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Preface / Les Greenberg -- Introduction / Dirk Hermans, Bernard Rimé, And Batja Mesquita -- How Kids Keep Their Cool: Young Children's Use Of Cognitive Strategies To Regulate Emotion / Linda Levine, Robin L. Kaplan, And Elizabeth L. Davis -- Defining And Regulating The Self Through Emotion Narratives / Robyn Fivush -- Age-related Changes In Empathy-related Responding / Nancy Eisenberg, Jennifer Betkowski, And Tracy L. Spinrad -- Children's Expressive Behavior In Different Cultural Contexts / Linda A. Camras And Michael M. Shuster -- Age Differences In Emotional Experience And Regulation / Tammy English And Laura L. Carstensen -- Changing The Neural Mechanism In Of Emotion Regulation In Children With Behavior Problems / Steven Woltering And Marc D. Lewis -- Individual Differences In The Acquisition Of Fears / Susan Mineka -- Extinction Learning And Its Retrieval / Michelle G. Craske And Bram Vervliet -- Mechanisms Of Extinction In Emotional Regulation / James Byron Nelson --^ Generalization As A Basis For Emotional Change: Perceptual And Non-perceptual Processes / Dirk Hermans And Frank Baeyens -- Learning Mechanisms In The Acquisition And Maintenance Of Disgust / Peter J. De Jong -- Preclinical Analysis Of Developmental Transitions In The Extinction Of Learned Fear: From Infancy Through Adolescence To Adulthood / Bridget L. Callaghan, Stella Li, Jee H. Kim And Rick Richardson -- Can Socially Sharing Emotions Change Emotions? / Bernard Rimé -- From Group-based Appraisals To Group-based Emotions: The Key Role Of Social Interactions / Vincent Yzerbyt And Toon Kuppens -- Couples Emotion And Emotion Regulation / Robert W. Levenson And Loren M. Mccarter -- Emotional Climate / Dario Paez, Augustin Espinosa, And Magdalena Bobowik -- Dynamics Of Ideal Affect / Jeanne Tsai -- Emotional Acculturation / Jozefien Deleersnyder, Batja Mesquita, And Heejung Kim -- Emotion Regulation: Two Souls In One Breast / Nico H. Frijda --^ Understanding Emotion Change Requires Understanding Emotion Causation / Agnes Moors -- Learning To Self-generate Positive Emotions / Barbara L. Fredrickson -- The Role Of Control In Emotion, Emotion Regulation And Empathy / Kevin Ochsner -- What Time Can Tell Us: The Temporal Dynamics Of Emotion Regulation / Ravi Thiruchselvam And James J. Gross -- The Duration Of Emotional Episodes / Iven Van Mechelen, Philippe Verduyn, And Karen Brans -- Can Expressive Writing Change Emotions?: An Oblique Answer To A Misguided Question / James W. Pennebaker And Jason D. Ferrell -- The Powerful Impact Of Mental Imagery In Changing Emotions / Arnaud Pictet And Emily A Holmes -- Cognitive Mechanisms Involved In Therapeutic Change For Depression: Reducing Abstraction And Increasing Specificity / Edward R. Watkins -- A Functional Approach To The Study Of Human Emotion: The Centrality Of Relational/propositional Processes / Dermot Barnes-holmes And Sean Hughes --^ Self-regulation As A Mediator Of Change In Psychotherapy / Timothy J. Strauman, Megan C. Klenk, And Kari M. Eddington -- Mindfulness-based Interventions: The Dialectic Of Changing Emotion By Accepting Them / Pierre Philippot And Alexandre Heeren -- Postscript: Experimental Rigor And Clinical Complexity / Les Greenberg. Edited By Dirk Hermans, Bernard Rimé And Batja Mesquita. Proceedings Of The Contactforum 'changing Emotions' (october 23, 2009) Supported By The Royal Flemish Academy Of Belgium For Science And The Arts--t.p. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.