Cognitive reappraisal is a deliberate emotion-regulation technique in which a person consciously reinterprets the meaning of a situation or stimulus to alter its emotional impact. It operates by changing the cognitive frame through which an event is evaluated — transforming threat into challenge, loss into growth, or ambiguity into opportunity. The mechanism persists through learned cognitive strategies taught in cognitive-behavioral therapy and reinforced by repeated practice. [formal: cognitiva revalorisatio | substrate: mind | horizon: a moment | explicit: yes | epoch: 1.00]
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cognitive reappraisal
Cognitive reappraisal is a deliberate emotion-regulation technique in which a person consciously reinterprets the meaning of a situation or stimulus to alter its emotional impact. It operates by changing the cognitive frame through which a…
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A deliberate emotion-regulation technique where one consciously reinterprets the meaning of a situation to alter its emotional impact. Used in cognitive-behavioral therapy and everyday emotional management. Human-made as a named psychological construct with established therapeutic protocols.
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cognitive reappraisal is a specific kind of cognitive-strategy — it's a deliberate technique for reinterpretation of stimuli to alter emotional impact. A competent speaker would call it 'a cognitive strategy.' Specific→general, per Law 9. Prechecked: clear.
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cognitive reappraisal is a specific kind of emotion regulation per Law 9. A competent speaker would call it 'an emotion regulation technique.' It reinterprets stimuli to alter emotional impact — squarely within emotion regulation's domain of monitoring and modifying emotional responses. Specific→general.
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