Control Your Emotions, Control Your Health: Affect Regulation Unlocks Better Choices
The article shows that making specific plans can help control how our emotions affect our health behaviors. By creating if-then plans, we can reduce the impact of our feelings on our actions. This can be done by either weakening the strength of our emotions or changing how they influence our decisions. The research suggests that our emotions don't have to dictate our health choices - we can use plans to manage their influence effectively.