Each of these dimensions can be further
fleshed out, too. Additional columns can be
added for those who prefer to think in discreteemotion
terms (e.g., pride, amusement, sadness,
disgust), and additional rows for those
wanting to do fuller justice to the complexities
of the temporal dynamics of emotion (e.g.,
maintaining emotion). This sounds complicated
enough-even before we recall the many
families of regulation strategies that are used to
achieve each of these types of change in emotion
described by our 2 (or more) x 2 (or more)
matrix-and we may be tempted to stop here.
But one other dimension of variation has recently
begun to be explored systematically, and
this concerns variation in whether a given
episode of emotion regulation is relatively
effortful and conscious or relatively