AUTHOR=Colombo Desirée , Fernández-Álvarez Javier , García Palacios Azucena , Cipresso Pietro , Botella Cristina , Riva Giuseppe TITLE=New Technologies for the Understanding, Assessment, and Intervention of Emotion Regulation JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=10 YEAR=2019 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01261 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01261 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=

In the last decades, emotion regulation (ER) received increasing attention and became one of the most studied topics within the psychological field. Nevertheless, this construct has not been fully updated with the latest technological advancements. In this perspective, we will show how diverse technologies, such as virtual reality (VR), wearable biosensors, smartphones, or biofeedback techniques, can be applied to the understanding, assessment, and intervention of ER. After providing a brief overview of the currently available technological developments, we will discuss the benefits of incorporating new technologies in ER field, including ecological validity, intervention personalization, and the integration of understudied facets of ER, such as the implicit and interpersonal dimension.