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Presented By: Department of Psychology

Clinical Science Brown Bag - Transcending the “Everything but the Kitchen Sink”, “Here & Now”, and “Good & Bad” in Emotion Regulation

Gal Sheppes, Associate Professor of Psychology, Tel Aviv University

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The scientific study of emotion regulation is flourishing, providing fundamental insights to our understanding of healthy adaptation and clinical conditions. While clearly important, in this talk I zoom in on three major challenges in current theorizing and empirical evidence. The “Everything but the kitchen sink” problem refers to the tendency to categorize all emotional problems as originating from emotion dysregulation. The “good & bad” problem refers to the categorization of regulatory strategies as inherently adaptive or maladaptive. The “here & now” problem refers to concentration on a single regulatory stage that involves the actual execution or implementation of regulatory strategies. To address these challenges, I begin by differentiating between emotional problems that originate from emotion generation and those that originate from emotion regulation. I then provide a categorization that highlights the cost-benefit profile of different regulatory strategies. The main part of the talk involves presenting a broad conceptual framework that views emotion regulation as a multi-stage phenomenon. Considerable empirical evidence highlights the importance, determinants, consequences and broad developmental and clinical implications, of a pre-implementation selection stage that involves choosing between available regulatory options in a manner that is sensitive to differing situational demands. I end by highlighting the importance of transcending the selection stage, by describing a post-implementation monitoring stage that involves tracking implemented regulatory strategies across time.

Bio: Gal is an associate professor of psychology, the head of the clinical psychology graduate program, and the director of the Emotion and Self-Regulation Laboratory in the School of Psychological Sciences in Tel Aviv University. He is interested in the broad interdisciplinary understanding of core regulatory stages that control emotion and their relation to healthy adaptation and psychopathology. Gal holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology (summa cum laude) from Ben-Gurion University in Israel. He then completed a two year postdoctoral training at the affective neuroscience program at Stanford University working with Dr. James Gross.

Gal has won the two most prestigious scholarships in Israel (i.e., Rothschild fellowship for postdoctoral fellows; Allon fellowship for outstanding young researchers), he received multiple competitive grants (from ISF, BSF, National Institute of Psychobiology, and NIMH), he published more than 40 articles in highly prestigious outlets (e.g., Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General; Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience; Personality and Social Psychology Review; Psychological Science), and he served as Associate Editor in the APA flagship journal Emotion.

Gal is a licensed clinical psychologist who works with young kids and adults with various emotional problems.

Gal will spend a one year sabbatical at the University of Michigan working on various projects with Dr. Ethan Kross, and teaching graduate and undergraduate seminars in emotion regulation.
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