The ability to adaptively regulate emotion is essential for mental and physical well-being.
How should we organize the myriad ways people attempt to regulate their emotions? We …

As the individual who laughs at a funeral or fails to show guilt after committing a crime will
tell us, there are few quicker routes to social scorn than inappropriate emotion (or absence …

It is widely acknowledged that emotions can be regulated in an astonishing variety of ways.
Most research to date has focused on explicit (effortful) forms of emotion regulation …

The ability to successfully regulate emotion plays a key role in healthy development and the
maintenance of psychological well‐being. Although great strides have been made in …

Churchill once said of Russia that it was “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.”
He could as easily have been describing the topic of emotion regulation. Emotions are …

The emerging field of emotion regulation studies how individuals influence which emotions
they have, when they have them, and how they experience and express them. This review …

Research in emotion regulation has largely focused on how people manage their own
emotions, but there is a growing recognition that the ways in which we regulate the emotions …

Modern emotion theories emphasise the adaptive value of emotions. Emotions are by no
means always helpful, however. They often must be regulated. The study of emotion …

We open this chapter by defining emotion and describing how emotions are generated in a
series of temporal stages. We then define emotion regulation, consider precursors to the …

Many different strategies may be used to regulate emotions, and people seem to differ
widely in which ones they tend to use. These individual differences in the use of emotion …