psychological distancing involves changing one’s appraisal of an emotional stimulus by employing an objective and impartial perspective and/or increasing the perceived spatial and temporal distance between oneself and the stimulus [9, 10]. Shifting language to reflect psychological distancing helps regulate negative affect; distance to the stimulus reduces the negative affect. Implementing distanced lexical shifts has been shown to reduce stress [12, 13, 14]
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