Positive and detached reappraisal in older adulthood: A temporal examination of gaze patterns

Objectives: Cognitive reappraisal is an emotion regulation strategy that involves the adaptive restructuring of one’s thoughts surrounding an emotionally evocative stimulus. Previous studies have produced mixed results on how distinct reappraisal and attentional processes are, but few studies have teased apart specific reappraisal methods. This is of particular interest in aging as older adults’ regulation success may vary by reappraisal type....