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Backward digit span task5/29/2023 The results of the Study 1 show that tense arousal activated during expressive suppression of disgust fully mediates the negative effect of suppression on working memory as measured with a backwards digit-span task. Third, the results support our prediction that expressive suppression decreases cognitive performance through its effects on subjective tense arousal. Second, the results indicate that expressive suppression leads to a significant increase in subjective tense arousal. First, the results reveal that expressive suppression degrades memory of the events that emerged during the period of expressive suppression and leads to poorer performance on working memory tasks, as measured with a backwards digit-span task and anagram problem-solving task. The results of these experiments lead to three conclusions. disgust in Study 1 and a combination of sadness and anxiety in Study 2) under the instruction to suppress those negative emotions or (in the control condition) to simply watch the film. Both studies were conducted in a similar design: Participants watched a film clip which evoked negative emotions (i.e. In addition, in Study 2 we tested whether expressive suppression degrades memory of the events that emerged during the period of expressive suppression. In both studies we tested the effect of expressive suppression on working memory, as measured with a backwards digit-span task (Study 1, N = 43) and anagram problem-solving task (Study 2, N = 60). Two experiments were performed in order to test this prediction. Specifically, we examined whether the deteriorating effect of expressive suppression on cognitive functioning is caused by tense arousal enhanced by suppression. The aim of this paper was to contribute to a broader understanding of the cognitive consequences of expressive suppression.
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