OBJECTIVE This research applied emotion regulation to negative emotions felt toward a sex trafficking victim so that judgments were made to offer her services rather than to favor her arrest for prostitution. HYPOTHESES We predicted that participants would favor police not arresting a trafficking survivor for prostitution when she was vulnerable (Hypothesis 1) or she showed no sex work history (Hypothesis 2). We predicted a moderated mediation model (Hypothesis 3), in which emotion regulation training to reduce feelings of contempt, anger, and disgust (CAD) toward the survivor interacted with vulnerability and prior sex work such that the effects of the latter two manipulations were the strongest in the successful emotion regulation conditions (i.e., cognitive reappraisal and cognitive reappraisal with motivation), with CAD emotions mediating those relationships. METHOD Participants (N = 421, 54% women, Mage = 42.63 years, 75% White) read a modified version of a sex trafficking case and decided whether the police should arrest the survivor for prostitution. Each participant was randomly assigned to one of 16 conditions in a 4 (emotion regulation: control vs. cognitive reappraisal vs. motivation vs. cognitive reappraisal plus motivation) × 2 (vulnerability: vulnerable background vs. nonvulnerable background) × 2 (prior prostitution history: engaged in prostitution before the trafficking incident vs. not engaged in prostitution before the incident) factorial design. RESULTS Participants with cognitive reappraisal training, but not controls, who read about a vulnerable survivor were less likely to favor arrest. Moreover, those who trained with cognitive reappraisal plus motivation to decrease their CAD emotions, compared with the controls, showed weaker CAD feelings toward the vulnerable survivor, which in turn predicted a lower probability of favoring arrest. CONCLUSIONS Reducing CAD emotions through emotion regulation supported the impact of emotions on culpability judgments and showed how emotion regulation can be used to support a victim-centered approach to fighting sex trafficking. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

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情绪调节减少了受害者对弱势性贩运幸存者的指责。


目的 这项研究将情绪调节应用于对性贩运受害者的负面情绪，以便做出为她提供服务的判断，而不是支持她因卖淫而被捕。假设 我们预测，当人口贩运幸存者处于弱势（假设 1）或没有表现出性工作历史（假设 2）时，参与者会赞成警察不要逮捕她。我们预测了一个有调节的中介模型（假设 3），其中旨在减少对幸存者的蔑视、愤怒和厌恶感（CAD）的情绪调节训练与脆弱性和之前的性工作相互作用，因此后两种操纵的效果是在成功的情绪调节条件下（即认知重新评估和带有动机的认知重新评估）最强，CAD 情绪调节这些关系。方法 参与者（N = 421，54% 女性，法师 = 42.63 岁，75% 白人）阅读性贩运案件的修改版本，并决定警方是否应以卖淫罪逮捕幸存者。每个参与者被随机分配到 4 个条件中的 16 个条件之一（情绪调节：控制与认知重新评估与动机与认知重新评估加动机）× 2（脆弱性：弱势背景与非脆弱背景）× 2（以前的卖淫史） ：人口贩卖事件前从事卖淫与事件前未从事卖淫）因子设计。结果接受过认知重新评估培训但未接受过对照培训的参与者在读到有关弱势幸存者的报道后不太可能赞成逮捕。 此外，与对照组相比，那些接受认知重新评估加上动机降低 CAD 情绪训练的人，对弱势幸存者表现出较弱的 CAD 情绪，这反过来又预示着支持逮捕的可能性较低。结论 通过情绪调节减少 CAD 情绪支持了情绪对有罪判断的影响，并展示了如何利用情绪调节来支持以受害者为中心的打击性贩运的方法。 （PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2024 APA，保留所有权利）。