Older adults report surprisingly positive affective experience. The idea that older adults are
better at emotion regulation has emerged as an intuitively appealing explanation for why …

Theoretical perspectives posit that heart-rate variability (HRV) reflects self-regulatory
capacity and therefore can be employed as a bio-marker of top-down self-regulation (the …

Most empirical studies of emotion regulation have relied on retrospective trait measures, and
have not examined the link between daily regulatory strategies and every day emotional …

Recent scientific and technological advances have brought us closer to being able to apply
a true biopsychosocial approach to the study of resilience in humans. Decades of research …

In recent years, an explosion of neuroimaging studies has examined cognitive reappraisal,
an emotion regulation strategy that involves changing the way one thinks about a stimulus in …

This paper reviews and synthesizes functional imaging research that over the past decade
has begun to offer new insights into the brain mechanisms underlying emotion regulation …

People respond to stressful events in different ways, depending on the event and on the
regulatory strategies they choose. Co** and emotion regulation theorists have proposed …

Older age is normatively associated with losses in physical, cognitive, and social domains.
Despite these losses, older adults often report higher levels of well-being than do younger …

The ability to regulate emotion is crucial to promote well-being. Evidence suggests that the
medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and adjacent anterior cingulate (ACC) modulate amygdala …

Although aging is associated with clear declines in physical and cognitive processes,
emotional functioning fares relatively well. Consistent with this behavioral profile, two core …