The Social Regulation of Emotion: An Integrative, Cross-Disciplinary Model

Research in emotion regulation has largely focused on how people manage their own emotions, but there is a growing recognition that the ways in which we regulate the emotions of others also are important. Drawing on work from diverse disciplines, we propose an integrative model of the psychological...

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Published in:Trends in cognitive sciences 2016-01, Vol.20 (1), p.47-63
Main Authors: Reeck, Crystal, Ames, Daniel R, Ochsner, Kevin N
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
emotion perception
emotion regulation
Emotions - physiology
empathy
Humans
mentalizing
Neurology
Psychiatry
Social Behavior
social cognition
Social Control, Formal - methods
social support
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Summary:Research in emotion regulation has largely focused on how people manage their own emotions, but there is a growing recognition that the ways in which we regulate the emotions of others also are important. Drawing on work from diverse disciplines, we propose an integrative model of the psychological and neural processes supporting the social regulation of emotion. This organizing framework, the ‘social regulatory cycle’, specifies at multiple levels of description the act of regulating another person's emotions as well as the experience of being a target of regulation. The cycle describes the processing stages that lead regulators to attempt to change the emotions of a target person, the impact of regulation on the processes that generate emotions in the target, and the underlying neural systems.
ISSN:1364-6613
1879-307X
DOI:10.1016/j.tics.2015.09.003