Capacities, targets, and tactics: Lifespan emotion regulation from the perspective of developmental functionalism

Emotion Regulation and Well-Being

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 13-29

  Consedine, Nathan S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6953-8_2     Document Type: Chapter

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