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