自动情绪调节是无意识的、无需注意或有意控制的情绪调节。如何有效测量和操纵自动情绪调节是研究者关注的难题。当前主要的操纵方法包括:使用情绪调节问卷、情绪调节内隐联结测验、静息态前额叶偏侧化检验自动情绪调节的个体差异;或借助启动任务激活相关的情绪调节倾向。两类方法均证实了自动情绪调节的存在和有效性。相较而言,启动任务对自动情绪调节能够进行更强的操纵。未来研究需要进一步检验个体差异与启动目标的交互作用,并对自动情绪调节的过程深入探讨。
Automatic emotion regulation is a goal-driven change in any aspect of one's emotion without making a conscious decision, paying attention to the process of regulating emotion, or engaging in deliberate control. How to effectively manipulate automatic emotion regulation is a problem for researchers. Two kinds of methods have been applied in the literature: one is aiming at seeking the individual differences in automatic emotion regulation by emotion regulation-Implicit Association Test, resting prefrontal asymmetric activation measurement or emotion regulation questionnaire; the other method attempts to activate different regulation tendency by taking advantage of priming technique. Both of these two methods provide evidences for the existence and the availability of automatic emotion regulation. Priming technique can afford a stronger manipulation comparatively. When it comes to future researches, the interaction of individual differences and priming tendency in automatic emotion regulation should be paid enough attention on. Moreover, it's also important to explore the processing of automatic emotion regulation.