The ability to regulate our emotions plays an important role in our psychological and physical health. Regulating emotions influences how and when emotions are expressed. We performed a large scale, longitudinal observational study to investigate the effect of emotion regulation ability on expressed affect. We found that expression of negative affect increased throughout the day. For people who suppress emotion this increase is slower that for those who do not. For those with stronger cognitive reappraisal abilities, though not significant, there was a trend for higher positive affect and negative affect increased significantly less steeply, suggesting that they might experience more positive and less negative affect. These results reflect some of the first results based on large scale, continuous tracking of behavioral expression of emotion longitudinally. Our results demonstrate the need to carefully consider the time of day and emotion regulation ability, in addition to gender and age, when attempting to automatically infer affective states for facial behavior.

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情绪调节策略对情感表达影响的纵向观察证据

调节情绪的能力对我们的心理和身体健康起着重要作用。调节情绪会影响情绪的表达方式和时间。我们进行了大规模的纵向观察研究，以研究情绪调节能力对表达情感的影响。我们发现负面情绪的表达全天都在增加。对于压抑情绪的人来说，这种增长速度比不压抑的人要慢。对于认知重评能力较强的人，虽然不显着，但有较高的积极情绪和消极情绪增加的趋势明显不那么陡峭，这表明他们可能会经历更多的积极情绪和更少的消极情绪。这些结果反映了一些基于大规模的初步结果，纵向连续跟踪情绪的行为表达。我们的结果表明，在尝试自动推断面部行为的情感状态时，除了性别和年龄之外，还需要仔细考虑一天中的时间和情绪调节能力。