Cited by 197Emotions and Moral BehaviorChild and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional DevelopmentNeural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

Toward a personalized science of emotion regulation

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Doré, Bruce P., Silvers, Jennifer A., Ochsner, Kevin N.·2016·Social and Personality Psychology Compass

Abstract

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 understanding the nature of regulatory processes and the consequences of deploying them, a comprehensive understanding of emotion regulation that can specify what strategies are most beneficial for a given person in a given situation is still a far‐off goal. In this review, we argue that moving toward this goal represents a central challenge for the future of the field. As an initial step, we propose a concrete framework that (i) explicitly considers emotion regulation as an interaction of person, situation, and strategy, (ii) assumes that regulatory effects vary according to these factors, and (iii) sets as a primary scientific goal the identification of person‐, situation‐, and strategy‐based contingencies for successful emotion regulation. Guided by this framework, we review current questions facing the field, discuss examples of contextual variation in emotion regulation success, and offer practical suggestions for continued progress in this area.

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  • Findingcitation

    Relative to a control platform facilitating expressive writing, Panoply produced larger increases in reappraisal use among people who were higher in depression at baseline.

    “Relative to a control platform that facilitated expressive writing, Panoply led to larger increases in reappraisal use for people who were higher in depression at baseline”
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    Increased feelings of anxiety were driven by perceptions that the causes of the event are unresolved.

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    In a between-person analysis, people with lower average levels of negative affect more strongly recruited ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC).

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    Reappraisal, when used to down-regulate emotion, can diminish behavioral, experiential, and autonomic measures of emotional response.

    “Reappraisal is often seen as the preferred strategy because (when used to down-regulate emotion) it can diminish behavioral, experiential, and autonomic measures of emotional response (Gross & Levenson, 1997).”
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    The predictive value of delay behavior is attenuated by factors including gender, age, tendency to anxiously expect rejection, and whether a cognitive strategy was supplied.

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    Findingcitation

    Positive and neutralizing reappraisal evoke long-term change in fundamentally different ways: positive reappraisal adds new positively valenced information to memories, whereas neutralizing reappraisal takes a more distant perspective to decouple emotional response from comparatively unchanged memory content.

    “In this article, we found that positive and neutralizing reappraisal evoke long-term change in fundamentally different ways – positive reappraisal entails imbuing memories with a “silver lining” via the sustained addition of new positively valenced information, whereas neutralizing reappraisal entails taking a more distant psychological perspective on the events of a memory in order to decouple”
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    In a Twitter dataset on the Sandy Hook shooting, sadness words decreased with time and spatial distance while anxiety words showed the opposite pattern, associated with increases in causal-thinking words.

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    In a within-person analysis, lower negative affect on a given trial was associated with lateral and medial prefrontal activity, whereas higher negative affect ratings were associated with amygdala activity.

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    Findingcitation

    Elevated use of regulation strategies overall, and elevated use of avoidance and rumination strategies in particular, was associated with psychopathology symptoms.

    “finding that elevated use of regulation strategies overall, and elevated use of avoidance and rumination strategies in particular, was associated with psychopathology symptoms (Dixon-Gordon, Aldao, & De Los Reyes, 2014).”
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    Ochsner and Gross (2014) and Gross (2015) proposed an extension delineating nested valuation cycles in the generation and regulation of emotion.

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    Interpretationnone given

    An emotion represents the interaction of a person with an emotionally evocative situation.

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    The interactionist approach in its extreme form entails shelving questions like which regulation strategy is best in favor of assuming context-varying regulatory effects and aiming to identify person, situation, and strategy contingencies.

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    • The authors state this as an assumption: Regulatory effects vary according to person, situation, and strategy factors.
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    Past research has focused more on main effects of person, situation, and strategy, and dominant models have not foregrounded interactions.

    “past research has focused more on main effects of each of these influences (e.g., benefits of a particular strategy as compared with others), and dominant models of emotion regulation have not foregrounded such interactions (see Aldao, 2013; Koole & Veenstra, 2015)”
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    Emotion regulation unfolds iteratively over time but can be broken into discrete temporal stages including identification, selection, and implementation.

