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Advances in Psychology 心理学进展, 2016, 6(2), 195-203 Published Online February 2016 in Hans. /journal/ap /10.12677/ap.2016.62024 Significant Up-Regulated Effect of Positive Emotion Regulation Fenghua Li Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing rd th th Received: Feb. 3 , 2016; accepted: Feb. 19 , 2016; published: Feb. 26 , 2016 Copyright © 2016 by author and Hans Publishers Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). /licenses/by/4.0/ Abstract Emotion regulation refers to the ability and the process that individual adjusts and controls the occurrence, experience and expression of emotion. Good emotion regulation ability is beneficial for individuals to keep pleasant mood and improve the bad one. Although there are many studies investigating emotion regulation, they are mostly about negative emotion regulation, and few are known about the study of positive emotion regulation. In the current study, we use behavioral and electrophysiology measure of arousal rating and zygomatic electromyography (zEMG) to index the variation of positive emotion regulation. We collect arousal rating in each trial after participants regulate their emotion in Experiment 1 and the activity of zEMG in Experiment 2 in which the par- ticipants regulate their emotions induced by International Affective Picture System pictures. The results indicate that up-regulated effect of positive emotion regulation is significant, but down- regulated effect is not. This suggests that people may be desirable and habitual to increase their positive emotion rather than inhibit it. Keywords Positive Emotion Regulation, Cognition Reappraisal, Zygomatic E