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Emotional Intelligence / Emotional Competence
The ability to appropriately recognize and regulate one's own and others' emotions plays an important role in social life. This ability has been conceptualized as "emotional intelligence" or "emotional competence," and has attracted attention from education and industry.
My research incorporates the perspective of "social cognitive theory," which views personality as a dynamic cognitive-emotional system that develops through experience and aims to elucidate its mental mechanisms and individual differences. By doing so, I try to reveal what kinds of cognitive mechanism can integrate emotion and intelligence.
[Main Publications]
- Nozaki, Y. (2018). Cross-cultural comparison of the association between trait emotional intelligence and emotion regulation in European-American and Japanese populations. Personality and Individual Differences, 130(11), 150–155. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2018.04.013
- Nozaki, Y. & Koyasu, M. (2013). The relationship between trait emotional intelligence and interaction with ostracized others' retaliation. PLoS ONE, 8(10), Article e77579.http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0077579
Extrinsic Emotion Regulation
To date, most emotion regulation studies have focused on intrinsic emotion regulation (regulating one's own emotions). However, individuals also regulate others emotions (extrinsic emotion regulation) such as cheering up a sad person. I conduct surveys and experiments to reveal psychological mechanism underlying effective extrinsic emotion regulation.
[Main Publications]
- Nozaki, Y. & Mikolajczak, M. (2020). Extrinsic emotion regulation. Emotion, 20(1), 10–15. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000636
- Nozaki, Y. (2015). Emotional competence and extrinsic emotion regulation directed toward an ostracized person. Emotion, 15(6), 763-774. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/emo0000081
