CONTEXT: An interesting article pointing out that the lab may not be the best place to get the overall view of how people behave in the real world | Not sure this is a Eureka moment, but thanks for playing.
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1. “DURHAM, N.C. – For decades, psychologists’ study of emotional health and well-being has involved contrived laboratory experiments and self-report questionnaires to understand the emotional experiences and strategies study participants use to manage stress.”
2. “Burr wondered how anxiety influences the way people naturally tend to regulate their emotions.”
3. “”There’s a disconnect between how people are self-reporting their emotion regulation and how they’re regulating in the lab,” Burr said.”
4. “And if that’s true, Burr said future research should explore this disconnect to better understand the right way to rely on self-report measures and how to realistically study emotion — inside and outside the lab.”
5. “Part of the answer to this problem entails finding study methods that get out of the lab, which Burr and her Duke Ph.D. adviser Gregory Samanez-Larkin have already done.”
Source URL: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-03/du-lso031521.php