    “emotion regulation unfolds iteratively over time but can be broken up into discrete temporal stages, including identification (of an opportunity to regulate emotion), selection (of a particular regulation strategy), and implementation (of a selected strategy) (see Gross, 2015).”
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    Existing emotion regulation research has predominantly studied a particular population, a particular situation, and particular strategies.

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    Scientific knowledge about emotion regulation comes from observation in daily life and observation in lab studies.

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    Emotion generation is driven by appraisal of a situation's relevance to goals, and variability in emotional responding is driven by the interaction of situational features and appraisal tendencies.

    “emotion generation is driven by an appraisal of the relevance of a situation to goals, and variability in emotional responding is driven by the interaction of situational features and appraisal tendencies (Barrett, Mesquita, Ochsner, & Gross, 2007; Ellsworth & Scherer, 2003; Lazarus, 1993).”
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    Children's ability to delay gratification at about four years prospectively predicted later outcomes including body mass in childhood, SAT scores in adolescence, and drug use in adulthood.

    “children’s ability to delay gratification (i.e., to forgo a small immediate reward and wait for a larger one) at about four years of age prospectively predicted important outcomes later in life, like body mass in childhood (Francis & Sussman, 2009), SAT scores in adolescence (Shoda, Mischel, & Peake, 1990), and drug use in adulthood (Ayduk et al., 2000).”
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    Gross's process model describes categories of emotion regulation strategies organized by the temporal stage of emotion generation they target.

    “the process model of emotion regulation is a description of categories or groups of emotion regulation strategies – situation selection, situation modification, attentional deployment, cognitive change, and response suppression – that are organized by the temporal stage of the emotion generation process that they target.”
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    An instance of regulation is successful in the short term if it brings about a desired emotional outcome and more broadly if it brings about longer-term well-being.

    “An instance of regulation is successful, in the short term, if it brings about a desired emotional outcome and, more broadly, if it brings about longer-term well-being (McRae, 2013; Tamir, 2009).”
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    Interpretationreasoning

    Whether an attempt to regulate succeeds depends on characteristics of the strategy, which may have additive impact or interact with person and situation influences.

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    Higher reappraisal ability predicted lower depressive symptoms for participants experiencing uncontrollable stressors, but predicted greater depressive symptoms for participants experiencing controllable stressors.

    “a recent study found that higher reappraisal ability predicted lower depressive symptoms for participants experiencing uncontrollable stressors, but, strikingly, actually predicted greater depressive symptoms for participants experiencing controllable stressors (Troy, Shallcross, & Mauss 2013).”
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    Most existing studies have focused on main effects.

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    A person-centered science of emotion regulation will benefit from the application of modern tools for data collection and analysis.

    “A person-centered science of emotion regulation, even more so than the group-average centered approach dominant in the past, will benefit from the application of modern tools for data collection and analysis.”
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    Acute exposure to stress impacts prefrontal cortex function and disrupts performance in cognitive control tasks.

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    It is not clear whether stress increased the strength of emotional reactions, impaired regulatory ability, or both.

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    Interpretationcitation

    Because distraction and expressive suppression are unlikely to cause long-term change in affective representations, reappraisal is preferable for situations where lasting change is desired.

    “Because strategies like distraction and expressive suppression are unlikely to cause long-term change in affective representations, this suggests that reappraisal is preferable for situations where lasting change is desired (see Denny et al., 2015; Kross & Ayduk, 2008; Sheppes et al., 2014).”
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    Situational differences such as the valence, intensity, and category of the emotion elicited, along with social content, controllability, and time and distance from the evocative event, could prove important for emotion regulation.

    “Among other fundamental situational differences that could prove important are the valence (e.g., Quoidbach, Berry, Hansenne, & Mikolajczak, 2010), intensity (e.g., Sheppes, Catran, & Meiran, 2009), and category of emotion elicited (e.g., Rivers, Brackett, Katulak, & Salovey, 2007)”
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    From young to older adulthood, there is decline in prefrontal regions and associated cognitive abilities, but older age is associated with reliable increases in positive emotion and well-being.

    “From young to older adulthood, a paradox has been noted: although there is decline in prefrontal regions and the cognitive abilities associated with them, older age is associated with reliable increases in positive emotion and well-being (Carstensen et al., 2011; Mather, 2012).”
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    People may vary appreciably in their knowledge of, motivation for, and skill with emotion regulation.

