Regulating Emotions: Culture, Social Necessity, and Biological Inheritance brings together distinguished scholars from disciplines as diverse as psychology, sociology, anthropology, neuroscience, and psychotherapy to examine the science of regulating emotions.

• Contains 13 original articles written in an accessible style
  
• Examines how social and cultural aspects of emotion regulation interact with regulatory processes on the biological and psychological level
  
• Highlights the role of social and cultural requirements in the adaptive regulation of emotion
  
• Will stimulate further theorizing and research across many disciplines and will be essential reading for students, researchers, and scholars in the field