The Regulation of Shared Emotions from Within: A Co-Regulation Approach

titleThe Regulation of Shared Emotions from Within: A Co-Regulation Approach
start_date2024/10/11
schedule14h30-15h30
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location_infoamphithéâtre Jaurès
summaryWe provide a theoretical account of the co-regulation of shared emotions within small egalitarian groups such as work groups and research teams. Previous research has not addressed co-regulation of shared emotions and it is unclear whether or to what extent current models of emotion regulation are applicable in this task. To remedy these shortcomings, the paper develops an account of emotional co-regulation (ECR) in two steps. First, we refine the idea of shared emotions in egalitarian groups, positing shared emotions as structures of participatory emotions that rely on group-identifying co-experiencers. Second, we propose that ECR is a collaborative endeavor where participants of a shared emotion collectively strive to change their emotion. We show that ECR develops along two axes (the controlled-spontaneous axis and the explicit-implicit axis) and that it may utilize all nodal points of Gross’s process model of emotion regulation.
responsiblesPacherie, Grezes, Chung