Research Overview
EROS is investigating six core questions about emotion regulation. First, we are investigating how strategies for regulating emotions develop and vary across situations. Second, we are investigating what brain processes are involved when people regulate their own and other’s emotions. Third, we are investigating whether people can regulate emotions relatively effortlessly (or ‘automatically’). Fourth, we are investigating the consequences of emotion regulation for individuals, and fifth, for others. Finally, we are investigating the effectiveness of several interventions for promoting good or ‘healthy’ ways of regulating emotion.
These six questions are addressed in six individual projects. Each project involves a number of studies and each involves collaboration between researchers from a number of the contributory disciplines. The six projects are using a wide variety of methods including fMRI neuroimaging, experiments, diary studies, field studies, questionnaire surveys, interviews, case studies and intervention studies. Participants in our research will include the general public, students, employees, coaches/athletes, families, and clinical populations (e.g., people with bipolar disorder).
To read more about a particular project select one from the left hand menu.
