1. Variation in Controlling Emotion
Emotion Regulation

2. The Three Periods of ER Psychoanalytic Tradition Defense Mechanisms
Coping
Problem-Focused Strategies
Emotion-Focused Strategies
Emotion Regulation

3. Emotion Process

4. Emotion Regulation Process

5. Emotion Regulation Antecedent Strategies
Strategies employed before the emotion takes place
Reappraisal
Refers to the selection of which of a number of possible meanings is attached to the situation

6. Emotion Regulation Response Strategies
Strategies employed to modulate the response to emotion (behaviorally, physiologically, and expressively)
Expressive Suppression
Inhibiting the expression of emotion

7. Individual Differences in Emotion Regulation
REAPPRAISAL
SUPPRESSION
Greater positive emotions
Less negative emotion
Closer relationships w/ friends
Less positive emotions
Increase in negative emotions
Less social closeness and support

8. Effective Emotion Regulation
Reappraisers felt less emotional distress (disgust) than watch and suppression.
Suppressors did not feel differently than watch/control participants.

9. Suppressors had greater physiological arousal than reappraisers and control participants

10. Eating & ER

11. Eating & ER Eating ‘comfort food’ is an emotion regulation strategy
How we regulate emotion influences whether we use this strategy
Reappraisal and Suppression influences healthy and unhealthy behavior