Positive Cognitive Reappraisal Is Benefcial for Women’s but Not for Men’s IGT Decision‑Making
Publication Date
6-2022
Document Type
Article
Organizational Units
College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences, Psychology
Keywords
Emotion regulation, Cognitive reappraisal, Iowa Gambling Task (IGT), Gender
Abstract
Real-life decision-making involves a balance between emotion and cognition, a process that is mirrored in the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT). Previous studies suggest that negative emotion affects IGT performance, and that this effect may be moderated by gender. In the current study, we experimentally instructed the use of a strategy for ameliorating the incidental negative emotion induced by negative images while men and women solved the IGT. To do this, we asked 38 men and 38 women to either only look at negative images (non-reappraisal group) or to use positive cognitive reappraisal when facing these negative images (reappraisal group) to ameliorate the negative emotion associated with them while trying to solve the IGT. Both men and women in the reappraisal group successfully used positive reappraisal to decrease their negative emotion compared to the control, non-reappraisal group. Critically, we observed that women performed better in the reappraisal group compared with the non-reappraisal group, in the second half of the task (performance phase). Conversely, men performed worse in the reappraisal group compared to the non-reappraisal group in the second half of the task (performance phase). Finally, a multigroup analysis revealed a gender moderation of the direct and indirect effects of positive reappraisal on IGT performance, indicating that reappraisal benefited women’s IGT performance through the regulation of negative emotion. Conversely, for men, the decrease of negative emotion through reappraisal did not impact IGT performance. Our results demonstrate that while the use of positive reappraisal is useful to ameliorate negative emotions for men and women, positive reappraisal benefits women’s decision-making, and impairs men’s.
Copyright Date
3-2-2022
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Jorge Flores‑Torres, Lydia Gómez‑Pérez, and Kateri McRae
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Received from author
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Language
English (eng)
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17 pgs
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1.6 MB
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Flores-Torres, J., Gómez-Pérez, L., & Kateri, M. (2022). Positive cognitive reappraisal is beneficial for women’s but not for men’s IGT decision-making. Motivation and Emotion, 46(3), 350-365. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-022-09927-4
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Publication Title
Motivation and Emotion
Volume
46
Issue
3
First Page
350
Last Page
365
ISSN
1573-6644
Recommended Citation
Flores‑Torres, Jorge; Gómez‑Pérez, Lydia; and McRae, Kateri, "Positive Cognitive Reappraisal Is Benefcial for Women’s but Not for Men’s IGT Decision‑Making" (2022). Psychology: Faculty Scholarship. 198.
https://digitalcommons.du.edu/psychology_faculty/198
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-022-09927-4