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2018-04
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The final, definitive version of this paper has been published in Emotion Review, vol 10/issue 2 by SAGE Publications Ltd, All rights reserved. © 2017 The Author.
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This article takes a critical approach to emotion regulation suggesting that the concept needs supplementing with a relational position on the generation and restraint of emotion. I chart the relational approach to emotion, challenging the ‘two-step’ model of emotion regulation. From this, a more interdisciplinary approach to emotion is developed using concepts from social science to show the limits of instrumental, individualistic and cognitivist orientations in the psychology of emotion regulation, centred on appraisal theory. Using a social interactionist approach I develop an ontological position in which social relations form the fundamental contexts in which emotions are generated, toned, and restrained, so that regulation is decentred and seen as just one moment or aspect in the relational patterning of emotion.
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Burkitt I (2018) Decentring emotion regulation: from emotion regulation to relational emotion. Emotion Review. 10(2): 167-173.
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