Handbook of Emotion Regulation » (New Edition)

James J. Gross, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, a faculty member in the Neurosciences Program, and the Director of the Stanford Psychophysiology Laboratory at Stanford University. He is a leading researcher in the areas of emotion and emotion regulation, and is well known for his innovative theoretical and experimental analyses of emotion regulation processes. He is also an award-winning teacher, a Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education, and the Director of the Stanford Psychology One Teaching Program. Dr. Gross earned his BA in philosophy from Yale University and his PhD in clinical psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. He has received early career awards from the American Psychological Association, the Western Psychological Association, and the Society for Psychophysiological Research. Dr. Gross has an extensive program of investigator-initiated research, with grants from both the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. His publications include Psychology (with Henry Gleitman and Daniel Reisberg), and his current research examines emotion regulation processes in healthy and clinical populations using behavioral, autonomic, and functional magnetic resonance imaging measures.

This authoritative volume provides a comprehensive road map of the important and rapidly growing field of emotion regulation. Each of the 30 chapters in this handbook reviews the current state of knowledge on the topic at hand, describes salient research methods, and identifies promising directions for future investigation. The contributors—who are the foremost experts in the field—address vital questions about the neurobiological and cognitive bases of emotion regulation, how we develop and use regulatory strategies across the lifespan, individual differences in emotion regulation, social psychological approaches, and implications for psychopathology, clinical interventions, and health.

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Reviewer:Christopher J. Graver, PhD(Madigan Army Medical Center)
Description:The study of emotions and emotion regulation is a flourishing field in many disciplines. This book describes the recent advances in this field and attempts to provide a connective framework between disciplines on this important topic.
Purpose:There are four main objectives, which include an integration of developmental and adult emotion regulation, bridging basic and clinical science, encouraging cross-disciplinary dialogue on the topic, and providing an up-to-date, authoritative text for educators and researchers.
Audience:The intended target audience includes social scientists, educators, clinicians, and other health professionals. The book is written at an appropriate level for this audience. The editor is accomplished in the field and has gathered some of the leading researchers in the field, including Robert Sapolsky, Mary Rothbart, and Marsha Linehan, to name a few.
Features:The book's six main sections cover biological bases, cognitive foundations, developmental approaches, personality processes and individual differences, social approaches, and clinical applications. It is filled with well organized, useful information. The chapters have major subheadings with sections that are informative, but concise. Short summaries and critiques appear throughout the chapters, and more detailed summaries at the end of each chapter. Throughout the book, figures and illustrations enhance the text, including functional neuroimaging. A wide variety of perspectives is represented, from neuronal animal studies to neuropsychology to developmental psychology. The unique aspect of this book is that these different perspectives are not relegated to their respective sections, but have shared relevance throughout the book. The research is solid and the references are current, even including articles that are still in press.
Assessment:This book achieves its goal of providing an up-to-date and authoritative text on emotion regulation. It is written at an appropriate level for both researchers and students interested in this field, regardless of their discipline. Readers will find diverse perspectives that are carefully integrated throughout the text and make for an edifying experience. It would make a nice companion to the Handbook of Socialization, Grusec and Hastings (Guilford, 2007), for those interested in that aspect of emotion regulation.

I Foundations

1 Emotion Regulation: Conceptual Foundations James J. Gross Ross A. Thompson 3

II Biological Bases

2 Prefrontal-Amygdala Interactions in the Regulation of Fear Gregory J. Quirk 27

3 Neural Bases of Emotion Regulation in Nonhuman Primates and Humans Richard J. Davidson Andrew Fox Ned H. Kalin 47

4 Insights into Emotion Regulation from Neuropsychology Jennifer S. Beer Michael V. Lombardo 69

5 The Neural Architecture of Emotion Regulation Kevin N. Ochsner James J. Gross 87

6 Genetics of Emotion Regulation Ahmad R. Hariri Erika E. Forbes 110

III Cognitive Foundations

7 Executive Function: Mechanisms Underlying Emotion Regulation Philip David Zelazo William A. Cunningham 135

8 Explanatory Style and Emotion Regulation Christopher Peterson Nansook Park 159

9 Affect Regulation and Affective Forecasting George Loewenstein 180

10 Conflict Monitoring in Cognition-Emotion Competition Samuel M. McClure Matthew M. Botvinick Nick Yeung Joshua D. Greene Jonathan D. Cohen 204

IV Developmental Approaches

11 Caregiver Influences on Emerging Emotion Regulation: Biological and Environmental Transactions in Early Development Susan D. Calkins Ashley Hill 229

12 Socialization of Emotion Regulation in the Family Ross A. Thompson Sara Meyer 249

13 Awareness and Regulation of Emotion in Typical and Atypical Development Hedy Stegge Mark Meerum Terwogt 269

14 Effortful Control and Its Socioemotional Consequences Nancy Eisenberg Claire Hofer Julie Vaughan 287

15 Emotion Regulation and Aging Susan Turk Charles Laura L. Carstensen 307

V Personality Processes and Individual Differences

16 Temperament and Emotion Regulation Mary K. Rothbart Brad E. Sheese331

17 Individual Differences in Emotion Regulation Oliver P. John James J. Gross 351

18 A Clinical-Empirical Model of Emotion Regulation: From Defense and Motivated Reasoning to Emotional Constraint Satisfaction Drew Westen Pavel S. Blagov 373

19 Intelligent Emotion Regulation: Is Knowledge Power? Tanja Wranik Lisa Feldman Barrett Peter Salovey 393

20 How Emotions Facilitate and Impair Self-Regulation Roy F. Baumeister Anne L. Zell Dianne M. Tice 408

VI Social Approaches

21 The Nonconscious Regulation of Emotion John A. Bargh Lawrence E. Williams 429

22 Adult Attachment Strategies and the Regulation of Emotion Phillip R. Shaver Mario Mikulincer 446

23 Interpersonal Emotion Regulation Bernard Rime 466

24 The Cultural Regulation of Emotions Batja Mesquita Dustin Albert 486

25 Emotion Regulation and Religion Fraser Watts 504

VII Clinical Applications

26 Emotion Regulation and Externalizing Disorders in Children and Adolescents Benjamin C. Mullin Stephen P. Hinshaw 523

27 Incorporating Emotion Regulation into Conceptualizations and Treatments of Anxiety and Mood Disorders Laura Campbell-Sills David H. Barlow 542

28 Alcohol and Affect Regulation Kenneth J. Sher Emily R. Grekin 560

29 Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Pervasive Emotion Dysregulation: Theoretical and Practical Underpinnings Marsha M. Linehan Martin Bohus Thomas R. Lynch 581

30 Stress, Stress-Related Disease, and Emotional Regulation Robert M. Sapolsky 606

Author Index 616

Subject Index 638