It may also be true that individual differences in emotionality and behavioral regulation affect the degree to which individuals learn adaptive emotion regulation strategies. If one is born with a predisposition to experience emotional states in unusually intense ways (Larsen, Billings, & Cutler, 1996), one would tend to experience more occasions in which one is less able to take full advantage of one's cognitive resources than would other individuals (Muraven & Baumeister, 2000; Tice et al., 2001). As a result, one might have more difficulty than others in learning to respond adaptively to a given affective change.
