Preface / Les Greenberg -- Introduction / Dirk Hermans, Bernard Rim & Batja Mesquita -- How kids keep their cool : young children's use of cognitive strategies to regulate emotion / Linda Levine, Robin L. Kaplan & Davis -- Defining and regulating the self through emotion narratives / Robyn Fivush -- Age-related changes in empathy-related responding / Nancy Eisenberg, Tracy Spinrad & Jennifer Betkowski -- Children's expressive behavior in different cultural contexts / Linda Camras & Michael Shuster -- Age differences in emotional experience and regulation / Tammy English & Laura L. Carstensen -- Changing the neural mechanism in of emotion regulation in children with behavior problems / Marc Lewis & Woltering -- Individual differences in the acquisition of fears / Susan Mineka -- Extinction learning and its retrieval / Michelle Craske & Bram Vervliet -- Mechanisms of extinction in emotional regulation / James Byron Nelson -- Generalization as a basis for emotional change : perceptual and non-perceptual processes / Dirk Hermans & Frank Baeyens -- Learning mechanisms in the acquisition and maintenance of disgust / Peter J. de Jong -- Preclinical analysis of developmental transitions in the extinction of learned fear : from infancy through adolescence to adulthood / Richard Richardson, Bridget Callaghan, & Stella Li -- Can socially sharing emotions change emotions? / Bernard Rim -- Froup-based appraisals to group-based emotions : the key role of social interactions / Vincent Yzerbyt & Toon Kuppens -- Couples emotion and emotion regulation / Robert W. Levenson & Loren M. McCarter -- Emotional climate / Dario Paez, Augustin Espinosa & Magdalena Bobowik -- Dynamics of ideal affect / Jeanne Tsai -- Emotional acculturation / Jozefien Deleersnyder & Batja Mesquita -- Emotion regulation : two souls in one breast / Nico H. Frijda -- Understanding emotion change requires understanding emotion causation / Agnes Moors -- Learning to self-generate positive emotions / Barbara L. Fredrickson -- The role of control in emotion, emotion regulation and empathy / Kevin Ochsner -- What time can tell us: the temporal dynamics of emotion regulation / Ravi Thiruchselvam & James J. Gross -- The duration of emotional episodes / Iven Van Mechelen, Philippe Verduyn, & Karen Brans -- Can expressive writing change emotions? an oblique answer to a misguided question / James W. Pennebaker -- The powerful impact of mental imagery in changing emotions / Emily A Holmes & Arnaud Pictet -- Cognitive mechanisms involved in therapeutic change for depression : reducing abstraction and increasing specificity / Ed Watkins -- A functional approach to the study of human emotion : the centrality of relational/propositional processes / Dermot Barnes-Holmes & Sean Hughes -- Self-regulation as a mediator of change in psychotherapy / Timothy J. Strauman, Megan C. Klenk, & Kari M. Eddington -- Mindfulness-based interventions : the dialectic of changing emotion by accepting them / Pierre Philippot & Alexandre Heeren.