One of the characteristics of expressive suppression, a response-based strategy, is that it occurs after an activated response. Larsen et al. (2013)Larsen, J. K., Vermulst, A. A., Geenen, R., van Middendorp, H., English, T., Gross, J. J., & Engels, R. E. (2013). Emotion regulation in adolescence: A prospective study of expressive suppression and depressive symptoms. Journal of Early Adolescence, 33(2), 184-200. doi:10.1177/0272431611432712> claim expressive suppression to be one of the less effective emotion regulation strategies. These researchers label expressive suppression as an inhibition of the behavioral display of emotion.
