According to James Gross, one of the leading researchers in emotion regulation, there are five ways that people effectively control their feelings. The first three are quite obvious: we can choose the situations we enter (situation selection), change those situations once we are in them (situation modification), or choose only to pay attention to the things which make us feel the way we want to feel (attentional deployment). The fifth one is pretty straightforward as well: We can try to change our emotional response by listening to some music, getting drunk, or just getting some much needed
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