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REGULATING
EMOTIONS
Culture, Social Necessity, and
Biological Inheritance
EDITED BY Marie Vandekerckhove
Christian von Scheve
Sven Ismer
Susanne Jung
Stefanie Kronast
© 2008 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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2008
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Regulating emotions : culture, social necessity, and biological inheritance / edited by Marie
Vandekerckhove . . . [et al.].
p. cm. — (New perspectives in cognitive psychology; 3)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4051-5863-3 (hardcover : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-4051-5864-0
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1. Emotions. I. Vandekerckhove, Marie.
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CONTENTS
Notes on Editors and Contributors
vii
Foreword
Birgitt Röttger-Rössler and Hans J. Markowitsch
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
Regulating Emotions: Culture, Social Necessity, and Biological
Inheritance
Marie Vandekerckhove, Christian von Scheve, Sven Ismer,
Susanne Jung, and Stefanie Kronast
Part I Emotion and Regulation: Between Culture and Biology
1 Psssst! Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are Actually the Same Person!
A Tale of Regulation and Emotion
Arvid Kappas
1
13
15
2 Culture and Automatic Emotion Regulation
Iris B. Mauss, Silvia A. Bunge, and James J. Gross
39
3 Emotion-Related Regulation: Biological and Cultural Bases
Claire Hofer and Nancy Eisenberg
61
Part II Culture and Social Interaction: Markers in the Development
of Emotion Regulation
4 Development of Emotion Regulation in Cultural Context
Gisela Trommsdorff and Fred Rothbaum
5 Adult Attachment Theory, Emotion Regulation, and
Prosocial Behavior
Phillip R. Shaver, Mario Mikulincer, and David S. Chun
83
85
121
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Contents
6 Themes in the Development of Emotion Regulation in
Childhood and Adolescence and a Transactional Model
Maria von Salisch
Part III: What Is and What Is Expected: Psychopathology
and Emotion Regulation
7 Emotion Regulation and the Early Development of
Psychopathology
Pamela M. Cole, Tracy A. Dennis, Sarah E. Martin,
and Sarah E. Hall
146
169
171
8 Emotion Information Processing and Affect Regulation:
Specificity Matters!
Pierre Philippot, Aurore Neumann, and Nathalie Vrielynck
189
9 Socio-Emotional Processing Competences: Assessment and
Clinical Application
Martin Peper and Roland Vauth
210
10 Emotional Experience, Expression, and Regulation in the
Psychotherapeutic Processes
Leslie Greenberg and Marie Vandekerckhove
Part IV: Setting the Stage: Culture and Society as Emotionally
Regulated and Regulating Arenas
11 Passions as Cognitive and Moral Mistakes: The Case of
Honor Killings in Europe
Unni Wikan
12 The Political Regulation of Anger in Organizations
Poul Poder
13 Moods and Emotional Cultures: A Study of Flow and Stress in
Everyday Life
Charlotte Bloch
Index
240
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