Cut! that's a wrap: Regulating negative emotion by ending emotion-eliciting situations

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue FEB, 2014, Pages

  Vujovic, Lara ^a   Opitz, Philipp C ^a   Birk, Jeffrey L ^a   Urry, Heather L ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attentional deployment; Emotion regulation; Process model; Situation modification; Situation selection; SOC ERpt

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897650274     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00165     Document Type: Article

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