Abstract
The study aimed to investigate the effect of two emotion regulation strategies targeting self-evaluative processes on state-shame. Participants were 113 students who were randomly assigned to three conditions: self-distancing, cognitive reappraisal, and a control group. The study compared the impact of the emotion regulation instructions on experimentally induced shame. Cognitive reappraisal significantly reduced state-shame compared with a control group. No differences were found compared to the self-distancing group or between the control group and the self-distancing group. Also, negative self-appraisals significantly decreased in the cognitive reappraisal group, and were significantly lower compared with the other two groups. Finally, changes in negative self-evaluations mediated the impact of group on changes in state-shame. This is one of the very few studies investigating the regulation of state-shame. Our study indicates that a short reappraisal task is not as effective in regulating shame as it is in regulating basic emotions.
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