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Emotion Regulation

Emotion regulation refers to the processes by which individuals influence which emotions they experience, when they arise, and how those emotions are expressed and managed. It encompasses both automatic and deliberate strategies, including reappraisal of a situation's meaning, suppression or repression of emotional …

Curated from this journal's research 📚 11 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 105× across the literature 🗓 Reviewed June 2026

Overview

Emotion regulation refers to the processes by which individuals influence which emotions they experience, when they arise, and how those emotions are expressed and managed. It encompasses both automatic and deliberate strategies, including reappraisal of a situation's meaning, suppression or repression of emotional expression, attentional control, and self-regulatory behaviours that restore equilibrium under stress or frustration. Effective regulation supports adaptive decision-making, interpersonal functioning, and physical and mental health, whereas habitual reliance on maladaptive strategies, such as chronic repression of emotion, is associated with adverse effects on well-being. Regulatory capacity develops across the lifespan and is shaped by early relationships: caregiving quality and attachment influence physiological stress responses, and parental factors interact with children's somatic and emotional functioning. Difficulties in regulation are implicated in a range of conditions, including rumination-related disorders, impulsivity, loneliness-linked behaviours such as bedtime procrastination, and the emotional dysregulation seen in some neurodevelopmental presentations. Identity-related emotional processes, such as the management of moral emotions in particular cultural contexts, further illustrate the social embedding of regulation. Research in this area examines the cognitive and physiological mechanisms of emotional control, their developmental and relational origins, the consequences of different strategies for health, and interventions, including cognitive-behavioural and neurofeedback approaches, that aim to strengthen adaptive regulation.

Research published in this journal

11 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 11 articles above have been cited 105 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Psychophysiology Practice and Research.

Journal editorial board
Parsa Ravanfar · United States Rossella Di Monaco · Italy Volker Zschorlich · Germany

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