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

This chapter is to provide such a conceptual and empirical framework. Because a discussion
of emotion regulation presupposes an understanding of what emotion is, in the first section I …

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This chapter provides a conceptual foundation for answering questions as they arise in
developmental and adult literatures relevant to emotion regulation. Because a discussion of …