Should I Stop Thinking About It: A Computational Exploration of Reappraisal Based Emotion Regulation

Table 1

Operations for emotion-focused coping.

Coping strategy	Operations in Thespian
Shift responsibility	If I am coerced, increase the responsibility of the agent who coerced me
Wishful thinking	Change probabilities of alternative mental models
Distance/mental disengagement	Reduce the importance of the goals that are negatively impacted
Positive reinterpretation/silver lining	Increase the importance of the goals that are positively impacted
Reappraisal of the current situation	Evaluate the impact of one or more previously ignored events