The Affective Neuroscience of Emotion Regulation

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Chapter 23 - The Affective Neuroscience of Emotion Regulation

Insights from Two Decades of Research

from Section V - Cognition–Emotion Interactions

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 September 2025

Nils Kohn and

Carmen Morawetz

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Jorge Armony and

Patrik Vuilleumier

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Jorge Armony: Affiliation:
McGill University, Montréal
Patrik Vuilleumier: Affiliation:
University of Geneva

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Experiencing emotions is part of human nature and our daily life. Sometimes, emotions can be too intense and we need or want to control them. Emotion regulation (ER) is a term that describes management of emotional experiences, regardless of whether we downregulate negative emotions or upregulate positive ones. Conscious, cognitive efforts to regulate an emotion have been subsumed under this term, as well as unconscious, implicit regulation of emotion. Effective ER has been associated with a number of positive outcomes, such as an increased general well-being, improved performance at work and in personal and professional relations, and, most importantly, enhanced mental and physical health. In contrast, deficits in ER are observed in severe psychological disorders, such as depression and anxiety. Consequently, understanding the neural underpinnings of ER has become one of the most popular topics in affective neuroscience throughout the last two decades.

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Cognitive reappraisal explicit vs. implicit regulation intrapersonal vs. interpersonal regulation (extended) process model strategies flexibility contextual factors transdiagnostic feature network connectivity

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