The Cognitive consequences of Concealing Feelings

Recent studies show that expressive suppression can interfere with memory, aspects of discourse and problem solving. This article discuses discusses studies that links expressive suppression, which involves concealing outward signs of emotion; with lack of memory, communication, and problem solving. Studies suggest that a form of reappraisal can help to neutralize emotional impacts, leaving cognitive function intact, this shows that not all forms of emotion regulations are cognitively costly. Expressive suppression is a common emotion-regulatory strategy. Typically people suppress their feelings because they want to feign to have their emotions under control, look calm and collected; research shows that a third of individuals have shown efforts to deceive others this way. Researchers have made other studies to find whether concealing feelings can affect our abilities to perform common cognitive tasks, such as remembering things and communicating with other people. There is a possibility that there are no cognitive consequences of expressive suppression, for this reason expressive suppression does not have too much influence on cognitive functioning. There are other considerations about this that lead to different conclusions, for example when a person tries to control the expression of one’s face; this is compared to a behavioral standard or goal. That is a way to attempt to appear emotionally neutral, if there is a remarkable and obvious difference like grimacing when one wants to appear neutral; an operating process is induced to reduce this dissemblance in order to achieve the desired condition or manner of conducting oneself. Although this seems like a good method to conceal feelings, this can also end up taking away attention to other tasks a person is doing; this is a way to see how well a person can do other tasks at the same time. Research shows that memory can be affected by concealing feelings, a study showed two groups, one was controlled and the