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ABSTRACT

What influences retrospective evaluations of sequentially arising conflicting emotions? The present research brings to light two competing views, one where the positive emotion enables successful coping with the negative emotion and the other where the most salient aspect of the experience guides evaluations. Results from study 1 support the coping view. Specifically, relatively close (vs. distant) temporal proximity between movie clips arousing positive emotions and those eliciting negative emotions produced more favorable evaluations of the overall viewing experience. Study 2 examines the underlying process of coping through relatively close (vs. distant) temporal proximity between positive and negative emotions. Findings from this study support the notion that reappraisal drives the beneficial effect of relatively close (vs. distant) temporal proximity, which in turn leads to more favorable evaluations of conflicting emotional experiences.

5. General discussion

This research examines retrospective evaluations of sequential con- flicting emotional experiences. In doing so, it constructs differing predictions for evaluations of conflicting emotional experiences from two distinct literature streams on memory based sequential positioning (Biswas et al., 2010) and coping (Linville & Fischer, 1991). Specifically, in study 1 we show that relatively close (vs. distant) temporal proximity between movie clips arousing positive emotions and those eliciting negative emotions produced more favorable evaluations of the overall experience. This is consistent with the coping (but not memory based sequential positioning) view that when conflicting emotions arise in relatively close (vs. distant) temporal proximity, positive emotion counteracts the deleterious effects of negative emotion. In study 2, we pinpoint the specific coping process that drive the beneficial effect of relatively close temporal proximity, by establishing reappraisal as the underlying driver. We also rule out alternate strategies such as suppression. These insights are novel and extend past research which has acknowledged the importance of temporal proximity between conflicting emotions in coping (Labroo & Ramanathan, 2007; Lau-Gesk, 2005; Linville & Fischer, 1991), but has not pinpointed specific coping processes.