Discuss at least two strategies people use to regulate their emotions

Individual differences
Handle emotions differently
Past experiences
Reinterpretation
1. Looking at stimulus in a different way
2. Changing the emotional response
3. Negative to a positive
Distractions
1. Attend to something else
2. Focusing on something positive
3. Working memory - if taken up by distraction, less capacity to work look at negative emotions
Dialectical behavior therapy
1. Therapy for mood disorders
2. Uses emotion regulation
3. Acceptance
4. Change strategies

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