Practice question · Multiple choice
Lazarus argued that reappraisal, deliberately re-reading a situation, reduces stress more reliably than trying to suppress the feeling. Why would the earlier step be the effective one?
Hints
- Ask where in the sequence each strategy acts.
- One intervenes before the response; the other after.
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B. Because appraisal generates the stress response in the first place
Why
Intervening upstream is cheaper than fighting downstream. Suppression reliably shows physiological cost and poorer outcomes in exactly the comparisons where reappraisal helps.
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