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    Older adults have spared capacity to redirect and/or control attention to regulate emotion and may tend to spontaneously use this strategy to look away from unpleasant and toward pleasant stimuli.

    “older adults have both spared capacity to redirect and/or control the focus of their attention to regulate their emotion and may tend to spontaneously use this strategy to look away from unpleasant and toward pleasant stimuli (Isaacowitz, Wadlinger, Goren, & Wilson, 2006; Mather, 2012; Tucker, Feuerstein, Mende-Siedlecki, Ochsner, & Stern, 2012).”
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    Interpretationown data

    Positive and neutralizing reappraisal operate via distinct mechanisms and have distinct effects.

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    This variable is relevant for understanding whether a given regulation strategy can have durable effects and whether the ability to deploy a strategy effectively can be trained via practice.

    “This variable is relevant for understanding whether a given regulation strategy can have durable effects (e.g., Denny, Inhoff, Zerubavel, Davachi, & Ochsner, 2015) and whether the ability to deploy a given regulation strategy effectively can be trained via practice (e.g., Denny & Ochsner, 2014).”
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    An interactive approach to person, situation, and strategy sources of variability in emotion regulation aligns with recent recommendations for statistical practice in psychology.

    “An interactive approach to person, situation, and strategy sources of variability in emotion regulation aligns well with recent examinations of and recommendations for statistical practice in psychology (Cumming, 2013; Gelman & Carlin, 2014; Simmons, Nelson, & Simonsohn, 2011).”
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    Any article relating lab-based behavioral or brain results to retrospective questionnaires enhances knowledge of lab-life associations, but combining lab measures with EMA or other ambulatory assessments is particularly promising.

    “In principle, any article relating lab-based behavioral or brain results to retrospective questionnaires enhances our knowledge of such associations, but the combination of lab measures with EMA methods or other ambulatory assessments show particular promise in this regard.”
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    Questionnaire and behavioral measures show greater meta-cognitive awareness of regulatory strategies, greater tendency to use cognitive strategies, and greater emotion regulatory capacity from childhood to adolescence and adulthood.

    “Questionnaire and behavioral measures have revealed that individuals exhibit greater meta-cognitive awareness of regulatory strategies (Mischel & Mischel, 1987), greater tendency to use cognitive strategies (Garnefski, Legerstee, Kraaij, van den Kommer, & Teerds, 2002; Williams & McGillicuddy-De Lisi, 1999), and greater emotion regulatory capacity on lab-based cognitive regulation paradigms (Silv”
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    EMA can be used to ask individual difference questions by collapsing across measurements for particular persons, and situation-focused questions by considering each person's deflection from baseline across situations, more directly than questionnaire or lab studies.

    “By collapsing across measurements collected for particular persons, EMA can be used to ask individual difference questions, adding to and validating the extant questionnaire-based literature, and by considering each person’s deflection from baseline across different situations, these methods can also be used to ask situation-focused questions more directly than questionnaire or lab studies”
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    The importance of relating lab-based and daily-life processes has been pointed out by other theorists.

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    Children as young as 4 can cognitively transform a tempting treat when instructed and can wait longer when it is out of sight, yet do not endorse such strategies as useful until years later.

    “children as young as 4 years can cognitively transform a tempting treat when instructed to do so and can wait longer for the said treat when it is out of sight, yet children do not endorse such strategies as being useful until years later (Mischel & Mischel, 1987; Moore, Mischel, & Zeiss, 1976; Yates & Mischel, 1979).”
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    Expressive suppression targets the behavioral display of emotion, whereas reappraisal targets evaluations of the meaning of negative stimuli.

    “one well-developed body of work has contrasted expressive suppression, which targets the behavioral display of emotion, to reappraisal, which targets evaluations of the meaning of negative stimuli.”
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    Older adults show lesser ability to down-regulate negative emotion but spared ability to enhance positive emotion via reappraisal.

    “Older adults show lesser ability to down-regulate negative emotion (e.g., Shiota & Levenson, 2009; Winecoff, LaBar, Madden, Cabeza, & Huettel, 2011) but spared ability to enhance positive emotion via reappraisal (Shiota & Levenson, 2009).”
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    Social stress impairs prefrontal function and a measure of cognitive control that may depend on some of the same mechanisms as reappraisal.

