Steph Gagnon

This was a really comprehensive account of emotion regulation, and I appreciated the
organization/clarification of the modal model. I was a little unclear though how the
example of the father and son at the barbershop translated into the process model with
the five classes of emotion regulation strategies; specifically, was that example
supposed to be sequential in nature, tapping into each of the five emotion regulation
strategies in order, or are some of the strategies themselves sufficient to elicit a
response, which then feeds back? When are these types of emotion regulation
strategies independent vs. co-occurring?

To what extent are the different types of attentional deployment driven by top-down vs.
bottom-up strategies? I understood the distraction vs. concentration distinction as
highlighting the unique direction of attention towards/away from the present emotional
situation, i..e, disengaging from the current emotional context (distraction) vs. focusing
on the current emotional context (concentration). But, it seems like for different types of
emotions, these two types of attention might involve very different types of processing.
Along these lines, to what extent does disengagement involve merely blocking out/
suppressing the present emotion, vs. internally evoking an opposite/different emotion?

How does emotion regulation develop through experience, and do all the different
types of emotion regulation develop similarly? How is this manifest over a lifetime (e.g.,
from childhood, through the elderly), and how might it vary based on what emotions
someone has been exposed to? How might this interact with individual differences in
emotional responsivity, delayed gratification, or more domain-general cognitive control
abilities (e.g., Stroop task performance), etc.?