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Implement a provenance check between emotion detection and
Implement a provenance check between emotion detection and emotion regulation to avoid spending regulatory capacity on emotions that originated outside your own experience.
Why This Is a Principle
Derives from Emotional contagion is an automatic, pre-conscious (emotional contagion operates automatically), Directed Attention as Depletable Resource (regulatory capacity is finite), and Open-Loop Cognitive Cost (Zeigarnik) (regulatory resources are consumed by unresolved commitments). The principle prescribes inserting a differentiation step before regulation to prevent wasting limited regulatory capacity on borrowed emotions. This is highly actionable and applies across all emotional regulation contexts.