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How Friends Help You Regulate Your Emotions

How Friends Help You Regulate Your Emotions

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The Practice of Reinterpreting

The Practice of Reinterpreting

A study was performed on 120 women in order to gauge their emotional distress and how it is relieved through the help of reinterpretation. These women were shown images that were invoking negative emotions such as anger, poverty, and sadness.

The study found that although reinterpreting the images alleviated their distress, it helped even more when the reinterpretation came from their friend. Thus suggesting that emotional regulation is more effective when other people actively help us with it.

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Reinterpretation Of An Experience Is More Soothing With A Friend

When we experience negative things it is important we lean on social support because most of the time our friends are better at regulating our emotions rather than ourselves.

We then feel supported, heard, and less alone. Sometimes we find it hard to believe ourselves therefore the practice of reinterpretation with a friend just seems more plausible than the things we tell ourselves.

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"It’s not always easy to ask for support. We might judge ourselves if we can’t deal with our problems alone, or feel like we’re annoying our friends. But in the long run, we’re all better off if we support each other."

KIRA NEWMAN

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