
358 - Managing Emotions and Expressive Suppression
Multiamory: Rethinking Modern Relationships
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Relationship Satisfaction - Is There a Cost to Executive Function and Learning?
Studies have looked at how high a person's burden of regulating their emotions has been in the last 24 hours. They also found that even if only one partner was high in expressive suppression, that both partners reported feeling lower levels of satisfaction. So across all age groups, there seems to be a pretty clear correlation that having done more expressive suppression in the past 24 hours negatively effects performance on tests of executive functioning and sequencing learning. That's really interesting. Just if you're suppressing, i wonder if it like kind dials down a part of your brain that allows you to do other things. I just canyou ask me later, like, have you ever had that feeling i don't likeing?
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