Handbook of Emotion Regulation (eBook)

James J. Gross, PhD, is the Ernest R. Hilgard Professor of Psychology at Stanford University, where he directs the Stanford Psychophysiology Laboratory. The author of over 600 publications, which have been cited more than 200,000 times, Dr. Gross was founding president of the Society for Affective Science (SAS). He is the recipient of research awards from the American Psychological Association (APA), the Society for Psychophysiological Research, and the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society. At Stanford, he has received the Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching, the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize, the Postdoctoral Mentoring Award (twice), and the Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching. He also has received the inaugural Mentorship Award from SAS and the APS Mentor Award from the Association for Psychological Science. Dr. Gross has been awarded honorary doctorates from UCLouvain in Belgium and Tilburg University in the Netherlands, and is a Fellow of APS, APA, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Brett Q. Ford, PhD, is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto, Canada, where she directs the Affective Science and Health Laboratory. Dr. Ford’s research examines emotion regulation, considering both the benefits and the costs of striving to feel good. She has published more than 60 journal articles and book chapters, and has presented her work to international audiences around the world. Dr. Ford is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and a recipient of the Association's Rising Star Award and Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions. She has also received the Rising Star Award from the Association for Research in Personality; the Early Researcher Award from the Government of Ontario; and the Connaught New Researcher Award, Pre-Tenure Faculty Research Award, and Dean’s Special Merit Award from the University of Toronto.

I. Foundations

1. Conceptual Foundations of Emotion Regulation, James J. Gross

2. Research Methods in Emotion Regulation: Evolving Questions and New Approaches, Ovidia A. Stanoi & Kevin N. Ochsner

3. Assessing Individual Differences in Emotion Regulation: Habitual Strategy Use and Beyond, Emily C. Willroth & Oliver P. John

4. Daily Diaries and Ecological Momentary Assessment, Peter Koval & Elise K. Kalokerinos

5. Studying the Dynamics of Emotion Regulation with Time-Series Data, Emily A. Butler


II. Biological Bases

6. Autonomic and Somatic Aspects of Emotion Regulation, Heather L. Urry

7. The Brain Bases of Emotion Regulation: Evidence from Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Ke Bo & Tor D. Wager

8. Brain Bases of Emotion Regulation: The Late Positive Potential, Anna Weinberg & Juhyun Park

9. Emotion Regulation: Research with Neurological Patients, Robert W. Levenson


III. Cognitive Approaches

10. Mindset Regulation, Kris Evans & Alia J. Crum sample

11. Emotion Regulation Choice: Where Are We, and Where Do We Go?, Gal Sheppes

12. Affordances and the Mechanisms Underlying Reappraisal, Gaurav Suri

13. Harnessing Placebo Effects to Regulate Emotions, Darwin A. Guevarra, Ethan Kross, & Jason S. Moser


IV. Developmental Considerations

14. Developing the Neurobiology of Emotion Regulation, Nim Tottenham

15. The Socialization of Emotion Regulation, Tracy L. Spinrad & Nancy Eisenberg

16. Emotion Regulation in Adolescence, Michaela Riediger

17. The Role of Selection and Motivation in Emotion Regulation in Later Life, Susan T. Charles & Laura L. Carstensen


V. Social Aspects: Interpersonal

18. Interpersonal Emotion Regulation, Karen Niven

19. Implications of Attachment Processes for Emotion Regulation, Mario Mikulincer & Phillip R. Shaver

20. Emotion Regulation in Romantic Relationships, Tabea Meier, Jacquelyn E. Stephens, & Claudia M. Haase

21. Emotion Regulation in Parenting, Moïra Mikolajczak & Isabelle Roskam


VI. Social Aspects: Groups and Collectives

22. Regulating Collective Emotions, Amit Goldenberg

23. Emotion Regulation in the Context of Discrimination: Progress and Challenges, Dorainne J. Green, Ajua Duker, & Jennifer A. Richeson

24. Coping with Stigma, Michael A. Trujillo

25. Emotion Regulation and Conflict Resolution, Eran Halperin & Tamar Avichail

26. Institutional Emotion Regulation as a Support for Upward Socioeconomic Mobility, Mesmin Destin & Claudia M. Haase

27. Culture and Emotion Regulation, Batja Mesquita & Anna Schouten


VII. Individual Differences

28. Emotion Regulation through the Lens of Emotional Intelligence, Marc A. Brackett & Diana Divecha

29. Alexithymia, David A. Preece & Pilleriin Sikka

30. Valence Bias: Individual Differences in Response to Ambiguity, Maital Neta

31. Self-Control, Angela L. Duckworth & James J. Gross

32. Emotion Goals, Maya Tamir & Danfei Hu

33. Emotion Regulation Flexibility, Elise K. Kalokerinos & Peter Koval

34. Emotion Regulation and Resilience: When Is Reappraisal (Not) Conducive to Resilience?, Iris B. Mauss & Allison S. Troy


