Figure 3.

Panel (A) depicts structural and dynamic aspects of emotion regulation. Panel (B) illustrates an example of road rage regulation. In this example, a driver notices that he is experiencing more anger than he wants, and decides to regulate the emotion. He decides to employ a cognitive strategy and implements a certain reappraisal tactic by reappraising level of responsibility of the other driver’s actions. He decides to attribute the overtaking to understandable factors, telling himself that the other driver might be rushing to a hospital. He also reminds himself that he can find other things to do if he does not make it to the meeting in time. He decides to decrease his speed and eventually experiences a decrease in road rage.