Key research agenda
• Include diverse measurements of affect and sleep, and examine the presentation of stimuli and the activation of the senses.
• Be highly sensitive while choosing the methods of assessment and manipulation of sleep and emotion regulation.
• Differences in results have to be interpreted with regard to the used statistical analysis.
• Explicitly discriminate between assessment of emotion activation and emotion regulation.
• Investigate the role of different amounts of sleep loss during sleep deprivation on task performance, and involve the possible interference between a constructed setting and emotional responses in the interpretation of results.
• Assess the temporal development of sleep and emotion to clarify their mutual association during childhood and adolescence.
• Investigate influencing conditions under which sleep and affect regulation develop into a negative pattern.
• Implement and develop objective tests with age-appropriate and variable task demands for longitudinal research.
• While utilizing report of others, pay attention to possible confounders.
• Identify confounding intra-individual factors of better emotion regulation.
• Acknowledge of gender as an influencing factor.