Cultural Variation in Emotion Categories and Their Regulation Effects
How culture shapes which emotions you feel and how best to manage them.
Priya Nambiar
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Affect Labeling
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Children's Emotion Vocabulary Development and Regulation
Naming emotions helps children regulate them more than simply experiencing them.
DeShawn Lattimore
Precision of Emotion Labels and Downregulation Dose-Response
Precise emotional words amplify the brain's downregulation response, but the effect has limits.
DeShawn Lattimore
Alexithymia and the Costs of Not Naming Emotions
Unnamed feelings create measurable damage across brain, body, and relationships.
Priya Nambiar
Affect Labeling fMRI Evidence in Adults
Naming emotions dampens brain alarm signals but spreads work across language and thinking regions.
Priya Nambiar
Journaling as Structured Affect Labeling Practice
Naming emotions precisely, not just venting, calms your brain.
DeShawn Lattimore
Spoken Versus Written Emotion Labeling Differences
Speaking forces commitment; writing builds lasting change through deliberate reflection.
Saoirse Ó Murchadha
Emotional Granularity and Psychological Resilience
Naming emotions precisely changes brain routing and predicts behavior under stress.
Priya Nambiar