Emotions, Emotion Regulation, and Self-Regulation of Learning : Center for the Study of Learning and Instruction, Leiden University, The Netherlands, and KU Leuven

To set the stage for our discussion on emotion regulation, consider the following episode. Not all that long ago I asked several adolescents to read a set of vignettes that referred to situations that usually elicit emotions and describe in their own words what they feel, think, and do in those situations. One of the depicted situations was “having to take a math exam.” Julie and Luca reacted in the following way.