Regulating Emotions: Culture, Social Necessity, and Biological Inheritance

“The collection also offers insights into how social and cultural mechanisms can be utilized to regulate even the most primary biological and psychological aspects of human emotion It is highly recommended reading for anyone who has an interest in emotion research.” (Metapsychology, April 2009)

"Interdisciplinarity is a concept often claimed in scientific research but rarely fulfilled. This excellent volume shows that an interdisciplinary approach enriches each discipline's understanding of how emotions and their expressions are controlled on a bio-psychological as well a socio-cultural level."
–Sighard Neckel, University of Vienna

"Emotional regulation is ubiquitous, pervasive and elemental involving biological, psychological, cultural and behavioural processes. It is fundamental for individual and collective life. Regulating Emotions is an invaluable guide - comprehensive, profound and highly original."
–Jack Barbalet, University of Leicester

"This is a state-of-the-art book on how social and cultural processes can be utilized to regulate the most basic biological and psychological aspects of human emotion. Its multidisciplinary perspective is unique and should be of great interest to anyone interested in how human emotions become regulated or disregulated."
–Douglas Hollan, UCLA

"An exciting state-of-the-art book, interdisciplinary in its scope, informative and challenging in its contributions, and at the heart of conceptual construction fitting together the building blocks of emotion regulation and its significance for human well-being. Working my way through this intriguing reader gave me stimulating insights into how culture and social necessities may co-construct emotion regulation—and dysregulation."
–Manfred Holodynski, University of Münster