Meaning Making & Self-Distancing
2019
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Orvell, A. & Kross, E. (2019). How self-talk promotes self-regulation: Implications for coping with emotional pain. In S. C. Rudert, R. Greifender, & K. D. Williams (Eds.), Current Directions in Ostracism, Social Exclusion and Rejection Research. New York, NY: Routledge.
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Grenell, A., White, R. E., Prager, E. O., Schaeffer, C., Kross, E., Duckworth, A., & Carlson, S. M. (2019). Experimental paradigm for measuring the effects of self-distancing in young children. JoVE.
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Grenell, A., Prager, E. O., Schaefer, C., Kross, E., Duckworth, A. L., & Carlson, S. M. (2019). Individual differences in the effectiveness of self-distancing for young children’s emotion regulation. British Journal of Developmental Psychology.
2018
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Orvell, A., Kross, E., & Gelman, S. (2018). Lessons learned: Young children's use of generic-you to make meaning from negative experiences. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
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White, R., Kuehn, M. M., Kross, E., & Ayduk, O. (2018). Focusing on the future from afar: Self-distancing from future stressors facilitates adaptive coping. Emotion.
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Orvell, A., Kross, E., & Gelman, S. A. (2018). That’s how “you” do it: Generic you expresses norms during early childhood. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.
2017
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Orvell, A., Kross, E., & Gelman, S. A. (2017). How "you" makes meaning. Science.
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Moser, J. S., Dougherty, A., Mattson, W. I., Katz, B., Moran, T. P., Guevarra, D., . . . Kross, E. (2017). Third-person self-talk facilitates emotion regulation without engaging cognitive control: Converging evidence from ERP and fMRI. Scientific Reports.
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Kross, E., & Ayduk, O. (2017). Self-distancing: Theory, research and current directions. In J. Olson & M. Zanna (Eds.), Advances in Experimental Social Psychology.
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Kross, E., Vickers, B. D., Orvell, A., Gainsburg, I., Moran, T. P., Boyer, M., . . . Ayduk, O. (2017). Third person-self talk reduces Ebola worry and risk perception by enhancing rational thinking. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being.
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White, R. E., Prager, E. O., Schaefer, C., Kross, E., Duckworth, A. L., & Carlson, S. M. (2017). The “Batman Effect”: Improving perseverance in young children. Child Development.
2016
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Leitner, J. B., Ayduk, O., Mendoza-Denton, R., Magerman, A., Amey, R., Kross, E., & Forbes, C. E. (2016). Self-distancing improves interpersonal perceptions and behavior by decreasing medial prefrontal cortex activity during the provision of criticism. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.
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Penner, L. A., Guevarra, D. A., Harper, F. W., Taub, J., Phipps, S., Albrecht, T. L., & Kross, E. (2016). Self-distancing buffers high trait anxious pediatric cancer caregivers against short-and longer-term distress. Clinical Psychological Science.
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Park, J., Ayduk, O., & Kross, E. (2016). Stepping back to move forward: Expressive writing promotes self-distancing. Emotion.
2015
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Ayduk, O., & Kross, E. (2015). Pronouns matter when psyching yourself up. Harvard Business Review.
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White, R. E., Kross, E., & Duckworth, A. L. (2015). Spontaneous self-distancing and adaptive self-reflection across adolescence. Child Development.
2014
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Kross, E., Bruehlman-Senecal, E., Park, J., Burson, A., Dougherty, A., Shablack, H., . . . Ayduk, O. (2014). Self-talk as a regulatory mechanism: How you do it matters. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
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Grossmann, I., & Kross, E. (2014). Exploring Solomon’s Paradox: Self-distancing eliminates the self-other asymmetry in wise reasoning about close relationships in younger and older adults. Psychological Science.
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Park, J., Ayduk, O., O’Donnell, L., Chun, J., Gruber, J., Kamali, M., . . . Kross, E. (2014). Regulating the high: Cognitive and neural processes underlying positive emotion regulation in bipolar I disorder. Clinical Psychological Science.
2012
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Kross, E., Gard, D., Deldin, P., Clifton, J., & Ayduk, O. (2012). "Asking why" from a distance: Its cognitive and emotional consequences for people with major depressive disorder. Journal of Abnormal Psychology.
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Kross, E., & Grossmann, I. (2012). Boosting wisdom: Distance from the self enhances wise reasoning, attitudes, and behavior. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
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Verduyn, P., Van Mechelen, I., Kross, E., Chezzi, C, & Van Bever F. (2012). The relationship between self-distancing and the duration of negative and positive emotional experiences in daily life. Emotion.
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Mischkowski, D., Kross, E., & Bushman, B. (2012). Flies on the wall are less aggressive: Self-distancing "in the heat of the moment" reduces aggressive thoughts, angry feelings and aggressive behavior. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
2011
2010
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Ayduk, O., & Kross, E. (2010). From a distance: Implications of spontaneous self-distancing for adaptive self-reflection. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
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Grossmann, I. & Kross, E. (2010). The impact of culture on adaptive versus maladaptive self-reflection. Psychological Science.
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Ayduk, O., & Kross, E. (2010). Analyzing negative experiences without ruminating: The role of self-distancing in enabling adaptive self-reflection. Social and Personality Psychology Compass.
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Berman, M. G., Peltier, S., Nee, D. E., Kross, E., Deldin, P. J., & Jonides, J. (2010). Depression, rumination and the default network. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.
2009
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Kross, E., Davidson, M., Weber, J., & Ochsner, K. (2009). Coping with emotions past: The neural bases of regulating affect associated with negative autobiographical memories. Biological Psychiatry.
Commentary: Carter, C. S. (2009). The ups and downs of emotion regulation. Biological Psychiatry.
Society of Biological Psychiatry's Ziskind-Somerfeld Award Finalist
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Kross, E. (2009). When the self becomes other: Toward an integrative understanding of the processes distinguishing adaptive self-reflection from rumination. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.
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Ayduk, O., & Kross, E. (2009). Asking ‘why’ from a distance facilitates emotional processing: A reanalysis of Wimalaweera and Moulds (2008). Behaviour Research and Therapy.
Commentary: Carter, C. S. (2009). The ups and downs of emotion regulation. Biological Psychiatry.
Society of Biological Psychiatry's Ziskind-Somerfeld Award Finalist
2008 and Earlier
- Kross, E., & Ayduk, O. (2008). Facilitating adaptive emotional analysis: Distinguishing distanced-analysis of depressive experiences from immersed-analysis and distraction. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin.
- Ayduk, O., & Kross, E. (2008). Enhancing the pace of recovery: Self-distanced analysis of negative experiences reduces blood pressure reactivity. Psychological Science.
- Kross, E., Ayduk, O., & Mischel, W. (2005). When asking "why" does not hurt: Distinguishing rumination from reflective processing of negative emotions. Psychological Science.