Explicit and implicit emotion regulation: a multi-level framework

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 explore the utility of a framework that distinguishes among four fundamental classes of emotion regulation strategies. The framework describes each strategy class in terms their behavioral characteristics, underlying psychological processes and supporting neural systems. A key feature of this multi-level framework is its conceptualization of the psychological processes in terms of two orthogonal dimensions that describe (i) the nature of the emotion regulation goal (ranging from to implicit to explicit) and (ii) the nature of the…

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  National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

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  National Institute on Aging

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  National Institute of Mental Health

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  National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

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