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  • Chapter 23 - The Affective Neuroscience of Emotion Regulation

  • from Section V - Cognition–Emotion Interactions
  • Edited by Jorge Armony, McGill University, Montréal, Patrik Vuilleumier, University of Geneva
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Human Affective Neuroscience
    Published online:
    16 September 2025
    Print publication:
    02 October 2025, pp 464-482

  • Summary

    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.