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Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Psychology - Social Psychology, grade: 1.33, Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH, course: Emotion and Motivation, language: English, abstract: Looking at emotion regulation from five different perspectives, this paper provides an overview of the broad field of emotion regulation. As suggested by Cornelius (1995), the perspectives considered include the Darwinian, the Jamesian, the Cognitive and the Social Constructivist perspective. Additionally, as the field of neuroscience recently made some important contributions to emotion regulation, it is also considered as a fifth perspective.