Excellent comment! I’m not majoring in psychology, and although I find it fascinating, I don’t understand the vocabulary and conventions that well. I took the phrase to mean “this is a non-exhaustive list of the general strategies with which people have been found to use their attention to regulate emotions.” It’s obviously a simplification–there’s probably a thousand different variants on ‘rumination’, some of them blending into the other categories, etc–but it’s a more useful statement than individually detailing the emotional regulations strategies of 5000 people in a study.
I’d say it’s an empirical statement, based on the fact that the articles I read were in general meta-overviews of research in emotional regulation. A lot of that research involved your standard psych-study tasks–having people think about an emotional event and then do a fine-motor task, or weird stuff like that where it seems hard, to me, to know for sure what you’re actually measuring. So it’s not an incredibly rigorous empirical statement, but it’s not an armchair-philosophy statement either.
And as for your meta-query, your comment seems neither too long nor a bad way of asking the question.
Excellent comment! I’m not majoring in psychology, and although I find it fascinating, I don’t understand the vocabulary and conventions that well. I took the phrase to mean “this is a non-exhaustive list of the general strategies with which people have been found to use their attention to regulate emotions.” It’s obviously a simplification–there’s probably a thousand different variants on ‘rumination’, some of them blending into the other categories, etc–but it’s a more useful statement than individually detailing the emotional regulations strategies of 5000 people in a study.
I’d say it’s an empirical statement, based on the fact that the articles I read were in general meta-overviews of research in emotional regulation. A lot of that research involved your standard psych-study tasks–having people think about an emotional event and then do a fine-motor task, or weird stuff like that where it seems hard, to me, to know for sure what you’re actually measuring. So it’s not an incredibly rigorous empirical statement, but it’s not an armchair-philosophy statement either.
And as for your meta-query, your comment seems neither too long nor a bad way of asking the question.