Fig 1.
Overview of the experimental procedure, highlighting each time-point that emotion was measured.
ER = emotion regulation.
Table 1.
Means of self-reported anger about the angering event for each condition, with standard deviations in parentheses.
Fig 2.
The trajectories of anger for each of the four conditions across the six time-points.
The anger induction is implemented before Time 2, the first emotion regulation strategy before Time 3, and the second emotion regulation strategy before Time 4. Participants completed a waiting phase (30 seconds) between Time 4 and Time 5, and a distracting task intended to remove differences between conditions between Time 5 and Time 6. Conditions that ruminated first are represented with a solid line, and conditions that reappraised first are represented with a dashed line. ER = emotion regulation.
Table 2.
Comparing anger at Time 1 to anger at each of the following time-points.
Table 3.
Change in anger ratings between the time-points for each of the emotion regulation conditions.
Table 4.
Tests of differences between conditions in the size of the change in anger ratings across time-points.