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When the Self Becomes Other
Author(s) -
Kross Ethan
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04545.x
Subject(s) - feeling , perspective (graphical) , psychology , reactivity (psychology) , social psychology , cognitive psychology , ruminating , computer science , medicine , neuroscience , cognition , rumination , alternative medicine , pathology , artificial intelligence
How can people adaptively analyze and “work through” negative feelings without ruminating? This paper will briefly review findings from an integrative program of research, which suggests that a critical factor determining whether people's attempts to adaptively reason about negative experiences succeed or fail is the type of self‐perspective they adopt. That is, whether people analyze their feelings from a self‐immersed or self‐distanced perspective. The implications of shifting self‐perspectives for subjective experience, autonomic nervous system reactivity, and neural activity are discussed.