Figure 2.
A model of the cognitive control of emotion (MCCE). A. Diagram of the processing steps involved in generating an emotion and the ways in which cognitive control processes (blue box) might be used to regulate them. As described in the text, the effects of different emotion regulation strategies (the red arrows descending from the cognitive control processes box) can be understood in terms of the stages of of the emotion generation sequence that they impact. The pink box seen at the appraisal stage is meant to indicate that neural systems involved in generating emotion support this process. B. Neural systems involve in using cognitive strategies, such as reappraisal, to regulate emotion (left, blue boxes),systems involved in generating those responses (left, pink boxes), and systems with an undefined or intermediary role in reappraisal (left, yellow boxes).