Emotional regulation versus temperamentPeople often confuse emotional regulation with temperament, which is your natural, inborn style for how you approach or react to the world. Emotional regulation, on the other hand, isn’t something people either have or don’t have. And like other skills, emotional regulation can be strengthened with instruction and practice. When emotional regulation falls shortWe psychologists can’t talk about emotional regulation without talking about its opposite state – emotional dysregulation. Emotional regulation can be learnedLearning emotional regulation strategies begins with identifying your feelings and building a vocabulary to describe them.