Benefits of emotional integration and costs of emotional distancing.

Objective: Three studies explored the consequences of the self-determination theory conception of integrative emotion regulation (IER; Ryan & Deci, 2017), which involves an interested stance toward emotions. Emotional, physiological, and cognitive consequences of IER were compared to the consequences of emotional distancing (ED), in relation to a fear-eliciting film.

Method: In Study 1, we manipulated emotion regulation by prompting students' (N = 90) IER and ED and also included a control group.