    “an imaging study showing that social stress impairs prefrontal function and a measure of cognitive control (van Ast et al., 2014) that may depend upon some of the same mechanisms as reappraisal (Ochsner et al., 2012)”
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    Detecting context-varying effects (interactions) typically requires more statistical power than detecting main effects.

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    When children display less regulated emotional behavior than adults, this could be due to being less inclined to regulate, less capable, or both.

    “when children display less regulated emotional behavior than adults, this could be due to them being less inclined to less regulate, less capable of regulating, or both.”
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    The theoretical distinction between regulatory capacities and tendencies is linked to person by situation interactions, because tendencies are governed by situational contingencies that specify when capacities are deployed.

    “The theoretical distinction between regulatory capacities and tendencies is inherently linked to the idea of person by situation interactions, in that regulatory tendencies are governed by situational contingencies that specify when particular strategic capacities are deployed.”
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    An overarching scientific framework that foregrounds contextual dependencies can serve to integrate basic and translational approaches to studying emotion regulation.

    “We suggest that an overarching scientific framework in which these contextual dependencies are foregrounded can serve to integrate basic and translational approaches to studying emotion regulation.”
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    Interpretationcitation

    The within-person effects closely resemble brain activity associated with instructed reappraisal, suggesting that phasic changes in these regions may reflect spontaneous engagement of cognitive emotion regulation resources.

    “These within-person effects closely resemble the brain activity associated with instructed reappraisal – suggesting that phasic changes in these regions may reflect spontaneous engagement of resources for cognitive emotion regulation (Buhle et al., 2014).”
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    Interpretationown data

    Parceling out within-person and between-person sources of variability can lead to new scientific insights and avoid the erroneous assumption that person-to-person variation follows the same rules as situation-to-situation variation.

    “In this and other cases, parceling out within- and between-person sources of variability can lead to new scientific insights, avoid the erroneous assumption that variation from person to person follows the same rules as variation from situation to situation”
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    Interpretationnone given

    The utility of any given regulation strategy depends on the characteristics of the person using it and the evocative situation it is used against.

    “it is becoming clear that the utility of any given regulation strategy will depend on the characteristics of the person leveraging it and the evocative situation it is being leveraged against.”
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    Regulatory effects vary according to person, situation, and strategy factors.

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    People vary in emotional reactivity along a continuum from unreactive to hyper-reactive.

    “people may vary in emotional reactivity (the intensity of their initial emotional reactions to the world) on a continuum from unreactive to hyper-reactive.”
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    Situations vary in their potential to evoke intense responses.

    “situations might vary in their potential to evoke intense responses, from mildly evocative (a shoelace becomes untied while walking) to extremely intense (you trip on the shoelace into oncoming traffic).”
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    Distraction and expressive suppression are unlikely to cause long-term change in affective representations.

    “strategies like distraction and expressive suppression are unlikely to cause long-term change in affective representations”
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    Many theoretically meaningful strategy-related differences have received little empirical attention.

    “Many theoretically meaningful strategy-related differences have received little empirical attention, including whether application of a strategy is intrinsically or extrinsically motivated, whether it is cued and implemented by the self or by another person”
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  2. Ochsner K. N., 2014, Handbook of Emotional Regulation, 23
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Authors
Doré, B. P., Silvers, J. A., & Ochsner, K. N.
Affiliations
Columbia University (US)
Corresponding author
  • Doré, Bruce P.
  • Ochsner, Kevin N.
Venue
Social and Personality Psychology Compass
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2016-04
Volume
10
Issue
4
Pages
171-187
ISSN
1751-9004 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2321938005
Cited by
189
References
98
Citations by year
2026: 16 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 20 · 2023: 22 · 2022: 18 · 2021: 29 · 2020: 16 · 2019: 31 · 2018: 9 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 4
FWCI
27.25
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Social and Personality Psychology Compass (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
National Institutes of Health (NICHD R010691780, NIA R01AG043463-01 Conte PAR 11-126)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Emotions and Moral Behavior
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Keywords
emotion regulation, regulatory strategy, psychological well-being, healthy development, individual differences

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