This widely used practitioner resource and training tool is the definitive work on
understanding and treating personality disorders from a cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)
perspective. The prominent editors and contributors explain the nature of personality …

In recent years, an explosion of neuroimaging studies has examined cognitive reappraisal,
an emotion regulation strategy that involves changing the way one thinks about a stimulus in
order to change its affective impact. Existing models broadly agree that reappraisal recruits …

The well-replicated observation that many people maintain mental health despite exposure
to severe psychological or physical adversity has ignited interest in the mechanisms that
protect against stress-related mental illness. Focusing on resilience rather than …

Although the prevalent view of emotion and decision making is derived from the notion that
there are dual systems of emotion and reason, a modulatory relationship more accurately
reflects the current research in affective neuroscience and neuroeconomics. Studies show …

Socio-cognitive skills are crucial for successful interpersonal interactions. Two particularly
important socio-cognitive processes are emotion perception (EP) and theory of mind (ToM),
but agreement is lacking on terminology and conceptual links between these constructs …

The willingness to incur personal costs to enforce prosocial norms represents a hallmark of
human civilization. Although recent neuroscience studies have used the ultimatum game to
understand the neuropsychological mechanisms that underlie the enforcement of fairness …

The purpose of this paper is to review some of the psychological and neural mechanisms
behind mindfulness practice in order to explore the unique factors that account for its
positive impact on emotional regulation and health. After reviewing the mechanisms of …

Previous studies have reported the effect of emotion regulation strategies on both individual
and social decision making, however the effect of regulation on socially driven emotions
independent of decisions is still unclear. In the present study, we investigated the neural …

Social decision-making tasks involve psychological processes key to effective functioning in
a complex, social world. The Ultimatum Game (UG) is a widely studied social decision-
making task, which models responses to fairness. A number of neuroimaging studies have …

ABSTRACT The term Emotion Regulation refers to the neurocognitive mechanisms by which
we regulate the onset, strength, and the eventual expression of our emotions. An important
distinction to be considered is between Individual Emotion Regulation (IER), or the …