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Emotion Regulation as a self-regulating system 

Trait regulation of emotion modeled as a dampening oscillating process

complex systems resources

Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and Life Sciences
The Santa Fe Institute
New England Complex Systems Institute
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The dampening process is defined by the strength of a developmental system attractor.  Strong attractors dampen very quickly and have very little emotional lability, whereas weak attractors dampen more slowly and are prone to emotional lability.
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Weak Attractor
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Strong Attractor
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System modeled as a latent variable SEM
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