VIII. Psychopathology: General Considerations

35. Emotion Regulation as a Transdiagnostic Process, Barbara Cludius & Thomas Ehring

36. Emotion Goals and Mental Health, Yael Millgram

37. Amp It Up or Tamp It Down: Examining Strategies and Outcomes of Positive Emotion Regulation, Tse Yen Tan, Louise S. Wachsmuth, & Michele M. Tugade

38. Well-Being after Psychopathology, Jonathan Rottenberg, Fallon R. Goodman, & Todd B. Kashdan

39. The Costs of Striving to Feel Good, Brett Q. Ford

40. Emotion Regulation and Psychopathology across Cultures, Yulia Chentsova-Dutton, Ezgi Tuna, & Maya Tamir


IX. Psychopathology: Specific Disorders

41. Anxiety and Emotion Regulation, Amelia Aldao

42. Depression, Ashleigh V. Rutherford & Jutta Joormann

43. The Challenge of Emotion Regulation in Bipolar Disorder, Cindy M. Villanueva, Benjamin A. Swerdlow, & June Gruber

44. The Role of Emotion Regulation in Substance Use Disorders: State of the Science and Next Steps, Corey R. Roos & Hedy Kober

45. Emotion Regulation in Individuals on the Autism Spectrum, Ru Y. Cai andAndrea C. Samson

46. Emotion Regulation in Schizophrenia and Related Disorders, David Kimhy & Luz H. Ospina

47. Emotion Regulation in Personality Disorders, Skye Fitzpatrick & Katherine L. Dixon-Gordon


X. Interventions: Clinical Settings

48. Emotion Regulation Therapy, Douglas S. Mennin & David M. Fresco

49. Affect Regulation Training, Matthias Berking & Nico S. Musa

50. Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Balancing Acceptance and Change to Enhance Emotion Regulation, Janice R. Kuo

51. Mindfulness Interventions, Amanda J. Shallcross & Jacob D. Hill


XI. Interventions: Outside the Clinic

52. Regulation of Anxious Emotion through the Modification of Attentional Bias, Ben Grafton & Colin MacLeod

53. Positive Emotion Regulation Interventions for People Coping with Significant Life Stress, Judith Tedlie Moskowitz

54. Single-Session Interventions: Optimizing Impact through the Extended Process Model of Emotion Regulation, Jessica L. Schleider

55. Digital Mental Health Interventions, Andrea Niles

56. Emotion-Focused Parenting Interventions: Theoretical Perspectives, Supporting Evidence, and Future Directions, Gillian England-Mason

57. Teaching Emotion Regulation in Schools, Jessica D. Hoffmann & Kalee De France


XII. Physical Health Implications

58. Emotion Regulation and Cardiovascular Health, Claudia Trudel-Fitzgerald, Anne-Josée Guimond, & Laura D. Kubzansky

59. Sleep and Emotion Regulation, Candice A. Alfano, Annika M. Myers, & Megan E. Rech

60. Culture, Emotion Regulation, and Physical Health, Yuri Miyamoto & Christopher L. Coe


XIII. Specific Emotion Regulation Processes

61. Reappraisal, Andero Uusberg & Helen Uusberg

62. Expressive Suppression: Understanding the Regulation of Emotional Behavior, Tammy English

63. Distancing: What It Is, How It Works, and Where to Go Next, Ethan Kross & Ozlem Ayduk

64. Rumination, Edward R. Watkins

65. The Social Sharing of Emotions, Bernard Rimé


XIV. Emotion Regulation across Disciplines

66. Emotion Regulation in Legal Settings, Terry A. Maroney

67. Managing Emotions in Education: The Emotion Regulation in Achievement Situations Model, Jason M. Harley & Reinhard Pekrun

68. Emotion Regulation in Sport, Katherine A. Tamminen & Jeemin Kim

69. Anthropology and Emotion Regulation, Rebecca Seligman

70. Sociological Approaches to Emotion Regulation, Kathryn J. Lively

71. Emotion Regulation and Art, Kateri McRae & Thalia R. Goldstein


Author Index
Subject Index