One of the fastest growing areas within psychology is the field of emotion regulation.
However, enthusiasm for this topic continues to outstrip conceptual clarity, and there …

Emotions often are wonderfully helpful. They can direct attention to key features of the
environment, optimize sensory intake, tune decision making, ready behavioral responses …

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 …

The field of emotion regulation has now come of age. However, enthusiasm for the topic
continues to outstrip conceptual clarity. In this article, I review the state of the field. I do this …

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 …

Interest in emotion regulation has a long history, yet the field only began to emerge as an
independent field of scientific study in the last decades of the 20th century (Gross, 1998) …

Highlights•Emotion regulation (ER) research has grown exponentially in the past two
decades.•ER models can be categorized as focusing on either ER strategies or ER …

Emotion-related regulation is a topic of considerable current interest; however, this was not
always true. We briefly discuss the history of interest in the topic and then the current state of …

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 …

Over the past few decades, emotion regulation research has matured into a vibrant and
rapidly growing field (in 2022 alone, more than 30 thousand papers were published on …