Reappraisal

An approach to down-regulating emotions that involves changing how we think about a situation in order to decrease its emotional impact. A form of emotion regulation.

Reference:

Gross, J. J. (2002). Emotion regulation: Affective, cognitive, and social consequences. Psychophysiology, 39(3), 281-291. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0048577201393198