"God rest our hearts: Religiosity and cognitive reappraisal": Correction to Vishkin et al. (2016).

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Reports an error in "God rest our hearts: Religiosity and cognitive reappraisal" by Allon Vishkin, Yochanan E. Bigman, Roni Porat, Nevin Solak, Eran Halperin and Maya Tamir (Emotion, 2016[Mar], Vol 16[2], 252-262). In the original article, in Table 1, an asterisk indicating statistical significance (p =.047) should have been included to indicate statistical significance of the correlation between religiosity and age. In Study 2A, participants were 57% female (rather than 54%). In Study 2B, participants were 48% female (rather than 52%). In Table 6, the mean reappraisal frequency was 4.68 (rather than 5.68). In Study 4, findings for motivation to regulate should have been Ms=4.35 vs. 3.01 (rather than Ms=4.36 vs. 3.03). (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 2015-46881-001.) Although religiosity is often accompanied by more intense emotions, we propose that people who are more religious may be better at using 1 of the most effective emotion regulation strategies-namely, cognitive reappraisal. We argue that religion, which is a meaning-making system, is linked to better cognitive reappraisal, which involves changing the meaning of emotional stimuli. Four studies (N = 2,078) supported our hypotheses. In Study 1, religiosity was associated with more frequent use of cognitive reappraisal in 3 distinct religions (i.e., Islam, Christianity, Judaism). In Studies 2A-2B, we replicated these findings using 2 indices of cognitive reappraisal and in a large representative sample. In Studies 3-4, individuals more (vs. less) religious were more effective in using cognitive reappraisal in the laboratory. We discuss how these findings inform our understanding of the psychology of religion and of emotion regulation. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).