Open AccessIndividual differences in hemispheric preference and emotion regulation difficulties
Author(s) -
Garima Gupta,
Akhilesh Dubey,
Prachi Saxena,
Rakesh Pandey
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
industrial psychiatry journal/industrial psychiatry journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0976-2795
pISSN - 0972-6748
DOI - 10.4103/0972-6748.98412
Subject(s) - psychology , preference , feeling , impulsivity , cognitive psychology , clarity , cognitive reappraisal , correlation , emotional expression , developmental psychology , expressive suppression , cognition , social psychology , neuroscience , biochemistry , chemistry , geometry , mathematics , economics , microeconomics
Hemisphericity or individual difference in the preference to use the left or the right hemispheric mode of information processing has been associated with various emotion-related differences. For example, the right hemisphericity has been linked with inhibition of emotional expression, feeling of tension, greater impulsivity etc. These observations suggest that right hemisphericity may be associated with greater difficulties in regulating emotions. However, direct empirical tests of such theoretical proposition are very thin.